As they don't want you to take food in with you, and some places will prevent you from bringing outside food they are charging what the can not what is fair market. If they even had to compete with candy kiosks in the same malls they would be over priced.

What's the big deal. Really. It is part of the expense of going out. How about passing some real laws that help people save money when it is really needed?

If you don't like the price of popcorn/soda/snacks at the theatre... make it at home and bring it! Easy fix. The extra money is a charge for convenience.

Isn't there something important for the MK's to be attending to? Like an impending war or terrorism???

reheated up popcorn at the Lyric Theater in Tucson where I worked as a teenager and the high prices. The drink cups are counted to prevent employees from sampling the sodas. So what the assistant manager at the Lyric would do when he had friends to the theater was to give them sodas for the show pro bono and then collect the cups and put them back on the stack of cups to sell to other customers. I'd pick a cup from the bottom of the stack and there would be driplets of dark soda stuck to the sides. So I would pull another cup out to fill for a customer and it was the same. Another and another and another until finally there was a clean paper cup. It was all so disgusting, the months old popcorn in huge bags from Los Angeles, reheated for customers who thought it was fresh, and then the dirty drinking cups. So I got another job. The Fox Theater is still there on Congress Street, but the Lyric was torn down in an urban renewal project. It was bad then, but nowadays, there are fatal diseases that can be contracted from sharing paper cups with previous customers. Caveat emptor.

I never buy snacks at cinemas for that very reason. However, I daresay it's hard for parents to refuse kids. On the other hand, it's well known that when you buy these snacks at 'concessions' - fairs and other places - they are expensive. either don't buy or take something with you! And I don't mean q hole picnic. A bag of bamba or something for kids, inside another bag, should pass inspection by security.

A law on banning the use of cell phones or annoying gossiping would have been more useful!! Don't these idiotic people know how cinema operators make money?

Those who go to the movies must know what the costs are, and decide for themselves what to buy. And lowering concession prices will just raise ticket prices, so even fewer people will go out to the movies. Government regulation of entertainment prices smacks of the fully discredited policies of the old Soviet Union, so perhaps MK Shama should defect to the Communist Party instead of embarrassing the Likud with his stupid idea.

And coca cola cups stuffed in the pockets of our fat friend :) What annoys me most is that people leave their garbage in the cinema, the floor is littered with popcorn. And the idiotic management doesn't even try to help them throw the garbage - there are no garbage cans anywhere!

They really take things seriously. Unfortunately they take stupid things seriously and serious things stupidly!!

More people rent or buy a DVD due to the price of a ticket. The extra for the food is merely another expense to the evening out.

I know there are plenty of Russians in Israel but this is not the Soviet Union so we don't need Soviet style government.. Going to the cinema & buing popcorn is a luxury not something life depends on. If the cinema goers thing the popcorn is to expensive then they can refuse to buy and vote with their wallets not in the Knesset. If the Knesset have so much time on their hands they want to debate popcorn prices then how about spending more time thinking about how to deal with Iran or stop Obama from trying to take Jerusalem from us .Thats business the Knesset are supposed to be in not the popcorn one.

In the Viet Nam War, ice in sodas was poisoned to kill US soldiers. Buying an expensive soda in a theater is like Russian Roulette because you don't know what is in the ice besides water or even if it is purified water. I have been poisoned in resaurants and other places many times. Maybe it is food allergies in part, but I keep heavy metal fecal test kits to send in to a lab on a doctor's prescription. I have learned much from that. I have been poisoned and some had to be deliberate since it was so unusual. When I get sick, I detox the poison with 4 activated charcoal capsules opened into water before drinking, plus a lot of other things to get the poison out of my body. But the hair is like the rings of a tree and tell you what the body has been poisoned with for the time it took the length of hair to grow out. Heavy metal fecal tests are a more immediate indicator of what the poison was. I go by the symptoms after eating at restaurants or theaters or even the home of a friend which was shocking. A lawyer and I were poisoned together (both had coffee at Starbuck's in Hanford, California so we were both poisoned.) Some of the poisons have been thorium radioactive isotopes most often used in dentistry glue, arsenic, lead (from Hershey's chocolate), mercury, platinum (chemo when I did not take chemo), cadmium (when I don't smoke), uranium (after being in jail for a night on a false accusation so prisoners in California are poisoned with uranium or I was targeted to be poisoned), benzene, nickel (can cause cancer), aluminum sulfate (at a Wendy's in Cortez, Colorado that was put into a Frosty's shake a few years ago), etc. Each poison was connected to a particular place and/or product. So eating out is not something that is inviting to do for me and I decline people's invitations to eat at their homes since an enemy might have bribed them to poison me. When people give me food I say thank you and then throw it away when out of sight. That is just the heavy metal poisons. Then there are the infectious wee beasties I have been poisoned with and I think some of the attacks were deliberate. Parasites in a fish and rice dinner at a hotel in Belize, bird flu virus on eucharist wafers at St. Peter's Roman Catholic church in Lemoore, California that was causing black lung bird flu deaths in 24 hours. I knew the hospital would not know what to do when immune boosters made the infection worse because bird flu is a cytokine storm that is inflamed by immune boosters. I knew death was near because other people in that church had died in 24 hours from being well to being dead in the Spring of 2006. Finally, I found what worked since I did not know then about the Israeli studies on Sambucol elderberry syrup for stopping avian or bird flu. Pepto bismol, an ancient anti-viral and anti-bacterial, 12 tablets in divided doses daily for three days stopped it. The wafer burned my tongue and then there was a salty heavy metal test and a benzene taste. It was dissolved before I could spit it out. There was a pain in my liver shortly after that and then the kidneys, so I took activated charcoal and when infectious symptoms started, I took immune boosters. It took two doses of the poisoned wafers a week apart to trigger the cytokine storm of bird flu. I could not believe it the first time I was poisoned, so I went back on a Saturday the following week and was poisoned again. The police would not even investigate the unusual deaths there and then I was targeted by the police with false charges to shut me up. When a policeman (Jason Cody of Lemoore Police Department) beat me up calling me a dirty Jew and trying to kill me on my front porch and then came back a week later to attack my husband and tear the house apart, calling us Nazi killers, you get an idea of what life is like for Messianic Jews in California. So beware of popcorn and ice in sodas in theaters. It may be the last thing you ever eat.

A lot of New York theaters won't allow you to bring your own food. So, unless you can manage to hide it by cramming it into your pants pockets, you'd better be prepared to have it confiscated or you have the option of leaving the theater. I know there was even a court case against a theater on Long Island over the refusal of the theater to allow patrons to bring their own food because it's a big money-maker for the theaters.

the thieving banks.

to ridiculous popcorn prices. Don't buy any!

I think MK Shama is way overpriced himself if his main concern is popcorn. He should be paid 'peanuts'. How about dealing with real problems like water, or poverty, --all neglected by his party which bought its way into power with a lot more money than a box of popcorn.