i don’t care how cheap the seats are i never go to mainstream cinemas like Vue/odeon, too many mouth breathers in love with their own voices, fast food and mobile phones.
Odeon on Deansgate, pick any film and do a mid week 5:40/6pm screening and it will be empty, especially a week after release. Been great so far even for some of the most popular films I'd go as far to say as nearly 100% code compliant.
Cinema (getting rarer), Netflix, Amazon Prime and torrents. Generally prefer box set shows these days to films as I think the quality of the first has went through the roof and the quality of the latter through the floor.
Netflix and prime for all my media really, used to torrent everything but now I’m happy paying the £13 or so a month for Netflix, prime video and music and free delivery. Fantastic value compared to the likes of sky, can’t fathom the whole thing of paying to watch adverts.
Since I’ve found a cinema with £3.60 tickets I’ve started going once a week again as well, used to be like £11 a go in Birmingham - I’m tempted to get limitless tickets for 12 months for us for Christmas.
i forgot about Torrents, i dont know much about them but i’m not a freetard or a thief, got a few friends who work in the film industry and have no intention of stealing content that a lot of people have worked hard to create.
i take a dim view of people stealing my content (also my livelihood) and would be a hypocrite if i did the same.
very rarely watch films without a nice steward or stewardess to bring me drinks as required.
Ever get that moment when they bring a top up just as the film gets to the boobies on show part?
Netflix and Amazon Prime, but since it's rare I find anything I want to to watch, it's maybe once every couple of months I actually do watch a movie. The rest of the time it's box-sets.
The movie catalogues are not great, but I think overall, I just find it really hard to pick something. When you went into a video shop, back in the olden days, you went straight to the New Releases... I'm not even sure where you can watch new releases these days (Sky)? Or you might be looking for something specific and wander around the Genres. If you do this on Amazon or Netflix, you seem to find yourself scrolling past the same 10 movies in every genre you pick.
For such huge brands, it surprises me how much they fail to provide inspiration.
Netflix, Amazon on a rare occasion NowTV as it's poor streaming quality.
Gave up on dodgy boxes and torrents as they're often crap and well it is stealing.
I’m not even sure where you can watch new releases these days (Sky)?
Film releases still follow the same pattern, Cinema, DVD/Streaming for rent/sale, Reduced as it's not new, then release to the various services for broardcast/streaming.
People must still be paying a premium for the DVD/BluRay version or to stream it on day 1, Sky see it as a money maker too hence sky cinema. So they are milking it as much as they can before they let it go to everyone.
Remember when the biggest announcement at Christmas was what the BBC/ITV were showing as a premiere