I hope this cinema (or the chain it belongs to) goes out of business. What a hostile way to treat your customers.
That’s house rules, not law. No way the police has to be involved here.
There is a place for it if viewed from the trespassing angle. I.e. “you brought food, now get out!”. That said, this person seems to have done roughly the same as people calling the police on black birdwatchers and such.
If you have a private property and someone refuses to leave after being asked to leave, that is trespass and they may call the police for it.
I personally think it’s ridiculous to escalate this situation over food, of all things.
“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.’”
My man’s finally flexing the full power vested in him as cinema popcorn popper, and it is glorious!!
It’s not the nature of power. Sometimes it’s just the nature of peoplw to be week-old cockswabs
They agreed but the employee apparently insisted on sitting next to them to monitor the snack situation.
Instead of… telling them to take the snacks back out to the car? There’s no situation where that isn’t weird to me. Were there no other theaters to be cleaned, patrons to be helped, tickets to be sold, anything else, they just have this extra guy with literally nothing else to do but watch this family not eat the food they brought in?
Yep, seriously, is he thinking if he’s extra hard on these visitors then no one else will smuggle food in? Because they’re not earning any more money by disallowing this family to eat their snacks.
And they’re hopefully losing customers over this shitshow, too.
He had power to flex, and by GOD was he going to flex it!
Pathetic, small men who relish in wielding any power they have to fuck over normal people make my blood boil. From the lowly movie theater grunt in NZ to the plethora of elected officials in the US, they all need to get knocked down a peg. Let people live their lives for Christs sake.
Yea seriously. The LAST type of person that deserves it is the dipshit that will flex it.
Instead of… telling them to take the snacks back out to the car?
Where I live in you can bring stuff in but you can’t snack it during the viewing. Also, did we know that they came in with a car?
Food in general is one reason I haven’t been to a theater in decades. I hate listening to the endless crinkle of wrappers, the shoveling in of popcorn, etc. I really don’t want to smell the stink of the burger and fries you brought in or the crunching of the bag. It is bad enough when someone brings their smelly meal onto a plane and I have to smell it for an hour.
It sounds like you have a sensory perception disorder, that is not most people’s reactions to those situations. A good home theater system will probably be more comfortable for you.
I grew up in theaters as my dad was a projectionist. You couldn’t pay me to go into a theater again since I was 18, what a miserable experience it had been every time I’ve broken that rule since. People in public are fucking annoying in so many unique ways.
Misophonia; it’s fairly common. My local cinema usually does one or two special screenings for people with autism. I imagine those are quieter overall.
Personally, I don’t mind- it’s part of the whole ‘going to the movies’ ambience for me. As long as it isn’t terrible smelling or people are intentionally annoying with it.
Damn, I’m sorry to hear that. Food has always been my favorite part of the experience.
Popcorn, specifically. I used to go to our local theater for the popcorn. They have a ticket plus large popcorn and drink for $9, it’s a great deal. Then I figured out how to make my own popcorn that tastes just like the theater stuff with ghee and fine salt, so now I’m more inclined to just stay home and make my own.
Still gotta do the drive-in at least once a year, though.
Yeah I’m like even if the movie sucks, I’m sitting in the dark eating, so it’s not all bad
Yeah seriously, smelling all the delicious food is part of the movie-going experience. The local theaters at in my city sell real food now so these days it’s more than just popcorn and hot dogs.
This is a story of one bootlicking employee who was in desperate need of fucking off and minding his own business:
However, just as the movie started, an employee told them to put their snack bags away, the report said. They agreed but the employee apparently insisted on sitting next to them to monitor the snack situation.
A few minutes later, one of the children popped a Skittle he was already holding into his mouth, and quite frankly, all hell broke loose, the women said. The employee started shouting at them, and said that the police would be called unless they left. This is when the children started crying.
“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.’
Jesus, what a horrifying experience.
Average perception of police
this whole thing wouldn’t be a problem if the police were the tiniest bit trustworthy
Are they not? That’s depressing
This happened in New Zealand.
ACAB isn’t short for “American cops are bastards”.
Dude’s progressed from boot licking to boot felatio to boot deep throat, what in the fuck seriously.
