Making concessions: What must you have?

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Personally, I'm incapable of sitting through a movie without a large buttered and salted popcorn.

I know, you have to take out a short term loan to buy a "large" anything in the cinema these days. And my daughters complain that my idea of "a little salt" on popcorn basically renders the stuff fit to serve as a stable storage area for nuclear waste. I tell them that I hate garden slugs like Indiana Jones hates snakes and the salt keeps them off my popcorn.

I've learned to do without soft drinks at the theater - I go for the bottled water, which is ridiculously priced as well but within reach.

So even if we get to the theater to see Abrams's Trek movie just as the opening credits roll, I know I'll have to get into the concession line to get my popcorn.

What will you be buying to eat at the theater on opening night?

If you were seeing the movie with Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, what do you think they'd buy?

Remember, they're rich. They can have all the Ju-ju-bes they like.

What about George Takei?

What about George Takei?

Discuss.

 

[trekkerguy]

Which is exactly why people show up early.
So they aren't standing in line when the movie starts.


And unless I've seen the movie before, nothing.
I'd rather focus on the film then have fun with concessions
the next few times around. Which would be heavily
buttered and salty popcorn along with a Cherry Coke.

Nimoy I think would get a bottle of water.
The Shat would get a chili dog.
GT would probably get Skittles.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Coke. There's something about the Coke at a movie theater that's divine. Oh, yeah and they have soda too.

Okay, lame joke. But yeah, Coca-Cola. It's a must.

 

[xortex]

If the movie sucks, that's gonna be the worst bag of popcorn I've had especially if I'm forced to think about how much it costed and how much salt is in it. I'll never have popcorn again.

 

[number6]

Popcorn with extra butter-flavoured, artifical soy product, sno-caps and a large Coke!

 

[Nerys Myk]

My wife will bring her big purse and we will stuff with all sorts of goodies.

 

[Brikar99]

I'm addicted to Sour Patch Kids.

 

[number6]

I'm addicted to Sour Patch Kids.

Perv!!

 

[Haytil]

If you think the food and drinks are too expensive, why don't you just bring in some candy and pop with you? Hide it in your coat, they don't check - and they might say "No outside food," but why should you care? If they can't compete with outside prices, they deserve to lose the income (and you don't deserve to pay an arm and a leg for it).

Though that won't help you with popcorn, as that's impractical to sneak in...

 

[Saul]

I'll buy a Cola, small size (U.S.) which is medium everywhere else. I won't buy any pop corn as I don't want to be distracted by food during the movie. I want to give it my full attention, so I'll have dinner or a large lunch of my favorite meal and some desert (cos it's a special occasion) before the movie.

Shatner will buy some candy bars. Nimoy bottled Water. Although I hope I'm not distracted by Shatner offering some sweets during the movie.
Takei will have to sit on the opposite side of me so as to keep him and Shatner apart during the movie. He'll probably have a choc ice of something.

 

[DaveyNY]

I always sneak in a bag of rice cakes (under my jacket or t-shirt) and the biggest package of Strawberry Twizzlers (stuffed into the waist-band of the back of my pants) I can find at the CVS Drug Store!

I usually buy a large lemonade or fruit punch there. (which I sip slowly so I don't have to run to take a leak just as the movie hits the climax!)

 

[PluckyNinja]

I always sneak in a bag of rice cakes (under my jacket or t-shirt) and the biggest package of Strawberry Twizzlers (stuffed into the waist-band of the back of my pants) I can find at the CVS Drug Store!

I usually buy a large lemonade or fruit punch there. (which I sip slowly so I don't have to run to take a leak just as the movie hits the climax!)

I HATE having to take a leak just as I'm about to climax.


...... I'll probably have a diet coke.

 

[DaveyNY]

I always sneak in a bag of rice cakes (under my jacket or t-shirt) and the biggest package of Strawberry Twizzlers (stuffed into the waist-band of the back of my pants) I can find at the CVS Drug Store!

I usually buy a large lemonade or fruit punch there. (which I sip slowly so I don't have to run to take a leak just as the movie hits the climax!)

I HATE having to take a leak just as I'm about to climax.


...... I'll probably have a diet coke.

Oh, just wait till ya get old.... Sometimes they feel the same!

 

[M'Sharak]

^



Small soda for me. Root beer, if they've got it.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Suddenly...I feel young.

 

[DaveyNY]

Suddenly...I feel young.

Sometimes you can fool yer wife/girlfriend...

Sometimes you can fool yourself...

But you can Never Fool Yer Prostate!!!

 

[Borgminister]

I always sneak in a bag of rice cakes (under my jacket or t-shirt) and the biggest package of Strawberry Twizzlers (stuffed into the waist-band of the back of my pants) I can find at the CVS Drug Store!

I usually buy a large lemonade or fruit punch there. (which I sip slowly so I don't have to run to take a leak just as the movie hits the climax!)

I HATE having to take a leak just as I'm about to climax.


...... I'll probably have a diet coke.

Oh, just wait till ya get old.... Sometimes they feel the same!

I thought there was separation of church and state?

Popcorn, Milk Duds and a Nathan's hot dog. If I've lost enough weight by that time, that is.

Otherwise, smuggled in Corn Nuts and a diet Coke in my long socks.

 

[Outpost4]

Pez,

being shot into my mouth by William Shatner.

 

[btflash]

an illegal substance!

 

[SalvorHardin]

I rarely get anything other that a small bottle of water when I watch a movie.
Sometimes I get some popcorn, but that's about it.