Going to the Cinema during Covid

Theboinkmaster · 06-03-2020 11:21PM

speedboatchase wrote: »

The media is reporting cases and the markets. You might think the market is overreacting but perception is reality and right now we're heading for a global recession until things calm down. You might not get the virus, but you might lose your job.

Absolutely - 2020 had all the indicators of a global recession before the virus, now its a certainty IMO.

spurious · 06-03-2020 11:50PM

Not a fan of late evening and night time shows. If the Odeon put some decent films on before 6 o'clock instead of wall to wall children's crap, I would use my Limitless card more.
Thinking I bought a bit of a lemoner. Cineworld show decent films in all slots.

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 07-03-2020 12:10AM

Yeah I'm still going to go. I don't see the point of isolating myself at home. Sure the postman dropping in my mail through the postbox could give me coronavirus.

I'm young(ish) reasonably fit and healthy, don't smoke, run and exercise. I'm only worried about being a vector and passing it onto other people.

Ikozma · 07-03-2020 12:17AM

If the film is any good then yes I would

otnomart · 07-03-2020 08:41AM

Interesting article in the Guardian
"More than half of Italy’s cinemas are closed and regulations prohibit people from sitting less than a metre away from each other in public.
Mario Lorini, president of ANEC, the national association of exhibitors, has unveiled a system he hopes would comply and enable cinemas to remain open: allowing the booking of every third seat in a row, with empty seats directly in front and behind"

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/06/cinema-coronavirus-projected-5bn-loss

silverharp · 07-03-2020 12:19PM

just go to the Point Village cinema , you normally get a row to yourself , how it stays open is beyond me

JP Liz V1 · 08-03-2020 12:12AM

I will wear gloves and take hand santiser with me, but some films you just have to see on the big screen, just need to clean clean clean the hands before and after, get ocd with the hand washing

branie2 · 08-03-2020 12:22PM

I'll still be going

silverharp · 08-03-2020 03:37PM

cant think of any movies I want to see until the summer, Top Gun 17th July

AMKC · 08-03-2020 07:24PM

spurious wrote: »

Not a fan of late evening and night time shows. If the Odeon put some decent films on before 6 o'clock instead of wall to wall children's crap, I would use my Limitless card more.
Thinking I bought a bit of a lemoner. Cineworld show decent films in all slots.

I agree Odeon have gone terribly bad lately. They used to be so much better.

fryup · 08-03-2020 11:05PM

i'm showing my age here - but i grew up in a time when smoking was allowed in cinemas, you'd be watching a film through a haze of smoke, with people coughing & spluttering not only that but you'd have sticky floors from split fizzy drinks, chewing gum, sweets etc

you'd come out of the place with bloodshot eyes, and your clothes rank stinking of cigarettes.....ah but dem were the days

Arghus · 10-03-2020 01:59AM

I tend to go to arty films in the middle of the day so I don't think there's much to worry about.

Unearthly · 10-03-2020 06:36AM

I say it's only a matter of time before films get delayed like Bond.

Larbre34 · 10-03-2020 06:44AM

You'll be going until they are closed down under emergency powers legislation.

Like many leisure and personal service industries, the next 12 months could be catastrophic.

dublinman1990 · 10-03-2020 08:37PM

Peter Rabbit 2 has it's cinema release delayed until the 7th of August.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/0310/1121432-peter-rabbit-2-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-concerns/

Bacchus · 10-03-2020 09:12PM

https://www.newstalk.com/news/covid-19-omniplex-cinema-chain-announces-seat-separation-plan-980578

Omniplex announced seat separate plans so that every second seat will be empty. I guess they'd rather 50% occupancy than risk empty screenings due to public fears.

Seems a bit excessive TBH but I can see how they think this might make cinema goers feel "safer".

pixelburp · 10-03-2020 09:56PM

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Peter Rabbit 2 has now it's cinema release delayed until the 7th of August.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/0310/1121432-peter-rabbit-2-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-concerns/

And nothing of value was lost.

