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Anyone have a referral code they want to share? About to sign up to their unlimited card again and we both get a month free.

First user that can tell me their favourite dinner using potatoes will be the one I use :p
 
I like to buy bags of alphabet bites and cook the best swear words I can make from the letters in the bag. Can't post photo here for obvious reasons.
 
They've done the usual "spoken to creditors" and hiked prices up which is typical when you owe over $1bn to various investment institutions to buy out your competition at an over inflated price. The industry is not asset rich so the risk of them failing was more expensive than bailing them out and hoping post-covid they would survive.

I renewed my card at the start of the month on a credit card, so if they do go bust I'm hoping S75 will protect it.
 
The are in chapter 11 bankrupty proceedings filed in the US. But are currently looking for a buyer. You will know a lot more by Thursday when it's more than likely interested parties will possibly be revealed.

Leak yesterday Vue is looking to buy the UK chain with the backing of 2 financiers. Will be interesting to see what happens. Don't think you're going to have any trouble with the unlimited card though. Things are looking a lot more positive for them than they did 12 months ago.
 
Steeps said:
They've done the usual "spoken to creditors" and hiked prices up which is typical when you owe over $1bn to various investment institutions to buy out your competition at an over inflated price. The industry is not asset rich so the risk of them failing was more expensive than bailing them out and hoping post-covid they would survive.

I renewed my card at the start of the month on a credit card, so if they do go bust I'm hoping S75 will protect it.
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Pay monthly and then you have next to no risk.
 
Steeps said:
I renewed my card at the start of the month on a credit card, so if they do go bust I'm hoping S75 will protect it.
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maybe you'll get priority call on their assets - a chair from the auditorium, pop-corn machine ? projectors are probably too power hungry
 
Luton Cineworld is an absolute dive. Needs a renovation desperately and they're only show the blockbusters & bollywood films., middling films like Nortman, Barbarian you had to go to MK.
 
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The cineworld in Cardiff.
Last film went to it was cold. Really cold. Obviously saving money by turning down 5he heating. But really took away from enjoyment sitting there in a coat.

Seriously, at that point I'll just stay home.


Fortunately the odeon has a small Imax and was warm for avatar.
I'm not paying to sit in a cold cinema with naff sound quality
 
413x said:
I certainly wouldn't be buying an unlimited card. It still could go under.
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I guess if you pay monthly then it's not too bad. I've got a mate who's been an unlimited member for yearsss and always paid upfront for the 12 months as it's normally cheaper. But he was worried when the first bankruptcy rumblings came about and he was in the middle of his membership year. I think he's opted for the monthly option now, so if they do go under he's not going to lose much.
 
413x said:
Last film went to it was cold. Really cold. Obviously saving money by turning down 5he heating. But really took away from enjoyment sitting there in a coat
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Is that way for any screening that is mostly empty, which is most screenings now. I watched puss in boots where it was mostly full and good temperature, then immediately after the whale, was 5 people, and was freezing cold. I don't think it's saving heat as it seems there's a breeze still, almost rather that their air con is running even when the room isn't being warmed by 200 people.

Definitely makes it rubbish. We take our ski jackets, blankets etc some times just to be safe and not horribly cold for 2 odd hours
 
LuckyBenski said:
Blimey! I usually joke that my current local independent has no AC and I prefer it that way. Blankets!
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Indeed it's crazy. It's one of the many reasons why I find it so hard to get a good group to go cinema with me in the regular. Go back to when the first avengers came out, I had a group of at least 6 friends minimum going to cinema pretty much every Wednesday, plus I'd go on other random days with another friend as we both had cineworld cards. Now I almost have to beg to get people out, and too often, it's a rubbish film and they just say, "I should have stayed at home and watched it" and they are right.

The screens are cold, food and drink way way over priced that it's priced itself out of the "I'll pay more but at least it's convenient" purchase, the films are never original and too often so poorly made (latest fantastic beast, matrix 4, every marvel movie since end game other than spiderman 3, fast and furious whatever, the rock playing the rock in x y and Z film.

It sucks as I love cinema, it should be the best place to view films, but too many reasons are bringing it down now. Bring us back the days of the LOTR franchis and Harry Potter movies please!
 
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