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lichtmetzger ,

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.

mightyfoolish ,

I actually go to the theater for the popcorn but stay for the movie. I may have a popcorn problem.

Alenalda ,

if you talk with some of the workers, they will often toss out the popcorn at the end of the nigh. Ive been know to take in a trash bag and fill it up.

mightyfoolish ,

That’s halirious. I’m going to have to try that one day.

visnae ,

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seth ,

What have been your favorite films in recent history, and which ones would you say to pass on?

lichtmetzger , (edited )

These ones I really enjoyed in the last few years:

  • The Whale (whole room was crying at the end)
  • The Quiet Girl (surprise Irish movie that made my emotions come out)
  • Spy x Family - The Movie (great humour)
  • Civil War (shocking images, the mood change was brutal)
  • The Boy and the Heron (my first Miyazaki experience, what a wild ride)
  • Wonka (I’m not into musicals, but this was awesome as fuck)
  • Inside Out 2 (great orchestral soundtrack, well-written and relatable)
  • No Hard Feelings (worst trailer of all time, but the movie was very wholesome and funny)
  • Furiosa (I’ve watched that in IMAX with Dolby Atmos. FUCKING awesome.)
  • Robot Dreams (Cute animation + Twin Towers, nice combo)
  • Encanto (Disney + great plot + emotions)
  • To Catch a Killer / Catch the Killer (great crime movie!)
  • Barbie (they criticize Mattel and it’s really empowering for women, I liked it)
  • The Batman (dark, gritty, brutal - that’s how it’s supposed to be)
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (I can’t even describe how awesome this is)
  • Dungeons & Dragons (I never played DnD, but this was well-written, creative and entertaining)
  • The Super Mario Bros. movie (great humour and Jack Black does an awesome singing performance)

These movies are solid. Not great, but still very enjoyable:

  • The Fall Guy (cool stunts!)
  • Challengers (a bit weird, but I liked the message at the end)
  • Fly Me to the Moon (solid acting, interesting premise, not every joke works)
  • The Bikeriders (a movie about a biker gang. Cool.)
  • Dune Part I + II (great SciFi flicks, but veeery long)
  • The Teachers Lounge (we produce one good movie per year here in Germany. This is one.)
  • The Holdovers (good acting, but the plot was stolen from someone else, sooo…)
  • Migration (very well written for a childrens movie)
  • Next Goal Wins (funny soccer movie)
  • The Creator (omg, those visuals!)
  • A Haunting in Venice (good mystery crime movie, but don’t expect to be able to solve the riddle by yourself)
  • M3GAN (another murder puppy movie, but pretty modern)

And these movies are pretty bad or just disappointing:

  • Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Family Drama: The Movie)
  • Problemista (I wanted to like it, but it’s just weird, unfunny and incoherent)
  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (the disappointing fourth entry of a great trilogy)
  • Miller’s Girl (this movie is just an excuse to put Jenna Ortega in tight outfits)
  • Demon Slayer: Hashira Training movie (half of the movie is just a rerun of the last episodes, fuck you)
  • Madame Web (bad writing, bad CGI, bad everything)
  • The Beekeeper (Jason Statham kills everyone, but it was just boring)
  • Wish (all bad things about past Disney movies combined into a soulless new one)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon (way too long, laziest fucking ending I’ve ever seen)
  • The Equalizer 3 (Walking around and nothing happens - The Movie)
  • Falling for Figaro (an opera movie with the most cliche romance plot ever, total garbage)
  • The Little Mermaid (all underwater scenes are dark as fuck, what is this?)
  • 65 (Jurassic Park with no budget and Adam Driver)

…and then there’s also “The Zone of Interest”. I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it, but it’s definitely an experience. You could’ve heard a hairpin drop at the cinema and it was packed with people. No one bought popcorn. I wish every fascist here in Germany would be forced to watch that one and think about their stupid beliefs.

seth ,

Wow you do watch a lot of new films! I didn’t expect such a detailed reply but it’s great, I am going to add a few from your list to my backlog based on your summaries. Thanks!

lichtmetzger ,

I wasn’t lying when I said that I go to the cinema almost every week! :D Tomorrow I’ll watch the new Deadpool movie.

