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Rant against the Savoy cinema

  • 12-08-2004 10:35pm
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,905 ✭✭✭User45701


    Yey go UGC! thats where i saw kill bill *thinks back*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    havnt been in the refurbished savoy (been abroad) but i took a quick peak inside while i passed it earlier and i have to say i dont really like the new design...but thats just me...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭whosurpaddy


    ive never really liked the savoy, not enough legroom(esp in screen 1), crap food. it just looks dirty (admittedly this was probly sorted with the upgrade) altogether not an anjoyable experience.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭babyhack


    UGC all the way and with the unlimited pass it rocks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,155 ✭✭✭ronano


    I'm gonna give it a look but i'm a ugc goer ( i'm amazed how packed it's getting lately )


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


    Yeah another vote for the UGC here, can't go wrong with them. The staff in the Savoy are a surly bunch of gits who look like they're about to commit suicide.

    Though thinking about it I'd probably want to kill myself too if I worked there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭eggshapedfred


    it just looks dirty

    cos the electrical tape over the ripped carpet and the popcorn strewn all over the floor in the old UGC made the place look like the palace of Versaille (sp?)

    i like the savoy but only for screen 1&2. ugc is full of knackers and muppets (no offence lads)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭DoesNotCompute


    ugc rocks. my gf has an unlimited pass thingy, so thats kinda sweet.

    I always found ster century to be the best though, cos the seats are at a higher angle than those of ugc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Yep, even speaking a tradionalitist, the Savoy is a real dump alright.

    The recent refit from 1970's pornset to 'metalic spage-age' doesn't seem to have cheered the ushers up much but I was impressed to notice the date on ticket stubs are listed as 'DD/MM/20' ... presumably to give us that authentic futuristic feel!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    bedlam wrote:
    Uh yeh you can. At any one time there is at least one gents toilet out of comission, at one stage recently they were down to just one for the whole of the cinema, the staff really couldnt care less what goes on in a screen during a movie and the projectionists seem to be ****ing up alot more recently.

    I've noticed that too. Just little mistakes and botching reels...can really take away the immersion factor.

    p


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,010 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I've noticed the slight slippages too. When I went to see The Story of the Weeping Camel the film, or projector, was extremely dirty(?) Lots of flickers, lines, etc. coming up on the screen - VERY distracting. The film a couple of days ago seemed to be slightly off centre for a bit and occasionally it seems out of focus.
    Also the amount of people I've wanted to kill for talking/being distracting during a movie. Thankfully it's less frequent at the times I go, but any weekend show I normally want to take a shotgun and nightvision goggles with me just to be sure...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Out of the three movies I've seen in UGC, I've had problems at two of them. The first time I showed up very early to get tickets (at least half an hour) and I ended up being ten minutes late for the movie as they only had one person selling tickets (and about 8 ticket desks completely empty). Then when I got inside the seats were broken in a couple of places so it took ages to find a seat in the dark. Another time I went and the film was all squashed looking on the screen and it took about ten people complaining to correct the image size on screen so the people didn't look like they'd been crushed in a Looney Toons cartoon. Although the last time I went there were no problems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭KenH


    Wow this an old thread. But, I was just in the Savoy one for The Hobbit and found the colours really washed out. Whites weren't white and black weren't black. Very disappointing


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,698 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    It’s so old it’s irrelevant. Start a new thread if you want.

    Locked.


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