General Chat

We go to the cinema regularly and over time I have decided that I really do not like it very much.

Last night we went to one of the local multi screen cinemas, there is a wide variety of films showing something for almost everyone.

My complaints are:-

The foyers do not look inviting, rubbish just left on the floor when there are plenty of rubbish bins.

Having to stand in the same queue to buy tickets where food is also being sold, this takes ages when people are deciding what they want to eat.
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People buying loads and loads of hot and cold food, absolutely huge bags of Popcorn and massive hot dogs

People getting up during the film to go and purchase additional food/drinks

People sitting around me munching, slurping, rustling papers without regard for those sitting near them

The smell of hot food.

People sitting around me talking throughout the film and using text on mobile phones!!!

People leaving their rubbish on the floor when leaving after the film

Some of the music is ear-blasting

No usherettes to keep check on what is going on

However I do welcome NO SMOKING ______________________________________________________________

Compare and contrast:

The manager was always around
Cinema was always clean
Small box of chocolates (if you were lucky)
Ice cream during the interval
Usherettes with a torch keeping watchful eye

Perhaps I just like living in the past
;-)

Know what you mean Paula. Its not just in cinemas though, if you look around you when out and about, litter everywhere, dog doo everywhere.!! Plenty of bins around, but not sure many people know what they're for. :-|

Sue :-)

Edit. people eating everywhere. Even in Dr.s surgery people eating sausage rolls and pies.

Alternatively get a decent tv or monitor and a sub to NetFlix et al. Or if you are tight fisted go here: http://www.qbittorrent.org/

Being one of a bunch of Essex boys our local cinema our local ushers and usherettes soon learnt where to put their torches and to leave the riff-raff at the back to their own devices. They also remembered who to serve first with the choc ices.

Why anybody would want to go through the pain and parking problems of the average multiscreen with its oh so average movies is beyond me - you can't even get a drink at most of them and if you do the fuzz are waiting with baited breathalyers a half mile down the road. OTOH there is something of a revival of small art cinemas which is very welcome and a better use for the building than yet another poundland or betting shop.

being a wearer of hearing aids which are digital, any rustle of paper near me can completely obliterate the words on the film. The aids are so sensitive and magnify the rustle of a crisp packet enormously. But why do people have to eat in there, no wonder we are an overweight society. I think a drink is fine but hot food is (like hot food served on aircraft) a nauseating smell. :-)

Agree with Rollo re the smaller arts cinemas. Our local one is very good, having a small cafe area, where people can meet before the film and chat, and the atmosphere is warm and friendly.

;-)

Rollo The one thing that our local Multi screen cinemas seem to have aplenty is parking.

We are very lucky living so near to Birmingham we have many small specialist cinemas and theaters, they are very different to Mult screen. Stylish and comfortable you are seated on comfy sofas and allowed to take a glass of wine in with you. They are a bit more expensive but worth it, however, but do not always show the current films.

I just don't like watching films. Rarely watch one on the television, certainly am very reluctant to spend money, and so much money, to watch one.

In my teens I used to go to the cinema but can't pretend to have watched the film.

They had Payne's Poppets in Aldi the other week. If there was a place tobuy those triangular sort of shaped frozen orange drinks there would be no reason at all to go to the cinema.

Sharron. It used to be an "occasion" to go to the cinema. Do you remember the way it was?

A few adverts from Pearl & Dean, Forthcoming attractions, Pathe News,
The B Movie, then the interval with ice cream, and then settle down for the main movie. Everyone stood at the end for the National Anthem.

Was the triangular shaped orange ice called Jubbly (sp) my sister loved those her lips would be frozen purple when she finished eating them <3

And you could go in anytime and see the film right round again if you wanted. :-D

Dropping stuff off the balcony.

In those days you would probably have to wait forever to see the film on the television but there have only been two films in the last twenty years that I have thought I might not mind watching if I had something to do at the same time.

They were on the television within a couple of years.

Too true.........discarded litter doesn't self generate

it is PEOPLE that make litter, I just cant understand passers by dropping things on the floor while within a few paces is some ones wheelie bin........or a bin on a post. sheer bloody laziness and lack of consideration for ones surroundings...........

Bob

Actually I got that wrong............it is lack of consideration for OTHER peoples surroundings..........
Bob

We have a cinema that has been going Donkey's years and they have an OAP afternoon which is only £4 and for that you can have tea/coffee and biscuits.

I go to the OAP afternoon as there is NO rubbish,no yelling/screaming kids and no-one chatters through the film.

Peace and it's lovely.

I used to work at the self and same cinema back in the 60's as an usherette..

So you can walk backwards then?

Well. she probably could then ;-)

I agree though Sue - it's such a pleasure to go to the cinema in the afternoon - no riff raff :-)

Like Sharon, I don't tend to watch films - even on TV.
I have a few DVD's of films - some unopened.
Any DVD's (Spot, Bob the Builder etc) I have are only watched by my grandchildren.
One that is watched regularly - by my 11 year old grand daughter (when her younger brothers are in bed) is 'Life of Brian' - she loves it - and doesn't repeat the swear words (that I'd forgotten were in it!!!)
With 2 younger brothers, male nudity means nothing to her :-D

I try to get her to watch 'The King's Speech' (still unopened) with me, by telling her that her g granddad was his chef - but she seems to realise it's not funny.

Oh well, I know the elder of her brothers will watch it with me one day....

We can't be bothered going to the cinema these days.

The usual problems, sometimes can't get a park near, people talking & texting, kids who kick the back of your seat, chomping of food & slurping of drinks...... and more!

Usually the movies are out on dvd a couple of months later, so we wait, then watch it in the comfort of home!

We splashed out last year & got a BIG tv (in time for the Olympics) not a monster size, but it's big enough.

The cost of the dvd is usually about the same as two tickets to the cinema!

I've got the Pearl & Dean music on my mobile play that stick on a DVD and turn the lights out and shazam your own cinema without leaving the comfort of your living room...its not so easy to persuade she who must be obeyed to walk backwards with a torch though :-D :-D

Yes used to walk backwards but if I did it now I would fall over and land flat on my posterior AND wouldn't be able to get up again.

I would be like a Tortoise flayling about..

You got scaly legs then?