NormalPerson ,

Sounds like they can benefit from a partnership with a local pizzeria

Doxatek ,

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

echodot ,

I’m surprised the police even bothered to turn up. In the UK it’s hard to get the police to turn up to actual crimes.

RoosterBoy ,

Lol, American cops crave violence too much and UK cops don’t want to be anywhere near it. Neither are doing their damn jobs.

Mango ,

Considering how things are in the US, calling the police on someone pretty well warrants attempted murder in return.

Alenalda ,

the police were called to the scene because someone was willingly watching despicable me 4 (sus). i wouldn’t trust someone in that situation.

fubarx ,

What’s the policy on bringing raw materials and making it in the theater? It’s not technically outside food and is prepared on the premises.

Thinking a hibachi stove or an electric blender.

LodeMike ,

What are you gonna grow it during the movie

fubarx ,

Now you’re thinking!

LodeMike ,

Bros gonna bring a time box into the theater.

intensely_human ,

It’s a primordial soup of amino acids and lightning officer!

0x0 ,

It’s not technically outside food

I am not sure how you convinced yourself of this

Unreliable ,

If I bring my own food and consume it indoors it is indoor food. If I ate it outside, it would be outside food. /s

fubarx ,

Raw popcorn kernels are not digestible ‘food.’ Oil is not food. Salt is not food.

Combine. Add heat. Et Voila! Someone complain, bring in bags of powdered chemicals, beakers, reagents, and bunsen burners, and go to work.

It’s all in the technical margins.

Hugh_Jeggs ,

All 3 of those things are tax-exempt where I’m from, because they’re food

Worth a try though

fubarx ,

Tax-exemption opens up a whole other promising venue. Hibachi and a chartered accountant at the next movie night.

This could work.

Hupf ,
@Hupf@feddit.org avatar

Jesse, wtf are you talking about

fubarx ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/eafe9684-ceed-452f-a1d7-99c9e93081c8.webp

Fedizen ,

If I had to guess the idea is the food comes to the theater in a truck, too, is that also “outside food”?

Realistically though I think everyone knows you’re supposed to buy the food in the theater - everything else is people being cute

ililiililiililiilili ,

How big are your cargo shorts? You think no one is going to mind you chefing it up during trailers?

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

In rhe UK (at least the part i live in), they dont stop you from bringing your own food in. I think that staff know that no one wants to pay the crazy prices for the food they sell. If i could buy the snacks they sell for the prices that the shops across the road are selling them, then i wouldn’t need to go to the shops across the road. Maybe thats not possible for them, maybe they need to find a new revenue stream.

Tekkip20 ,
@Tekkip20@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, in my entire time of going to the cinema and sneaking snacks in a backpack, not a single member of staff asked me or other movie goers about it.

I think it’s only questioned if you openly bring in say, a bag of minstrels of a share bag of doritos.

I mean shit, the smaller hotdogs that VUE sell are like a fiver which is an absolute rip off. You’d think with popular films coming out they’d make a killing with the revenue from the tickets being sold so food prices wouldn’t be that shite.

chonglibloodsport ,

Movie theatres make almost nothing from ticket sales. They have to pay a huge lump sum (upwards of $100,000) up front just to be able to get the movie and show it for a month. Often they simply lose money on it! So the crazy price of snacks is an attempt to recoup their investment faster and hope to get some profit.

The other model is for the theatre to simply pay 95% of ticket sales to the movie studio for the first week (and a bit less as the weeks go on). This essentially guarantees the theatre loses money on the film (due to all the other overhead that easily eat up that 5%) but it’s less risky if the film is a failure. Either way, they only make money on food!

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

So they need another revenue stream. If i am forced to pay high tickey proces and high snack prices, im going to wait for the film to come out on a streaming platform and watch it then.

Lots of people do the same. Its the reason most films ive been tonsee recently are in empty cinemas where i basivally get a private screening.

The industry at large is failing and has been for a while.

Maalus ,

Rent-a-cinema, just let dudes rent the entire screen for bachelor parties or something so they can play on it or watch whatever they want. Make it in the hours the cinemas aren’t showing anything and bang, free moneys

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

I guess. Skeleton crew, someone to see you in, someone to serve you drinks and snacks and someone to work the projector. bring a data pen with your videos on it and give to them to plug in and play.

