Reply With Quoteyes. I like water instead of soda and light popcorn or sugarfree candy. When I was a kid my mom would also stuff out pockets or should I say pocketbooks full of stuff because we couldn't afford to buy it in the theater. Usually 1 soda and popcorn.
We all know how expensive the candy and sodas are at the movie theater theater these days.
When I was a little kid, I would all fill my pockets full of candy and junk before I went into the movie theater to watch the matinee. I still occasionally practice this today. I do this despite the signs posted not allowing this. (I think I paid 8 cents for candy bars at Sav-On next door to the Reseda theater in the late 1960s early 1970s).
Do you sneak in your own candy/food? either because you don't agree with paying exorbitant prices or maybe just because the theater doesn't sell anything you like?
yes. I like water instead of soda and light popcorn or sugarfree candy. When I was a kid my mom would also stuff out pockets or should I say pocketbooks full of stuff because we couldn't afford to buy it in the theater. Usually 1 soda and popcorn.
I rarely go to the movies anymore, but when I do I sneak in water and any candy. However, there is no substitute for that salty popcorn with greasy fake butter that makes me sick so I always buy the popcorn.
Sometimes I'll take candy in but I generally don't eat or drink at the movie theatre.
i'd usually only get a tea for cinema so if you try to sneak that in, you get second degree burns (but first degree tea) which are painful
i'd usually wouldn't be an eater in the cinema, occassionally i may get the ice cream but that's usually only special occasions, like the dublin film festival.
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Yes. Water and tootsie pops.
last wednesday i went to see the 'on the road' film with my buddy. we felt it was...in style to sneak in beers to that particular film
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We used to take homemade cheeseburgers wrappend tin foil and big greasy paper bags of popcorn to the drive in movies when I was a kid.
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last wednesday i went to see the 'on the road' film with my buddy. we felt it was...in style to sneak in beers to that particular film
My family of three and one guest went to the movie last night to see 'Dictator' and we wasted $30 on tickets and $28 on three sodas, two Jr mints and one bag of popcorn (large and with free refiles) The movie was total worthless and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
When I was child the matinees were 12 cents and all the penny candy you could eat cost a thirteen cents (a quarter for everything). The show would include a cartoon, a Korean war propaganda film, a serial like Rocket man and the movie like Tom Mix, Roy Rodgers or The Three Stooges. It didn't matter what time you showed up you could stay and watch everything twice.
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Yup nobody makes popcorn like the movie theater. I like putting Jordan Almonds in my movie theater popcorn so you get a bit of salty sweet. I used to go all the time up into my early 20's. I don't like it much now for some reason.
Wasn't quite that cheap when I was young but the Saturday Matinee was still fairly cheap and a good deal. We'd get a few cartoons and sometimes even a double feature. It was a way to kill a afternoon if the weather wasn't good and it got us out of the house. Only a Handfull of movie theaters and most of those only had one screen so you would always see your friends there. It was still a treat when I was a kid because we only had three TV stations and afternoons were adult programs. Penny candy was still sold, so Mom might send us over for a bag or I'd save my bag from what my Dad got me on Sunday the week before Just to have a little extra with my can of soda and popcorn. More for your money and a much slower pace; those were the days.
Alcohol for sure. If I'm hungry, I'll sneak in a cheeseburger in my purse sometimes.
Movie popcorn is just popcorn. You can make it at home in the microwave.
I go to the movies maybe every two years, and when I do I don't patronize the concessions.
I understand the theaters make no money from showing films and depend entirely on concession sales for their survival, but it just isn't worth it to me to spend $10 to see a movie and another $10 ingesting crap when I could have a pretty good $10 meal in a restaurant after the movie anyway.
A bit of both. The movie's "small" popcorn and soda is about twice as much as much as my female and I can consume without getting sick to our stomachs, so it seems stupid not only to get it, but to pay such a ridiculous amount for it.
I do occasionally give in and buy some Sour Patch Kids, though, or sneak in with almonds/bottled water/etc...
I used to go to a theater in Fullerton that had a balcony section, (always closed), the temptation for my friends and I to sneak past the dreaded barrier rope was overpowering. We usually got caught, because we were always making noise, laughing, and horse playing. The theater Stassi would eventually ferret us out, and send us down to the cheap seats with everyone else. Until one day they realized we were dumb enough to pay extra just to sit up there, (and there were no readily available emergency exits we could sneak friends in through). We never bought candy, or anything, and rarely brought our own....though a few times we did sneak sandwiches in with us. Which is not easy when you're a boy, and all you have is pockets.
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