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Wicked, with my kids (honest). Wasn't bad apart from the muppets singing along somewhere in the auditorium.
Watching at home is good enough for me despite a mediocre quality TV, although my sound setup kicks the arse of any big cinema I've visited (which are usually too loud and harsh).
My cousin worked as a costume maker for Wicked. I believe they won a BAFTA for it.
As for me, I think the last movie I saw at the cinema was Dungeons & Dragons in 2023 when we took our 2nd youngest to Inverness. Prefer watching stuff on the big OLED at home tbh.
Naked Gun yesterday 85 minutes of dad jokes and references to the Nielsen films galore. The stuffed beaver made an appearance too (LOL moment for me).
We're seeing it Wednesday, delighted to hear the Beaver is back
Our local cinema is a standard multiplex and it's a bit crap TBH. Much rather go into Sheff and watch at the Curzon or Odeon Lux with comfy seats and a beer or two, but gets expensive with a family, and the train or parking.
Anyway last film I saw was Wild Robot with the youngest, was not expecting much but was a great film.
Back Bag. Odd little film but highly enjoyable.
Very lucky to have a deeply poncy achingly middle class independent place walking distance from home so I do try and make an effort to use it. Comfy seats, nobody talking, cinema for Adults, love it.
Last thing I saw there was Warfare, it was... intense.
The sound engineer who did Warfare just so happens to live locally so he apparently came in that afternoon and set up the in house audio system as he'd have liked it to be for his film.
No idea if this made any real difference but the use of sound in that film was incredible, not an easy watch but a hell of an experience.
Marvels Thunderbolts afew months back, good return to form IMO. Still not got round to seeing 28 years later yet but its on the list.
Minecraft too but it was more shit than I expected.
Fantastic 4 - was pretty good! Going to see Naked Gun next.
This thread is another reminder of why Cinemas are dying out.
They're not dying out! Attendance is up and ticket prices are down - about £7.50, which is peanuts these days, barely more than the cost of a pint. Rare to have crap sound or vision these days, and if you go at odd times you can have the place to yourself oftentimes. The Odeon near me is about £6.50 a ticket.
Think the last thing I saw was Dune 2, but I'm really not sure. It was at a local independent cinema, at about half ten in the morning, and came with a free coffee and biscuit, for £3.50. Yes, Dune 2, tea or coffee, biscuit (bourbon or custard cream), for three pounds 50 pence!
Going to see Naked Gun next.
It's well done and quite true to the original. 85 minutes of dad and fart jokes plus some Nielsenesque pratfalls. Pamela Anderson nails the love interest part.
I honestly can’t remember. I know it was at the cinema in town, but it several years ago, and I can’t recall what the film was. I used to go quite regularly with a mate, we’d go to Swindon, Bristol and Bath, but neither of us are that fussed about driving all that way, although the Reel Cinema in town is pretty good, neither of us is that fussed any more. With a 55” tv and a variety of channels available, I’m just as happy sprawled on the couch with a drink to hand.
The last actual movie I watched The Gorge, which I really enjoyed, I’d like to watch the latest Alien, but it’s on Disney+, and I don’t have a subscription to that.
F1
Superman
Fantastic Four
All enjoyable popcorn movies. I am not a F1 fan in any way but the film was engaging and visually very spectacular.
Thats good to hear about F1. It’s on my list to watch. I’m not a F1 fan either , but I’m a couple of seasons into Netflix’s offering and enjoying that.
watched superman yesterday with the youngest. I was quite disappointed with it.
Were going to watch the latest Jurassic offering later in the week, if only to see the bits I worked on 😀
Saw ‘bring her back’ last night. Much better than I expected. Sally Hawkins was very good.
before that Fantastic Four. Fun and stylish but nothing really new.
before that Superman. Son loved it. I thought it a bit of a mish mash.
before that F1. A sports movie. But involving the dullest sport. An endless parade of logos. The actors did a surprisingly good job of making the drama work.
Jurassic World. OK. Scarlett Johansson made it work.
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Fantastic 4 - First Steps. Meh.
Jurassic World Rebirth a couple of weeks ago. We use Vodafone's Odeon discount and then buy Odeon discount vouchers through my wife's work benefit scheme to pay for it. Works out about £5 a ticket.
She left that employer 12 years ago 🤣
Goonies 40th anniversary last week. Absolutely brilliant.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
What a beautiful, heartwarming and funny film. Loved it.
Jurassic World Rebirth.
T'was what you'd expect from a Jurassic World/ Park film.
Local cinema is very reasonable and the yoot all seem to go elsewhere, which is nice.
Still get folk wanting to eat all the way through though, which I never understand.
Weapons : a solid 8/10 with some nice originality on the scare/horror scenes 👍
Early in the year, saw the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown at our local cinema in Malvern. Got a whole £1 off for being over 60, made it something like £6.50 each.
Naked Gun was OK, but they can stop now.
Saw a few trailers for films coming up that look fun. As we prepare for life as empty nesters the cinema looks like the perfect hobby to spend time together without actually having to interact with each other
Steve
Most excellent
9/10
Cillian Murphy on top form and a great performance from Tracey Ullman
Weapons : a solid 8/10 with some nice originality on the scare/horror scenes
I'd go to 9/10
Really interesting, fun and thought provoking
And good to see Grayson Perry take a new career direction
Anyone seen the new Spinal Tap yet?
