[Closed] I’ve not been the cinema in 20 years...

Huddersfield Odeon now sells tickets at the concession stands rather than an actual ticket sales point/box office. Last time we went I joined the shortest queue (of two people) to get ours

Always book online, then just pick up your tickets at the machine in the foyer and stroll past all that nonsense with your man-bag full of monster munch and fizzy pop. Time it exactly half an hour after the advertised start time for the film, thus avoiding all the adverts

You're welcome 😀

In which case you'd best prepare to get unceremoniously bent over for drinks and popcorn

or take your own sandwiches/food in a Tesco bag

Sandwiches? 😯

Luckily I can go 3 hours without eating/drinking.

Luckily I can go 3 hours without eating/drinking.

They removed those dinky ashtrays too. And the Wurlitzer dude who occasionally grinned triumphantly over his shoulder when pulling all the stops out.

Gone.

And those nice people with red torches. I think.

Now it's just the CGI and mono-tone-olithic acting. Take some vibratey-pants.

And those nice people with red torches.

I plan on taking my own.

Do you still get the catchy butterkist butterrkist rah rah rah Kia ora I'll be your dog and da da da da da da d d d da pearl and dean trilogy before every film.

No, you get adverts for the cinema that you are already sat in and for the sound system in the cinema that you can already hear. The sound adverts are for some reason designed to burst your eardrums and irritate the fudge out of you.
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Jamie - Member

I’m irritated by people in general, so it should be a smooth transistion.

It’s a serious point. I stopped going the cinema, mainly as local cinema had crap screens, sound bleed and uncomfortable seats, but also as it only took one nob talking/eating etc to ruin a film experience. I guess now with mobile phones it’s even more of an issue.

As a hangover from my (hungover) student days my strong preference for watching films is early in the day. 99% of the time you get an empty cinema to yourself or one or two like minded individuals. Maybe the odd pensioner.

Getting the whole screen to yourself feels great and you don't have to worry about people and the dilemas they present.

If it's three hours long there must be an interval with that nice young lady selling ice cream tubs with little wooden spoon?

WTF is it with eating at cinemas these days?

These days? People have always eaten at the cinema.

I think it was on Kermode’s 5Live show, but someone wrote it to say a couple next to them in the cinema started unpacking a Chinese takeaway once seated.

perchypanther - Member

Last time i went to the cinema was to see Quantum of Solace and that was in 2008! No strange coincidence that my eldest was born that year.

You can only have sex if it involves Bondage?

As I draw the line at shoving revels up me bum.

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