sherlockskitty wrote:

It's ridiculous tho.   I  go to the cinema on discount days,  and often,  the food I get is more expensive than the movie itself!!   Why  do they raise the price of a whoppers box,  to  4  dollars,  when you can buy it elsewhere for a dollar or less?

Easy, the food inside a venue is meant to be more expensive than normal grocery prices Here in Sydney, we have a thing called the Royal Easter Show & if entry was exporbitant enough, the food prices once you get in are more than double the price anywhere else because they know that once you're in, you're kind of stuck there coz you wanna see everything & get your money's worth (from the ticket) so you'll grudgingly pay whatever $ they feel like setting
 

I don't need to have something to eat while watching. But if I go to the cinema with my family then we buy some popcorn and I eat it all before the film starts. I don't mind when other people eat during a movie if they do it quietly (and they usually do it quietly).
Talking and laughing is much more annoying...

I'm fat, can you guess how I voted?

I like popcorn and pop (soft drink, soda) at a movie, but I can't have any for a while because I just got braces!

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

I'm not a big fan of eating in public; but I usually get a tub of popcorn and a soda when I go see a movie. I think it's more an emotional thing as it sort of sets the mood of being in a movie theater 

 
yea, that's about it.  I feel naked without my popcorn. 

If my friend and I want candy during a movie that's always the way we do it; we go to a pick'n'mix and stash out purses! And as soon as the lights are out, out comes the cheap sweets!

Candy in movie theaters is way over-priced! 


I must say a pet hate of mine is when people bring bags of crisps, I am half deaf on my left ear and I have a hard time following conversation in movies sometimes; esecially if there is other noise. 

I think sneaking candy into the movies may be the most popular rule violation in all the world.

I worked part time at a cinema for a couple of years and you would be amazed at some of the other things people have snuck in.  I once found an pizza box and a 6 pack of empty beer bottles.  Don't know how they got those in.  

Last edited by tonnaree (February 6, 2014 8:21 pm)

"Military Movie Watchers", great, I'm one of them, I'm afraid.
I always tend to be lucky enough to have someone sitting right beside or behind me with a huge bucket of popcorn... just perfect. I really, really can do without people rustling around in their popcorn bucket or crisps or whatever. But I guess I'm some sort of special case because I am extremely clairaudient. So I basically hear... everything.

I'm afraid I hate people crunching and munching in the cinema so I try not to do the same! Or else I'll bring in some nibbles that are silent when eaten!

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

I even did the same when I was the only person at the movie theater when watching In Time...

That must have felt strange...being the only one in the cinema!!