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New eye cinema

  • 20-03-2005 01:47PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭


    just thought id let every1 in on the new eye cinema in wellpark which opened on friday. went to see a movie there last night. the movie wasnt great but as for the place itself it was excellent. it has to be the best cinema outside Dublin. it is cheaper than the omniplex the seats are very comfortable and the surroung sound was ear blowing.. id definitly reccomend any 1 to check it out.. there's even a ben and jerry's outlet in it..hmmm


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,051 ✭✭✭Cloud


    I'm not sure about the cheaper bit - it's a euro more I think (9 as opposed to 8 or 8.50 in the Omniplex).

    Also, a medium popcorn and drink is 6.80 as opposed to 6.10 in the Omniplex.

    Having said all that, the place looks fabulous darling, the view over the bay is lovely and the branding is brilliant. I'm looking forward to trying the luxury screen "Magnificent 7".

    Website at www.eyecinema.ie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Jammyd


    i only paid 6 euro for my ticket and the kids were only a fiver.. i thought that was great for a sat night.. as for the price of food it is a bit pricey but sure every1 sneaks food in these days..... dont they?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    The student prices look reasonable, €5 Mon-Thurs, €6 Fri-Sun, no apparent time limits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭DEmeant0r


    I shall take a gawk in this new cinema one day when I've a day off work...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    It looks very good from the website. I especially like the fact that they've an "Arthouse" section, seeing as there's many films that the Omniplex just don't show.

    I'll definetly have to take a look out there.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    I especially like the fact that they've an "Arthouse" section, seeing as there's many films that the Omniplex just don't show..

    That is very very cool


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭DEmeant0r


    What's their website?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Cathy


    Cloud wrote:
    Website at www.eyecinema.ie

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭DEmeant0r


    duh! I'm sleepy so excuse my stupidness...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Jammyd


    yeah id definitly reccomend the place to any cinema lover... its brilliant that galway now has a dedicated arthouse cinema screen, this can only enhance galways reputaion as a cultural mecca


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    House of Flying Daggars would be cool on the big screen, might make a trip during the week.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Magnolia_Fan


    It looks very good from the website. I especially like the fact that they've an "Arthouse" section, seeing as there's many films that the Omniplex just don't show.

    I'll definetly have to take a look out there.

    by arthouse do you mean those crappy cheap indie films? Cartman said it best a bunch of "Gay Cowboys Eatin Puddin?" - South Park


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,006 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Oranmore Omniplex opening April 1 (not a joke). They have decent seats because it was originally fitted out to another owner's specifications.

    Great that Eye is open ... the ongoing feud between Ward Anderson (Omniplex) and Warner and Columbia which prevented them showing certain movies in Galway is now over pretty much. The only reason these films weren't shown here is because there was no competition ... now there is at last.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭DEmeant0r


    I was in the Eye Cinema today to watch a House of Flying Daggers in the Luxury Theatre(I paid 7 Euros!). It was like I died and went up to Heaven! Everything about this cinema is perfect. The seats were the most comfiest seats I've sat on in a cinema, the food looked superb, even the toilets were cool and they have lots and lots of plasma screens! It's also cheaper than Omniplex! Well done Eye, you've earned yet another lifetime customer(or however long more I stay in Galway :D)!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    ya i don't go anywhere where the food doesn't look superb :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭dawballz


    Took a walk around the cinema myself the other day and it's lovely. It has a little bottle-bar at the end, I think it's called the arthouse bar or something, so maybe it is more to do with the arthouse screen than regular cinema-goers. Seats are a bit weird around the lobby area but are very modern. Didn't go to see a film so I can't comment on the theatre part. There's escalators up to the screens(I don't think there's much on the ground floor, but maybe I've missed something). As for price, I didn't take much notice as I was just going in for a loook and didn't buy anything. It also has a lovely big plasma screen beside where you buy your tickets. You could nearly watch a film there if there was sound and it'd be cool.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The only problem with the Eye cinema is that before each film you are subjected to five minutes of that twat Hector. Everyother cinema in the country can tell you to turn off your phone and where the exits are in ten seconds without resorting to torturing the audiance.

    I think I'll still keep going to the Omniplex, as its easier to go from film to film, and because its located right across from where my gf works.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 cupidstunt


    100% percent agree with you on the Hector factor - a right turn off before the film, also foreigners stuggle with his goddamnawful accent. He will soon become consigned to that celebrity scrapheap alongside Carrie Crowley, BIBI Baskin, Pat Ingoldsby, and other random 'great white hopes' of RTE yesteryear - at leats I hope so!
    Your dead right about the cinemas skippin thing...the eye isn't nearly as skipping friendly as the Omniplex is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    by arthouse do you mean those crappy cheap indie films? Cartman said it best a bunch of "Gay Cowboys Eatin Puddin?" - South Park

    Far beit from me to comment on someone else's taste or appreciation for art, but you are a pleb.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    The Onmiplex in Oranmore, is well cool. The seats are like very comfortable car seats, with headrests and all. Plus it's is literally five minutes walking distance from my abode so that's handy.

    Two bad things though:
    1. The smell is terrible, like new car smell amplified ten million fold, nauseating!

    2. Always deserted, I went to see the Amityville Horror last week and there was about twenty people in a screen catering for three hundred.

    Then again that might be a good thing... Ie; never the possibility of it booking out, also no smelly moody fourteen year olds shouting random crap at the screen, "Oi, Cishi, where's my fags.... Whaaa?".

