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A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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"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
At that point, with comments like that, you'd be tempted to give the guy a real reason to call the police...
Because you start publicly urinating in the lobby?
I mean the article does seem to understand both sides of this
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.
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.
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?
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.
What is your point?
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.
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.
Found the theater owner.
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.
Seriously, God forbid someone being reasonably skeptical.
Don't bother, you're talking with a random idiot.
Edit: I was joking, check his name.
Which is why I agreed with them. No point there.
Well yeah obviously
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.
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.
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.