Fascists have it so easy, give the average fucker a little pin and tell them they’re special helpers and they’ll do this kind of thing for free.
I See that In movies and go BS no one cares that much for such a minor role but nope your right there is someone so petty.
I think some people are like that and we notice them because they make themselves a spectacle. Best option is to laugh at them.
Well not when they are trying to kill mommy
Even the theatre was probably like “bro chill”.
Hopefully they fired the guy and referred him to a mental health institute. If I was a parent, I would definitely not visit a place where my kids get told I could be killed for their actions.
Seriously, what is a guy like this even gonna do for the rest of his life? Moving to the US and becoming a cop?
mf was a thigh-high fr fr
Bro saw “Despicable Me” and took that as a challenge
Is he secretly an American? Because that sounds far more like something I’d hear here. Atrocious.
Yeah I thought it was US based on context too. I should’ve been suspicious when the employee didn’t open fire on the family…
whispers: your moral narcissism is showing
That’s a really weird compliment
Yeah, the world needs more smug assholes, that’ll make it better.
I agree with what I think you’re trying to say, which is that moral narcissism is good, but I don’t think moral n*rcissists are smug assholes. I think they’re people with a pathological need to improve and treat others with kindness.
So by making some snarky comment about how a guy working at a movie theater would probably just shoot the whole family if they were all in America, you think the original comment is by someone who seeks to improve and treat others with kindness? Are you even reading the same thread?
Why are people incapable of understanding the US isn’t the source of all evil? Shitty people exist everywhere. It’s really not that complex of an idea to understand.
I think, it’s more the US love of capitalism that makes people think so. It just sounds on brand that someone who worships their company that much would be in the US.
Lol, your brain is so wired on “Capitalism Bad” and “'Murica Bad”, it’s the first thing you think of when anyone does anything wrong, even on the other side of the planet.
Get some air, bud. You’ve had enough propaganda for a lifetime.
The guy acted on behalf of the company, that he works for, at a degree that no one asked him to, nor he’ll be rewarded for. And companies get put in charge in capitalism.
That’s all the thought chain it took for me to get to capitalism. Literally the point of my comment was that it’s not about it being bad/evil/wrong.
Sir, this is Lemmy.
I was more under the impression it was because in developed nations, cops don’t go around killing civilians for frivolous reasons. But in the US, it happens regularly.
As someone who has been to South Korea, US capitalism looks downright reasonable in comparison.
And some European airports are great examples of runaway capitalism. Good luck finding your gate when you’re walking through what looks like a shopping mall on steroids. No, I don’t want a Burberry Armani Hermes scarf, I want a damn sandwich.
I’m in the US and did a double take when I saw that it was NZ; it’s the Americentrism that was ingrained in me since childhood that led me to automatically assume, based on the headline, that it was a story from here.
It could easily be one of dozens of similar stories here. People here can get rabidly protective of their firearms. Threats/offensive comments like the one the employee in this situation made are common enough that I think this would only be considered a fluff piece in the states, if it made the news at all.
it’s the Americentrism that was ingrained in me since childhood
You can (and should) fix that. Assuming everywhere else is better just because you haven’t seen it (or buy the hype) does a disservice to the victims. Power tripping assholes exist everywhere there’s power to be had.
I’ve unlearned much of it, but it remains an ongoing process; it’s similar to how recovery from addiction is a lifelong process. Unfortunately, many of my (I’m guessing our, but don’t want to assume) compatriots don’t feel the need to unlearn it or don’t see it as an issue to begin with.
Assuming everywhere else is better
Nowhere did I say that I assumed everywhere else was better. I can see how you inferred that, but that wasn’t my implication; I suppose my sarcasm didn’t come through well enough. Rather, I am just so used to that type of gun rhetoric here and not used to that from what I hear about NZ that it was a surprise.
Power tripping assholes exist everywhere there’s power to be had.
Fully agreed with you.
Bring your own snacks? Believe it or not jail.
We have the best Theatres because of jail
I snuck a whole Arby’s French Dip into that movies. Carried the au jus cup in my hand and walked right by the staff.
