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ginmakesitallok · 12/11/2011 12:47

Need a quick answer! We're taking DD and 5 friends to cinema this pm. I have a bag full of sweeties and popcorn to take with us. DP thinks I'm being tight and has got me worried that we'll get stopped going in. So should I leave the sweeties nad pay £££££ at cinema for pick and mix??

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talkingnonsense · 12/11/2011 12:49

Shove them in a big handbag and buy one thing- coke or popcorn. Noone will know.

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CalamityKate · 12/11/2011 12:49

God no. You're not being tight. You're being sensible.

I always take a suspiciously large, rustly handbag into the cinema and they've never stopped me yet. Even if they did, all they could do would be confiscate your sweeties 'til you come out.

Go for it. Cinema prices are scandalous!

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grovel · 12/11/2011 12:50

Your DH is being a wally. I'm sure he's lovely in all other respects.

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ginmakesitallok · 12/11/2011 12:50

thing is I've put them all in a bag - a great big pink beach bag thing.... Will be buying juice there to make DP feel better (don't quite understand why he feels guilty that we are fiddling cinema out of a huge profit)

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TastesLikePanda · 12/11/2011 12:51

Do it - I always do and have a selection of coats with large inside pockets

We do buy a drink there, that bumps up their profit margins - those buckets of fizzy pop they sell for £3 cost them about thruppence to make you know

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ChippingInNeedsSleep · 12/11/2011 12:52

God no, take them with you!! & drinks!

Has he any idea how much it would cost to buy them there??

If the cinema's didn't charge like wounded bulls, people wouldn't do it!

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workshy · 12/11/2011 12:55

I have been stopped going into the cinema (showcase) and had my sweets taken off me

so now what I do is make all the kids wear cardigans with pockets and coats with pockets even in the middle of summer, not suspicious or anything and fill their pockets Grin

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ginmakesitallok · 12/11/2011 13:10

After googling and reading about folk being thrown out have decided to skip taking the popcorn which means sweeties can fit in my handbag - will just have to buy it there..... I am a woose

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squeakytoy · 12/11/2011 13:11

If anyone stopped and searched me, and tried to take sweets off me, they would get very short shrift?

Alcohol being sneaked in, I could understand, but since when has a cinema been able to legally demand that only goods purchased at their exorbitant prices be allowed in.

Gawd... I remember the days when the highlight of the film was the ice lolly woman standing down the bottom with her Orange Mivvi's...

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troisgarcons · 12/11/2011 13:15

Can I ask - why do you feel the need to eat through a film that will last around 90 mins? What is it with people who always seem to have food to hand? I wish they'd ban all the munching and slurping.

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mumeeee · 12/11/2011 13:15

I always take drinks and sweets into the cinema as do my daughters. I've never been stopped. We all say that when the cinema stops charging over inflated prices then we'll buy stuff there. Even juice is at least twice the price then anywhere else.

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ElizabethDarcy · 12/11/2011 13:18

We buy popcorn there (to share) but NEVER buy drinks/sweets, always stash our own. Prices are ridiculous!

If you are walking in with drinks bought there, I doubt they'd search you.

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mumeeee · 12/11/2011 13:19

You don't need sweets and popcorn. Just one or the other. Also I wouldn't buy popcorn at the cinema. It's one of the most expensive things. about £4 for a small box.

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ledkr · 12/11/2011 13:26

What a miserable lot.Of course you need something to munch on in the cinema everyone does it fgs.If you dont like it then stay at home with a dvd and hunger pains Grin

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OldGreyWassailTest · 12/11/2011 13:26

The reason I stopped going to the cinema years ago was because of people munching, crunching and slurping. If you can't go 90 mins without, then sad for you.

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cjbartlett · 12/11/2011 13:28

dh took kids to cineworld and had his rucksack stowed in a locler for afterwards because he'd put samdwiches in it!! The film was at 12pm and they hadn't had lunch
he wasn't pleased but I told him he was a muppet!

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cjbartlett · 12/11/2011 13:28

locker

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ginmakesitallok · 12/11/2011 19:19

Can thoroughly recommend Arthur Christmas! Ended up taking sweets and buying popcorn and drinks (£16 for 2 big bags popcorn and 6 capri suns...) Of COURSE you need to munch your way through the film when you are 8!!!

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overmydeadbody · 12/11/2011 19:22

Your DP is BU, you are not.

You are being sensible. The prices for sweets and popcorn etc at the cinema is daylight robbery. It's not tight to not pay ridiculous prices for things when the price does not in any way reflect the value of the goods.

No one will know, the kids won't even notice, they'll just be happy to get the sweets and popcorn.


I have never been searched before going into the cinema, and always take sometng for DS.

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susiedaisy · 12/11/2011 19:27

I have a cinema handbagGrin big and lots of room for snacks, would much rather get kids happy meal or kfc on way home if we are hungry

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Bogeyface · 12/11/2011 19:34

I was told the best way around the whole getting searched thing.

I have never done this as I dont like the cinema (and I dont think I would have the guts!), but my sister did this with her OH.

They made sure that they bought the same sweets that the Cinema sells then she went to buy a drink and he queued seperately to also buy something. Then they took their coats off then they emptied their pockets (purse, keys, sweets etc) into her bag and carried their coats in. When they were told they couldnt take their own sweets in my sister very loudly pointed out that they had just been at the concessions stand and she had put her sweets into her bag. Did they expect her to carry them in full view the whole time?!

No problem madam, sorry to have bothered you.

At no point did she say that she had bought them at the cinema :o

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Seona1973 · 12/11/2011 19:36

We have never been searched at Vue cinema and we always take sweets, toffee popcorn and drinks in for the kids. We buy sweet popcorn and nachos at the cinema for me and dh.

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Seona1973 · 12/11/2011 19:38

In the Vue cinema terms and conditions it only says you cant bring in hot food so sweets, etc is ok

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susiedaisy · 12/11/2011 19:39

We use Vue never been searched!

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pinkytheshrunkenhead · 12/11/2011 19:41

(£16 for 2 big bags popcorn and 6 capri suns...)

good God i would rather stick pins in my eyes!

Dh and I had a similar argument in the foyer last time we went to the cinema when he contemplated paying £7.50 for a large drink and a popcorn! he accused me of being bah humbug and 'tight'.... I can afford it but I just cannot do it - I make popcorn all the time for my dcs and i know that bag of popcorn the size of a small tent costs about 50p in reality

But I am old and miserly

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