Screen Hopping

SirDelboy18

Or - going from one movie into another without paying.

Have been guilty of this a few times in the past, curious to see If many do it, experiences etc. Also love to hear from people that worked in cinemas and if they have seen it done

siblers

When I was a young lad, i used to pay for like a pg rated film and the sneak into a 15s or 18s one. But I've never stayed on to see one for free, don't think I would either.

Marsden

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

Also love to hear from people that worked in cinemas and if they do it.

I would of thought they get in for free anyway.

SirDelboy18

Marsden wrote: »

I would of thought they get in for free anyway.

Yeah I phrased that badly. Edited now

delbertgrady

I go to Cineworld for most mainstream releases, and because I pay for the monthly pass anyway (and have done for years), screen-hopping doesn't really count: it's not like I'm conning them. I think it has changed now, but there was a time when you couldn't buy a ticket for more than one screening at a time, which was a bloody nuisance if you were going to something at, say, 10:30, and the next film started at 12:40, giving you a narrow margin inbetween. I think now you can do it if the films don't overlap: otherwise, their system has a meltdown.
In the past, I've only done it once or twice, but only for convenience, 'cos my card "covers" the payment: only their stats will be out. I'd come out of one film with the intention of going to get a ticket for another, and I'd look down and see the queue in the lobby, and think, f*** this, I'll never make it back up here on time, and just walk straight into the next one. If it was the afternoon, it was fine (I remember doing a double-bill of Black Book and Infamous, without incident), but it's tricky at night, 'cos they usually have staff on duty. I remember trying to get in to see Frost/Nixon, the weekend of its release, having just left another film, but I'd no ticket to show the guy at the door, and had to shuffle away.

Loughc

My local cinema is Odeon Coolock, it happens alot in there but staff notice it quiet easily and have security escort people out of the screen when it happens.

It's a childish thing to do and no matter what way you look at it, it's still theft. You wouldn't go into a shop but a loaf of bread and still some milk with the attitude sure didn't I pay for the bread!

Professional Griefer

You wouldn't download a car..

e_e

I've done it once. Went to see Trance but couldn't get a ticket because there were technical issues with the screen, asked what else was playing and the guy behind the counter just said GI Joe Retribution. I begrudgingly bought a ticket (3D glasses too) and when I went up the stairs noticed that Wreck It Ralph was only starting 2 screens down so I thought "what the hell" and went to see that instead. Believe me I would have just bought a ticket for Wreck It Ralph had the guy even mentioned it.

What worked out especially well is that I saw Trance a week later and found it to be a boring, unpleasant mess of a film. Enjoyed Wreck It Ralph a whole lot more, felt like I dodged a bullet skipping GI Joe too.

JoeySully

I Only did it once years ago, it was an early show we went to see, there were only a handful of ppl iin there and the sound was so loud that we had to leave shortly after the movie started.

SirDelboy18

I think most people if they have done it, have only done it on less than a handful of occassions to be honest. Just something that intrigues me really

Banjaxed82

Because of Cineworld's stupid policy of having to collect your tickets 20 minutes beforehand when you book online through your Unlimited card, I occasionally wait til I get to the cinema and if the queue is dreadful, through my phone, I'll book another film that's on in 20+ minutes. Collect my tickets 60 seconds later, then go up and see the film I was planning to see.

What's the point in having an Unlimited Card if you don't get perks. I'm not getting to the cinema 20-30 mins before film starts. that doesn't include trailers & sh!te.

They should have a 3 strike policy, where if the individual fails to pick up tickets, then this privilege is revoked and you go to the 20 minute policy.

While not screen hopping, it is some what shady.

Skerries

I used to do it years ago in Cineworld where I have bought 1 ticket but ended up going to see 3 films in the one day.
I did it about 4 or 5 times

krudler

When we were kids sure, the Savoy in Limerick used to have this woman who was about a billion years old at the top of the stairs checking the tickets, but past that you could just wander in and out of the screens as they were all on a single corridor. Would never do it now, remember National Cinema Day? every film was a pound, that was the job.

Potential-Monke

krudler wrote: »

When we were kids sure, the Savoy in Limerick used to have this woman who was about a billion years old at the top of the stairs checking the tickets, but past that you could just wander in and out of the screens as they were all on a single corridor. Would never do it now, remember National Cinema Day? every film was a pound, that was the job.

God i remember the amount of people fleecing even the "shop" there! There was no one there most the time...

Tar.Aldarion

Some epopel I know did that a lot all right, like paying for one and staying for three. I nor my arse could hack that.

Galvasean

Never bothered as a kid. Have the Cineworld pass now so the idea is atad moot now.

krudler

Galvasean wrote: »

Never bothered as a kid. Have the Cineworld pass now so the idea is atad moot now.

Do it anyway, live on the edge man

TwoShedsJackson

Professional Griefer wrote: »

You wouldn't download a car..

I bloody would if I could.

Hondo75

ah the lads that come in half way through and sit front seat..see it a few times

e_e

Hondo75 wrote: »

ah the lads that come in half way through and sit front seat..see it a few times

Or the ones who come in and sit for about 20 minutes doing nothing but playing with their phones when waiting for another screening to start. :mad:

Turtyturd

Loughc wrote: »

My local cinema is Odeon Coolock, it happens alot in there but staff notice it quiet easily and have security escort people out of the screen when it happens.

It's a childish thing to do and no matter what way you look at it, it's still theft. You wouldn't go into a shop but a loaf of bread and still some milk with the attitude sure didn't I pay for the bread!

Used to do it when I was a kid. Before the Coolock Cinema was refurbished it had 5 screens to the left of the food counter and 5 to the right, the ticket booth was out at the front and the person looking at the tickets used to stand in the middle of the floor, which meant that once you were past them you had free reign of all the screens.

They also ran promotion with the plex which gave free games of pool/bowling/qzar with tickets to a certain movie which would have gangs of kids buying tickets for that movie but going to see something else.