Blitzy's cinema trip (samartian's advert = WTF!)

BlitzKrieg

I have a few comments about my trip today, so I can either make 3 threads or one big one, and leave lots of work for Karl if he feels this should be cut up:cool:


Anyway popped into the cinema tonight on a whim to give In Bruges a watch, its not that I dont go often or anything, just alot of things I noticed tonight or remembered to bitch about when I came out.


So first things first.

Cineworld....the price of tickets have gone up since thursday. It now costs 10 euro for a ticket (unless the film is 3d...then its 15.30) I think this is the point where one would lament about how they remember when they got tickets for £3 at one stage......but I'm only barely into my bloody twenties, its not right that one should lament such things, even with the changeover to euro...3 punt to 10 euro is still an outright 100% increase in price (I think).

I'm just bloody thankful I have the cineworld card, now I am saving money if I see more then 2 films a month. f*cking bargain in my case.


anyway moving on the next thing that caught my eye was the poster for the upcoming spiderwicke chronicles, there was this original poster from awhile back that was pretty cool, looked like a very dark kids film.

The latest one though has me shaking my head because I am convinced it looks identical to one of the harry potter films posters, which reminds me why most of these films are being made these days and so on down a dark train of thought.


And lastly into the cinema to where the topic of hand comes forth. I am surprised I have not seen a thread on this yet. I have seen it numerous times but keep on forgetting to post a thread on it til tonight.

Has anyone seen that good samartian's advert they have running in the cinema.

Dont get me wrong, its a nicely put together advert...but for what its advertising it is the most f*cked up ad I have ever seen.

For those who have not seen this beaut, it has two black guys walking through a forest, son and father I think, and the father is giving his son a guide to the forest and animals, they come across a guy in a net hanging from a tree, they offer to help but he refuses and tells them where to go to see ferrets. They walk away and the camera cuts to a shot of sign advertising the good samartians

I get what they are trying to say, but it doesnt work as an advert, especially for the service they provide. It actually did have me saying *what the f*ck* when I first saw it.

This confusion is made worse by the new drive safely advert involving the car from carlow with the what sounds like some horrible thing picked up from copperface jack's in the back. Another advert that has me thinking the point of advertising has been severly missed.

The only thing that came out of that advert was a thought to avoid carlow boys.


Finally the new O2 ad is just showing that they getting more and more full of f*cking ****e.

Does it not worry anyone else, that the adverts about mobile phones drag on about society and reaching out and common bonds, when the ones about safe driving and helping people are full of quick gags and sex?


what a topsey turvey world.


Ignoring the whole adverts in cinemas gripe, for the love of christ they are horrible bunch. And they are also always extended versions which someone thinks that if they take up more of our bloody time we might change our minds.

The only trailer in the cinema at the moment I dont mind are the coca cola ones I can stomach the whole this is an advert for a soft drink feeling long enough to enjoy how brilliantly creative they look.



During the film itself...


I became aware of how sad my life in movies has finally became when I spent the first 10 minutes thinking about the sort of colour correction they used...and why, and then if a mini 35 adaptor is worth buying for these kinds of shots...or could I rent one in Ireland.

Also I spent the whole film thinking Colin Farrell was trying to be like doogle from father ted...


Also as a bonus point.

IF anyone can remember the name of the fantastic film I saw years ago (In a geaity school of acting summer class no less) where a dwarf throws a f*cking fit because nobody dreams about dwarves yet they still use them in films for dream sequences (the film was set on the set of a film.) I will be much appreciated. In Bruges had a bit in it that reminded me how much I liked that film.


EDIT


FOUND THE FILM, so no worries, scene i remembered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4je71Tz_9IE

johnny_ultimate

A quick google tells me the film you are looking for is Living in Oblivion

Otherwise, interesting rant, B+. That Samaratins ad is indeed odd.

BlitzKrieg

yeah i was googling it while i was typing up the thread...wasnt using the right words (ended up getting it with pissed dwarf, dream, film)

The Denouncer

My cinema trip to In Bruges to movies@ in Swords involved being confused by that Samaritans ad, being fairly happy with the Indiana Jones trailer, and during the film I felt the back of my seat in the cinema being 'kicked'. Looked behind to see a girl lying on her side with both feet on the back of my seat. I told her to take her feet off. 5 mins later I felt another kick. I looked behind and told her to stop kicking my seat. That was fine then at the end of the film she got up and said to me in an anguished voice "You must have left your manners at home". I told her I didn't pay €8 to get the back kicked off me and she was ignorant. Wife wasn't too happy with me for answering back but anyway..should have told security they are quite strict.