Downton Abbey -The Grand Finale.
Possibly not a film for you roughty tufty types, but I absolutely loved it. Humour, well acted, sadness, bit of history, easy to watch, very British and gorgeous scenery.
We are lucky enough to have an independent, small cinema. Ticket prices are still great value for money and the usherette still sells ice creams during an intermission.
And good to see Grayson Perry take a new career direction
You wee scamp you 😆 🤣
I haven’t seen it but I’m calling it now.
I Swear, the biopic of the legend that is John Davidson is going to be a stone cold classic.
We’ll be watching it in twenty years time and treating it with the same reverence as Trainspotting.
Saw The Last Showgirl at our local village hall yesterday (it's £15 for two of us instead of over £40 at the cinema & we can have a beer), for some reason I was expecting Pamela Anderson's acting ability to have improved with the years, it hasn't & the supporting cast including Jamie Lee Curtis weren't much better either.
Aliens Directors Cut at Cineworld on Tuesday. It was a treat to see it on the big screen and the showing was full of bolkes in their 50's and 60's.
Some stuff looked a little shonky and Ripley using a flamethrower whilst searching for Newt bugged me a bit but great value for £7.99.
This and the first film, which I watched on the TV at the weekend in preparation for the screening, are still by far the best parts of the Alien series.
Late Night with the Devil
Was a couple of years ago as the local cinema that showed less commercial films closed.
Last thing we saw in the cinema was The Naked Gun with Liam Neeson, when we were down in Keswick and it was pishing with rain. I thought it was telling that the biggest chuckles came from the references to the original movie. While there though, I saw a trailer for I Swear, that Perchypather just mentioned above, and I also think it looks like a fabulous movie. I think it's playing at the MacRoberts in Stirling next week, so I might pop in there and give it a go.
Weapons too. Really enjoyed that.
Got something booked for tomorrow in Oxford. I don't know what friends have booked, so hopefully it'll be a nice surprise 🙂
Maybe Jurassic Wordl, War of the Wordls, Wordl War Z, The Worst Person in the Wordl.. etc
Sinners for me (a while ago) - Best thing I've seen since the new Dune (1 not 2).
Subject matter and pacing reminded me of Midnight Mass (Netflix TV show) which is also one of the best shows I've watched in ages.
Went with my grandson to see Sonic 3 - it was awful, although he seemed to like it.
Previously we went to see Minecraft which I thought was rather good (so did he, of course)!
Aliens on Tuesday, going to Goldeneye on Saturday and then Corpse Bride next Sunday
In other news,I was digging about in BBC i-player and found the Inside Cinema collection.
They are only 7-8 minutes long,and (I think)give really nice info/details around some actors and film styles.
One Battle After Another - very good if not the brilliant film that hype has pushed.
Still a big bold messy interesting film that is at its best in the final hour when it turns towards thriller fare.
PTA has made better films.
Sean Penn - bonkers role!
Steve- With Cillian Murphy and Little Simz.
Pretty uneventful I thought.
The Roses
Wonderfully true to my life..... they even drove the same cars we have done or do.
Funnily enough, my last post said we’d been bought tickets, could be a good surprise! Didn’t know what we were seeing til we were sat in front of the screen.. “The Roses” came up, I thought ,oh well, wouldn’t be my choice but we’re here now… Probably the worst, biggest pile of shite I’ve had to suffer. Managed to get out for a piss after putting up with over an hour of the garbage (oh how i love to watch posh ****s bickering) and told my partner I wouldn’t come back. All 4 of us decided we’d had enough and left.
If that’s your life (every character was an utter ****er), i feel for you and hope I never meet you!
Superman and oddly just watched it on the telly box and enjoyed it again.
Our local cinema is a small town community run thing, so it doesn't show the latest big budget movies. This is no bad thing mostly. It's a two hour round trip to a multiscreen cinema so we don't go that often.
Thats mad my multiplex is 15 mins away and they play VOSE - version original subtitulada Español every Thursday night at 6.00.
It’s easier for me to watch an English language blockbuster film in Spain than you in an English speaking country 🙂
My rule is watch in the original language, I have watched a fast and furious in Spanish on the train as they tend to play movies which was well weird as the voice are never the same and los Simpson just messes with my mind as Homers voice just isn’t right.
(I quite like Spanish tv series as they are usually well bonkers Elite,Alpha males, just don’t think U.K. could handle the sex/sexual comedy)
Pirates of the Caribbean also doesn’t cut it without the Bristol accent 🙂
WOW !!
Strangely enough I'm not an architect, building poncy buildings, and the mrs wouldn't know one end of a crab from the other while we aren't living in California
However .... We are the Roses and we are in a really cr4p marriage and "wonderfully" was very much sarcastic.
I'm pleased you couldn't see the gallows humour in the film.
I've been through some of the shite they were going through (not quite so... excruciatingly articulately, of course) and that's one of the reasons I hated the film. So yeah I stick by "I feel for you"!