To think the cinema is a day to day event

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Not an experience or day out

I don't work Fridays and often go to the cinema in a Friday afternoon if there's something I want to see. So for me it's almost weekly. The ticket at Vue is £6.99, I walk there and occasionally get a bag of sweets from Sainsbury's for a quid. So I think it's v reasonable as activities go.

Completely depends where you live and what your budget is for things like this... we used to only have a cineworld near me so £10+ per ticket but now we have a Vue so it's a lot cheaper.
Also some people may not have a cinema around the corner from them so may have travel time to consider.

unless you pay to be a member or something, yes, it is an event

Last film I saw in the cinema was Avengers Endgame, so 2019. We used to go for all the Marvel, and then lockdown happened and since it reopened we've had DD and nothing we desperately want to see enough to sort out childcare as well as the cost.

But as it's not something you do everyday, no, it's not a "day to day" event. It's a treat, whether you see it as a big one or a little one.

Definitely a treat for me . . . I only go when there's something I (or a friend) really want to see. I haven't been so far this year and only went 2 or 3 times last year

Also, the nicest cinema in our locality isn't easy to access by public transport and I no longer drive

it's bloody expensive for us so yes, a treat/once in a blue moon-type special day out. Been to one twice in 6 years.

It’s a treat for us I think we go roughly 3-4 times a year and we take our own food / drinks. That said I used to live near a cinema that had an unlimited pass thing and went twice a week on average for years. It depends on your local set up.

what an odd bod

the OP that is

It’s a treat now as it’s so frigging expensive. It’s not something I can just go to without thinking about the cost which makes it a treat in my eyes. If I take all the kids plus snacks it’s £££.

also, there’s barely any films I want to watch enough to pay cinema prices so when there is that’s an “event”.

i’ve seen a couple of “cinema events” at those fancy cinemas with the sofas and ordering food to the chairs and those are definitely not day to day.

weirdly if I drive 35 minutes to a different town the prices are a quarter of what they are at my local but I can’t be bothered that often.

It’s very expensive now, so yabu.

Another aspect of this is that there are a lot of outlet shops, coffee shops and restaurants surrounding the cinema so, of course, I would be unlikely to travel all the way to the cinema and not take advantage of the other facilities. So that adds to the feeling of it being a treat

As a child I went to the cinema three times. I was a massive event. In my late teens and early twenties I lived abroad, where prices were cheaper and there were loads of cinemas, and went every week. My own DC went mostly to the Saturday morning kids discount viewings. A new film was a big, and expensive treat.

Now I can afford to go regularly I usually only go as an event - the last time I went was to see Barbie with some friends.

I went to the theatre a few days ago and realised what used to be an expensive annual event has become much more day time day (and accessible as I'm now only buying two tickets, not five) also DD is a drama student so I see it as part of her education.

What's an event for one person is day to day for another. It would be an event for me to go in a plane, but if you pop to Europe on work trips it's a day to day event.

I was chatting with some 7 year olds recently, and none of them had been to the cinema.

Dd aged 7 never been and I not been for 20 years ...it's a experience! One day I'll do it. It's not a day to day event. It's a rare treat. In dd class only one child has been to the cinema as it was excited told to the others.

Maybe not and "experience" but definitely a treat for us. Nearest cinema is fifteen miles away, so necessitates either a full morning or afternoon out, and it's expensive, even if you don't buy any snacks/bring you own.

Odd question though, why ask with no supporting back story?

We earn pretty well but for us it is a treat. There are five of us and it easily cost us in excess of £60 last time. Granted, we didn't bring snacks - we hadn't been in years and weren't very well prepared. We felt fleeced at the end!

It is cheaper than a lot of treats/days out nowadays. But I try to use at least some vouchers for those.

I have primary aged kids and we tend to avoid regularly doing stuff thats so inactive, its just 2 hours staring at a giant screen. So for us its not just about the cost, its an irregular/treat activity because we want the kids running round outdoors or playing imaginatively together not staring at screens.

Really interested to know the difference between a day to day event and a day out. Duration? Cost? General sense of adventure?

Cinema is certainly an experience - not only because everything is but because it is exactly focused on high sensory input: the big dark room the vibrating noise, the huge rapid images, the enormobucket of popcorn

I can't think of any translation of the strange distinctions made in the OP except for: "My significant other has upset me one of us thinks that the cinema is a good enough option and the other one doesn't."

I only have an Odeon near me so a cinema trip is a rare event, it's ridiculously expensive.

We only do cinema when we are on holiday somewhere with a cheaper one, eg last year we stayed in Cardiff as our summer hols and did the cinema twice, kids thought it was a dream come true!

What does day to day mean? Is it the same as an everyday event?

If so then surely it depends on the person, why would everyone have the same view on it?

Used to be until it cost £40 every time we go

It's something we do if we're at a loose end. Not a day out for us.

We don't really go to the cinema, happy to wait and watch it all on sky
I'd rather spend my 30 odd quid (tickets and popcorn) in the pub

Why do you ask op?

The last time I went to the cinema was when my young son had a PD day on a Monday in February 2020. We went to a dessert shop after and had some fancy puddings.

At the time it was a lovely day out, but at the time I didn't know it would end up being the social highlight of the year

It’s a treat for us. Otherwise we just watch films on Sky and streaming services.

We go almost every week now kids have left home. I use the meerkat code which makes it £3.50 each. Take my own hot chocolate and snacks. Love it! At the weekend we discuss and review the weeks film over wine 😆