    All in all, the O-Side cinema gets thumbs up, not as cool as the EYE but still very very very very very good! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭DRakE


    I went to see the Amityville Horror last week and there was about twenty people in a screen catering for three hundred.
    Thats because Amityville Horror sucks ;D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    DRakE wrote:
    Thats because Amityville Horror sucks ;D

    Not really, seeing as we (I'm friends with this red haired guy) went to see Ring 2 there also, which was even worse - we were the only people in a screen catering for a few hundred on a FRIDAY night!

    Same thing with Amityville Horror, and as my other friends say - same for them in Sahara, only people there. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    I reckon it will pick up after a while... but still, it is quite dire to be in a cinema screen with only three other people and yourself.

    BTW, Drake, do you really think the Amityville Horror sucked? I thought it was a fairly good aul horror romp... weird at parts by still I thought it was decent... :)

    Unless you're talking about the 1974 version, and that's a whole different ball game... Strobe lighting for the gateway to hell.... ohhhhh..... so realistic...... *GASP* :eek:

    P.S Mobile.... Quote for you... "3.15, time for a ....." Finish the setence!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭johnnyboy4711


    Eye cinema,lovely,shiney not too much of a que to be seen anywhere,nice size cinema very comfy seats,MONG on the screen telling people how to do this and that,felt like sticking my phone in his god awful GOB!
    Ok on TG4 slightly funny put-up-able etc but does this guy have to be everywhere.
    On the plus side hopefully he will burn himself out very soon as familiarity breeds contempt.
    I have a fear that I will be using a public toilet in an airport eg and he will be on a screen telling me that i did not wipe my ass properly!
    scary or what????
    thank god somebody else out there feels that he is unecessary.
    :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭Rredwell


    Demeant0r, how did you get in to see House of flying daggers for a mere €7? I had to pay €12! I nearly had a stroke.

    Yes, the food is heinously exensive too, but it wasn't all bad. Me and a friend were bitching at each other so much whole buying popcorn that we got asked were we a couple. Interesting...

    I completely agree with the Hector comments. Why on earth do they need a whole 2 mins. or so to tell you to abstain from smoking, turn off phones and not chew gum? (Oh, and to that list of RTE's great white hopes may I add Kathryn Thomas and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh?)

    But I think the design of the cinema is great, especially the view over Lough Atalia and the seats in the lobby area. It kind of has a whole airport feel to it.

    Did anyone else hear of the plans to install a bar in the Eye? I think someone has to object to this. You would just end up with a situation where parents would dump their kids in a film and then sit at the bar for 3 hours. I mean, there's the Huntsman across the road and the new hotel (The G) next door, so there will be enough alcohol in the vicinity. Anyone have any idea how one can object to a liquor licence application?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    Rredwell wrote:
    Did anyone else hear of the plans to install a bar in the Eye? I think someone has to object to this. You would just end up with a situation where parents would dump their kids in a film and then sit at the bar for 3 hours. I mean, there's the Huntsman across the road and the new hotel (The G) next door, so there will be enough alcohol in the vicinity. Anyone have any idea how one can object to a liquor licence application?

    With regards to that rumour... It's true.... I was told by one of the managers when I wandered over for a look when it first opened. The bar area is already built... it's now just a matter of stocking it. I suppose it's kinda a bad thing though, ie; drunk people screaming and puking everywhere, while you sitting with your children, trying to watch the newest Pixar movie out. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭DEmeant0r


    Rredwell wrote:
    Demeant0r, how did you get in to see House of flying daggers for a mere €7? I had to pay €12! I nearly had a stroke.

    Yes, the food is heinously exensive too, but it wasn't all bad. Me and a friend were bitching at each other so much whole buying popcorn that we got asked were we a couple. Interesting...

    I completely agree with the Hector comments. Why on earth do they need a whole 2 mins. or so to tell you to abstain from smoking, turn off phones and not chew gum? (Oh, and to that list of RTE's great white hopes may I add Kathryn Thomas and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh?)

    But I think the design of the cinema is great, especially the view over Lough Atalia and the seats in the lobby area. It kind of has a whole airport feel to it.

    Did anyone else hear of the plans to install a bar in the Eye? I think someone has to object to this. You would just end up with a situation where parents would dump their kids in a film and then sit at the bar for 3 hours. I mean, there's the Huntsman across the road and the new hotel (The G) next door, so there will be enough alcohol in the vicinity. Anyone have any idea how one can object to a liquor licence application?
    I don't know, maybe it was student discount or something, I asked the one working if it was in screen 7 and she said yeah, and then I handed over the 7 euros happily. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Nicest cinema I've ever been in! It was very quiet on Saturday night, though. Why????


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 250 ✭✭Chevano Riley


    simu wrote:
    Nicest cinema I've ever been in! It was very quiet on Saturday night, though. Why????
    because they had a drought of a couple of weeks without new films, while omni had Downfall, Garden State, The Assassination of Richard Nixon. I think Eye got Man of teh House. :D. the films they call 'Arthouse' are the ones omni are already showing, and Eye wont put on more that one showing per week.

    also: red walls in every screen (!?)

    omni is a better run cinema out and out.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    I went there last night. It's lovely. It's about twice the walk to get there than to the Omniplex, but worth it all. The luxury screen is sodding great. More legroom than I know what to do with. Comfy leather seats. Yum.


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