Have you ever snuck in to a movie?
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<div class="IPBDescription">or helped someone sneak in?</div>Well, I'm a manager at a movie theater, and I just cought some kids sneaking in to Rush Hour 3. I kicked them out of the theater. I enjoy catching the little bastages trying to be sneaky.
Anyway, I used to sneak in to movies all the time as a kid, at this theater none the less.
So, how many of you have snuck into a film at least once in your life?
Anyway, I used to sneak in to movies all the time as a kid, at this theater none the less.
So, how many of you have snuck into a film at least once in your life?
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That theatre charges crazy huge prices though, so it still felt like we paid for 2 movies.
When the new Dawn of the Dead was released, my two friends and I went to see it on opening night. We waited in two lines for tickets, I was alone in the line to the left, and they were to the right. When we went to get tickets, they got them flawlessly, no ID or anything.
I didn't, and at the time I looked older than them.
They asked for ID, I didn't have any nor was I old enough. So I just asked for a ticket to Hidalgo. The girl in the ticket window said "It won't work, we have people checking stubs outside of the theater." So I thought I was going to be the fish out of water and have to actually watch Hidalgo while my friends watched Dawn of the Dead since they actually were checking tickets. My friend thought of the great idea of saying we thrww out the stubs because we didn't know we'd need them. We acted dumb, and surprised we still needed them. They let us in.
Konata sees what you did there.
Well, I'm a manager at a movie theater, and I just cought some kids sneaking in to Rush Hour 3. I kicked them out of the theater. I enjoy catching the little bastages trying to be sneaky.
Anyway, I used to sneak in to movies all the time as a kid, at this theater none the less.
So, how many of you have snuck into a film at least once in your life?
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*caught
I never snuck into a film myself.
The hole was that their men's room was connected to both hallways, the entrance from the ticket taker side was before you got to said ticket taker. The entrance on the blocked side was after the blockage. So you could just walk in one side of the bathroom and out the other right into the hall o' theaters.
That hole was there for years.
The one my friends and I DID do alot was smuggle in food from outside, as food inside is far to expensive.
These days I almost never go to movies any more at $10.50 just is NOT FARKEN WORTH IT.
Another day at the same place, the maintenance door was left wide open and the cinema main doors were locked (maintenance or staff screening day or something); I walked up the maintenance stairs, being the explorer that I am, and ended up in the corridors behind the screening areas. I could have possibly snuck into one of the rooms (there was some movie showing), but scared of being caught I decided to turn back downstairs.
all-time record was a 4 movie marathon of theater hopping. we were quite hungry by the time we got out of there...
The one my friends and I DID do alot was smuggle in food from outside, as food inside is far to expensive.
These days I almost never go to movies any more at $10.50 just is NOT FARKEN WORTH IT.
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Dude, consider yourself lucky, that works out at just over a fiver. A ticket from Odeon over here costs nearly £7, or about $14. Yeah.
Dude, consider yourself lucky, that works out at just over a fiver. A ticket from Odeon over here costs nearly £7, or about $14. Yeah.
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Wow, the only place with worse ticket pricing then NYC is out of country <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Dude, consider yourself lucky, that works out at just over a fiver. A ticket from Odeon over here costs nearly £7, or about $14. Yeah.
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Showcase is cheaper, £4.50 during weekdays, till a certain time, or the same price whenever if your a student <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
oh and ive never actually snuck into a cinema but ive payed to see one movie and walked into others when that one finishes.
Odeon: Student £4.50, but it costs around £2 to get there or a bad walk.
Internet: Student friendly
Normaly we go on orange wedensdays so we get 1 ticket and another free, with the student price too! We will never see a movie any other day of the week.
But i did used to sneak into loads of movies underage, we just made up date of births that would work, and memorised them.
Ciniworld: Student £5.40
Odeon: Student £4.50, but it costs around £2 to get there or a bad walk.
Internet: Student friendly
Normaly we go on orange wedensdays so we get 1 ticket and another free, with the student price too! We will never see a movie any other day of the week.
But i did used to sneak into loads of movies underage, we just made up date of births that would work, and memorised them.
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Yah, the age thing was not exactly hard.
Just take your regular birthday and then make yourself 18, I was never actually bared from buying a ticket.
For cheap tickets it was going to the Apollo (Oberlin, OH, college town) for $2 <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
You used to even be able to do that in NYC, but we no longer have ANY second run theaters, and this makes me sad.
Yeah, I never watch movies. Overpriced compared to my bandwidth bill.
I've actually started watching a whole lot more cinema movies in the past year or so. Something about having 2 theaters within 10 minute walking distance. Combined with the <strike>fat</strike> adequate paycheck, there's not much reason not to see one once in a while.
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Another side effect of 2 theatres within walking distance is the brutal competition. The really nice one (the one I was talking about in my earlier post in fact) is completely decimating the older one, which I think has resorted to showing weird films that you don't see other places just to draw more of a crowd. The older one's smaller, though, which means it would be harder to sneak in to a second movie after watching the first.