Ryanair Don't Do Cinemas But If They Did...........

[Flintstone]

Waiting to collect Miss F this evening I browsed the price list.

Adult Ticket £6.90
After 5pm? £1.00
3D Film? £2.10
3D Goggles? £0.80

Which takes a £6.90 ticket to £10.80. Nice mark-up if you can get it.


How much more does a 3D film cost to make anyway?

[deevlash]

lots more, they have to use 3D actors.

[stoocake]

deevlash said:

lots more, they have to use 3D actors.

Much lolling

[Rubin215]

You're complaining?

That's cheap for a cinema!

Bear in mind, that ticket gives you the best part of two hours entertainment; how much would a ticket for a decent band cost?
What about two hours in the pub?
Or an "exotic" dancer...?

[jb9193]

Agreed; that is a good price for a 3D film!

[Wadeski]

holy st thats cheap. seeing avatar with my girlfriend was nearly £25 a ticket.

[Mattygooner]

Rubin215 said:

You're complaining?

That's cheap for a cinema!

Bear in mind, that ticket gives you the best part of two hours entertainment; how much would a ticket for a decent band cost?
What about two hours in the pub?
Or an "exotic" dancer...?

But, if you spent £30 on tequilla, then went to a normal film, it kind of looks like it is in 3d......

[Phunk]

£10.80 cheap? its £8.95 for my local imax!

[joewilliams]

I still think of a trip to the cinema being around £5 per person plus as much pick & mix as you can eat before chucking.

For a tenner, I can buy the DVD and watch it in my own home, with a glass of beer, without a load of yokels munching popcorn all around me.

[Flintstone]

Rubin215 said:

You're complaining?
That's cheap for a cinema!

jb9193 said:

Agreed; that is a good price for a 3D film!

Y'see, I knew this would happen. Normal PH response.

Which part of my post says it's a complaint about price? I was highlighting Ryanairesque pricing techniques. A near 40% mark-up when you're almost at the point of no return.


Edit: Not the sort of point of no return TVRMoneypit's contemplating.

Edited by Flintstone on Wednesday 4th August 00:17

[ymwoods]

I remember the days when I was still in school where I could take a tenner with me and get the bus to an from the cinema along with the ticket, a drink, a bucket of popcorn and still have enough change left to buy Max Power on the way back.

And i'm only 21!

[B17NNS]

Wadeski said:

holy st thats cheap. seeing avatar with my girlfriend was nearly £25 a ticket.

£50 to go to the cinema?



Quality bit of pub grub for two and a couple of drinks £30
Rent DVD £5
Nice bottle of wine and nibbles £15

More brass than sense lad.

[madala]

....if they did cinemas they would would be shoite just like the airline....that O'Leary is more than a twunt.

[elster]

madala said:

....if they did cinemas they would would be shoite just like the airline....that O'Leary is more than a twunt.

However for cheap tickets he is great.

If I can travel abroad for less than the train fare to the airport I consider that a success and cheap. For a short hop it is just like a bus, except not as crammed.

As for the prices, I don't enjoy 3D films so don't see them. For those saying the prices are cheap, I think the rest of you are being mugged. £25 for a ticket I am shocked.

Edited by elster on Wednesday 4th August 08:20

[TonyHetherington]

Flintstone said:

Adult Ticket £6.90
After 5pm? £1.00
3D Film? £2.10
3D Goggles? £0.80

Which takes a £6.90 ticket to £10.80. Nice mark-up if you can get it.

Didn't easyCinema exist, I seem to remember someone telling me on a simialr thread once? But film companies wouldn't let them have new films and so they didn't last.

Anyway, I think all cinemas operate a pricing policy like this - it's just that it's not shown as such. In my local cinemas it's more expensive after 6pm, more expensive for a 3D film, and you have to buy your goggles the first time you go, it's just that they don't do that "£1 more" price structure, they simply say; 2D: £8. 3D: £10 (or whatever). Subtle difference, but key I think.

I too have noticed that cinemas are getting expensive - you take you're girlfriend and your easily £20 lighter before popcorn, drinks etc. Odeons do "two for tuesdays" and there's "orange wednesdays". Much much more sensible way of going - and, if you can do it, before 6pm and go for dinner after not before.

[Flintstone]

TonyHetherington said:

... if you can do it, before 6pm and go for dinner after not before.

I do. Going in the afternoon is like having a huge telly all to yourself.

[anonymous-user]

Flintstone said:

Waiting to collect Miss F this evening I browsed the price list.

Adult Ticket £6.90
After 5pm? £1.00
3D Film? £2.10
3D Goggles? £0.80

Which takes a £6.90 ticket to £10.80. Nice mark-up if you can get it.


How much more does a 3D film cost to make anyway?

Cineworld in sheffield wanted nearly 8 quid each to go and see a normal 2d film, 3d films are extortionate there, looked at going to see avatar with mrs slopes but it was going to be nearly £14 each

[Man-At-Arms]

B17NNS said:

Rent DVD £5
stream film on internet - priceless

EFA

[thatone1967]

last time I went to the cinema, my biggest gripe (apart from the stupid prices for popcorn etc) was sitting for I 25 minutes watching adverts and reminding me that I should not buy pirate movies...

[tankplanker]

Woman and her three kids in front of me in the queue for tickets for Toy Story 3 3D at the weekend was moaning about paying nearly £50 for four tickets, her big complaint was the £1 per pair of glasses she had paid, not the extra £10/£15 she'd spent on the slightly better seats. We spent £30 (including £4 on glasses) to see the same film for the four of us. Fools and their money.

I'll only go to the cinema to watch something really good these days, far too pricey as I can usually purchase the blu-ray with (legal) download and DVD for less than half the price.