Bringing your own candy into a movie theater

[Texashiker]

Why do you even need to eat while watching a movie?

I am usually finished with the nachos within the 15 minutes of previews

 

[purbeast0]

so no way you would pay $4-5 for a $1 box of candy, but you would pay $4-5 for a $1 soda?

 

[sourceninja]

I don't think I would go to a movie if I had to be searched to enter. I don't even like being searched before flying.

 

[bignateyk]

Funny since we take food and drinks to games all the time. They only thing they ask is that we unscrew the top of the containers if they are not sealed so that they can smell for alcohol. Alcohol is the only thing they won't let you bring in for the most part. That and glass bottles or aerosols.

I've developed a good system for smuggling beer into college football games.

The idea is you want them to stop you and make you throw away your alcohol. But only the alcohol you want them to find. I usually just walk up to the entrance with a beer in hand, at which point they get mad and tell you that you aren't allowed to bring alcohol in to the stadium.

Then you apologize and throw your half-empty beer away. Meanwhile you have a six-pack stashed in various pockets around your body, but since they think you were too dumb to even know that you couldn't walk in with a beer in hand, they never suspect that you are hoarding another six-pack out of view.

 

[Texashiker]

so no way you would pay $4-5 for a $1 box of candy, but you would pay $4-5 for a $1 soda?

Our theater has 32 ounce hard plastic cups that you can buy and bring back to reuse. If you buy the cup its something like $2.50 or $3.00, but refills are only .75. As compared to a refill of something like $1.75.

In short, spend an extra $2 one time, and get half price refills for life.

So when my family goes to the theater, our drinks cost .75

 

[Zeze]

Seriously, you're not a kid anymore. Do whatever you want.

I've been sneaking in food all the time in theaters and stuffed it in my gf's bag. Sometimes I'd just bring it in the CVS plastic bag nice and visible.

Those 17 yr olds working at cinema don't care.

 

[dawp]

years ago my friends and I wouldn't touch soda, I'd have a 6-pack of beer stashed in my coat and they would do likewise.

 

[ShawnD1]

If they started checking purses you'd just have to get more clever about where you hide it.

Touch my purse and I'll stab you in the face.

I take wendys cheeseburgers into movies all the time.

The idea is you want them to stop you and make you throw away your alcohol. But only the alcohol you want them to find. I usually just walk up to the entrance with a beer in hand, at which point they get mad and tell you that you aren't allowed to bring alcohol in to the stadium.

Then you apologize and throw your half-empty beer away. Meanwhile you have a six-pack stashed in various pockets around your body, but since they think you were too dumb to even know that you couldn't walk in with a beer in hand, they never suspect that you are hoarding another six-pack out of view.

Ha. Awesome.

 

[sdifox]

Touch my purse and I'll stab you in the face.

I take wendys cheeseburgers into movies all the time.

Shawn carries a purse :sneaky:

 

[Nebor]

Wait, I thought the whole point of "movie candy" was that it was in the same size\style boxes so it looks just like what they sell in the theater...

 

[PingSpike]

I've developed a good system for smuggling beer into college football games.

The idea is you want them to stop you and make you throw away your alcohol. But only the alcohol you want them to find. I usually just walk up to the entrance with a beer in hand, at which point they get mad and tell you that you aren't allowed to bring alcohol in to the stadium.

Then you apologize and throw your half-empty beer away. Meanwhile you have a six-pack stashed in various pockets around your body, but since they think you were too dumb to even know that you couldn't walk in with a beer in hand, they never suspect that you are hoarding another six-pack out of view.

Pretty clever. Its like a honeypot defense.

 

[Avalon]

Concession prices are an absolute joke, yet so many people still buy them. How the fuck is a small popcorn $5? You can buy a goddamn redenbacher pouch for 25 cents elsewhere. It also is usually stale and tastes like crap.

I've been sneaking in bags of candy like twizzlers in for years. Or, I simply go without. It's really the only way to avoid highway robbery.

 

[shortylickens]

If they started checking purses you'd just have to get more clever about where you hide it.

If they started checking purses my mom would have to leave her revolver at home.
And knowing my mom theres no way she'd go into a theater without her gun.

 

[Elbryn]

the local minor league team's advertise it. they don't care just as long as people come heh.

also the minor league teams are much more fun to watch.

we gots dime a dog nights and buck a brat nights at our minor league team. who needs to bring food when you can get 10 hot dogs for a buck!

 

[Alone]

I just bring in stuff that they don't sell. If they find me with anything I ask if I can get the same thing from them, if I can't then it's not my issue. This defense has worked for me in the past when I've brought coffee to various locations (some theaters in my area don't serve coffee).

 

[dainthomas]

Are you people so poor that you can't spend the extra ten bucks on snacks? What do your supermodel girlfriends think? Might as well just sit home with a Red Box rental and Kirkland soda. :\

 

[Imp]

One of the few times I went to the concession stands to get my free popcorn/drink, I remember the guy next to me whom bought a box of candy and two drinks. Totalled $18. lol

I know the theatre makes their money off concessions, but do you really have to bend everyone over and eff them in the ass that bad?

 

[soulcougher73]

I ALWAYS bring in my own candy and drinks. I refuse to pay what they charge. They are already riping us off on the movie ticket alone. No way id drop more money on over prices snacks.

 

[Ns1]

my gf has a large bag. we've brought in InO shakes before rofl

wetzel pretzel is our standard smuggle in snack.

 

[ballmode]

I bring my own beer to the theater!

 

[soulcougher73]

Yeah mik and ikes would work well, junior mints would be messy...

But think of the minty fresh farts.

 

[ShawnD1]

Are you people so poor that you can't spend the extra ten bucks on snacks? What do your supermodel girlfriends think? Might as well just sit home with a Red Box rental and Kirkland soda. :\

Actually they tend to think quite poorly of us when we explain that we can't pick them up from the airport because we blew the month's gas money on fucking popcorn.

I bring my own beer to the theater!

pre-drinking is how I roll. Get drunk before you drive to the theatre.

 

[dawp]

Are you people so poor that you can't spend the extra ten bucks on snacks? What do your supermodel girlfriends think? Might as well just sit home with a Red Box rental and Kirkland soda. :\

for a family of 4, it's going to be a bit more than $10.

 

[Farmer]

I put my 2 liter in my pocket, and some Milk Duds.

 

[destrekor]

Those 17 yr olds working at cinema don't care.

Usually true.

When I worked at the local theater, I was sometimes one of the ticket takers. I personally could not care less, and was usually happy when I could tell something was being sneaked in but was fairly well hidden. If I could see it but it appears they attempted to hide it, I just let them through. If they were openly carrying a big bag of food from the foodcourt downstairs, I would have turned them away. Thankfully nobody tried that when I was at the ticket box, because there were cameras so if it was that obvious, I'd have to say something or otherwise likely face problems from management for ignoring the rules.
One of the guys above me was an absolutely jackass about theater rules though. Every rule, he enforced as much as he could. I saw him force people throw something away that was completely hidden in pockets... so cameras never saw evidence, and he merely used the bulging pockets as evidence.
Seriously, when I was working there, I still snuck shit in. Our discount was minimal, and while we got free tickets and advanced showings, food was still insanely expensive. I brought my own shit it. I mean hell, I still bought the theater food on lunch breaks, so they still got me monies.