Abz Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 A little fact for you: the cardboard containers that the popcorn is served in costs the cinema more to buy than the popcorn they contain. We get paper bags, I feel robbed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjy Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 To be honest I prefer to smuggle in stuff, but we always forget to do it. Not that we're cheapskates or anything. I'd never dream of going to Tesco and getting the pick n mix from there (£3.50 for a large cup as opposed to £10 for the same amount of sweets from the cinema) and a couple of bottles of fizzy coca-cola (diet for the wife) type drink and then putting it into the tardis that is the wife's handbag and smuggling it in. Honest!! I took my wife to the cinema before she became even my girlfriend (to be fair she was someone elses girlfriend but that's a story for another time...) and I properly spat my dummy out when they demanded £18 for 2 tickets to see The Hangover. Forgot she was with me momentarily. Looked like a cheapskate. Failed at trying to convince everyone that I was only joking. Still, she married me and now I'm a fully fledged cheapskate and she's allowed 1 movie a month on Sky Box Office, and she can take the childerbeast to see the £1 movies on a saturday morning if she so desires! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pezzler Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Managed to collect 11 free cinema tickets with the esso fuel promotion, I drive about 1500 a week in the work van - thought i'd get something out of it ....just dont know what to do with the tickets now, there seem to be a loada cack on at the minute; avengers should be good though so I might watch that 11 times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyson Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Managed to collect 11 free cinema tickets with the esso fuel promotion, I drive about 1500 a week in the work van - thought i'd get something out of it ....just dont know what to do with the tickets now, there seem to be a loada cack on at the minute; avengers should be good though so I might watch that 11 times Wrath of the titans looks like it might be worth a watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tee from China Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Most cinemas in China charge 80 Yuan (£8.00) + for 3D (have for the past couple of years)but usually in Chinese unless I go Tuesdays before 7pm and pay 35 Yuan(£3.50), so I rarely bother and wait for the DVD to come to my local shop (usually next day of release and then I pay 5 or 10 Yuan (50p or £1)and watch it at home as many times as I want! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 What you guys on about? I go all the time!! I pay £15 a month with Cineworld for an unlimited pass, tend to go to the one at 02 as they have big chairs and loads of space, also coffee shops etc and plenty of parking so then I can park in a corner without no one parking near me. Though the drinks/popcorn/treats are a rip off though!! I also have the Unlimited card too, but haven't been for a few months, so am well overdue some movies. I took my girlfriend to watch The Hunger Games yesterday, and was astounded that it costs £8.50 for an adult ticket. Plus the 'refreshments', you have to take a second mortgage to go to the cinema these days. We watched Tintin on saturday evening on DVD at my flat, the picture and sound quality was far better on my TV than at the cinema. I really know why I bother to go at all. You can get all the refreshments you want at home too! EDIT: The Hunger Games was rather bland IMO. Not recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fmj-90 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 £8.85 at maidenhead Odeon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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