Or log into your streaming servitheand hook your device up to the projector.

It would need all kinda of restrictions and protections for the cinemas but its not like that couldn’t be worked out in a room somewhere. Private parties would be great.

If it became lucrative then pay more staff and capitalise on it.

SpaceCowboy ,
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Movie theaters already do that here in Canada. Though it’s usually rented out to companies to have movie nights for their employees.

But this is usually only offered on weeknights. Weekends they probably won’t do this because they tend to have more ticket sales those days.

So not sure how this would work for a bachelor party. Would you have one on a weekday? And they may not be able to permit people to drink alcohol in most places for legal reasons. They also wouldn’t be able to show whatever people wanted without approval from the copyright holders. Fair use covers you showing your friends whatever movie you have in your collection when you’re at home, but it doesn’t cover a business doing this.

OneCardboardBox ,

I did this in my town. It was a local theater though, not a big chain

  • Went on a Wednesday night and rented access to a screening room for ~5h. We had to pay extra because they normally close earlier on a weeknight
  • Showed up early to meet the projectionist and get a technical rundown
  • Setup was a friend’s laptop plugged into HDMI running up to the projector booth
  • Nobody complained when we brought out a disk full of torrented movies
  • The theater already had a license to sell alcohol, so we had that covered
  • We brought a small bit of outside food, and nobody complained

It was absolutely the best time I ever had at a cinema. When the evening wound down, the projectionist invited us into the back area for a tour of the projection equipment.

I think that because we were a private event the rules about screening copyrighted materials to public audiences did not apply.

cass24 ,

We have a local cinema that offers bookings for events here, too. There’s a lot of behind the scenes jank to get through that many people don’t even bother.

Professorozone , (edited )

Personally I like going to see movies in a theater. I even run a little movie group. We go out and talk over food , then hit up a movie. It’s a nice night out. I don’t want to see them go away entirely. The theater I go to is independent and the people who run it are cool. They gave my group a free tour of the projection area where they not only have new projectors but some old equipment they preserved. Fun fact: the bulbs got so hot that they could be dangerous and a special leather vest was worn whenever they worked on the projector in case it exploded.

The group only goes on Tuesday nights because the movie is $5.00. so yeah, in a time when everything is so expensive it feels like you can’t do anything, I understand to complaints. Tipping is like that too. It’s gotten out of hand.

But honestly, this is nothing new. I’m pretty old and it’s been this way for as long as I can remember. But calling the cops? Come on! The stupid thing is, movie theaters survive mostly on regulars like me and that woman. She’ll probably never go back there again. So they’re just shooting themselves in the foot.

cass24 ,

$5 movies? Where is this, I’ll be there right away. (most of the cinemas in my country start at like $10 USD per ticket…)

Professorozone ,

Yeah, it’s only on Tuesdays. Must be their slowest night or something. Wednesday also has $5.00 classic movies, stuff like Jaws and The Shining and that even comes with a free small popcorn. Pretty cool. I really like that place.

It’s in central Florida. I know …Florida. who da’ thought?

reversedposterior ,

This is also mentioned in the article

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

So it is!

deadbeef79000 ,

Cinemas: our business model sucks so much we have to sell overpriced food!

So? Just die already. Bye.

Paranomaly ,
@Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works avatar

Unfortunately they’re trapped. If they lowered the price of food and raised the price of admission to compensate people wouldn’t notice. In fact, they wouldn’t even make it to the food to see, they’d just know that one cinema has $10 admission and the other has $20.

They could advertise that they have lower concession cost to attract people, but there would be enough people thinking “I’ll just go to the cheap one and bring my own food/not buy food.” that momentum wouldn’t move into their favor.

Flax_vert ,

I don’t really know anywhere that’s just a cinema these days anyway. I know of arcades, mini golf places, restaurants, soft play areas, etc that also have a cinema

deadbeef79000 ,

Standalone cinemas are still the norm in NZ.

