If i use active specs, like some TV sets have I can see the 3D, if i use passive like those supplied with cheaper TV sets and what they use in cinemas I just see a blur.
Anyway, they charge enough as it is , no way would I pay the extra for their 3D. But as i said, I have not been in a cinema for years, if I go again i will go on the cheap day, no way am I paying full price.
I like to watch superhero movies at the cinema on release as a decent rip usually takes too long to come out. If I want to watch (a few months-)old movies or terrible camcorder rips then staying at home is the best option.
I only go if it's something I really want to see. And that's getting less and less these days. Odeon is doing £5 for non-3D films which is quite a good deal.
I think the cinema experience itself is better than 10 years ago or so. There's a lot less disruption from scallies on the back rows; a bit like people in London, they've been priced out of the cinema. They really clamped down on all that nonsense over the last few years.
Probably yes, but I was after actual figures to justify the high prices of food.
Odean charge almost £6 for a hot dog and I bet the sausages come out of a can. I know Greggs sell hot dog for almost that price, but I bet they are not tinned sausages,
Odean charge almost £6 for a hot dog and I bet the sausages come out of a can. I know Greggs sell hot dog for almost that price, but I bet they are not tinned sausages,
It's a little known fact that most if not all the major cinema chains allow you to take your own cold food and drinks into the cinema.
I used to go to my local multiplex cinema every Sunday up until a few years ago but got fed up of rude people talking and just generally being loud and disruptive during the film. The worst was groups of teenagers talking, using their mobile phones and even taking pictures!
If we go to the cinema now it's on rare occasions when there is something we really want to see and we go to our local independent cinema where there are no kids and we can enjoy a glass of wine with the film.
I haven't been to the cinema for two or three years because of ignorant morons who couldn't behave themselves if their lives depended on it. Worse than the noise is people playing with their phones because the lights on the devices ARE distracting even if they are trying (not usually) to be discreet.
I just wait for the DVD now if I want to watch a film. With big flat screen TVs and BluRay players, it's far more preferable to stay at home, save a fortune and not have your movie experience ruined by arseholes.
Price was the reason why I didn't go to the cinema much but now this one takes that place now. The last time I went was on my birthday a couple years ago where we came across some boys who were out to act like arses. I tried to keep schtum for as long as possible thinking they'll get bored, but when it came to throwing popcorn, I had to jump up and tell them to knock it off. I was so annoyed, even though it happened during the pre-adverts of the film, it just put a dampener on the events for the rest of the day.
I appreciate that not every cinema trip will turn out this way but still I not keen to pay those prices to find out.
Odean charge almost £6 for a hot dog and I bet the sausages come out of a can. I know Greggs sell hot dog for almost that price, but I bet they are not tinned sausages,
No, £3 for the hot dog and a drink, nowhere near £6; they will be canned or vacuum packed so much the same thing. https://www.greggs.co.uk/deals/ have a look there.
Tuesday's and Wednesdays are cinemas quietest days and hence why most ticket discounts occur on these days.
However cinemas are having to work much harder to get bums on seats and long-term they will need to modernise and find new ways of enticing people in as eventually Hollywood studio's especially will embrace video /content on demand.
i love the cinema. no home movie system can begin to compare.
Depends on how your home system is set up. We made a home cinema in the 'loft, its one big long room, 60" 3D TV, good sound system, popcorn machine, fridge/freezer for cold drinks and ice cream, the grandchildren love it...we love it.
Next year I'll go for something like a 75" TV
All that said, I/we take the grandchildren to the cinema and live theatre, entertainment these days comes in various forms...use what you like.
Depends on how your home system is set up. We made a home cinema in the 'loft, its one big long room, 60" 3D TV, good sound system, popcorn machine, fridge/freezer for cold drinks and ice cream, the grandchildren love it...we love it.
Next year I'll go for something like a 75" TV
All that said, I/we take the grandchildren to the cinema and live theatre, entertainment these days comes in various forms...use what you like.
No, £3 for the hot dog and a drink, nowhere near £6; they will be canned or vacuum packed so much the same thing. https://www.greggs.co.uk/deals/ have a look there.
I was sure i saw £6 on their window. I will not touch canned or vacumme packed sausages. I never liked them when I was a child and I hate them more now.
Just had a another look and their breakfast sausage looks normal and they say freasly cooked.
Not that I will buy one, I prefer to go round to the local butcher and get one there.
Depends on how your home system is set up. We made a home cinema in the 'loft, its one big long room, 60" 3D TV, good sound system, popcorn machine, fridge/freezer for cold drinks and ice cream, the grandchildren love it...we love it.
Next year I'll go for something like a 75" TV
All that said, I/we take the grandchildren to the cinema and live theatre, entertainment these days comes in various forms...use what you like.
