Screen 4 at the Capitol

Blitzkrieger

I like to get to the Cinema early, not only to not look like a berk trying to find a seat in the dark but to watch other people be berks trying to find a seat in the dark.

Screen 4 at the Capitol is unusual in that the isle is right down the middle and not at the side like you'd expect, especially in a small screen. Time after time you see people come in and walk slowly into the chairs - it's comical. One guy walked in quickly and almost fell over into the second row! The place was almost empthy so you could hear individual people trying not to laugh.

Then there was the woman with two eight year old girls who came in late and decided to stand by the door until they became accustomed to the gloom. Trouble was they decided to keep talking even tho the film had started. The three of them were wearing fur coats and mocking someone for driving a 4 year old mercedes when a large coke (you get BIG drinks at the capitol) comes from somewhere behind me, hitting the woman and getting all of them surprisingly wet!

They all SCREAM Then the woman yells "WHO DID THAT?" and starts walking quickly up towards where it came from - right into the seats

She turns around and limps out and comes back ten mintes later with the manager. They stop the film and light up the lights and there's this red faced woman standing there with the two girls, looking like drowned rats. Their make up was running (they were all wearing too much make up) and they generally looked like ****.

There followd 15 minutes of her shouting at the manager and the poor manager trying to find out who did it. Luckily I still had my drink cos I was in the line of fire so to speak. Eventually they left and every1 started complaining to the manager about their film being ruined so we all got free passes to another film.

Screen 4 at the Capitol - where the best entertainment is never on the screen

Hobbes

Heres a tip on free passes. Both go out either door and ask for two tickets each, then say you forgot something and reverse doors. 8 free Tickets.

Worked for me in "The hand that rocks the cradle" in UCI Coolock.

Remember the "Sit anywhere" situation. I was in a movie and the place was pretty much empty and this guy is sitting in side. Some guy and his g/f came in and he goes "that's my seat" the guy looks at him and says the place is empty sit somewhere else, the first guy then drops his stuff and beats the crap out of the one sitting down.

Moral? Dubliners are idiots.

Excelsior

did that really happen hobbes?

my rule is, if the lights are off, the seats are no longer yours.

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It is so lonely here in my indecipherable tower of speech impedimency

Blitzkrieger

surely the rule would be : "Unless you own the cinema - the seats not yours"

Hecate

sounds like the Stella in rathmines; probably the most godawful cinema in the entire world.

1. Pidgeons nesting in roof, decide to relieve themselves during a screening.

2. Interesting stains on the screen.

3. Rotten seat legs, I remember a story about an entire row collapsing when someone leaned back.

TwoShedsJackson

Not to mention the usual holes in the wall that always had cables and stuff hanging out - amazingly enough no-one was killed at the time

Hobbes

Originally posted by Excelsior:
did that really happen hobbes?

my rule is, if the lights are off, the seats are no longer yours.

Yes it did. I guess the guy sitting down thought that too.

Blitzkrieger

The Capitol isn't quite so bad but it is starting to show it's age - tho surprisingly the floor isn't sticky after a million kids dropping their drinks on it