The odd one is part of a larger entertainment complex.

cass24 ,

It’s like this in Australia, too. Sometimes cinemas here have a couple of arcade machines off to the side in the foyer, but that’s about it.

deadbeef79000 ,

That sounds like the invisible hand of the market weeding out failing competitors.

stoly ,

Keep in mind that you have fancy media devices at home. Cinema served a purpose that may not be as necessary now. That said, cinemas have always made money on food and not on tickets. It will die, but it’s not like they are stupid people suddenly for doing this.

deadbeef79000 ,

Cinemas made all their money on tickets before TV.

Then TV came along, then ridiculously predatory movie distribution contracts, then the Internet.

Their response? Apparently. Using the police to enforce their terms of service regarding food sales.

What’s next; calling the police when you don’t watch the advertisements?

cass24 ,

The police were called for trespass after the patron(s) refused to leave for violating the rules. There’s a difference.

Hanging around in the foyer to try and argue the point is not leaving.

Obviously it was excessive, but they’re still within their rights to have someone removed.

deadbeef79000 ,

Obviously it was excessive

That’s the only bit that matters.

YeetPics ,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

I have a feeling you or a member of your family owns a struggling (dare I say failing) theater.

stoly ,

LOL I don’t even go anymore. It’s a washed up format.

Kusimulkku ,

Just die already

Would suck not being able to watch movies on the big screen imo

deadbeef79000 ,

If enough of them die, then that particular market will need to correct. The movie industry needs consumers.

Or, to put it another way, the current business models need to die, so they can be replaced with better models.

Kusimulkku ,

I have a more cynical view where it’s the smaller ones that die and the market just turbo consolidates, and the remaining cinemas get even shittier since there will be always people who probably go to cinema no matter what

deadbeef79000 ,

Hmm. Yeah. That is exactly what would happen.

Though the possible advantage of that is the bargaining power of the cinemas increases compared to the distributors… as if cinemas should have some form of union ;-)

M500 ,

Where I live it is pretty normal to openly bring your own food. You can bring whatever you want. Bring your own ice cream and cheese burgers for all they care.

They do sell some stuff, but its not overpriced.

A few years back, one cinema chain said they were going to stop allowing this. Then their competitor advertised that they still allow you to bring your own food in and then the first cinema chain backed off.

Schmuppes ,

It’s become so expensive over here. We were out last week to watch the new Pixar movie. Tickets were 12€ per person (so 24€ for the two of us) and we’re eyeing nachos with a cheese dip and a medium drink to share. That would have added 20€ to the bill and we decided that was was just too much. I understand that ticket sales alone don’t keep the little cinema afloat, but 20€ for maybe half a bag of store-bought nacho chips and a drink that’s 95% tap water? Come on. 20€ is almost a cooked meal for two at an entry-level restaurant.

Syd ,

It’s probably a slight mistranslation so I don’t mean any offense but, I’m finding"entry-level restaurant" hilarious.

Imagine Alexander, who after years of hard work and dedication to his craft finally moves on to a professional level restaurant. On the way in he sees an overconfident novice kitted out in the newest gear, silk napkin smoldering at his side. Escaping from singed mustache hairs a rasp can be heard, “Don’t eat the fire… Don’t eat… The fire.”

“Poor guy never stood a chance, came here having never even seen a flambe?? I’ve trained for this, I’ve got this, I might not have the best gear but those forks and knives become a part of me when it’s time to dine”.

Alexander reassures him self, attempting to squelch the nerves steaming from his soul.

His teeth grit, hands clench, breath ceases for just a moment upon hearing the words.

“Do you have a reservation?”

Suddenly the seriousness of the situation struck Alexander, then with a cool confident sigh he knew he would succeed. No plate, bowl, or flaming pan would stop him.

Schmuppes ,

Entry-level as in “lower price bracket”. Just one step above take-away food.

Cataphract ,

Here is the original posting from New Zealand Herald which has video of the incident (1 of 3 near identical pages, that website is a mess). I searched out the real one because that linked article is just horrible and unnecessary (idk why he felt cool putting “The only things I’m planning to sneak in are sleeping tablets.” at the end).

For anyone wanting to get riled up, NZ Herald also has this wonderful little opinion piece from Ryan Bridge (a local broadcaster).

