I love the movie experience but my family have trastically reduced our cinema going because of cost. With the cost of living getting harder and prices going up it means things like cinema take a hit. When we've gone to the movies before we bring our own snacks most times. The issue for me is the cost of tickets. I want to see Alien Covenant but my local Vue want over £11 for a single ticket. It's utter greed somewhere in the cost of movies chain. So now I settle for bluray instead. Who misses out? Myself and the cinemas! If prices were half what they are more people would go it's that simple.
Jay - 7 years ago
Last week I have paid £18.50 for a regular ticket to see Beauty and the Beast at Odeon Leicester Square.
All in all, I do not feel this absurd amount of money was worth the experience sitting in the back in a small and dirty chair. As a visitor to London, I had no idea where else to go. Vue Leicester Sq. is currently closed.
I find this ridiculous.
Daniel - 9 years ago
I am more interested in why there is so much variance in cinema ticket pricing across the world. Ticket prices in Saudia Arabia are an astonishing 1,000 times higher than those in Cuba. How is that possible? I recently paid £2.30 to watch a movie in a theater in Manila - so why are we forced to pay 4 times as much in the UK if we want to go to the cinema? The only thing the cinema has going for it nowadays is you get to see movies before a decent quality pirate becomes available.
Anthony - 9 years ago
Silly choice of answers, the price of a cinema ticket doesn't make me want to watch more at home, just means I very rarely go to the cinema, I actually enjoy it far less at home than the big screen experience. If they halved the price I'm sure I would go more than twice the number of times in a year. By the time you've added on popcorn, snacks etc its probably not far off quarter to half the average daily wage for many people. That doesn't seem right, when I was a kid it cost £2.60 for ore local cinema, and snacks were only marginally higher cost than the supermarkets. Before long you'll need to take a mortgage out to watch a big screen film.
Graeme Rowland - 9 years ago
I totally agree with the first commenter. Such a badly skewed choice of answers which ignores the main argument of the article and pushes you toward a biased response relating to home media
media. Quite obviously a sponsored poll. Poor indeed.
Ashley - 9 years ago
The answer-options to this poll aren't correct - "Yes - I prefer to watch films on home media". Yes the high cost does put me off going to the cinema. It is not because I prefer to watch films on home media however. Please correct.
I love the movie experience but my family have trastically reduced our cinema going because of cost. With the cost of living getting harder and prices going up it means things like cinema take a hit. When we've gone to the movies before we bring our own snacks most times. The issue for me is the cost of tickets. I want to see Alien Covenant but my local Vue want over £11 for a single ticket. It's utter greed somewhere in the cost of movies chain. So now I settle for bluray instead. Who misses out? Myself and the cinemas! If prices were half what they are more people would go it's that simple.
Last week I have paid £18.50 for a regular ticket to see Beauty and the Beast at Odeon Leicester Square.
All in all, I do not feel this absurd amount of money was worth the experience sitting in the back in a small and dirty chair. As a visitor to London, I had no idea where else to go. Vue Leicester Sq. is currently closed.
I find this ridiculous.
I am more interested in why there is so much variance in cinema ticket pricing across the world. Ticket prices in Saudia Arabia are an astonishing 1,000 times higher than those in Cuba. How is that possible? I recently paid £2.30 to watch a movie in a theater in Manila - so why are we forced to pay 4 times as much in the UK if we want to go to the cinema? The only thing the cinema has going for it nowadays is you get to see movies before a decent quality pirate becomes available.
Silly choice of answers, the price of a cinema ticket doesn't make me want to watch more at home, just means I very rarely go to the cinema, I actually enjoy it far less at home than the big screen experience. If they halved the price I'm sure I would go more than twice the number of times in a year. By the time you've added on popcorn, snacks etc its probably not far off quarter to half the average daily wage for many people. That doesn't seem right, when I was a kid it cost £2.60 for ore local cinema, and snacks were only marginally higher cost than the supermarkets. Before long you'll need to take a mortgage out to watch a big screen film.
I totally agree with the first commenter. Such a badly skewed choice of answers which ignores the main argument of the article and pushes you toward a biased response relating to home media
media. Quite obviously a sponsored poll. Poor indeed.
The answer-options to this poll aren't correct - "Yes - I prefer to watch films on home media". Yes the high cost does put me off going to the cinema. It is not because I prefer to watch films on home media however. Please correct.