Walking out of the cinema

mukki

the Evan almighty thread gave me the idea....


if you leave the cinema before the end, why are you not entitled to a refund???

that way crap films with good names like shrek3, pirates of the carribean 3, and evan almights will make far less money, which would be good enough for sloppy film makers

cormie

The film would still fit the description it was sold for, being a film? lol.. and unless there was something wrong other than you just getting bored/fed up with it, the cinema will be keeping your money;) I suppose once you walk in the door the packaging has been opened so to speak. I'm 99% sure the cinema have no legal requirement to refund you, whether they decide to or not would be up to them.

c - 13

Probably because of chancers who would walk out about 5 mins before the end and look for their money back.

However if there was a set time frame, say if you left within the first half hour it would possibly be workable. Although you would probably get people abusing that too just for something to do.

Say teenage skobes with no where better to go, safe in the knowledge they can get the price returned if they get bored, this in turn creates a greater number of people in the film who will make noise and generally ruin the viewing experience for people who actually want to be there.

I personally dont like the idea, if I dont like a film just cut my losses - think of it this way, if you rent a DVD, take it home and watch the first half hour of it, realise its crap - Do you expect to take that back and get a different film/refund ?

(Come to think of it - I dont think i've ever walked out of a film, regardless of how bad it was)

Loomis

Only ever walked out once. Fun with Dick and Jane. So disappointing since I think Jim Carey is a God. But that movie made no sense. It wasn't remotely funny

Mr E

If you had come across ANY reviews for Evan Almighty in the last month, you should have known how bad it would be, and you wouldn't have handed over your hard earned cash.

If I'm handing over €9 for a movie, I'm going to make sure its at least above average before I decide to go.

Mitch Connor

In one cinema I used to go to, LOADS of parents came out (with their kids) demanding their money back for 'Bad Santa' as it was not a 'kiddies movie' despite being told several times before buying the tickets that it was not a 'kiddies movie'. None of them got their money back.

I would only have offered money back if i knew the people (as in knew they were regulars) it was still early in the movie and they had a good reason. I have given money back in the past when a parent has brought a kid to a movie, and the opening of the movie has scared the b'jebus out of the kid. Its good business practive imo - as the parent will come away thinking they've been treated right, and are likely to comment on this to other people and come back themselves.

I wouldn't refund money just cause a movie was crap though.

User45701

Walking out of the cinema? ive never done it but there was only 1 real chance to do it.

Anyone remember that episode of family guy where peter is in the cinema and he just jumps up, shouts DONE! with his hands in the air then walks out.

The perfect movie to do that in that would have got a great reaction from the crowd in the cinema would have been snakes on a plane when he says that famous line, as soon as he is finsihed just should DONE and walk out because allot of people just went to see that movie for that line

rahim

User45701 wrote:

Anyone remember that episode of family guy where peter is in the cinema and he just jumps up, shouts DONE! with his hands in the air then walks out.

Thank you, that made me laugh. Refresh my memory, what was the film he went to see?

On topic: Don't think a cinema should give anyone their money back because they didn't like the film and walked out before the end.

gucci

only ever walked out twice on movies, twice in a row (maybe 2 weeks apart) left talladega nights and you me and dupree, steaming piles of manure both of them.

cant think of that family guy one!

monkeyfudge

c - 13 wrote:

I personally dont like the idea, if I dont like a film just cut my losses - think of it this way, if you rent a DVD, take it home and watch the first half hour of it, realise its crap - Do you expect to take that back and get a different film/refund ?

I've seen people cheeky enough to do this and succeed in Xtravision.

Mr E

rahim wrote:

Thank you, that made me laugh. Refresh my memory, what was the film he went to see?

Failure to Launch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJoMMt1nSMc

rahim

TmB wrote:

Failure to Launch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJoMMt1nSMc

Brilliant. Thanks.

philstar

i've only walked out of one movie>>>>>>> lost in space utter ****e!!!!!

Karl Hungus

Nope, don't think I've ever walked out in the middle of a movie.

I think if you got a refund if you did, people would take the mikey with reguards to that privelige.

qwertplaywert

i think maybe a system where ye could leave before 20 percent of the movie was over, and ye get a 20 percent refund.........might incorage people to go to longer films[people more likely to go to longer film if they can leave and get a partial refund if they dont like it] eg. 2 and half hour film, if people left before 30 minutes, and they paid a ticket price of 10 euro, they get 2 euro back

MooseJam

only ever walked out of one - can't remember what it was called , something like single white male about a guy who lost his memory, wastn't even a proper movie, pile of rubbish

monkey tennis

It's not the cinema's fault if the movie is sh1te, so I wouldn't expect them to refund anyone for it.

subway

walked out fo the sum of all fears after about 6 hours of the same scene in a conference room.
too much like work.

was a cineworld memeber at the time so just got a ticket for something else

Galvasean

Ive felt very tempted to walk out of many films, but its hard to make an honest and balanced critique if you don't see the full thing. Now, Mr. Bean's Holiday was the first and only time I heard people boo at the end of a film.

Schism

Never walked out of a film yet and I probably never will. Nearly did for Open Water.... /shudders.

If I did walk out of a film I wouldnt even think of asking for a refund because it isnt the cinemas fault that a movie is sh*te, its not like they made the thing.
Infact I think it would be absurd for me to ask the people showing the film that I chose for a refund.

Sure I've been to my fair share of crap films but hey, they cant all be good, gotta take the rough with the smooth.

Eirebear

The only times ive walked out of a movie have been when the cinema is full of idiots who wont let me hear the damn thing, and ive made sure ive got a refund.

I love the idea of taking kids to see bad santa though...hats fecking hilarious!

mukki

Earthworm Jim! wrote:

Never walked out of a film yet and I probably never will. Nearly did for Open Water.... /shudders.

open water.... thank god you get to see your ones boobs!

ClarenceOveur

I walked out of a film once - Titanic. But then I went back in coz it was only a smoke break (bogland cinemas!).

I'm not sure it would occur to me to walk out in the middle of a film, or stop watching a DVD halfway through. Maybe if I saw Pearl Harbour in the cinema instead of for free on the telly.