Comments on: SCENE Canada: FREE Screening of “The Hangover” on February 10, 2010

By: nevs

nevs — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:59:45 +0000

that is so sad about the greedy people! Although I LOVE popcorn, I can eat a large or more all to myself and would honestly use all 4 tickets and get myself 4 popcorns! Although I’d give the tickets out to people waiting in line. Anyways, I saw The Hangover when it was out in theatres, loved it, saw it for free because I worked at a Cineplex so didn’t really feel the need to see it for free — again. I called my former theatre the night before the movie (Scotiabank theatre, Toronto) to see if they knew what was in the goodie bags (that intrigued me the most about this whole deal). They said they didn’t know because they weren’t getting the goodie bags in till the morning of.
So, clearly not all theatres gave them out in advance, most gave them to the people in line. Maybe one theatre made a small mistake but oh well, 100 people got goodie bags and that’s great!

@Julie — I sincerely doubt that the goodie bags went home with the employees. a package of microwavable popcorn, a mouse-pad and 5 PRE-PICKED songs!? We get popcorn for free at Cineplex, and I don’t think employees would be stealing from customers over 5 pre-picked songs and a mousepad, and personally, I’m a little insulted you would write such an accusing thing.

By: Suzy Q

Suzy Q — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:47:01 +0000

We went last night, it was good.

I was really disappointed with some of the greedy people though. There were empty seats when the movie was supposed to be “sold out” because some people said they needed 2 tickets when they only needed 1. I guess that was the people with two bags of popcorn each.

By: jopava

jopava — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:23:13 +0000

Always someone has to complaint for something even free or paying for it!! get over with!!

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:41:48 +0000

@Justine
The goodie bags were supposed to be handed out to the first 100 people IN LINE for the movie. They were not for the first 100 who picked up tickets. We watched as the goodie bags were handed out to those who were willing to stand in line 2 hours prior to the show, while I decided to walk around the mall and not worry about it. Good on them.

It is unfair that the bags were handed out early. Overall though, we had an awesome time and didn’t pay anything for it. No complaints here.

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:36:23 +0000

freestuffforme — you can join the mailing list (to the right) and you will get notifications every time something new is posted on the blog I think. I posted about this on the blog in January and just bumped it for the day of the deal.

By: freestuffforme

freestuffforme — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:21:54 +0000

Darn, I missed it! I wish I had seen this blog post before now! Oh well, I saw it on DVD and I did enjoy it.

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:12:02 +0000

@Julie — are you calling me illiterate?

You were lucky that you were even let in, when you only arrived 45 minutes before the movie started. Maybe you should check the blog post where I said it was the first 100 people and you were clearly not one of the 100 arriving at the time. Maybe you should ebay for the goodie bag if it means that much to you, or trade with someone on the forum lol.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:53:10 +0000

@honeydoo.…Yes, I am going to complain about hte goodie bags. They should not have been given out the day before. Fair is fair. Many others besides me were complaining.

@Justine…if you read my post (illiterate much?), I did say in my last sentence that I was grateful for the movie and popcorn.

By: leeda08

leeda08 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:57:56 +0000

Just got back from the movie:)
2hrs of hilarious movie was good.
There were about 50 bags when I got there,
so my mom and I got one..
My dad was late by a minute and didn’t get it!
Umm the popcorn was good!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:15:06 +0000

We had a blast! Too bad the theater only had one girl in the ticket booth and we were lined up around the building and it was cold, windy and rainy! We spent 30 min in line for tickets and 15 min in line for our free popcorn! But it was good and a great free date night! We got one goodie bag per scene card so it was nice to get one!

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:41:19 +0000

@Julie — you’re going to complain after they let you see a movie for free? c’mon.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:32:29 +0000

At our theatre they handed out the goodie bags at the theatre (screen) door, so it was the first 100 into the theatre not the first 100 to get tickets. I loved the movie. Very funny. Hubby and I bought enough treats to make up for the free tickets though!

By: honeydoo

honeydoo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:27:26 +0000

“The first 100 members will also receive a FREE Scene bag full of goodies!”

^guess you weren’t one of the first 100 members..complaining seems unwarranted.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:56:18 +0000

Hubs and I arrived at 6:15 pm for the only showing (7:00 movie) at New,market Silver City. They had sold out of goodie bags…YESTERDAY!!! THAT ticked me off! One lady in front of us complained that she arrived at 1:00 today and they were sold out THEN! Something tells me the goodie bags went home with the employees. I might have to write Scene and complain. I AM grateful for the free movie and popcorn, but the goodie bag deal was totally unfair.

By: md99an

md99an — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:48:18 +0000

just got back from it and it was good funnier on teh big screen than it was when i rented it for some reason…the goodie bag consisted of a package o’ popcorn, computer mouse pad, 5 free song downloads (pre-picked songs), buy 1 get 1 free popcorn package coupon and a coupon for 3$ off a movie at the cinpeplex store…good times…

By: CarlyinCanada

CarlyinCanada — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:20:41 +0000

We rented it & it very funny!

By: leeda08

leeda08 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:12:37 +0000

Heh heh I just got 4 tickets for my family with my mom
I called mine in advance and checked the hour it opens
Will be heading out after early dinner;)

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:17:51 +0000

Love this movie! I tried to go early today but they aren’t open until 5:45 so we will be there at 5:45 lol.

By: jen

jen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:56:41 +0000

@Justine, I second your comment! This movie is hilarious. I ain’t rolling in dough but I can roll in for free with my scene card for pop corn and a goodies bag! (leaving very soon)

By: Miss_April

Miss_April — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:45:59 +0000

Why not go?? Its a free movie and a coupon for free popcorn and you may even get a goodie bag. seems better than free candles to me.