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Just back from cinema, what a fcuking rip off!

  • 26-06-2011 09:42PM
    #1
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭


    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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  • #2
    Renn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭Renn


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


  • #3
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #4
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭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?


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  • #7
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭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?


  • #8
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭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!)


  • #10
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭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!


  • #11
    PennyLane88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭PennyLane88


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


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  • #12
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


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


  • #13
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,967 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


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


  • #14
    livinsane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    Did she at least give you a tug?


  • #16
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


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


  • #18
    lastlaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭lastlaugh


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


  • #19
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #20
    omerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭omerin


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Eh, yes I did!
    Wife asked, easier all round to just do it!


    Your wife asks to see Hangover 2 :confused: Sure ya.
    OP fess up, it was Bridesmaids wasn't it. Man up!


  • #21
    scudzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,065 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #22
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Eh, yes I did!
    Wife asked, easier all round to just do it!

    Ball and chain :D


  • #23
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


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


  • #24
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    lastlaugh wrote: »
    NEVER buy any food or drink in the cinema, extortionate prices altogether.
    The popcorn is lovely though


  • #25
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭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:D


  • #26
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭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.

    €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.


  • #27
    bryaner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭bryaner


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


  • #28
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭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!


  • #29
    seanbmc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


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

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


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  • #31
    PennyLane88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭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. ;)


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