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At least it wasn't in the US. Calling the police on someone for anything has a non zero chance of just getting them straight up murdered. So i was happy to see it was in NZ lol
I like movies and I like the atmosphere at my local cinema. I'm going there almost every week. Most of the time I bring my own snacks. I think they just ignore me because I'm like...their best customer, lol. :D
I do order a drink every time. But eating popcorn or nachos every week sounds like a nightmare, and that's all they have there.
I actually go to the theater for the popcorn but stay for the movie. I may have a popcorn problem.
The theater near me is staffed by teenagers who couldn't care less. I always stop at the dollar store or even grab a burger and put it in my backpack. I haven't been asked about the contents of my bag in like 10 years
Yeah same. I've brought burritos, burgers, beers.
My favorite was during the opening scene of the Great Gatsby when they're glamorizing all the champagne flowing at these elegant parties, I popped my bottle of champagne I brought in for my girlfriend and I to share and this other guy was like "aw fuck you", in an envious tone.
Some guy checked my bag once, loaded with snacks, looked me dead in the eye, and shrugged while waving me in haha. That man's a G.
The concept of a movie theater doing bag checks is really fucking weird.
We'd go every Friday to the movies and would get ridiculous on what we'd bring in. There was three of us and we'd take in bags of taco bell with the large drinks, one time we stopped at the grocery store and got a whole cooked chicken, six pack of beer, baked beens, and corn. Plates and silverware. Good times.
Attack your few remaining customers.... Bold strategy.
Most UK cinemas are perfectly happy when audiences bring in their own snacks.
And they still make money. From selling snacks.
Because people are lazy and want a good time.
I wouldn't say that a buy drinks or nachos to support "my" local cinema -- it's still a chain --, but if I feel like it I'm buying from the venue. Many people do. There are always queues for popcorn.
I’m so happy this guy doesn’t live in the US & have more destructive opportunities in life.
I was planning to see a movie this weekend, but this story just reminded me how greedy and anti-customer that whole industry is.
Ticket price caps should be illegal. Blame the studios
Try shopping out theaters. There are many movie theaters pretty close to each other. One of them costs $40 for tickets. The other I can get two tickets, medium popcorn, a box of candy, two medium drinks for that same $40. Guess which one I refuse to go to...
Though, I can probably sneak in that same box of candy if I really wanted to. 🤔
its not nearly as good as any of the other despicible me movies. felt like they had no idea how to tie everything together plus the kids are barely in the movie and dont do anything
I believe the Despicable Me series peaked with the second one. Everything after that feels like soulless cashgrabs to sell Minions merch.
The only good thing about the fourth movie is the opening music.
It is standard policy in New Zealand for cinemas to ban food brought in from outside and the Herald reported that Cinema 3 has five signs posted around the premises stating this.
“The exact wording is: ‘No outside food or drinks allowed’,” the cinema’s operations manager, Robert Greig, said, the paper reported.
Thus, once again, one of the oldest arguments in the world has been pushed back into the limelight: should you be allowed to take your own snacks into the cinema?
private businesses can do what they want. But the prices they charge for food is outrageous. So i just dont go to those places. For the cost of a few movies and snacks now, you could buy your own large screen TV and surround system that will annoy your neighbors if thats what you need.
Should private businesses really be allowed to dictate to us what and when we can eat or drink? If you consider that human right, I'm not sure they should.
They can't stop you from eating or drinking what you want, but they can't be forced to allow you to bring it into their business.
However, if their business isn't sustainable without egregiously-priced food, perhaps it should be allowed to fail. And if they all start to fail, perhaps the studios would start to lose money, and maybe they would eventually understand that it's due to their own greed. But we all know the blame would get passed on to the consumer.
Should private businesses really be allowed to dictate to us what and when we can eat or drink?
Don't they always do that with, ya know, menus?
Taking a shit is a human right but you can’t do that in a theater either.
Access to food and clean water are human rights, not limitless consumption of either wherever you are.
So you either smuggle it in and don't get caught (my go-to was always a bag of chips stuffed into the sleeve of my jacket, and then sling that over my shoulder), or avoid the place altogether.
Water? No. Everything else on their property? Of course. It's theirs, not ANY flavor of "ours"
No one is forcing you to interact with those businesses...