Bringing own food into cinema

MooseJam · 22-01-2008 07:34PM

I don't get the whole eating in cinemas, you are going to watch a movie why does everyone need to stuff their face with junk food while doing it. Don't you have your dinner before going or lunch or whatever, most films are only 90 minutes you would think most people could survive. I go to the cinema nearly every week and I don't eat or drink anything I actually watch the movie shock horror

BArra · 22-01-2008 08:24PM

maybe cos some people like to treat themselves to some nice chocolate or sweeties while watching a good flick?

*shock horror*

mikemac · 22-01-2008 10:33PM

A bottle of water is €2.20 afaik in Cineworld Parnell St.
But if you stroll 50 metres to the vending machine by the car park pay station it's around half that, €1 possibly.

Same building too.

I attend this place reguarly with my unlimited card and never buy food and drink there. And 90% of the time I have a rucksack and I've never been searched.

One trick which I don't condone was to say you are a diabetic and you need your sugary drinks and sweets. Then tell management that you had no change to buy even more stuff at the cinema. And then ask them had they insurance and a good lawyer for when you collapse into shock since you have no sweets or drinks. :eek:
Yes, it's childish but it had a 100% succuss record and there wasn't a kid in Nenagh Cinema who has not tried this at some stage

Kintarō Hattori · 22-01-2008 10:52PM

grames_bond wrote: »

really? ive never seen that (and ive been to cineworld/ugc (itll always be ugc to me) loads of times! is it a different cineworld that have that?

Jello wrote: »

Never seen that either, and I'd say I've been in all the screens in Cineworld. Stupid though if they do exist.. the amount of people you'd get banging their heads off the seat in front of them as they reach for their drink would be a joke.

They do exist, though there aren't so many seats like this. As the poster said they really are in a stupid location. Right by your feet, thats a good place for a drink!

el dude · 22-01-2008 11:03PM

Monkey61 wrote: »

After four years of bringing my own food into Cineworld in Dublin, I thought this was pretty much the norm if you didn't want to pay the exorbitante prices.
I recall UCI in Tallaght back in the nineties having signs up saying you couldn't bring your own food in, but they didn't last long. Also recall soemone telling me that cinemas aren't allowed to say that anyway.

So basically i have just moved to London, where not only does Cineworld have signs up saying that you can't bring in your own food! But they have also taken to searching people's bags on the way in to make sure that you don't have your own food! WTF!

I was carrying a plastic bag in the other week and was asked what was in it.I said clothes...which it clearly was from the shape and bulkiness of it. And he insisted on looking through it anyway to make sure I hadn't hidden any food inside.

Has cineworld in Dublin started this too or is it just the English feckers?

I'd have told him to get f*cked.

MiloFoxburr · 23-01-2008 04:02PM

eo980 wrote: »

They do exist, though there aren't so many seats like this. As the poster said they really are in a stupid location. Right by your feet, thats a good place for a drink!

Screen 9 has Drink Holders like that, pretty sure that.s the only screen that has them

ztoical · 23-01-2008 04:12PM

micmclo wrote: »

One trick which I don't condone was to say you are a diabetic and you need your sugary drinks and sweets. Then tell management that you had no change to buy even more stuff at the cinema. And then ask them had they insurance and a good lawyer for when you collapse into shock since you have no sweets or drinks. :eek:
Yes, it's childish but it had a 100% succuss record and there wasn't a kid in Nenagh Cinema who has not tried this at some stage

worked in a cinema for years when I was a student in dublin and never had anyone try that. Had some people ask about peanuts with pick n mix but that was it.

krudler · 23-01-2008 05:41PM

worked in a cinema briefly years ago and our manager decided she wasnt going to let anymore outside food in (probably because she was a fat sweathog herself and didnt need the sugary smells wafting into her porcine features all day for fear she'd hulk up and devour the entire pick n mix counter) so told us poor sods to start searching people, i flat out refused because a: she was a raging bitch and anything to make that vein in her head inflate a bit more was hilarious and b: i didnt want to get myself sued/shouted at/knocked out/stabbed in the face with a torn in half can of dutch gold on a friday night by some tracksuit wearing buffoon who only went to see american beauty because he might get to finger Sharon that night

as a woman kicked up a fuss one night over it an off duty guard came over and proceeded to tell said sweathog she better have a damn good reason for searching people, she didnt, we laughed

senordingdong · 23-01-2008 07:50PM

grames_bond wrote: »

really? ive never seen that (and ive been to cineworld/ugc (itll always be ugc to me) loads of times! is it a different cineworld that have that?

They do exist. They are very annoying.

grames_bond · 23-01-2008 09:59PM

senordingdong wrote: »

They do exist. They are very annoying.

yeah ill bet, you know some peoples stupidity baffles me some times!

ztoical · 23-01-2008 11:18PM

grames_bond wrote: »

(itll always be ugc to me)

ah sure I still call it Virgin cinemas...what was it before that Warner cinemas or am I confusing it something else.

senordingdong · 23-01-2008 11:44PM

It was an imax.

ixoy · 23-01-2008 11:57PM

senordingdong wrote: »

It was an imax.

Well the current location was. UGC was just a small bit down and incorporated some of the current theatres (9 of 'em) and then took over the IMAX building for its massive expansion.

ztoical · 24-01-2008 12:18AM

senordingdong wrote: »

It was an imax.

Virgin/UGC was there long before [and of course after] the joke that was the IMAX

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