Movies You've paid to 'Sleep' through.

[RayB]

THing about walking out... how do you know a movie won't pick up later? How do you know there's isnt a good scene you'd like? You might miss the DEATH BLOW!     Or lets face it, sounds like some of you have wives who get easily offended and apparently they carry your balls in their purse. hee hee

One movie I WISHED I slept through was Coyote Ugly.  OH man, was that movie mis-advertised. THe trailers made it look like it would have hot chicks getting crazy in a bar, and then WHAM! It's a chick flick about some girl's music ambitions and love life. Aaaaagggghhhh!

PS: I think I've heard that here in Ontario movie theatres will refund money up to 30 minutes into a movie.

[shmokes]

how do you know a movie won't pick up later?

It is often pretty obvious.

[Ginsu Victim]

how do you know a movie won't pick up later?

It is often pretty obvious.

Yeah, I'm not going to continue wasting time on a bad movie. When it got to the, "Look everyone, it's a performance by The Blackeyed Peas" segment in Be Cool, I knew there was no chance the movie would redeem itself. We walked out at that very moment.

[shmokes]

It's features prominently on the wiki page you linked.   

Looks like you caught me.  Now everyone knows that I didn't learn about sunk costs from Wikipedia.

The ticket is a sunk cost.  Even if you switch to a different movie, so long as the decision was made because you want to get your money's worth, you were making a decision on the basis of sunk costs.  If you switched theaters because there happens to be a movie that you really want to see and you think it's worth your time, you are making a decision based on the value of that movie vis-a-vis the next two hours of your life, in which case your decision was based on prospective costs.

[shmokes]

LMAO . . . I just read the stuff on Wikipedia regarding ticket prices.     WTF is your point?  Is confirms in no uncertain terms exactly what I've been saying.  Exactly.  Classic.

[ark_ader]

Postcards from the edge.

Got sore ribs the day later as I was snoring so loud, my gf was trying to prod me awake.

I slept on later in the film.

[danny_galaga]

I've heard of plenty of people walking out and getting their money back. Just talk to management.

Here they allow you 30 minutes to get a ticket refund. Most times, 30 minutes has passed before you give up hope

The only times i've gone to get refunds were when i was so late to the movie, the seating was right at the front and to one side. Also one time it was an open captions movie...

[danny_galaga]

 Ive never fallen asleep during a film.

 Ive known a few people that cant watch movies or TV without falling
asleep... and from what I speculate, is that they have ADD.

 

[shmokes]

 Ive never fallen asleep during a film.

 Ive known a few people that cant watch movies or TV without falling
asleep... and from what I speculate, is that they have ADD.

 

LMAO . . . That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!!!!

[dre-w]

I used to be employed at a movie theater back in high school (2002) for about a year, and the only way you were able to get a refund is if you asked for one no longer than 45 mins. into the movie.. and your excuse had to be something other than you didn't like the movie. (got an emergency phone call, kid is throwing up, etc..)  

Oh how I hated that job..  and the clowns running it.  I remember when that Finding Nemo movie came to our theater, management thought it would be a good idea to do a promotional thing by giving the kids a free goldfish in a bag before going in to watch the movie.  WHY BEFORE??  The next couple days the theater smelled like rotten fish and we were the ones finding nemo.. everywhere.  So many memories.

NEVER DO THESE THINGS AT THE THEATER:

1.  Eat the popcorn.  We were trained to clean the inside of the popcorn machine and kettle with just a bottle of windex.  Not only that but at the end of the day when we would empty it out, there would always be prizes at the bottom (hair, rubberband, cockroach, dead fly, etc.)  Just don't eat anything from the theater, too expensive and you can totally just buy outside food/candy and bring it in.  (I would say "sneak" it in but there's really no sneaking involved since they don't pat you down, check your jacket, wifes purse, etc.  It's just too easy to call sneak)

2.  Assume that the theater is at Grade A.  We had a really bad rat problem and when the inspectors came they gave us a D.  After they posted the letter grade on the wall and left, manager asked us to move the soda machine in front of it.  Look for the grade.

3.  Say no you don't want your receipt.  In the concession stand they are required to ask if you want your receipt or not, say YES, especially if you're paying in cash because there was a few employees there who would keep the receipts then just void the transaction and pocket it..  I remember a few of them made a $100 a day using this method and it only took them a couple voided transactions, being that it costs an exact $40 (no tax) for the usual family popcorn deal.