Vokes

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

ICineworld....the price of tickets have gone up since thursday. It now costs 10 euro for a ticket (unless the film is 3d...then its 15.30) I think this is the point where one would lament about how they remember when they got tickets for £3 at one stage......but I'm only barely into my bloody twenties, its not right that one should lament such things, even with the changeover to euro...3 punt to 10 euro is still an outright 100% increase in price (I think).

I'm just bloody thankful I have the cineworld card, now I am saving money if I see more then 2 films a month. f*cking bargain in my case.

All tickets cost more at the weekend, no?

BlitzKrieg

All tickets cost more at the weekend, no?

I enquired and the person behind the desk told me the prices have gone up, and the sign behind the desks had the prices changed to the new price.

Earthhorse

Have to say I find the new Samaritan's ad a breath of fresh air. Most of these ads try to create an atmosphere of despair and panic and then end it with a five second segment of bright and chirpy clarity as the helpline number is displayed. This ad is far more disarming, clever and likely to stick with you.

It is a bit of a head f*ck the first time you see it but I think that's all the more testament to how well it's executed.

faceman

Havent seen that samaritans ad but jaysus, it sounds off the wall! I agree completely about the mobiler operators and their ads. really winds me up yet my friends think im being OTT, its nice to see Im not alone.

I used to work in a cinema back in my college days and i remember when the cinema tickets in UCI were IR£4.50 (€5.71). Tickets have increased about 80-90% since then.

Btw, the film is called Living in Oblivion. Great film.

rizzla

The ad I can't stand at the moment is the drive at 30 ad. With the kid who slides back into the road. "Hit me at 30 and there's an 80% chance I'll live." Cheers for that, i'll take it into consideration the next time I go around mowing down children.

Plus, the new airwaves ad. Very dramatic with people inhaling. It's f*ckin chewing gum. Haven't seen it in the cinema though. Thank Christ.

Jack B. Badd

Haven't seen the Samaritan's ad but I did enjoy the pro-life one that the Gate in Cork was showing over the summer... :rolleyes:

senordingdong

I loved that Samaritans ad.
I thought it was very clever and makes a great point.

TheDoc

ive seen the slow down carlow boys ad so many times and laugh everytime

and so does everyone in the cinema

it is so so funny, and the only thing people remember is that carlow boys blow to soon

not that we should slow down haha

such a good ad.

i was convinced it was an ad for durex or something, o my hilarious

yeah cinema prices are getting ridiculous at this stage, im only going to see the big films, everything else i wait till dvd or other means

Jello

It only seems like a few months ago that Cineworld put up their prices, hopefully the early bird tickets haven't gone up too. Had a bad experience there about two weeks ago - went to see There Will Be Blood and there was some horrible problem with the sound - it just kept buzzing, humming, etc. Went out after about twenty minutes (don't know how I stuck it for that long though) and told some plank about the problem, he said it'll be fixed soon. Twenty more minutes later and the fecking thing was still humming away so we got up and went to walk out to get a refund (half the cinema joined us). Then we were greeted at the door by some more planks and were told we could go into the screen next door which was showing the same film and started at the same time. Completely ruined the film for me though, I'll definitely be going again. At least we got a free pass on the way out. :rolleyes: Anyway, rant over.

As for the Samaritans ad, weird as it is, I think it's brilliant. The O2 one does my head in, hate the way they show it AFTER all the trailers, just before the film starts.

Here's the Samaritans ad btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2i4Jro7FTM

BlitzKrieg

Its not that I hate the Ad, I think its very well made, I just find its a big WTF? the first time I saw it and I consider it the weirdest ad I have ever seen purely because of content vs product.


Another Ad that always has me raising an eyebrow is the one for some family car and it has a dog destroying a family home before its put in the car at the end.

I know what it means but a friend leaned over the first time I saw it and whispered when the father was putting the dog in the back of the car *Right you b*sterd we are putting you down*

Now I cant help but think everytime I see that ad that the father is taking the dog to be put down