Cinema tuck shop

[CaptainWaggett]

Both my local arthouses have now combined the box office with the coffee stall - very annoying if you need to sort out problems with your membership and not something the staff are terribly pleased about. But I assume the carrot cake is quite an important part of indie film economics.

[David Brent]

I can never work out why the prices are so high in the cinema candy bars.

It reminds me a little of the infamous mini bar fridges you get in hotel rooms. Everyone knows to leave those goodies alone.



Surely if you lower the prices you sell more items.

Common sense is not so common.



Dave.

[Windthrop]

name='Marky B']Now that I do agree with. I remember many years ago (in the seventies),I went to the Classic Cinema in Stockton to watch a Peter Sellers double feature (The Return Of The Pink Panther and The Pink Panther Strikes Again) and a woman brought her two sons in. Anyway,she left them and when she was away,myself and others were forever telling them to shut up. When she finally came back,it seemed she had purchased two bottles of pop from a local shop,and then if it wasn't their chatting,it was a constant glug,glug,glug,glug,glug.

Ta Ta

Marky B

Even when it was renamed the Cannon Classic in the 80s it was little better. I remember watching Dead Poets Society as water dripped through the ceiling and down the screen. The foors were covered with fast-food packets and it was just so dingy and dirty. Golan Globus might have owned it but they didn't care about the state of the premises. Come to that they didn't care about the films much either - He-Man Masters of the Universe : Cannon's Christmas Turkey

[batman]

name='Windthrop']Even when it was renamed the Cannon Classic in the 80s it was little better. I remember watching Dead Poets Society as water dripped through the ceiling and down the screen. The foors were covered with fast-food packets and it was just so dingy and dirty. Golan Globus might have owned it but they didn't care about the state of the premises. Come to that they didn't care about the films much either - He-Man Masters of the Universe : Cannon's Christmas Turkey

Not to mention their version of King Solomon's Mines!

[Windthrop]

name='batman']Not to mention their version of King Solomon's Mines!

J. Lee was well and truly coasting by then.

[batman]

name='Windthrop']J. Lee was well and truly coasting by then.

Not 'arf .... I hope his association with G and G earned him lots of dosh! Mind you, he did have one last hurrah with Bronson's Murphy's Law for them. That's quite a good film.

[Buffalo_Chuck]

Our cinemas claim to only make money from sale of concessions, and supposedly give most of their ticket sales back to the distributors and studios. But when they quadruple the prices, they are begging for customers to give them nothing. $4 candy bars don't sell four times as much as a $1 candy bar would.

[Marky B]

name='Windthrop']Even when it was renamed the Cannon Classic in the 80s it was little better. I remember watching Dead Poets Society as water dripped through the ceiling and down the screen. The foors were covered with fast-food packets and it was just so dingy and dirty. Golan Globus might have owned it but they didn't care about the state of the premises. Come to that they didn't care about the films much either - He-Man Masters of the Universe : Cannon's Christmas Turkey

Do you remember the old usherette,very thin,wrinkled and no teeth. I remember going to see The Hunt For Red October and she had this big badge THE HUNT IS ON pinned on her uniform:she looked so unhappy,standing on the stairs with no motion whatsoever.

Ta Ta

Marky B

[Windthrop]

name='Marky B']Do you remember the old usherette,very thin,wrinkled and no teeth. I remember going to see The Hunt For Red October and she had this big badge THE HUNT IS ON pinned on her uniform:she looked so unhappy,standing on the stairs with no motion whatsoever.

Ta Ta

Marky B

I do remember some very elderly staff there. The old Odeon in Middlesbrough wasn't much better. I can remember some very disgruntled staff there complaining - 'We're in the entertainment industry, but where's the f****ing entertainment for us ?'

[Marky B]

name='Windthrop']I do remember some very elderly staff there. The old Odeon in Middlesbrough wasn't much better. I can remember some very disgruntled staff there complaining - 'We're in the entertainment industry, but where's the f****ing entertainment for us ?'

Charming

Ta Ta

Marky B

[batman]

name='Marky B']Charming

Ta Ta

Marky B

It's all glamour in the business of show!

[Linda Hughes]

Well I Can Honestly Say I Never Buy Snacks And Drinks At The Cinema , The Prices Are Way Too High , I Always Take My Own . I Think If They Dropped The Prices Then Maybe I Would Buy From Them ,you Pay Enough To Watch The Film!!

[ShirlGirl]

Wow, that's a long title!

[kelp]

I once (many years ago I hasten to add) bought the GIANT bucket of PopCorn. Perhaps I should add, this was in California, so you know whats coming. Being English, I took my first handfull (as many as I could cram into my open hand-as you do...) and Arrrrrrgh!! SALT!

Ah, well. After several visits I actually grew to enjoy them.

[Edward G]

Good job there weren't showing the Ten Commandments. You wouldn't have lasted after seeing Moses part the Red Sea!

name='David Brent']I was bursting to go to the toilet (too much bottled water) but didn't want to miss the finale.

The joy I felt in the 'Gents' after the film was I'm sure heard around the cinema.

Dave.

[Lord Brett]

There was an amusing exchange on the sibject of cinemas selling noisy snacks on the Mark Kermode film review section of Simon Mayo's Five Live show the other week. MK quoted an (apparently) old line of Barry Norman's that tif they were going to ruin the sound with crisps and popcorn they they might as well go the whole hog and sell the audience tall hats!

[JamesM]

name='Windthrop']Even when it was renamed the Cannon Classic in the 80s it was little better. I remember watching Dead Poets Society as water dripped through the ceiling and down the screen. The foors were covered with fast-food packets and it was just so dingy and dirty. Golan Globus might have owned it but they didn't care about the state of the premises. Come to that they didn't care about the films much either - He-Man Masters of the Universe : Cannon's Christmas Turkey

The Cannon in Doncaster had to move patrons out of certain seating areas when rainfall was heavy.