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[cleolinda]

Quick question, Brits: I have a line in the new parody that says, "ENGLISH AUDIENCE: I paid seven bucks to see this?" I think you can spot the obvious problem here. What's the basic, stereotypical full price for a movie in a British theater? (Feel free to use slang if you want.)

ETA: Keep in mind that this is for a movie that came out in 1995. We can lowball the number, is all I'm saying.

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[thespianpythia.livejournal.com]

Probably "I paid five quid to see this?" would be about right. Prices are a bit higher (say, six pounds) in big cities at peak times, but on average, five's a safe bet.

[paulgregory.livejournal.com]

Six quid scans better, especially as we'd tend to say "a fiver" instead of "five quid".

[talaria-now.livejournal.com]

Um, I have a kind of stupid question. What's the difference in a quid and a pound? Are the terms referring to the same dollar amount? Like an American saying, "5 bucks versus 5 dollars".

Just curious.

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

When I was living in London, it was about 6-8 quid ($11 - $15 US) to see a movie in a normal thater.

Anywhere from 10-12 quid ($19 to $22 US) for the really posh cinemas in Leicester Square.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Damn.

[p-tripp.livejournal.com]

Yup. I would definitely say six to eight "quid". You can also throw a "bollocks" in for good measure. ;)

[perrie.livejournal.com]

Bollocks to that mate, I could get a good fry up at the chippie for less than that!

Ah England, culturally magnificent as always.

[ewacat.livejournal.com]

Normally, in central London, £5.50 is student fare, £8 is adult, kids are something like £3.50. But that's one specific cinema.

£8 is your best bet, IMO.

[fiveforsilver]

Totally unrelated to the post, but your icon cracked me up!

[baggylettuce.livejournal.com]

Seven or eight quid sounds about right. (Ranging from a tenner in London to a coupla quid on cheap night in Newcastle.)

(Incidentally I would only ever say fiver, not five quid.)

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

While we're having a discussion of British movie prices, the prices in London are higher than elsewhere: I'd probably pay about a fiver to see a movie at most, and as little as three quid depending on time or place.

Basically, pick a number between three and eight quid at random, and it won't be outrageous. :)

[perrie.livejournal.com]

I can pay about 3 quid for a student ticket at Vue, but Odeon student tickets are still about a fiver; cheapskates. I'd say about £5 is your best bet.

[perardua.livejournal.com]

In 1995, I'm thinking about three or four quid unless you're in London.

[paulgregory.livejournal.com]

from http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/moneyweekly/1995prices.html

"… a cinema ticket +31%

Screen Digest, a media research consultancy, says the average cost of a UK cinema ticket was £3.43 in 1995, compared to £4.49 today. Tell that to the cinema bosses in Leicester Square."

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

* - For a long time, the British rejected decimalized currency as too complicated.

[cellardoor28.livejournal.com]

pratchett love :p

[ladyjp.livejournal.com]

I'm in Glasgow and I pay £3.50 for a student ticket. I don't think many Scottish people would say "quid", we do say "fiver" or "tenner" but not "could you lend me six quid" we would say "pounds" instead of quid. I think "quid" tends to be an English thing.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Psst. Icon!love. :)

Where did you get that picture?

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Totally OT, but did you know, there is a movie coming out called The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (http://www.livejournal.com/users/foresthouse/172426.html)??

Also see; Shawn Ashmore starring in his very own movie!!!

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've read the book. :D My sister is quite fond of the series.

[much-reality.livejournal.com]

"Five quid", I think, in that sentence. "A fiver" is fine as well.

(Obviously it depends where- but a big multiplex is around £5.99 now, so five would be bang on for a few years back.)

[much-reality.livejournal.com]

http://www.myvue.com/

This is our local multiplex's main site, if you're curious about release delays etc. as well.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

I pay about 4 pounds currently for the cinema. It was a little (but not much, IIRC) cheaper 10 years ago.

It's worth noting that cinema prices (like everything else) is much more expensive in London than in the rest of the country.

And can I put up a plea for it to be 'BRITISH AUDIENCE' rather than ENGLISH? The two aren't synonymous!

[exiledprincess.livejournal.com]

hee, i think i may have figured out which movie she's doing, and i *think* English might be correct. or appropriate. or whatever.

[litle-green-bag.livejournal.com]

i go to the cinema in birmingham city centre, main stream cinema i pay about £5.50 (actually pay £3.85- woohoo to student discount!!) indie/art house cinemas about £4

[cellardoor28.livejournal.com]

Current prices in Central London (ie Leicester Square) for an evening showing are abput £10-£11. Unless you go to the Apollo when it's about £15. Bastards.

[elfstones.livejournal.com]

Usually it's about £5.40. but the prices only stated going up recently. id think about 4 pound/quid would be about right.

[alysscarlet.livejournal.com]

In the West End of London in 1995 it would have cost about 'seven or eight quid' to see a movie (it's now over a tenner). Probably around a fiver elsewhere in the country....

[elanorkat.livejournal.com]

If I had paid to see a crappy film in a large London or South-East cinema, I'd be saying 'I paid six quid to see this?' and feeling pretty aggrieved.

But I see a lot of stuff on 'Orange Wednesdays' here in South Wales, as well as Cheap Tuesdays. Pay between £2.80 and £3.50. In that scenario, it would be more a case of 'I spent two hours of my life on this crap?'

:-)

[4492.livejournal.com]

WTF?! "between 3 and 8 quid"?! 3 QUID?!! OK, where is this miricale place that honours cinema so much? I need to move there. As a poor student, sans job, I cant afford to go and see films anymore *boohoo* so I have to wait for the DVD form.

Where I live (Dunstable) the closest cinema is in Luton and it costs 2 quid to GET there on the bus and six quid (five with NUS discount) on every other day but tuesday when its about 4.50 i think, for a ticket. Sad thing is that I have to do work experience on tuesdays and no one wants to wait for me to finish working so we can go as a group. So basically it costs me a tenner to go to see a film.

*Is sad*....yeah, I'll shut up....IF YOU PAY ME!! *cough*

[lizzyrose89.livejournal.com]

I'd say six or seven quid (definitely not bucks) is about right - it's £6.50 at my local cinema.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Back in 1995 it was £3.80 to use my local cinema (I should know, I worked there). Never again will I work in one. It's not all it's cracked up to be.

[hawleygriffen.livejournal.com]

For 1995? I think 4 or 5 quid would do. As you can see from above comments, there's going to be differing of opinion on the 'average' price no matter what you put in.

[istoo.livejournal.com]

Just making a comment as I'm in britland. Least I know that I'm not the only one that thinks the prices are expensive and don't watch that many films at the cinemas. And I can't even remember that far back.

[azdaja-dafema.livejournal.com]

Adult prices are huge now.. *on verge of having to pay them* *cry* Yeah, now,it's probably... £7.50, or a tenner (£10) if you buy coke and popcorn. Then,. probably, £6

[azdaja-dafema.livejournal.com]

(In London suburbs) I don't even want to think about the city.
Quid isn't really used much now, a fiver is more common