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Just back from cinema, what a fcuking rip off!

Ghandee

Mods, I know there is a rip off forum, but want a discussion in AH, so please don't move......

So my wife wanted to go to the cinema this evening, and me being eager to please duly obliged.
Of course when we get there, she insists the cinema isn't the cinema without popcorn and coke.

2 x tickets to see hangover 2
2 x coke, 2 x popcorn
1 x nachos with salsa.

€44.50 :eek::eek:

Recession me hole! No one told said cinema about wage cuts, tax hikes blah blah blah!

Have we lost the value of money during the boom?

What else do you think were being charged WAAAAY too much for?

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Renn

You didn't have to pay but you did. Can see this being a fun thread

Wolfe Tone

I love the cinema, but I can't afford to go because of prices like that.

Do people go to the cinema on their own? Would be cheap enough for one

Biggins

This is something that came up in a thread recently.
There is some merit to your opinion - however someone else also put forward a good counter-side too for SOME cases.

DOC09UNAM

Highly original thread and i'm sure it has never been discussed in AH before.

I'm sure you did a search and found zero results.

Yep, definitely.

strobe

Ghandee wrote: »

Mods, I know there is a rip off forum, but want a discussion in AH, so please don't move......

So my wife wanted to go to the cinema this evening, and me being eager to please duly obliged.
Of course when we get there, she insists the cinema isn't the cinema without popcorn and coke.

2 x tickets to see hangover 2
2 x coke, 2 x popcorn
1 x nachos with salsa.

€44.50 :eek::eek:

Recession me hole! No one told said cinema about wage cuts, tax hikes blah blah blah!

Have we lost the value of money during the boom?

What else do you think were being charged WAAAAY too much for?

Why didn't you buy the coke and popcorn and stuff in a Spar and stick it in your wife's handbag like a normal person?

aligator_am

Ghandee wrote: »

Mods, I know there is a rip off forum, but want a discussion in AH, so please don't move......

So my wife wanted to go to the cinema this evening, and me being eager to please duly obliged.
Of course when we get there, she insists the cinema isn't the cinema without popcorn and coke.

2 x tickets to see hangover 2
2 x coke, 2 x popcorn
1 x nachos with salsa.

€44.50 :eek::eek:

Recession me hole! No one told said cinema about wage cuts, tax hikes blah blah blah!

Have we lost the value of money during the boom?

What else do you think were being charged WAAAAY too much for?

Fúckin' hell that's a bit pricey! was the popcorn bucket made of gold or something?

Wolfe Tone

Biggins wrote: »

This is something that came up in a thread recently.
There is some merit to your opinion - however someone else also put forward a good counter-side too for SOME cases.

I felt robbed the last time I went to the one in Drogheda, its a kip with only 1 good screen.

Biggins

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

I felt robbed the last time I went to the one in Drogheda, its a kip with only 1 good screen.

As you know, I am in the same boat as yourself - and I totally agree.
(The sooner the Scotch Hall one opens the better - we have a wait though!)

Ghandee

Renn wrote: »

You didn't have to pay but you did. Can see this being a fun thread

Eh, yes I did!
Wife asked, easier all round to just do it!

PennyLane88

That's why i never bother with cinema anymore, i just watch them on the internet

galwayrush

We buy much cheaper snacks/sweets/drinks beforehand , we can manage 2 adults and 2 kids for a lot less than that OP.

mikemac

Popcorn and fizzy water/coke in Centra, bring them in with your jacket

livinsane

God I hate the culture of eating and drinking at the cinema. The first half hour of the film is the worst - crunch, crunch, slurp, crunch. Then people start running out of food and things get bearable.

But you could always smuggle in some food in a back pack or something.

Mr. Denton

Did she at least give you a tug?

aligator_am

Last film I went to see in the cinema was Tron: Legacy with the ex girlfriend, the tickets alone were something like €37!!! (it was in 3D), I was bulling but didn't want to look like a miser in front of her so paid it, makes me a bigger fool lol.

Ghandee

Wife won't allow smuggled food idea!
' scared we'd get caught! ':rolleyes:

lastlaugh

NEVER buy any food or drink in the cinema, extortionate prices altogether.

Ruu_Old

Hate cinemas, go maybe once a year if that. Some cunt with their phone on all the time, some fat bastard eating too loudly. I hate people! Oh and they rip you off! 3-D me bollix, what a con! :mad:

omerin

Ghandee wrote: »

Eh, yes I did!
Wife asked, easier all round to just do it!

Your wife asks to see Hangover 2

Sure ya.
OP fess up, it was Bridesmaids wasn't it. Man up!

scudzilla

If i really wanna see a film on the big screen, rather than download it, i'll go to the matineee, 7 euro each, total cost of 14Euro

Snacks/Drink will be bought in Superquinn and hid in wifey's bag

total cost incl snacks/drinks, less than 20quid for 2

YFlyer

Ghandee wrote: »

Eh, yes I did!
Wife asked, easier all round to just do it!

Ball and chain

Einhard

How much were the tickets OP? Why bother with the popcorn, just run into Dunnes or somewhere and stock up on cheap stuff!

Wolfe Tone

lastlaugh wrote: »

NEVER buy any food or drink in the cinema, extortionate prices altogether.

The popcorn is lovely though

aligator_am

Ruu wrote: »

Hate cinemas, go maybe once a year if that. Some cunt with their phone on all the time, some fat bastard eating too loudly. I hate people! Oh and they rip you off! 3-D me bollix, what a con! :mad:

I'm after taking a fit of laughing at this, thanks

:D:D

Oranage2

Ghandee wrote: »

Mods, I know there is a rip off forum, but want a discussion in AH, so please don't move......

So my wife wanted to go to the cinema this evening, and me being eager to please duly obliged.
Of course when we get there, she insists the cinema isn't the cinema without popcorn and coke.

2 x tickets to see hangover 2
2 x coke, 2 x popcorn
1 x nachos with salsa.

Â€44.50 :eek::eek:

Recession me hole! No one told said cinema about wage cuts, tax hikes blah blah blah!

Have we lost the value of money during the boom?

What else do you think were being charged WAAAAY too much for?

what are you at man? you've already married the girl so its not like you've to impress her like its a first date!

Eddie rockets before hand or buy so sweets in a shop.

bryaner

I just wait for films to come out on BRD and watch them in the comfort of me own gaff..

Kevin Duffy

If you didn't listen when the whole of Ireland has been saying how shít that film is, with good reason, then good enough for yeh!

seanbmc

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Highly original thread and i'm sure it has never been discussed in AH before.

I'm sure you did a search and found zero results.

Yep, definitely.

If he searched and dug up an old thread you'd still be complaining.

Ghandee

seanbmc wrote: »

If he searched and dug up an old thread you'd still be complaining.

Didn't even entertain him/her.............

PennyLane88

Ruu wrote: »

Hate cinemas, go maybe once a year if that. Some cunt with their phone on all the time, some fat bastard eating too loudly. I hate people! Oh and they rip you off! 3-D me bollix, what a con! :mad:

This made me lol. Its the whole rip off that the cinema allows - tickets are never really cheap, limited amount of food you can purchase there, food prices are extortionate (popcorn shouldnt be expensive, its hardly gold like)

And having to sit in uncomfortable chairs, people talking, munching, etc makes me swerve cinemas so i just order a takeaway and watch films at home.