McLoughlin · 10-03-2020 10:27PM

Bacchus wrote: »

https://www.newstalk.com/news/covid-19-omniplex-cinema-chain-announces-seat-separation-plan-980578

Omniplex announced seat separate plans so that every second seat will be empty. I guess they'd rather 50% occupancy than risk empty screenings due to public fears.

Seems a bit excessive TBH but I can see how they think this might make cinema goers feel "safer".

Well that is gonna ruin things with the girlfriend when the film gets a bit crap and predictable.

gmisk · 10-03-2020 10:30PM

silverharp wrote: »

just go to the Point Village cinema , you normally get a row to yourself , how it stays open is beyond me

I have never seen such a quite cinema stay open for so long, it must be making a huge loss

santana75 · 10-03-2020 11:57PM

Bacchus wrote: »

https://www.newstalk.com/news/covid-19-omniplex-cinema-chain-announces-seat-separation-plan-980578

Omniplex announced seat separate plans so that every second seat will be empty. I guess they'd rather 50% occupancy than risk empty screenings due to public fears.

Seems a bit excessive TBH but I can see how they think this might make cinema goers feel "safer".

Seems very excessive. Literally 50% less than normal. I hope nobody loses their job over this.

Tony EH · 11-03-2020 02:12AM

You're more likely to catch something at work, which you go to every week day.

pixelburp · 11-03-2020 10:07AM

gmisk wrote: »

I have never seen such a quite cinema stay open for so long, it must be making a huge loss

This is friend-of-a-friend talk, so take it with a pinch of salt: my understanding is that the few occupied units in Point Village are basically locked into long-term contracts, signed before the crash & PV became a pointless endeavour. I believe Dunnes Stores were meant to be the prime tenant, but they & the centre's owners have been or were locked in a legal battle. Dunnes basically refusing to set up in that otherwise vacant shopping centre, with the PV owners naturally arguing "you agreed". You can even tell where Dunnes should be; there's a huge empty plot that's exactly "large retail shopping franchise" size.

So I presume that Odeon is running a huge loss every night, but is stuck there until its lease runs out. Unless of course it's actually making a packet but I really, really doubt it. Even my local cinema in a mature, fully developed shopping centre rarely packs them in (bar outsized box office successes) so god knows how few are darkening that Odeon's doors. The whole centre is a testament to Celtic Tiger hubris; and the one thing that filled its halls every year - the Christmas market - was forced out so even that won't be around this coming season.

murpho999 · 11-03-2020 04:04PM

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

I will wear gloves and take hand santiser with me, but some films you just have to see on the big screen, just need to clean clean clean the hands before and after, get ocd with the hand washing

There's no need to wear gloves.

Also, you're not going to get the virus from touching a chair it's from sharing a room and breathing the same air.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 11-03-2020 04:06PM

I always tend to wait until the hype of a film dies down before I decide to go see it anyway. In other words, every time I go to the cinema, it's never full of people, and I always sit at the back, at an aisle seat. So I'm not near anyone

El Duda · 11-03-2020 04:17PM

Me and some mates have tickets booked for a screening of Memories of Murder (2003) in London in a couple of weeks. It would take something special to stop me from going.

12-03-2020 11:44AM

El Duda wrote: »

Me and some mates have tickets booked for a screening of Memories of Murder (2003) in London in a couple of weeks. It would take something special to stop me from going.

A global pandemic perhaps? :pac:

branie2 · 12-03-2020 01:25PM

I normally have a row to myself when I go to the cinema

Bacchus · 12-03-2020 02:31PM

Wonder will cinemas in Ireland now have to limit audience to 100 people per showing with the new rules in place till end of month?

sterz · 12-03-2020 06:38PM

IFI closed until March 30th.

https://ifi.ie/2020/03/irish-film-institute-temporary-closure/

pixelburp · 12-03-2020 06:44PM

Lordy, anyone not particularly "indoors'y" is going to be driven spare. Cabin Fever is probably going to be the real infection. Crazy amount of
businesses and outlets closing for the 2 weeks.

Going to the Cinema during Covid

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