UGC Unlimited Card

slu1exm

Thought I'd post about this and maybe encourage other UGC/Cineworld Unlimited card-holders to do it too (As long as it's for decent movies)

Ok I have a UGC Unlimited card, which means I can go to an unlimited number of films in UGC/Cineworld on Parnell Street.

As a result I tend to see a lot of films.

If I see a film that I think is good, I will often queue up again as I'm leaving and buy another ticket for it.

My rationale for this is that ultimately what determines what gets made is a film's box-office. On another level the box office determines to a certain extent what type of film the cinema show. By increasing this, at no cost to myself I can give an edge to those films I like.

I would encourage other film goers to do the same. I am banking that those with UGC/Cineworld cards will have broader tastes and use this method to improve the quality of pictures seen. No other is going to do this for a bad film. On other days when I go the to the cinema and see a film that is poor or merely so-so I might go and buy a ticket for a film I have previously seen to futher increase it's box office.

One example of this is the film Brick, I went to see it once, but got four tickets to it.

So all you Unlimited card holders go forth and improve the quality of films in the cinema and reward the makers of good films

Pigman II

I don't have one of those tkts so whats the deal? You queue up, get a free ticket for Brick and then just leave the building?

Creamy Goodness

no he means you go to a film and if you like it, you buy another ticket and not go to it a second time thus increasing ticket sales

Pigman II

Yeah I got that but is he suggesting that if for example you liked Brick then you should go back to the cinema some other time (or even 3 other times), queue up again, get another ticket for Brick and then just discard it?

I guess I might do that if I was queuing for something else that I was actually going to see (eg buy tkt for FilmX and tkt for Brick, then go see FilmX and throw Brick ticket away) but can you buy multiple screening tickets in one queing?

Also say a movie was on ten times in one day could one queue up , buy a ticket for each of the 10 screenings that day and then just leave with a smug look of self-satisfaction on your face for beating the system?

BlitzKrieg

Yeah I got that but is he suggesting that if for example you liked Brick then you should go back to the cinema some other time (or even 3 other times), queue up again, get another ticket for Brick and then just discard it?

no he means when your leaving buy a ticket to the next screening of said film.

While i admire your policy, my one fear would be how the ticket sales are interpeted.

Buying a second ticket after seeing an independent film you liked, will hopefully give the people involved in that film a tiny needed boost in ticket sales they need to pry some funding for another project.

But...it could also lead to hollywood believing there is a trend happening, and cash in on about 10 or so lacklustre poorly concieved clones of the premise of the original, which in most cases grab the wrong end of the stick when interpeting what the viewers liked about the original film.

so play with fire...

abetarrush

BlitzKrieg wrote:

no he means when your leaving buy a ticket to the next screening of said film.

While i admire your policy, my one fear would be how the ticket sales are interpeted.

Buying a second ticket after seeing an independent film you liked, will hopefully give the people involved in that film a tiny needed boost in ticket sales they need to pry some funding for another project.

But...it could also lead to hollywood believing there is a trend happening, and cash in on about 10 or so lacklustre poorly concieved clones of the premise of the original, which in most cases grab the wrong end of the stick when interpeting what the viewers liked about the original film.

so play with fire...

Yeah

Also, i think you're the only one who does this. ever, and its kinda stupid

You could at least give the free ticket to someone

You're not gonna change the world of cinema. In fact, you're ruining it

You're creating false popularity

shame on you

BlitzKrieg

you cant actually give it to someone can you?

cause they ask for the card when they take your ticket right?


if they dont...giving a ticket to a random punter might be a more rewarding action for the film industry then discarding, get more people hooked on monkey phonics...i mean good films.

abetarrush

Im sure u could give it to someone

AFAIK you get a ticket the same way. You just show ur card instead of givin them money

monkeyfudge

If people were to do that you'd end up with a sold out show with lots of empty seats and people who hadn't seen the film not being able to get tickets.

It seems pretty stupid to me.

Crash

I'd figure it as kinda selfish - that seat could go to someone who wanted to go.

Kingp35

But if it was an independant film like Brick, how likely would it be that it would sell out? Not very I would imagine

abetarrush

Kingp35 wrote:

But if it was an independant film like Brick, how likely would it be that it would sell out? Not very I would imagine

Still, its fake praise


Its like goin onto IMDB or somethin, and voting for the same movie 750 times

You're not doin them any favours. In fact, you're makin it worse, cos they could invest [and in this case Waste] more money in the film, DVD sales for example


Basically, if ye do that, you're a sap