4.  Ask the ushers to help you look for whatever you dropped during the movie.  The ushers would always find peoples wallets, cell phones, handheld video game devices, and it was finders keepers.  I'm sure there are good people out there, just saying don't give them your phone number and expect them to call you saying they found your wedding ring.  They never called anyone!

5.  Save your 3D glasses for next time.  Done this thinking I will outsmart the theaters $2 3Dglasses fee because I brought my own but then I looked like an idiot when they told me I still had to pay the stupid fee because its a 3D fee or some nonsense.


I've been one-upping that movie theater ever since.  My friend still works there and I haven't paid to watch a movie to this very day UNLESS it was worth seeing a second time in a better theater or 3D IMAX.  I only pay for the ones that I feel deserve it.  One day I'm going to make a list of all the movies I've watched there for free and tally up a total of how much money they lost to ME and I hope that it's a great loss!  ..hope rides alone

[SavannahLion]

Shmokes, when I said The Village was predictable, I meant that the ending was predictable. The movie got stupid as soon as you noticed the damn sneakers. His movies are predictable to the point that you can figure out how it ends about 1/3 of the way in. Ever see the Robot Chicken sketch? yeah, it's like that. It gets ---smurfing--- stupid and predictable after the fourth or fifth movie you've seen.

That vampire vs werewolf flick. Unparalleled levels of suckage.

My girlfriend LIKES twilight! :S

I was thinking Underworld.

Yeah, that's the movie. I was speaking of Underworld. It was like simultaneously watching a dog pinching a loaf and watching wet paint peel.

Speaking of movies where people got up and left. I remember when I saw ID4. A bunch of guys and myself waited in line for a few hours playing MTG on July 3, waiting for midnight. The theater was so packed, that they brought in plastic chairs for people to sit in the isle. It was hilarious. It first started with a group of about three or four kids who sat at the front of the theater. They freaked out as soon as the first UFO appeared and rushed back to sit with their parents (as it were). Then about twenty or twentyfive people got up and left (including the parents and freaked kids) when the UFO blew the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of the White House. By the end of the movie, about half the theater cleared out. Apparently blowing the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of the White House, killing the president's wife, choking Data, and laying waste to civilization as we know it was too much for too many people. Meh.  ---smurfing--- pansies.

[SNAAKE]

The next couple days the theater smelled like rotten fish and we were the ones finding nemo.. everywhere.

 

I never slept through a movie in theater. I really dont know how that works.

I walked out on some to watch another movie tho.

[Ginsu Victim]

3.  Never say you don't want your receipt.

I've NEVER been asked if I wanted a receipt EVER at any movie theater.

Never save your 3D glasses for next time.  Done this thinking I will outsmart the theaters $2 3Dglasses fee because I brought my own but then I looked like an idiot when they told me I still had to pay the stupid fee because its a 3D fee or some nonsense.

Yes, the fee isn't for the glasses, it's for the 3D upgrades to the theater. The new screen and projectors aren't cheap.

[shmokes]

Apparently blowing the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of the White House, killing the president's wife, choking Data, and laying waste to civilization as we know it was too much for too many people. Meh.  ---smurfing--- pansies.

There's always the possibility, however remote, that they were just leaving because that movie is so utterly, intolerably awful.

[shmokes]

Plus, most the employees are high school kids and it's nice to see them taking some initiative to increase their hourly wage.

[Vanguard]

3.  Say no you don't want your receipt.  In the concession stand they are required to ask if you want your receipt or not, say YES, especially if you're paying in cash because there was a few employees there who would keep the receipts then just void the transaction and pocket it.

So what?  You got your popcorn, the money is the theater's problem.

I don't believe this anyway - movie theaters make all their money on concessions.  I've never heard of a place that wasn't counting everything hourly to make sure stuff wasn't walking out of there.  You can't count the kernels, but you can sure as hell count the bags and cups.

I worked at a grocery store as a kid.  We had to get a manager to do voids for the very reason mentioned here.

[Ginsu Victim]

3.  Say no you don't want your receipt.  In the concession stand they are required to ask if you want your receipt or not, say YES, especially if you're paying in cash because there was a few employees there who would keep the receipts then just void the transaction and pocket it.

So what?  You got your popcorn, the money is the theater's problem.

