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?

We got it for £8. If you have a smart TV download an app called Chilli. You get 50% off your first purchase.

The people who make the film need to make money from it. They don't do it as a hobby. It needs to make back the cost of making the film so that everyone can continue to get paid. If you want to watch the movie now, pay the money which pays for the years of work and expertise that went into making the film you want to enjoy. You would pay £16 or more if you could go to the cinema now to watch the film so - to paraphrase - suck it up buttercup.
If you don't want to pay then wait for it on DVD in 6-9 months.
The choice is yours.

It's a new release that would otherwise be in the cinema.

£16 to allow as many people as you can fit in a room to watch a film seems entirely reasonable. If it doesn't, wait until it comes out to rent/buy.

You do realise that films cost money to make, right?

Trolls isn’t a film which my dc are particularly wanting to see, so won’t rent this one, but £16 would be a bargain for us to see a new film release. It’s generally £35+ for us to go to the cinema as a family (me, 2 teens and a child), sometimes as expensive as £45, depending on which cinema/film.

Well it should be at the cinema. And in my local they don’t put the new releases in the kids club just older films - so we’d be looking at £40 for all of us to go see it. Sky let us keep for 7 days so the watched it 2/3 times.

We wanted to rent a movie recently. It was £5 and wasn’t even that new. DVDs of films released a few months back often cost £10 in supermarkets. Therefore £16 for a new release sounds cheap.

@Smileyaxolotl1, I’m in the south east, £4 a ticket at Romford premiere and not much more at Vue, I think it’s £5.75?

We paid it for DD. I’m annoyed, it was BORING. The storyline is so poor. It’s not worth £16 at all imo

Can't believe how much some people pay for cinema? Do none of you have a Vue near you? There are plenty of them and £5 per ticket for all films.

I think £10-£12 would be more reasonable and more people would be likely to pay those prices. I'll give it a miss!

And OP you're absolutely right, £16 is a joke. No excuse for it.

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Sure it is on Sky premier?

-download it-

We rented it. We would have paid similar to go watch it at the cinema, plus the expense of getting there, then the drinks, popcorn etc. I dont think you can really compare the rental of a brand new film that was supposed to be released in cinemas with a bog standard rent when already available on DVD release.
They'd lose millions and would not be worth the cost of making the movie.

We ordered through sky so the kids have watched it 4 times in the 48 hours it was available for. I think that's quite reasonable 🤷‍♀️

Just explained to dd about this. We managed to find it on a very legal website for free (Thank you to the anon Mner!) so she'll watch it tomorrow. It IS an absolute rip off. I've heard the film isn't that good anyway.

I paid it, dd has watched it 3 times in the 48 hours you get it for, we watched it together on Saturday night and she watched it twice at her dad's yesterday with her brother and sister. Would have cost £15 for 3 of us to see it at the cinema so it's no different and I got to have a decent cuppa whilst I watched it.

It's not a great film but dd absolutely loved it.

The Trolls movie?? WTF

Wow, £16 is loads! I always wait a couple of months for kids films to be shown at the kids screening for £2.50 per head. With all of us that's £10 to watch it on the big screen. No way I'd be renting at home for that price.

£16 is about cinema price, we go to vue so it's £4.99 a ticket plus snacks and drinks so for 2 of us it's £15-20, closer to £30 if dh comes too.

I thought the same initially but then I thought good on them for releasing it now and not holding it back, worked out the cost if we had gone to the cinema and then decided to pay for it and have popcorn and make a home cinema. You get it for 48 hours, we watched it three times!

@thebridgelooksbroken exactly my thoughts

Normally films that come online post cinema release are £10, so £15 for a brand new release is not bad value imo.

You can wait and view it in due course if you want.

Personally, I think it's a good way of getting "brand new" cinema releases out into the public domain.

Apple store have had it and other films for awhile as the same piece. I was horrified at first but my husband pointed out to me it was cheaper then us going go the cinema. I haven't done it though, we now have now TV entertainment, kids and movies, Netflix, Disney, amazon and Apple plus 🙈🙈🙈😂😂 so I think we have enough as it is. 😂 bought sonic yesterday to keep for less though. If my kids were really into it I probably would have though.

I agree @jazzandh . If we all went to the cinema it would be £35 plus sweets etc. I think anything that diverts the family for a couple of hours with a new movie is money well spent right now. I'd have made it a complete event with hot dogs and popcorn.

We paid it (cinema would have been north of 30 quid once snacks and parking are paid for).

It was a rubbish movie though.