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Burnham
2,662 posts
128 months
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Waynester said: Burnham said: £2.50 per ticket at my local cinema, £3.50 at weekends. Still don't go as much as I like because of the yoofs talking all the time. My projector screen at home is bigger too, I can pause what I'm watching when I need a leak, and the company is far nicer too! How big is your screen then??? I just measured the image, and its 220cm from corner to corner, so about the same as a 88inch TV? I obviously sit a lot closer to it than I do the screen at the cinema though 
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djstevec
2,085 posts
43 months
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Not been to a multiplex Odeon/Vue type cinema in years to avoid the exact experience of the OP.
Used to be a member of the BFI on the South Bank in London and it was SO GOOD. interviews and Q&A sessions with writers/directors/editors of certain films prior to screening, "seasons" highlighting certain film genres or directors, and best of all RESPECT for the film and the viewers by everyone.
I've been to the IMAX just round the corner too, I actually found it quite a good place to watch the blockbuster Hollywood guff. Some of their "all nighter" screenings of LOTR or Star Wars would be fun to go see. But, there's plenty of small indy cinemas in London that mean you can avoid the Odeon crowd completely without much effort.
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g3org3y
Original Poster
6,861 posts
60 months
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vixen1700 said: g3org3y said: Cinema was the Odeon in Camden Town. I won't be going back in a hurry. So it's back open as a cinema then? Went to some pretty heavy-duty raves there in the mid-90s when it closed down as a cinema and was just a vacant building. Very heavy duty, bordering on the terrifying.  I think you might be thinking of Camden Palace (now Koko) at the end of Bayham Street which continues to be music/clubbing venue. Haven't been there since the uni days (brilliant times though...from what I can remember). The Odeon in question is on Parkway and to my knowledge has always been a cinema.
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g3org3y
Original Poster
6,861 posts
60 months
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steedy27 said: I agree regarding the ticket prices, I am going to be trying to use my student card forever! Wish that was possible. Tried that the scandalously priced Eden Project last year and got pulled up on the fact that it expired in 2008...I made some excuses about not bringing the new one.
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Council Baby
16,128 posts
59 months
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v8250 said: £100 to watch a film - you must be off your head. Yeah well, one way or another we all end up paying for sex  f  king ridiculous, I guess because it's 'IMAX' and almost always sold out they can charge what they like. Been there, done that now, never again. unless she asks very nicely
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steedy27
532 posts
59 months
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g3org3y said: Wish that was possible.
Tried that the scandalously priced Eden Project last year and got pulled up on the fact that it expired in 2008...I made some excuses about not bringing the new one. Haha thats going to be me when mine expires, do you still try to get the free McDonalds Cheeseburgers? that is what I am going to miss.
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vixen1700
6,467 posts
139 months
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g3org3y said: I think you might be thinking of Camden Palace (now Koko) at the end of Bayham Street which continues to be music/clubbing venue. Haven't been there since the uni days (brilliant times though...from what I can remember). The Odeon in question is on Parkway and to my knowledge has always been a cinema. No, it was the cinema in Parkway. As I said, it stopped being a cinema was empty for a while and there were various squat parties there, not an official venue in the slightest. I remember one time sitting in the stalls with my girlfriend listening to some trippy Hawkwind stuff, then downstairs there was one packed room with a constant stobe going and no other lighting with serious banging London acid techno playing.  Dogs on strings there too. This was early 1995. http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/...Scroll down to 'S' 
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Council Baby
16,128 posts
59 months
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vixen1700 said: No, it was the cinema in Parkway. As I said, it stopped being a cinema was empty for a while and there were various squat parties there, not an official venue in the slightest.
I remember one time sitting in the stalls with my girlfriend listening to some trippy Hawkwind stuff, then downstairs there was one packed room with a constant stobe going and no other lighting. Lots of dogs on strings.
This was early 1995. I was there for several of those Were you at the United Systems one where they were playing Star Wars in 3D in the cinema bit with the old foyer for the music?
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stuart-b
2,588 posts
95 months
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I have lived in Croatia for 18 months and I still love the Cinema. Granted I hated it in the UK. Just to add insult to injury, it costs me £3.50 to see a film on an average screen, £3.75 on a fully digital unit with epic sound, or £6 for the new IMAX which is 3 minutes down the road. A coke and popcorn is £2 No one talks, or gets up. I always get the perfect seat at IMAX by pre-ordering 2 hours in advance.  
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vixen1700
6,467 posts
139 months
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Council Baby said: I was there for several of those Were you at the United Systems one where they were playing Star Wars in 3D in the cinema bit with the old foyer for the music? f k knows! Just know the Liberators were at some of them. We were watching something on a screen, before we went into the totally mental strobe room. We were used to it but the Parkway raves stick in my mind as the most heavy duty.
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Council Baby
16,128 posts
59 months
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vixen1700 said: f k knows! Just know the Liberators were at some of them. We were watching something on a screen, before we went into the totally mental strobe room. We were used to it but the Parkway raves stick in my mind as the most heavy duty. Yep I'm pretty sure I was there too, as an aside Chris Liberator played at my 21st, good times!
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vixen1700
6,467 posts
139 months
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Council Baby said: Yep I'm pretty sure I was there too, as an aside Chris Liberator played at my 21st, good times! We must have gone to a lot of the same places. By the way my fave was Zebedee, great times when he played anywhere.
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iphonedyou
2,569 posts
26 months
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MX7 said: Sounds like b ks to me. If you want to keep it, buy the DVD/CD. Rather missed the point, surely.
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MX7
6,599 posts
43 months
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iphonedyou said: MX7 said: Sounds like b ks to me. If you want to keep it, buy the DVD/CD. Rather missed the point, surely. No, if you don't want DRM, don't buy it. Being a thief isn't the only alternative.
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Road2Ruin
2,724 posts
85 months
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Turn7 said: Welcome to Camerons Big Society..... You're not Ed Milliband are you? What on earth does a miserable trip to the cinema have to do with politics....
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Puggit
29,537 posts
117 months
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stuart-b said: I have lived in Croatia for 18 months and I still love the Cinema. Granted I hated it in the UK.
Just to add insult to injury, it costs me £3.50 to see a film on an average screen, £3.75 on a fully digital unit with epic sound, or £6 for the new IMAX which is 3 minutes down the road.
A coke and popcorn is £2
No one talks, or gets up. We are told that the UK cinemas must charge stupid amounts for food/drink as they don't make any money on the films. So are the film companies over-charging the cinemas?
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Mr Trophy
4,553 posts
72 months
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I am going to give the OP a 9.5/10 for that rant. One of the best one's I've read and made me chuckle too.
Could have used the C YOU NEXT TUESDAY more. However, well done!
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otherman
1,073 posts
34 months
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A good place to go to the pix if you don't like other dix spoiling your enjoyement is the one at the Lowry Salford Quays. Last couple of times we've been there have only been a dozen or so people in a 500 seater so you don't have to be near anyone.
I guess either it will close or fill up with those BBC types
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The Hitman
2,553 posts
79 months
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Replying to OP's post, not sure where the thread is (on topic or not) as can't be arsed to read 7 pages.
You went to the cinema on a Saturday? Avoid weekends like the plague, mid-week is the only time I'd consider going to the cinema.
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stuart-b
2,588 posts
95 months
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Puggit said: We are told that the UK cinemas must charge stupid amounts for food/drink as they don't make any money on the films. So are the film companies over-charging the cinemas? I have no idea but im watching the same movie on the same screen, drinking the same coke!
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