Ask me to leave all you want, but call the police? wtf? That’ll be WHY I sneak food in the next time. This time I just needed actual dinner, and y’all don’t even sell real food here.
You haven’t lived until you’ve snuck all you can eat fajitas from Applebee’s into a movie.
That implies you snuck all you can eat fajitas out of an Applebee’s
They did refuse to leave, I’ve seen a video posted by the people who got kicked out, and even their own video makes them look pretty bad.
Wow, what morons. Never let them get you for criminal tresspass. Even your average Karen should have the sense to leave once the cops are about to be called.
Damn, dude. A French dip with au jus? That’s way better than my shitty French fry story…
I walked in with two footlong Subways once. They’re like…eh…just clean up when you’re done, please.
This. Regardless if you brought it in on bought it at the cinema, don’t make a mess or leave garbage behind
We were regulars and recognized by them. We also would have cleaned up even if not asked haha.
My god daughter dropped the bucket of popcorn. 😞
The girl next to me just tonight at Deadpool brought a full meal in a Whole Foods paper bag. At a theater with a full bar and some hot food like pizza and chicken wings.
It’s weird that things could go so wrongly under the careful supervision of an underpaid child worker. (/Sarcasm)
So, theater patrons and owners need to get together and tell studios to stop expecting to receive 99% of ticket sales money.
Is this UK or us lol
New Zealand.
wow… i guess US culture really is going global lol
Americans really do think they run the world.
Believe it or not, being a cunt is not limited to the US.
Nah but we’re really good at it.
Yeah but calling police over trivial shit is?
I don’t know tbh but I never heard about this clown shit out of us. Maybe I am wrong and Karen’s calling police every where lol
“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.’
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.
Found the theater owner.
Seriously, God forbid someone being reasonably skeptical.
Don’t bother, you’re talking with a random idiot.
Which is why I agreed with them. No point there.
Seriously, they are one of the most tiresome posters. The look i’m so logically smart type, and complain about lemmy but hang out on lemmy.
Well yeah obviously
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
What is your point?
At that point, with comments like that, you’d be tempted to give the guy a real reason to call the police…
Exploitive? C’mon mate, nobody is forcing you to watch new movies at the theater, or to eat hotdogs, candy, and popcorn while you’re there. The whole concept is outdated uncomfortable bullshit, and you have every right to abstain. At a minimum, go eat a meal before the movie and just fucking vibe without dumping wads of fat-soaked corn and carbonated sugar water into your gaping maw.
I don’t even bother with the big theaters anymore. I get my cinema fix from boutique neighborhood cinemas that play classics and offer dinner and a movie, and I pirate everything else for home viewing.
Corporate cinema sucks ass. You deserve to get price gouged if you haven’t figured that out yet.
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.
Here is the original posting from New Zealand Herald which has video of the incident (1 of 3 near identical pages, that website is a mess). I searched out the real one because that linked article is just horrible and unnecessary (idk why he felt cool putting “The only things I’m planning to sneak in are sleeping tablets.” at the end).
For anyone wanting to get riled up, NZ Herald also has this wonderful little opinion piece from Ryan Bridge (a local broadcaster).
Ryan Bridge is wondering where people’s shame went when it comes to breaking the rules. This is not the most important story that you will hear today, but it grinds my gears. It’s a small, seemingly insignificant event, but I think it speaks to two things that I absolutely hate about the world that we live in right now.
The opinion article is just a shit show from what sounds like a pretty horrible and privileged person.
Thinking you are above the rules is privilege and self entitlement.
Mindlessly accepting authority is far worse and leads to fascism.
You can choose not to go to the cinema. The options here aren’t “accept or disobey”.
You can entirely remove yourself from the situation, given the fact no-one is forcing you to go into their private premises.
Unlike actual fascism in a country where escaping the government is, at best, uprooting your entire life. Or worst, illegal / risking your life / impossible.
I’m on the side of business here. It’s private, their rules, etc. My comment was more a response to their appeal to authority.
it starts with skittles, and ends with a holocaust.
Also, if the rules say you get to charge 500% the MSRP on shitty junk food, I am allowed to steal your profits by not being an idiotic consumer.