Yeah a mate of mine have a HD projector and project onto a 100 and something inch screen, compleat with 7.1 surround sound. It really is amazing and just as good as any cinema, even if it did cost him a fortune.
I was sure i saw £6 on their window. I will not touch canned or vacumme packed sausages. I never liked them when I was a child and I hate them more now.
Gregg's would never charge £6 for anything they sell.
Depends on how your home system is set up. We made a home cinema in the 'loft, its one big long room, 60" 3D TV, good sound system, popcorn machine
So after all that outlay, you still have people eating popcorn throughout the movie?
I don't think I've ever eaten anything in a cinema seat in my life (apart from an ice-cream tub, wafer or choc-ice in the intervals, when there used to be two features). (Part of the reason I go to the cinema is to keep away from my fridge for a couple of hours.)
Why can't the food in cinemas be consumed outside the auditorium, in cafe-like areas?
Yeah a mate of mine have a HD projector and project onto a 100 and something inch screen, compleat with 7.1 surround sound. It really is amazing and just as good as any cinema, even if it did cost him a fortune.
I've looked at HD projectors but prefer at the moment to use a screen, cost is not an issue
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If i use active specs, like some TV sets have I can see the 3D, if i use passive like those supplied with cheaper TV sets and what they use in cinemas I just see a blur.
Anyway, they charge enough as it is , no way would I pay the extra for their 3D. But as i said, I have not been in a cinema for years, if I go again i will go on the cheap day, no way am I paying full price.
http://business.time.com/2009/12/07/movie-theaters-make-85-profit-at-concession-stands/
This cartoon is NSFW but I'm surprised nobody posted it yet:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/movie_theater_layout
I think the cinema experience itself is better than 10 years ago or so. There's a lot less disruption from scallies on the back rows; a bit like people in London, they've been priced out of the cinema. They really clamped down on all that nonsense over the last few years.
That link says they make 85% profit on food, not that 85% of their profits come from food.
We can to and throw about the figures but the truth is, without food a cinema would not survive. That is a fact.
Probably yes, but I was after actual figures to justify the high prices of food.
Odean charge almost £6 for a hot dog and I bet the sausages come out of a can. I know Greggs sell hot dog for almost that price, but I bet they are not tinned sausages,
It's a little known fact that most if not all the major cinema chains allow you to take your own cold food and drinks into the cinema.
If we go to the cinema now it's on rare occasions when there is something we really want to see and we go to our local independent cinema where there are no kids and we can enjoy a glass of wine with the film.
Price was the reason why I didn't go to the cinema much but now this one takes that place now. The last time I went was on my birthday a couple years ago where we came across some boys who were out to act like arses. I tried to keep schtum for as long as possible thinking they'll get bored, but when it came to throwing popcorn, I had to jump up and tell them to knock it off. I was so annoyed, even though it happened during the pre-adverts of the film, it just put a dampener on the events for the rest of the day.
I appreciate that not every cinema trip will turn out this way but still I not keen to pay those prices to find out.
No, £3 for the hot dog and a drink, nowhere near £6; they will be canned or vacuum packed so much the same thing. https://www.greggs.co.uk/deals/ have a look there.
However cinemas are having to work much harder to get bums on seats and long-term they will need to modernise and find new ways of enticing people in as eventually Hollywood studio's especially will embrace video /content on demand.
Depends on how your home system is set up. We made a home cinema in the 'loft, its one big long room, 60" 3D TV, good sound system, popcorn machine, fridge/freezer for cold drinks and ice cream, the grandchildren love it...we love it.
Next year I'll go for something like a 75" TV
All that said, I/we take the grandchildren to the cinema and live theatre, entertainment these days comes in various forms...use what you like.
yes indeed, sounds like a great little set up.
but an imax with 3D surround sound it aint...
I was sure i saw £6 on their window. I will not touch canned or vacumme packed sausages. I never liked them when I was a child and I hate them more now.
Just had a another look and their breakfast sausage looks normal and they say freasly cooked.
Not that I will buy one, I prefer to go round to the local butcher and get one there.
Yeah a mate of mine have a HD projector and project onto a 100 and something inch screen, compleat with 7.1 surround sound. It really is amazing and just as good as any cinema, even if it did cost him a fortune.
I'd rather enjoy watching a film within my own space, rather than have a 5 year old tip their popcorn and pepsi all over me head
Gregg's would never charge £6 for anything they sell.
Getting close to that these days through.
So after all that outlay, you still have people eating popcorn throughout the movie?
I don't think I've ever eaten anything in a cinema seat in my life (apart from an ice-cream tub, wafer or choc-ice in the intervals, when there used to be two features). (Part of the reason I go to the cinema is to keep away from my fridge for a couple of hours.)
Why can't the food in cinemas be consumed outside the auditorium, in cafe-like areas?
I've looked at HD projectors but prefer at the moment to use a screen, cost is not an issue