• @A_Random_Idiot
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    5 months ago

    “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

    “My niece asked nicely: ‘If you’re calling the police, are they going to kill my mum?’” one of the women told the newspaper. “And he laughed at that stage. He looks directly in her face and he said: ‘Yeah, maybe we’ll find out.’

    • Phoenixz
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      45 months ago

      At that point, with comments like that, you’d be tempted to give the guy a real reason to call the police…

    • @credo
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      -105 months ago

      its fuckin exploitative

      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.

      • Rob T Firefly
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        225 months ago

        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.

        • @credo
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          5 months ago

          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?

          • Rob T Firefly
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            25 months ago

            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.

            • @credo
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              05 months ago

              What is your point?

      • @buddascrayon
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        5 months ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      -295 months ago

      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.

        • @[email protected]
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          -15 months ago

          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.

      • @buddascrayon
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        95 months ago

        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.