Cinema snacks!!!

The waffle cut chips they do in the Vue cinemas though are the bomb, two thumbs up for thosr

I never feel the need to eat in the cinema.

I think people just like stuffing their faces and have money to waste.

Cinemas shouldn’t be selling all this stuff. Ticket prices are very expensive anyway.
I usually go to the senior screen cinema. Hardly ever get the oldies scoffing. Just a coffee or tea.

This will divulge my age but well remember the days when all you could buy in a cinema was an ice cream .Hence we took our own goodies.

Occasionally. I watch “Gogglebox” and I’m appalled at how some of the families have various snacks laid out to accompany their viewing.
Last year, I went to the ballet with my family and had to ask the child behind me to refrain from rustling sweet papers during the performance which he had done during the overture. My hearing aids tend to pick up the nearest sound!

I always take a bag of toffees or similar and sometimes a can of pop for us all to share at the cinema. I plan to buy them at Tesco beforehand with the weekly shop. I never pay the inflated prices at the venue! I also wait for films to come to my local independent which only charges £6 for tickets, 50p off for OAPs. It's a much more enjoyable experience as it's closer, run by volunteers and rarely full so you don't feel hemmed in by others.

I blame this on cinemas in the USA where they've been increasing the food on offer, for years. Recently DH & I were on our annual visit to see DGC in USA. We took DGD to see Incredibles 2, but only after it had been on for a few weeks. We declined to take her to the nearest cinema, which now has tables from which you can order food and drinks, while the film is on! (Argh!! Why can't people for two or three hours without food? All we take is a small bottle of water and a couple of boiled sweets, in case we cough.) The cinema we chose was almost empty in the afternoon and there was a lot less food in evidence - bliss!

Took grandson to cinema.
Treat was Pick ‘n Mix - you put scooped sweets in a cardboard container then take it over to the counter for the server to weigh and pay.
This is when you find out some sweets are heavier than others and you haven’t enough ££ for the amount you have.
I asked the server whether I should return some sweets to the display or should she throw the excess in the box away.
‘Thats a waste’ she said as she threw some in the bin. MADNESS!!!!
Do people just cough up the money ?

When I take GC to cinema we go to the local supermarket & they choose a bag of sweets or similar & I put them in my bag & get them out when lights go down. I refuse to pay an ridiculous amount of money & they all get what they want. The noise of people rustling paper & eating is very annoying too.
Hence I rarely go to cinema unless I am taking the children- they soon come round on Netflix anyway!

I can't bear eating in the cinema or listening, smelling others chomping and so have stopped going to the one in our town that shows all the latest films. Instead I go to the small one at the university which doesn't allow eating but has a bar/cafe in the foyer where you can eat before or after the film.
Unfortunately we often gave to wait weeks/months for the newest releases. It seems to specialise more in old classics and subtitled films. Some are great but my eyes don't like subtitles now, consequently I don't go very often but wait until they appear on TV.

Showings not showing.

When I was teaching Media Studies my colleague went on a training course about film finances. At the theatre end the films are so expensive that the film houses make no profit on them at all so to hire a film to show costs 100% of the door takings. Some blockbusters cost the theatres 125% of the ticket sales so they have to amke their profits somewhere else given that they also have business rates, tax and employees' costs too.

The profit making end is in food. My colleage was told (ten or so years ago) that a huge bucket of popcorn costs one penny to produce s, if it retails at £3 there is £2.99 profit in it. And so on.

Goodness only knows how they make money on silver screen showing where they also give you a free tea and a biscuit!

This is one of my real hates. I find a lot of people who buy lots of food and drink behave like they are in their own front room. They talk without consideration for others and make such a noise eating popcorn and unwrapping sweets etc. I wish they didn't sell all this stuff in cinemas, just the traditional icecream, it spoils it for everyone else.

I have sat through a film where one couple with two children kept sending the children out during the film for more supplies. Infuriating.

I too have never bought cinema snacks, horrid and ridiculously overpriced. I always take a bottle of water in my bag and a few sweets. If I go to a lunchtime screening I take a homemade sandwich and as the cinema is usually fairly empty make sure I sit well away from anyone else. When the children were small they each took a small bottle or carton of juice and a sharing bags of sweets between us all. I was horrified some years ago when I took a friend of my son with us, as it was cheaper with 4 to get a family ticket I said he need not pay, he then spent the whole £10 he had been given on a bucket of popcorn and a pail of coke, he could hardly lift them! This was 15 years ago.....goodness knows what it costs now!

took my 2 grandsons to the Jurassic park film y'day - was quite horrified that it cost over £50 for the tickets, some pop corn for each boy and a drink for each of us. I don't know how the vue cinemas can justify their prices and every single time I go I end up complaining about how incredibly slow they are when you buy anything. Y'day it took the lady 10 minutes to do the popcorn etc.......! Then we had to suffer 30 minutes of mostly inappropriate ( to children) adverts before the film actually started...............grrrr

I love occasional trips to the cinema. Popcorn there is expensive, but our visit would be incomplete without it. We probably only go once a month or less. And really it's no different than when we go to the theatre and have a glass of wine in the interval.

I get really cross hearing people rustling sweet papers etc in the cinema. Can't people go a couple of hours without eating ? It's also those who try to suck the last bit of drink up through the straw lol

We're taking our grandchildren later today. The cinema has an offer on, popcorn, small bag of sweets and a drink for £2.50. I don't think that's too bad. A cup of pick and mix is £3 which is quite a lot. Personally I don't eat at the cinema. I take a bottle of water in my bag, that's all.

I agree with you, it astounds me the amount of money people are willing to spend on snacks. However, I’m even more amazed by the size of the drinks and popcorn buckets. A sign of my age but I remember tiny little packets of Sunkist popcorn which presumably wouldn’t touch the sides of someone used to a litre of pop and a bucket of popcorn. I can actually manage to watch a film without eating or drinking anything!

I used to take my kids to football, i paid for tickets, we didn't buy programmes, food, sweets etc. Nowadays a KitKat can cost £3!

It amazes me that people can't get through a couple of hours without chomping on something! I wear hearing aids and the rustle of sweet papers makes me want to scream and totally spoils my experience. I took grandson to the pantomime last year and at 10.30 in the morning most kids had buckets of food. Was this instead of breakfast? Grandson and I had discussed this before we went in and he was delighted to go for lunch afterwards

Beau is right, the calculation is £10 per head. Why are we getting so precious, the original Globe stood on 6 ft of hazelnut shells. Meat pies whatever was the dish of the day.
Get real, for many people none of it is much money.

Rarely visit a cinema. Last experience put me off completely. Having to put up with the rustling of popcorn, the crunching of nachos, the smell of hotdogs etc as well as the constant distraction of arms going up and down to stuff the food in. Why don't folk realise they are being ripped off and no wonder there is an obesity crisis.

I went to the cinema recently (hadn't been for ages). I quarter-filled a tub with pick-and-mix and went to pay for it. Was told to go back and fill it to the top as it was the same price - £4 !!

I like popcorn, but I’ve never brought it in a cinema after I read that the boxes they put it in cost more than the popcorn! Have you seen those huge sacks, probably cost two quid. If I do take gk I always buy something before we go in. Not much though, and nothing noisy!

I took 2 of my grandaughters recently, and couldn’t believe either the amount of food/snacks purchased or the prices. What also amazed me was that after the film had finished, the floor was an absolute mess of spilled popcorn, wrappers, bottles and paper cups. I don’t think I have ever seen so much mess and litter just thrown down.