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Cineworld Closing
this was inevitable, and not just because of covid, streaming has taken over sadly.
but i do think they could have...say for example had double or even triple bill films
of classics, plenty of trilogies, and for me old black n white classics, and hot besides hot dogs
and popcorn, and maybe even beer wine etc..certainly get me out.
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but i do think they could have...say for example had double or even triple bill films
of classics, plenty of trilogies, and for me old black n white classics, and hot besides hot dogs
and popcorn, and maybe even beer wine etc..certainly get me out.
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I lament the demise of the drive in cinema. You could have one or two viewers in the car (that paid) and many hiding in the trunk/boot. Watch the movie with a crappy speaker attached to your window and indulge with what ever you didn't have to buy from their overpriced shops.
07:41 Tue 06th Oct 2020
I love the cinema, maybe its a generational thing - I remember when there were no videos, or streaming, you saw a film at the cinema, or waiting a minimum of two years, sometimes as much as five, before it came on TV.
I can still remember the sheer sensory impact of seeing Star Wars in 1977, it was just immense, you can't do that at home.
One thing I do miss is the respect for others that has gone now - these days people really do act as though they are at home, chatting, munching, getting up to go to the loo ten times - but I still do enjoy the experience, and hopefully will again.
I can still remember the sheer sensory impact of seeing Star Wars in 1977, it was just immense, you can't do that at home.
One thing I do miss is the respect for others that has gone now - these days people really do act as though they are at home, chatting, munching, getting up to go to the loo ten times - but I still do enjoy the experience, and hopefully will again.
Tenet, a top new release with a top director ... hardly anybody turned up to watch it.
The latest Bond film, release just delayed for a second time. Now scheduled for around a year after it was originally due.
Likewise with many recent releases. If Tenet couldn't do well, nothing will, especially as lockdowns are only headed one way at present.
It's easy to see why Cineworld has reached the conclusion it has.
Odeon's approach, only opening at the weekends, would have been an alternative.
The latest Bond film, release just delayed for a second time. Now scheduled for around a year after it was originally due.
Likewise with many recent releases. If Tenet couldn't do well, nothing will, especially as lockdowns are only headed one way at present.
It's easy to see why Cineworld has reached the conclusion it has.
Odeon's approach, only opening at the weekends, would have been an alternative.
I don't think it's a generational thing, andy - I haven't been to a cinema since 1998 (Elizabeth, with Cate Blanchett) not because I don't like films, but because I hate the thought of having to sit amid a bunch of people eating, drinking, texting, chatting etc etc
But I love going to the theatre where not only are the audiences more respectful of others, but you have to do a bit of work; you have to participate in the event, and I like that and find I get much more out of the experience. I used to go a lot before I moved out of London, and it's one of the main things I miss.
But I love going to the theatre where not only are the audiences more respectful of others, but you have to do a bit of work; you have to participate in the event, and I like that and find I get much more out of the experience. I used to go a lot before I moved out of London, and it's one of the main things I miss.
I am going with the consensus that movies theaters are unpleasant places to go due to other peoples’ inconsiderate behavior.
But I am old, and I remember being young and they were great places for young people to go and ‘hide’ in the dark.
But as I said earlier, a theater release is part of the process of recouping the cost of a movie to make, so when it is safe again, it will return.
But I am old, and I remember being young and they were great places for young people to go and ‘hide’ in the dark.
But as I said earlier, a theater release is part of the process of recouping the cost of a movie to make, so when it is safe again, it will return.
I agree that other people can be distracting, but... there's still something about the big screen impact that can beat watching it on the tellie/laptop etc.
Also, at least a couple of times I've been to an Imax showing (pre-Covid) when I was the only one in the theatre. So then you get all of the excitement of big screen with none of the annoyance of others.
Also, at least a couple of times I've been to an Imax showing (pre-Covid) when I was the only one in the theatre. So then you get all of the excitement of big screen with none of the annoyance of others.
tell you what I'd love to see the classics on the big screen but there are so many things that put me off. For one thing mobile phones should be banned but I digress. The problem now is, as YMB says above, all going out experiences have been made all but unbearable by the Covidiocy and the jobsworths that are loving it.
“these days people really do act as though they are at home, chatting, munching, getting up to go to the loo ten times“
Going to the Saturday cinema where you watched a cartoon before the main feature and perhaps the only time you watched programmes in colour! The cinema was rammed and raucous, food everywhere, ice cream and popcorn lobbed from 10 rows back, kids screaming and shouting across to their mates (or the good looking girls), the occasional fight.
It was a weekly event we all looked forward to in the 70s and 80s. In my experience it’s not just ‘these days’.
Going to the Saturday cinema where you watched a cartoon before the main feature and perhaps the only time you watched programmes in colour! The cinema was rammed and raucous, food everywhere, ice cream and popcorn lobbed from 10 rows back, kids screaming and shouting across to their mates (or the good looking girls), the occasional fight.
It was a weekly event we all looked forward to in the 70s and 80s. In my experience it’s not just ‘these days’.
jim: "lso, at least a couple of times I've been to an Imax showing (pre-Covid) when I was the only one in the theatre. So then you get all of the excitement of big screen with none of the annoyance of others. " - yep the last film I saw in a cinema was "spectre" - I tend to go only for the new Bond these days. I always try and pick a time when least people will go, less annoying little yobbos who spend the entire film on twitface.
People worry about cinema employees but spare a thought for the popcorn miners, working day and night in cramped conditions to free the delicacy from mother Earth and bring it to a bucket on your lap.
And you all have the cheek to moan about the price of this luxury item.
The cola wells of the Antarctic are another. Honestly, you'd think that £5.00 beverage was just some fizzy water and a smidge of post-mix syrup delivering a four figure markup the way some go on.
Neither of these appear by magic and have a human cost.
I used to think cinemas were robbing us blind, taking us for complete morons until I looked into the supply chain.
It makes you think.
And you all have the cheek to moan about the price of this luxury item.
The cola wells of the Antarctic are another. Honestly, you'd think that £5.00 beverage was just some fizzy water and a smidge of post-mix syrup delivering a four figure markup the way some go on.
Neither of these appear by magic and have a human cost.
I used to think cinemas were robbing us blind, taking us for complete morons until I looked into the supply chain.
It makes you think.
Trevor - // “these days people really do act as though they are at home, chatting, munching, getting up to go to the loo ten times“
Going to the Saturday cinema where you watched a cartoon before the main feature and perhaps the only time you watched programmes in colour! The cinema was rammed and raucous, food everywhere, ice cream and popcorn lobbed from 10 rows back, kids screaming and shouting across to their mates (or the good looking girls), the occasional fight.
It was a weekly event we all looked forward to in the 70s and 80s. In my experience it’s not just ‘these days’. //
The behaviour to which you refer was reserved for the Saturday morning riots of kids' showings - the adults did behave with more decorum, and that is what has altered in modern times.
Going to the Saturday cinema where you watched a cartoon before the main feature and perhaps the only time you watched programmes in colour! The cinema was rammed and raucous, food everywhere, ice cream and popcorn lobbed from 10 rows back, kids screaming and shouting across to their mates (or the good looking girls), the occasional fight.
It was a weekly event we all looked forward to in the 70s and 80s. In my experience it’s not just ‘these days’. //
The behaviour to which you refer was reserved for the Saturday morning riots of kids' showings - the adults did behave with more decorum, and that is what has altered in modern times.
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