Ryan Bridge is wondering where people’s shame went when it comes to breaking the rules. This is not the most important story that you will hear today, but it grinds my gears. It’s a small, seemingly insignificant event, but I think it speaks to two things that I absolutely hate about the world that we live in right now.

The opinion article is just a shit show from what sounds like a pretty horrible and privileged person.

SocialMediaRefugee ,

Thinking you are above the rules is privilege and self entitlement.

zalgotext ,

Following dumb rules just because they are rules shows a lack of critical thinking skills

YeetPics ,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

Also, if the rules say you get to charge 500% the MSRP on shitty junk food, I am allowed to steal your profits by not being an idiotic consumer.

There is a singular reason why theaters are struggling; their misunderstanding of the profits they should be generating.

stoly ,

The model has always been based on food sales from back in the early cinema days. Theaters have to pay a lot of money in fees to get the film reals, and tickets basically just offset that. To get a profit, it’s food.

YeetPics ,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

The model has always been based on food sales from back in the early cinema days.

That was almost 100 years ago. If they haven’t updated their business model in a century idk what to tell you; the model is outdated and inadequate.

If your business model fails because I’m not stupid enough to pay $18 for a small bucket of popcorn, your business doesn’t deserve to exist 🤷

You can be mad at it, but that’s the way the corn pops, fella.

I download cams and haven’t paid for a movie ticket in over a decade. If they want me to buy tickets they can make movies that are worth the ticket value.

Maybe if that happens I’ll return to the theater to balk at the snack prices lmao.

stoly ,

I’m not sure why you’re taking exception with me for pointing out how an industry I have nothing to do with operates.

Summzashi ,

You can also just not get food lmao

stoly ,

Mindlessly accepting authority is far worse and leads to fascism.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

it starts with skittles, and ends with a holocaust.

Ilovethebomb ,

Seriously, the people carping on about the fascism reeealy need to get some perspective on life I think.

cass24 ,

You can choose not to go to the cinema. The options here aren’t “accept or disobey”.

You can entirely remove yourself from the situation, given the fact no-one is forcing you to go into their private premises.

Unlike actual fascism in a country where escaping the government is, at best, uprooting your entire life. Or worst, illegal / risking your life / impossible.

stoly ,

I’m on the side of business here. It’s private, their rules, etc. My comment was more a response to their appeal to authority.

Ilovethebomb ,

Oh good grief 🙄

raynethackery ,

So, theater patrons and owners need to get together and tell studios to stop expecting to receive 99% of ticket sales money.

crusa187 ,

“My niece asked nicely: ‘If you’re calling the police, are they going to kill my mum?’” one of the women told the newspaper. “And he laughed at that stage. He looks directly in her face and he said: ‘Yeah, maybe we’ll find out.’”

My man’s finally flexing the full power vested in him as cinema popcorn popper, and it is glorious!!

qarbone ,

It’s not the nature of power. Sometimes it’s just the nature of peoplw to be week-old cockswabs

MonkderVierte ,

That’s house rules, not law. No way the police has to be involved here.

stoly ,

There is a place for it if viewed from the trespassing angle. I.e. “you brought food, now get out!”. That said, this person seems to have done roughly the same as people calling the police on black birdwatchers and such.

cass24 ,

If you have a private property and someone refuses to leave after being asked to leave, that is trespass and they may call the police for it.

I personally think it’s ridiculous to escalate this situation over food, of all things.

SocialMediaRefugee ,

Food in general is one reason I haven’t been to a theater in decades. I hate listening to the endless crinkle of wrappers, the shoveling in of popcorn, etc. I really don’t want to smell the stink of the burger and fries you brought in or the crunching of the bag. It is bad enough when someone brings their smelly meal onto a plane and I have to smell it for an hour.

Leg ,
@Leg@sh.itjust.works avatar

Damn, I’m sorry to hear that. Food has always been my favorite part of the experience.

grrgyle ,

Yeah I’m like even if the movie sucks, I’m sitting in the dark eating, so it’s not all bad

Psythik ,

Yeah seriously, smelling all the delicious food is part of the movie-going experience. The local theaters at in my city sell real food now so these days it’s more than just popcorn and hot dogs.

