My Last Cinema Visit

[ColinW]

I just got back from taking my daughter to the cinema. Sadly I think that might be my last trip to the pictures! Putting aside the fact that the Odeon have the strange notion that Thursday is still a Bank Holiday and therefore dearer than normal because it is half term, the whole experience was just a complete disappointment. The Odeon's motto is apparently "Fanatical About Film". We went to see Pirates of the Carribean 4. Well, unless I am much mistaken, what we watched wasn't a film at all! It looked to me very much like a digital recording. Furthermore, a digital recording back projected onto a screen not massively bigger than the one in my local pub! The whole point of a cinema presentation is that it is on FILM, with the unique picture that only film gives. If I'm going to watch digital recordings I might as well do it at home on my big TV in a chair a thousand times more comfortable than the one I just spent two hours writhing on and can still feel now.

So I don't think I'll be going again. When I think of cinema I'll be thinking nostagically about seeing Lawrence of Arabia, 2001, Star Wars, Saturday morning Flash Gordon etc, in massive picture houses with a proper projector lighting up the dust and smoke in the air.

In future I'll just wait for the DVD, it's cheaper and I get to keep the movie. If I buy a Blue Ray player I'll probably have the same definition as well!

[watatoad]

I gave up going to the cinema when because of cinema technical breakdowns and problems after 4 round trips of 29 miles each we still had not managed to see the film and that was for the first showing of Grease in 1978...hehehe

[ColinW]

I forgot to mention the movie itself. I like the Pirates of the Carribean films. Unfortunately, as usual with Hollywood, they don't know when to quit. The story wasn't great, the acting was OK, the direction was awful. It reminded me of the old 50's 3D films where no opportunity was missed to have something leap out of the screen. I don't know what this looks like in the 3D version but in the 2D one it just looks silly. Then there are the scenes obviously put in for the games that will no doubt follow. They even managed to get in a product placement (a hard thing to do in a film set 200 years ago!) with San Miguel plastered across the treaure map

[Ken L]

ODEON got things seriously wrong when they tried to compete with the multiplexes by dividing their existing cinemas into half a dozen tiny auditoriams with tiny screans and crap sound - just as the home cinema revolution was kicking off.

Get yourself down to a proper cinema and enjoy the spectacle.

Forget 3D though. It's a waste of time and money and I have yet to see a movie that wasn't better in 2D.

[Cranfield]

The last time I visited the Cinema was to see "Reach for the Sky" with Kenneth Moore.

[Clifftop]

My last cinema visit was 40 years ago

 

 

Cheers Fred

[ayjay]

Same time next year. 1978.

[Spiderwebb]

That long since I last went to the cinema it might well have been a silent one.

tankie63.