There is a singular reason why theaters are struggling; their misunderstanding of the profits they should be generating.
The model has always been based on food sales from back in the early cinema days. Theaters have to pay a lot of money in fees to get the film reals, and tickets basically just offset that. To get a profit, it’s food.
The model has always been based on food sales from back in the early cinema days.
That was almost 100 years ago. If they haven’t updated their business model in a century idk what to tell you; the model is outdated and inadequate.
If your business model fails because I’m not stupid enough to pay $18 for a small bucket of popcorn, your business doesn’t deserve to exist 🤷
You can be mad at it, but that’s the way the corn pops, fella.
I download cams and haven’t paid for a movie ticket in over a decade. If they want me to buy tickets they can make movies that are worth the ticket value.
Maybe if that happens I’ll return to the theater to balk at the snack prices lmao.
I’m not sure why you’re taking exception with me for pointing out how an industry I have nothing to do with operates.
You can also just not get food lmao
Following dumb rules just because they are rules shows a lack of critical thinking skills
So what next, are they going to start going after people who fill up before they arrive at the theater? Going into the theater on a full stomach is theft, you should thank them for the overpriced food they slave over for you (or at least the hourly workers who are treated like slaves).
They don’t control the rules outside the theater. Suggesting there is some slippery slope from them not allowing outside food in the theater to them controlling your life before going is just absolutely absurd.
Oral surgeons already want you to fast for a time before going in. It’s only a matter of time before movie theaters make you do it too.
But they control rules of who comes in theater. At least in beastly capitalism they do.
Suggesting theaters are going to check people for a full stomach before entry is absurd stuff that should probably stay in the bounds of black mirror-esque science-fiction works.
them controlling your life before going is just absolutely absurd
This is why I assumed they were joking but everyone responding is being serious.
Poes law. But whether they are joking or not, you can read the other poster responding to me who seems to defend the claim.
On this post, someone said somthing like: well, your talking to a moron. And the guys name was “a moron”.
Poes law is just really strong on this post.
It’s funny because that was me and I was going along with what I thought was the joke there, although still poking fun at the a random idiot because they did say something stupid.
No, nothing is next. You can’t bring your own food in some places. It’s really not that hard.
This is not something that should involve the police.
They didn’t call the police on them for bringing food in, they called the police on them for refusing to leave.
Where I live it is pretty normal to openly bring your own food. You can bring whatever you want. Bring your own ice cream and cheese burgers for all they care.
They do sell some stuff, but its not overpriced.
A few years back, one cinema chain said they were going to stop allowing this. Then their competitor advertised that they still allow you to bring your own food in and then the first cinema chain backed off.
It’s become so expensive over here. We were out last week to watch the new Pixar movie. Tickets were 12€ per person (so 24€ for the two of us) and we’re eyeing nachos with a cheese dip and a medium drink to share. That would have added 20€ to the bill and we decided that was was just too much. I understand that ticket sales alone don’t keep the little cinema afloat, but 20€ for maybe half a bag of store-bought nacho chips and a drink that’s 95% tap water? Come on. 20€ is almost a cooked meal for two at an entry-level restaurant.
It’s probably a slight mistranslation so I don’t mean any offense but, I’m finding"entry-level restaurant" hilarious.
Imagine Alexander, who after years of hard work and dedication to his craft finally moves on to a professional level restaurant. On the way in he sees an overconfident novice kitted out in the newest gear, silk napkin smoldering at his side. Escaping from singed mustache hairs a rasp can be heard, “Don’t eat the fire… Don’t eat… The fire.”
“Poor guy never stood a chance, came here having never even seen a flambe?? I’ve trained for this, I’ve got this, I might not have the best gear but those forks and knives become a part of me when it’s time to dine”.
Alexander reassures him self, attempting to squelch the nerves steaming from his soul.
His teeth grit, hands clench, breath ceases for just a moment upon hearing the words.
“Do you have a reservation?”
Suddenly the seriousness of the situation struck Alexander, then with a cool confident sigh he knew he would succeed. No plate, bowl, or flaming pan would stop him.
Entry-level as in “lower price bracket”. Just one step above take-away food.