RavenFellBlade ,
@RavenFellBlade@startrek.website avatar

Popcorn, specifically. I used to go to our local theater for the popcorn. They have a ticket plus large popcorn and drink for $9, it’s a great deal. Then I figured out how to make my own popcorn that tastes just like the theater stuff with ghee and fine salt, so now I’m more inclined to just stay home and make my own.

Still gotta do the drive-in at least once a year, though.

ealoe ,

It sounds like you have a sensory perception disorder, that is not most people’s reactions to those situations. A good home theater system will probably be more comfortable for you.

SocialMediaRefugee ,

People who chew with their mouth open are maddening lol

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I grew up in theaters as my dad was a projectionist. You couldn’t pay me to go into a theater again since I was 18, what a miserable experience it had been every time I’ve broken that rule since. People in public are fucking annoying in so many unique ways.

FinishingDutch ,
@FinishingDutch@lemmy.world avatar

Misophonia; it’s fairly common. My local cinema usually does one or two special screenings for people with autism. I imagine those are quieter overall.

Personally, I don’t mind- it’s part of the whole ‘going to the movies’ ambience for me. As long as it isn’t terrible smelling or people are intentionally annoying with it.

MachineFab812 , (edited )

I snuck a whole Arby’s French Dip into that movie. Carried the au jus cup in my hand and walked right by the staff.

Ask me to leave all you want, but call the police? wtf? That’ll be WHY I sneak food in the next time. This time I just needed actual dinner, and y’all don’t even sell real food here.

stoly ,

I walked in with two footlong Subways once. They’re like…eh…just clean up when you’re done, please.

MisterD ,

This. Regardless if you brought it in on bought it at the cinema, don’t make a mess or leave garbage behind

stoly ,

We were regulars and recognized by them. We also would have cleaned up even if not asked haha.

Alexstarfire ,

My god daughter dropped the bucket of popcorn. 😞

RampantParanoia2365 ,

The girl next to me just tonight at Deadpool brought a full meal in a Whole Foods paper bag. At a theater with a full bar and some hot food like pizza and chicken wings.

ZeffSyde ,

You haven’t lived until you’ve snuck all you can eat fajitas from Applebee’s into a movie.

HelloHotel ,
@HelloHotel@lemmy.world avatar

That implies you snuck all you can eat fajitas out of an Applebee’s

Stalinwolf ,
@Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca avatar

Damn, dude. A French dip with au jus? That’s way better than my shitty French fry story…

Ilovethebomb ,

They did refuse to leave, I’ve seen a video posted by the people who got kicked out, and even their own video makes them look pretty bad.

MachineFab812 ,

Wow, what morons. Never let them get you for criminal tresspass. Even your average Karen should have the sense to leave once the cops are about to be called.

Ilovethebomb ,

They weren’t nice people. Or particularly bright.

A_Random_Idiot ,

“many struggling cinemas depend on the sales of pricy food and drink”

Fuck you, what they charge isnt “pricy”

its fuckin exploitative. Its why they ban you bringing in snacks, in the hopes you’ll pay 20 dollars for 5 cents of popcorn aind 7 cents of soda.

also, You expect anyone to have sympathy for the theater after

“My niece asked nicely: ‘If you’re calling the police, are they going to kill my mum?’” one of the women told the newspaper. “And he laughed at that stage. He looks directly in her face and he said: ‘Yeah, maybe we’ll find out.’

EatATaco ,

You realize that is just one side of the story, coming from the person who benefits the most from the theater employees looking badly. I don’t know if what she said is true, but there is no video of it, so I would take it with a huge grain of salt.

A_Random_Idiot ,

Found the theater owner.

EatATaco ,

Seriously, God forbid someone being reasonably skeptical.

tweeks , (edited )

Don’t bother, you’re talking with a random idiot.

Edit: I was joking, check his name.

EatATaco ,

Which is why I agreed with them. No point there.

tearsintherain ,
@tearsintherain@leminal.space avatar

Seriously, they are one of the most tiresome posters. The look i’m so logically smart type, and complain about lemmy but hang out on lemmy.

