to be shocked at this price!

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Was going to take dd to the cinema to see the new Trolls movie, but for obvious reasons we can't. I heard it was going to be available to rent on Amazon Prime for a one time view, and expected it to be 5 pounds at the most. Turns out the bloody thing costs 16 pounds to view ONCE.
No way in hell am I paying 16 quid for a kids movie you don't even get to keep.

AIBU to be shocked at this price?

How much would the cinema have cost you? You wouldn’t have been able to keep that either?

So don't pay it.
If no one paid it then they wouldn't charge it.
As with everything else, they charge it because people are daft enough to pay it.

Don't buy into the hype. Get her into older, better things. Studio Ghilbli?

The cinema near me is £5 per ticket so 3 of us could watch it on a massive screen for less. It’s a rip off. Sky used to do this and then they’d send you the DVD after it was out so you could keep it. That was ok. YANBU

Yes it’s the same cost as the cinema that’s the point. Tbh I think plenty of people will do this to entertain there LOs. My niece was so looking forward to it being released.

Yanu- It’s instead of a cinema release. For a brand new film at the cinema it would be about £30 per family so around half of that seems a perfectly sensible price to me.
You would pay £5 to hire a very old film so no idea why you would think it would be that low.

Yeah the 16 quid thing for films made me wince a bit.

However, a trip to the cinema costs more than that. With some imagination you could do an at home cinema experience couldn't you?

Films cost a fortune to make. Months if not years of hundreds of people's time.

But how do you expect the film maker to recoup their costs if it were to cost £5? It’s a brand new release, they could have kept it back until the pandemic is over, so that they’d get the benefit of the box office sales.

@youngestisapsycho cinema would cost about 10 pounds in the kids club deal. (I think more than anything I'm just annoyed we can't buy cinema popcorn )

It would cost that to go to the cinema and you cant keep that either.
I understand its different not seeing it on the big screen, but I'm not surprised at the price.

Wow, I would expect £16 to be the purchase price

It’s the equivalent of a trip to the cinema. It is cheaper on some platforms, we paid 9.99 on Virgin which was much cheaper than we’d have paid for the 4 of us to go to the cinema.

Alternatively you can wait a few months for it to be cheaper or free on the TV or Netflix!

@gamerchick ooh, that's a good idea! she'll love that, thank you.

£16 is a lot to watch a film on your own TV though. Not everyone has a huge screen telly. I think if it was the new Bond film then maybe, but not a kids film.

We paid £16 to watch Star Wars today, it would of been more expensive to go to the cinemas. My DS really wants to see Trolls, so we will probably buy it at the weekend for him. Again to see it at the local it would be slightly more expensive.

It is a rip off. The whole point of streaming a movie online is that it costs comparably the same as other streaming movies.

Not sure about sky but prime allowed any number of viewings in a 48 hour period so DD made the most of that!

Watching a film at home is nothing like watching a film at a cinema.

If they want to charge cinema prices they should just hold off the release until they can release it in the cinema, although I can certainly understand it being more expensive than a standard Sky Box Office film.

YANBU, yes it would be the same or more at the cinema depending on family size etc but no way would I be willing to spend the same amount to watch a film at home, on a much smaller screen, no cinema overheads etc to be covered. I imagine many people will feel the same.

We paid it. It was due out at the cinema the day before dd's birthday. Obviously as it was we couldn't go - so we had movie night at home.
Yes if we waited for kids club it would cost £7.50 + snacks, but if we'd watched it at the cinema brand new as planned it would have cost £30+
We can afford it so why not - simple pleasures for kids at a difficult time & let DreamWorks recoup some money for future films.

I paid to watch The Hunt and I watched it twice more because it was excellent. You don’t get to just watch it once

DH can buy it, as he seems just as desperate as dd to see it

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But brand new films are not in kids club deals normally and it’s not the same as streaking something that’s already been at the cinema.
I’m sure if you wait the 6 months it would have been until you could see it on sky movies it will be more like the price you were willing to pay.

Why would they sell it for £5 for a whole family to watch at home? Potentially other families too?

It’s out at the same time as cinemas so I would expect to pay a premium for that. I wouldn’t but I can see the rationale for the charge.