Poll: The Cinema
Total Members Polled: 201
Discussion
The cinema was fun, back in the days. It probably wasnt, but memories of a dozen friends and half time food girls (they had boobs, which were incredible, as we were too young to have female friends with inflated mammories back then)... Nope, other than happy memories as a youngster, I can honestly say I don't like it.
Home theatre please.
The more I go to the cinema, the more I realise I don't like it, intrigued all the while as to why it seemed such an exciting and enjoyable treat as a youngster. Bleurghh... Don't mind if I never go again, thanks!
Home theatre please.
The more I go to the cinema, the more I realise I don't like it, intrigued all the while as to why it seemed such an exciting and enjoyable treat as a youngster. Bleurghh... Don't mind if I never go again, thanks!
I go to the cinema maybe 2 or 3 times a year for films that I have been waiting for that I know will really benefit from the whole huge screen and big sound think.
Mind you, we have something called Gold Class here where there are only 42 people in the cinema and the seats are like the old business class airline recliners, and you get table service for food and booze as you watch, so even when I do go to the cinema I don't join the great unwashed ...
( damn I sound like a snob!)
Mind you, we have something called Gold Class here where there are only 42 people in the cinema and the seats are like the old business class airline recliners, and you get table service for food and booze as you watch, so even when I do go to the cinema I don't join the great unwashed ...
( damn I sound like a snob!)
it's very much dependent on the film and the cinema imo.
there are a handful of films each year i want to see at the cinema, so if i do i'll make it an event by going to a proper cinema - somewhere like electric cinema in portobello, cornerhouse in manchester, showroom in sheffield etc. atmosphere, comfy seats, a bar with proper food for before and after the film, no yoofs chatting throughout. a full night out, not just part of one.
the only chain cinemas i like are showcase in leeds [great seats] and thefilmworks in manchester [huge screens, great sound]. i used to work at thefilmworks mcr and all others seem a but crap when you get used to watching films there. the odeon local to me in the uk has a screen that most living rooms could rival.
there are a handful of films each year i want to see at the cinema, so if i do i'll make it an event by going to a proper cinema - somewhere like electric cinema in portobello, cornerhouse in manchester, showroom in sheffield etc. atmosphere, comfy seats, a bar with proper food for before and after the film, no yoofs chatting throughout. a full night out, not just part of one.
the only chain cinemas i like are showcase in leeds [great seats] and thefilmworks in manchester [huge screens, great sound]. i used to work at thefilmworks mcr and all others seem a but crap when you get used to watching films there. the odeon local to me in the uk has a screen that most living rooms could rival.
XJSJohn said:
I go to the cinema maybe 2 or 3 times a year for films that I have been waiting for that I know will really benefit from the whole huge screen and big sound think.
Mind you, we have something called Gold Class here where there are only 42 people in the cinema and the seats are like the old business class airline recliners, and you get table service for food and booze as you watch, so even when I do go to the cinema I don't join the great unwashed ...
( damn I sound like a snob!)
you posted as i was typing, but i agree. some films i just know will impress on a big screen [i think the last i watched was inception, and the visuals were the main draw given the wonky plot!]. i want to drink beer during the film and not have my arse go numb after an hour!Mind you, we have something called Gold Class here where there are only 42 people in the cinema and the seats are like the old business class airline recliners, and you get table service for food and booze as you watch, so even when I do go to the cinema I don't join the great unwashed ...
( damn I sound like a snob!)
XJSJohn said:
we have something called Gold Class here where there are only 42 people in the cinema and the seats are like the old business class airline recliners, and you get table service for food and booze as you watch, so even when I do go to the cinema I don't join the great unwashed ...
( damn I sound like a snob!)
You're not coming across as being a snob... I detest the great unwashed, too. I'd rather pay seven pounds to blast them with a firehose ( damn I sound like a snob!)
I've not tried the above, if I did it would be a last ditch effort.
I'll bet my bedroom speakers and sound setup would be criticised by the folks on AV forums on technicalities I don't really give a s
t about (which is why I don't read av forums ) but I'd also wager the home experience (from my seat) is superior to the cinema. I can:
Smoke
Drink
Execute a jump-fart
Eat
Pause
Pause again for a piss
Pause once more to explain how pauses are necessary (to the GF)
Allow X rated acts to be performed on me
Vomit out the window on rare occasions, if need be
The cinema sucks like a dyson. I'd be willing to try your business class seat setup, though.
ETA: I should also add, Ive never been to a proper cinema, in lieu of the above. Just the uncomfy arse numbing ones with no beer, no swivelling seats, and regular seating for ten trillion orks.
Edited by Mobsta on Tuesday 11th October 07:21
I love the cinema, love film. Used to go once a week but hardly ever go now. The best cinema I have been was the old Odeon (must have been a theatre had a sweeping multi layered auditorium and lots of leg room), one monster screen, two diddy ones. Modern multiplexes have such small screens in comparison, the price of squeezing 10 screens into a building. I miss intermissions and the ice cream girl, just all seems a bit crappy now in comparison in if the choice now is awesome with ben and jerrys, whereas in the old days you had a tub of white ice cream, those squeezy soft drinks and the pyramid ice thingy.
Cinemas?
Oh, you mean those fast food restaurant chains with rows of seats packed full of noisy, troughing, munching, slurping, loud talking, fidgeting 'orrible people, and a film on in the background which no one appears to be interested in anyway as they're too busy eating, talking and arsing about.
I understand the business need, there's no money to be made in showing films, so they have to be a fast food chain primarily, a cinema second.
Oh, you mean those fast food restaurant chains with rows of seats packed full of noisy, troughing, munching, slurping, loud talking, fidgeting 'orrible people, and a film on in the background which no one appears to be interested in anyway as they're too busy eating, talking and arsing about.
I understand the business need, there's no money to be made in showing films, so they have to be a fast food chain primarily, a cinema second.
Balmoral Green said:
Cinemas?
Oh, you mean those fast food restaurant chains with rows of seats packed full of noisy, troughing, munching, slurping, loud talking, fidgeting 'orrible people, and a film on in the background which no one appears to be interested in anyway as they're too busy eating, talking and arsing about.
I understand the business need, there's no money to be made in showing films, so they have to be a fast food chain primarily, a cinema second.
Oh, you mean those fast food restaurant chains with rows of seats packed full of noisy, troughing, munching, slurping, loud talking, fidgeting 'orrible people, and a film on in the background which no one appears to be interested in anyway as they're too busy eating, talking and arsing about.
I understand the business need, there's no money to be made in showing films, so they have to be a fast food chain primarily, a cinema second.
True.
Pick 'n' mix in them there places is dearer than platinum
At the Everyman minichain, it is a pleasure to go to the cinema.
Anywhere else, with sticky floors, wheelie bin-sized buckets of pop-corn and pepsi and kids on their mobiles, it is Hell.
Anywhere else, with sticky floors, wheelie bin-sized buckets of pop-corn and pepsi and kids on their mobiles, it is Hell.
My Local,
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/20...
Scotlands oldest cinema.
Beers during the film and a great HD screen and surround system that blows away most others I have been to.
Alternativley pop through to the Grovesnor cinema in Glasgow.
http://www.grosvenorcafe.co.uk/index.php
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/20...
Scotlands oldest cinema.
Beers during the film and a great HD screen and surround system that blows away most others I have been to.
Alternativley pop through to the Grovesnor cinema in Glasgow.
http://www.grosvenorcafe.co.uk/index.php
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