I don't believe this anyway - movie theaters make all their money on concessions.  I've never heard of a place that wasn't counting everything hourly to make sure stuff wasn't walking out of there.  You can't count the kernels, but you can sure as hell count the bags and cups.

I worked at a grocery store as a kid.  We had to get a manager to do voids for the very reason mentioned here.

Yeah, pretty much every place is like that. I didn't believe it when I read it.

[dre-w]

I don't believe this anyway - movie theaters make all their money on concessions.  I've never heard of a place that wasn't counting everything hourly to make sure stuff wasn't walking out of there.  You can't count the kernels, but you can sure as hell count the bags and cups.

Haha you don't believe this, as if I just wasted my time making it up.. your not going to like this but if I MUST explain this to you..  They would actually have the ushers bring them the empty popcorn buckets/soda cups that people leave in the theater to the back door of the concession stand.  In the back room they would wash them out then store them in this spot in the corner of the ceiling where the tile lifted up.  Then all they would have to do is just take back the receipts they voided and pull down whatever they sold and add it to the inventory.  Also they split some of the money with the ushers.  Like I said before it didn't take a genious to keep track of the money since there was no tax and pretty much all the prices are set at high dollar amounts.  Oh and they didn't count it hourly, they only counted the buckets and cups at the end of the night when closing up.

So it is your problem, because you just paid some kid $20 to eat popcorn and drink soda that came from the trash.

MODED!

[Ginsu Victim]

MODED?

[dre-w]

You guys don't have to believe it I don't care.  Just thought I'd post some inside info of what I saw going on there

[dre-w]

MODED?

lol yeh I was just joshin.. you never used that term when you were a kid..?  kinda like BOOYA or IN YOUR FACE

[Ginsu Victim]

MODED?

lol yeh I was just joshin.. you never used that term when you were a kid..?  kinda like BOOYA or IN YOUR FACE

Never heard the term ever. When (and where) were you a kid? Nevermind. I just got found the answer.

[dre-w]

Never heard the term ever. When (and where) were you a kid?

Born in 1984, been living in CA pretty much my whole life.  Not really sure how the word came about but I first heard in school sometime around '93..  and I know for a fact it wasn't something just in my school because I said it jokingly with a guy my age from work and he was like "daang I haven't heard that word since back in the day."

haha check this out  http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moded
lol the examples given are hilarious

[shmokes]

I grew up in Utah.  I remember when everyone used that term in school (though I'd never seen it written and wouldn't have made the connection if Ginsu hadn't questioned it).  It is the direct equivalent of Owned or Pwned.

[Ginsu Victim]

It is the direct equivalent of Owned or Pwned.

I understand that from how it was used. It just wasn't a term I'd ever heard used, especially in Oklahoma or Texas.

[dre-w]

The ones my group overused as kids were "skills!" and "sweet!" in a sarcastic manner.

haha skills!  I remember that. 

Yeh I don't know if that system is goin on anywhere else today.. (highly doubt it)  Just that fact though that I actually witnessed it when I was working there was enough to make me never want to buy soda or popcorn from any theater ever again.

I just remembered one movie I did pay for in IMAX that I was on the edge of my seat about to walk out on was Transformers Revenge of the Fallen..  As soon as those 2 racially profiled robots with the gold tooth started cursing and talkin all that noise.. I was furious that I paid for the midnight showing.  By the way, did someone already start a topic on how bad that movie was..? because if not..

[RayB]

You know what the main problem I'm starting to detect here with you guys who need to walk out of movies? You have horrible judgement.    Take that last post about Transformers 2. Come on. I knew to avoid that turd just based on the fact that the first movie stank and the trailers for #2 did nothing to sway me.

It's pretty easy to avoid turds. Just look for Michael Bay's name.

[dre-w]

Haha I have horrible judgement because I liked transformers when I was a kid.

I only went because I liked Transformers growing up

[Ginsu Victim]

As soon as those 2 racially profiled robots with the gold tooth started cursing and talkin all that noise.

You need to look up the definition of racial profiling.

[dre-w]

You need to look up the definition of racial profiling.

LOL oops.  I meant racial stereotype, idk why I put profiling. 

[shateredsoul]

8th Mile

and

Transformers (I was doing as part of a summer program where we took some students.. I lived in the dorms and spent the days working with them.. I was dead tired)