Kusimulkku ,

Well yeah obviously

EatATaco ,

Apparently not obviously because people seem to be buying her story at face value, despite if you watch the video she insults the guy for his accent, and I’m being massively downvoted for pointing it out.

todd_bonzalez ,
@todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee avatar

Exploitive? C’mon mate, nobody is forcing you to watch new movies at the theater, or to eat hotdogs, candy, and popcorn while you’re there. The whole concept is outdated uncomfortable bullshit, and you have every right to abstain. At a minimum, go eat a meal before the movie and just fucking vibe without dumping wads of fat-soaked corn and carbonated sugar water into your gaping maw.

I don’t even bother with the big theaters anymore. I get my cinema fix from boutique neighborhood cinemas that play classics and offer dinner and a movie, and I pirate everything else for home viewing.

Corporate cinema sucks ass. You deserve to get price gouged if you haven’t figured that out yet.

buddascrayon ,

And yet the entire Cinema industry is crying like babies cause “no one is going to the theater anymore”.

They can all go fuck themselves.

phoenixz ,

At that point, with comments like that, you’d be tempted to give the guy a real reason to call the police…

ILikeBoobies ,

Because you start publicly urinating in the lobby?

Kusimulkku ,

I mean the article does seem to understand both sides of this

credo ,

its fuckin exploitative

It’s literally how they pay for the seats you’re sitting in. The money you pay for the ticket goes to the studio, not the theatre.

rob_t_firefly ,
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world avatar

A poor business model on their part does not constitute a moral obligation on mine. Places like this are more than welcome to figure out ways to stay in business without being unreasonably fucking exploitative.

credo , (edited )

Why the fuck do you people think there is an obligation? A) don’t go or b) don’t eat. If you go to a business, you play by their rules.

Buncha fucking children that want everything their way, or they bitch and complain on the internet. Just don’t go and stfu about it?

rob_t_firefly ,
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Wait’ll you find out I also sometimes go in ten or fifteen minutes after the posted showtime so I don’t have to watch the ads they got paid to show me before the movie starts.

credo ,

What is your point?

buddascrayon ,

Yeah I’m sorry but fuck cinemas. I used to love going to the movies in the theater. It was a great time and it didn’t really cost all that much. Now if I want to see a movie in the theater I have to plan at least 2 or 3 weeks ahead to save up the money necessary to go. The ticket prices are too high the cost of the food is too high and they’re getting dickish about it. And it’s not fucking inflation either, they are blatantly overcharging for everything. Quite frankly they can all fucking close for all I care.

paddirn ,

So what next, are they going to start going after people who fill up before they arrive at the theater? Going into the theater on a full stomach is theft, you should thank them for the overpriced food they slave over for you (or at least the hourly workers who are treated like slaves).

Summzashi ,

No, nothing is next. You can’t bring your own food in some places. It’s really not that hard.

mriormro ,
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This is not something that should involve the police.

EatATaco ,

They didn’t call the police on them for bringing food in, they called the police on them for refusing to leave.

EatATaco ,

They don’t control the rules outside the theater. Suggesting there is some slippery slope from them not allowing outside food in the theater to them controlling your life before going is just absolutely absurd.

uis ,

But they control rules of who comes in theater. At least in beastly capitalism they do.

cass24 ,

Suggesting theaters are going to check people for a full stomach before entry is absurd stuff that should probably stay in the bounds of black mirror-esque science-fiction works.

HelloHotel ,
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them controlling your life before going is just absolutely absurd

This is why I assumed they were joking but everyone responding is being serious.

EatATaco ,

Poes law. But whether they are joking or not, you can read the other poster responding to me who seems to defend the claim.

HelloHotel , (edited )
@HelloHotel@lemmy.world avatar

On this post, someone said somthing like: well, your talking to a moron. And the guys name was “a moron”. (Edit) The replies didnt notice the joke

Poes law is just really strong on this post.

EatATaco ,

It’s funny because that was me and I was going along with what I thought was the joke there, although still poking fun at the a random idiot because they did say something stupid.

Hyphlosion ,
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Oral surgeons already want you to fast for a time before going in. It’s only a matter of time before movie theaters make you do it too.

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