Why is the cinema an irritating experience these days?

LordSplodge · 23 May 2011 at 13:26

Kids aren't the problem if you get the timings right. The problem is the adverts, the in your face "You wouldn't steal a car.." advert (despite paying £7-10 for a ticket) and after that 1/2 hour of your life wasted you get a bunch of trailers for rom-coms and then you get a stupid ****ing Orange advert.

This is why I rarely go to the cinema.

Morba · 23 May 2011 at 13:43

LordSplodge said:
Kids aren't the problem if you get the timings right. The problem is the adverts, the in your face "You wouldn't steal a car.." advert (despite paying £7-10 for a ticket) and after that 1/2 hour of your life wasted you get a bunch of trailers for rom-coms and then you get a stupid ****ing Orange advert.

This is why I rarely go to the cinema.

Turn up 20 mins later then.

MonkeyNews · 23 May 2011 at 13:54

Morba said:
Because I don't believe that you threw a person out of the building and went back to your seat and the rest stayed quiet after that. Oh, and i'm hardly a shrinking violet

Yes because that sounds so far fetched, just understand that sometimes people make a stand against youths ruining peoples experience, I dont have the time or patience to have an outing ruining when I can take action and resolve the situation.

Most youths are all mouth and no trousers, if you stand up for yourself once in a while its amazing how quickly they will back down and run away with their tail between their legs.

If you say you are no shrinking violet, why are you so suprised when someone makes a stand aginst this sort of thing, Im guessing you don;t see it happen much in your area?

Morba · 23 May 2011 at 13:57

MonkeyNews said:
Yes because that sounds so far fetched, just understand that sometimes people make a stand against youths ruining peoples experience, I dont have the time or patience to have an outing ruining when I can take action and resolve the situation.

Most youths are all mouth and no trousers, if you stand up for yourself once in a while its amazing how quickly they will back down and run away with their tail between their legs.

If you say you are no shrinking violet, why are you so suprised when someone makes a stand aginst this sort of thing, Im guessing you don;t see it happen much in your area?

Yes, it does sound so far fetched that you would pick up 1 person from a group and throw them out and nothing else happen after that, be it the group leaving or the person coming back in again.

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SkScotchegg · 3 Jun 2011 at 22:11

lol, funny piracy video, never seen that before, do they show that in cinemas, or is this just a **** take?

Oh and yeah, I hate people talking in cinema too, I had really bad experience with this issue when I went to see inception, gutted! seriously wanted to batter them.

oldbag · 3 Jun 2011 at 22:23

I can't stand it when people stand up and clap at the end of a film, very pretencious. I always think that the projectionist should come out a take a bow when people do that.

Jimz · 3 Jun 2011 at 22:26

Just go and tell them to Shut up, thats all you have to do.

oldbag · 3 Jun 2011 at 22:27

I should get the projectionist to tell them to shut up over the PA system. Better.

Van Hellseek · 3 Jun 2011 at 22:29

Havn't been to the cinema in this country for years, but I went to see PotC:OST last week, and we were told the only two seats left were in the second row. I told my friend forget it, we'll be too close. But the fat girl on the counter assured me there was LOADS of space in front, so I reluctantly agreed.

There was aproximately 4 feet between our seats and the screen.

If you go and press your face against your TV right now, you'll have a good idea of what it was like watching this movie.

Pestilence · 3 Jun 2011 at 22:53

Van Hellseek said:
Havn't been to the cinema in this country for years, but I went to see PotC:OST last week, and we were told the only two seats left were in the second row. I told my friend forget it, we'll be too close. But the fat girl on the counter assured me there was LOADS of space in front, so I reluctantly agreed.

There was aproximately 4 feet between our seats and the screen.

If you go and press your face against your TV right now, you'll have a good idea of what it was like watching this movie.

I will NOT go into a screening any earlier than 15 minutes before "showtime" because of this. If we happen to be cutting it too short with other plans to wait for the next showing, I'll ask the ticket seller how many seats are still available. Any less than 100, forget it.

Sitting in the front rows is just not any way to watch the film. Motion becomes blurry and hard to distinguish -- I don't even know why they bother putting seats there.

It helps having an Unlimited card, because if we happen to be caught out with only front seats available, we can just walk out, get tickets for the next show and head upstairs to the bar or something to pass the time.

Jimz · 3 Jun 2011 at 22:56

Van Hellseek said:
Havn't been to the cinema in this country for years, but I went to see PotC:OST last week, and we were told the only two seats left were in the second row. I told my friend forget it, we'll be too close. But the fat girl on the counter assured me there was LOADS of space in front, so I reluctantly agreed.

There was aproximately 4 feet between our seats and the screen.

If you go and press your face against your TV right now, you'll have a good idea of what it was like watching this movie.

Ok then, seeing as that women said there was Loads of spaces and you still went in then noticed there was nothing left but seats right at the front why didnt you just go back out and get a refund?

surely thats the thing you would do?

Van Hellseek · 3 Jun 2011 at 22:58

Jimz said:
Ok then, seeing as that women said there was Loads of spaces and you still went in then noticed there was nothing left but seats right at the front why didnt you just go back out and get a refund?

surely thats the thing you would do?

Because I really wanted to see the movie before someone plot-spoiled it for me.

As it turns out it was crap and there wasn't anything worth spoiling anyway.

Mitty · 3 Jun 2011 at 23:13

What annoys me most about the cinema is people crunching. I can handle the occasional chatter but rustling or packets and crunching on popcorn really grinds my gears!

The other day me and my other half had a whole cinema screen to ourselves! It was bliss.

Pestilence · 4 Jun 2011 at 00:44

Jimz said:
Ok then, seeing as that women said there was Loads of spaces and you still went in then noticed there was nothing left but seats right at the front why didnt you just go back out and get a refund?

surely thats the thing you would do?

I would assume that most cinemas would simply say that there were seats available. You paid for seats.

Where those seats are is not matter for a refund.

qqg3 · 4 Jun 2011 at 06:48

Went to one cinema in January and it was fantastic because the seating was steep 'stadium-style' so seats were all marginally the same distance from the screen and the people in front couldn't be an issue. Made True Grit much more enjoyable.

Why is the cinema an irritating experience these days?

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