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I can still remember how absolutely livid I was the first time I saw adverts in the cinema. I'm paying £xx to watch a film and you're making me sit through commercials?
I think there was a decline in cinema visitors in the late '90s / early noughties but it's picked up again now.
£5 a trip! Last time we went it was nearly £20 for 2 of us for basic seats, no 3D and no snacks.well now most cinemas make you book your seat you can come at the last minute and dodge them all
honestly at £5 a trip i go if something is on i want to see without a fuss i don't often buy food but if i do, nachos +ticket comes to around £10 that's about 3 pints which is what'd id drink in the same time period in the pub.
I regret not seeing dredd at the cinema i bet it was epic. It was awesome at home.
But we lost the Odeon & Gaumont in Hanley plus the Plaza in Fenton, Alambra in Normacot and one in Meir.
£5 a trip! Last time we went it was nearly £20 for 2 of us for basic seats, no 3D and no snacks.
We still have the small independant 'Film Theatre' though, up on the University campus by the train station. A great little place it is too.
http://www.stokefilmtheatre.org.uk/
It's the availability of the movies though that people go to the cinema for - if someone wants to watch Rogue One then they aren't going to wait a few months for a Blu-ray release.
I think the idea of the £50 stream of a new movie at the same time as the cinema release has a lot of potential as people build out their own home cinemas. With a few friends round, some bringing dinner and others bringing the drinks you've spread the cost around enough.
I can't make up my mind whether taking your own sweets is ***** or not. They are expensive but buying at the cinema is, actually, supporting the cinema. They are doing it for a profit, not a public service!
When the Borat film came out I went to the local Odeon. The film started 55 minutes after the advertised time and they actually went "you now have 5 minutes to go and buy more snacks!" and the lights came on right before the film!!! I swore I would never go to Odeon again and I haven't yet.
I can still remember how absolutely livid I was the first time I saw adverts in the cinema. I'm paying £xx to watch a film and you're making me sit through commercials? ...
I've never known a cinema without adverts... but when you say it like that, it's pretty bad really.
I've never known any cinema to have a bar, I must be leading a sheltered life...
The pricing is still a rip off tbh.
Extra for 3D
Extra for Comfy seats
Small mortgate for popcorn
Larger mortgage for Booze
Must be at least £50 for a family of 4
At the price of tickets these days it’s cheaper to buy and setup your own projector. ... Its far cheaper to setup a home cinema and works out better.
the new shopping center
Very much doubt a cinema will let you in with pop corn bought from somewhere else...
Be the same as going into a pub and sitting at the bar drinking a bottle of whiskey you bought cheap from a shop down the road ..
Or walking into a restaurant and sitting at a table with a bag of fish & chips
It's the availability of the movies though that people go to the cinema for - if someone wants to watch Rogue One then they aren't going to wait a few months for a Blu-ray release.
I think the idea of the £50 stream of a new movie at the same time as the cinema release has a lot of potential as people build out their own home cinemas. With a few friends round, some bringing dinner and others bringing the drinks you've spread the cost around enough.
I paid £13.20 for the Rogue One ticket yesterday and stupidly bought a cup of Fanta not realising it was £4, could have bought 6L of the stuff int he supermarket for that! Add the £10 train ticket and i'd have rather paid the same nearly £30 to stream it at home.