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Anyone else here remember when cinemas were good?

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  • #32
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,414 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Try Private Moments on Dorset Street, think that's what you're after ........

    *Don't ask for butter on your popcorn*

    I do not eat popcorn its horrible stuff so no worry there.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #33
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    maudgonner wrote: »
    TV shows are better now that they ever have been. Seriously, some of us remember Matlock.
    You're probably the sort who thinks Breaking Bad is superior to Murder, She Wrote, and The Wire is better than TJ Hooker!

    :pac:


  • #34
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    You're probably the sort who thinks Breaking Bad is superior to Murder, She Wrote, and The Wire is better than TJ Hooker!

    :pac:


    NEVER!!!


  • #35
    sryanbruen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,680 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    AMKC wrote: »
    I do not eat popcorn its horrible stuff so no worry there.

    I thought I was the only one! :):D:o

    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



  • #36
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,616 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    I don't attend cinemas, they are an odd setup, I don't have anyone to go with and if you attend yourself you receive stares from people and whispering,



    that is a strange reason to stop you going to a film you want to see, who cares if people stare? if they do it is them who has the problem, not you. I go to the cinema on my own all the time, I have never seen anyone stare at me,not that it would bother me if they did, i could go with friends but prefer to go alone, its more relaxing that way.


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  • #37
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Zaph wrote: »
    Anyone else here remember when AH threads had proper, non-clickbait titles that gave you some hint as to what the thread was about?
    That was quite a long, long time ago :(


  • #38
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    ........in a Galaxy far, far away............


  • #39
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Mr.S wrote: »
    You do realise that nearly every 3D film is also in 2D....?

    Was this in reply to a particular post?

    Just that this page of posts is mainly about popcorn, page before handjobs - oh yeah a bit about being looked at if you go in alone :)


  • #40
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    Just that this page of posts is mainly about popcorn,
    Very Unlikely but still.....................in the event that somebody reading this thread is thinking of opening a cinema in their own town....IMHO......instead why not open a:

    1. Purely Popcorn store - this has been done in the Swan Centre Rathmines. I'm serious.
    2. Open a discount store, and sell Star Wars Darkside digital watches, plastic lightsabres and other tat.
    Good Luck.;):D


  • #41
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Years ago films were great because going to the cinema was a big treat. It was maybe a three or four time a year thing for when big Blockbuster films like star wars or ET were released.

    Back then films were far better than the mass produced crap that passes for films today. Kids go to see crap films once a week and they don't even watch the movie, they go to chat and make noise in the cinema. After ten minutes they are bored.

    We sat through many films years ago and you could hear a mouse fart the concentration on the film was so intense. The old special effects were enthralling and kept us riveted to the old armchair type seats and cinemas were proper large theatres where now they are just long narrow sterile rooms with a row of speakers down the sides and screen at the end.

    Bring back the Colosseums and the old Dara cinema in Naas and the flea pit stalls, the double seats and the 2 jam-jar matinees.


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  • #42
    sryanbruen
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    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Years ago films were great because going to the cinema was a big treat. It was maybe a three or four time a year thing for when big Blockbuster films like star wars or ET were released.

    Back then films were far better than the mass produced crap that passes for films today. Kids go to see crap films once a week and they don't even watch the movie, they go to chat and make noise in the cinema. After ten minutes they are bored.

    We sat through many films years ago and you could hear a mouse fart the concentration on the film was so intense. The old special effects were enthralling and kept us riveted to the old armchair type seats and cinemas were proper large theatres where now they are just long narrow sterile rooms with a row of speakers down the sides and screen at the end.

    Bring back the Colosseums and the old Dara cinema in Naas and the flea pit stalls, the double seats and the 2 jam-jar matinees.

    This man preaches the truth out of my mouth!

    Photography site - https://sryanbruenphoto.com/



  • #43
    branie2
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    I think they're still good


  • #44
    cowboyBuilder
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    I could direct you to a classic cinema, with a big screen, comfortable seats, a big steep drop between rows of seats so even if Michael Jordan was sat in front of you - it wouldn't matter.

    Amazing Dolby ATMOS sound.

    70MM rare showings.

    Shows new and classic films.

    Just a few nights ago they showed GoldFinger in 4k!!!

    It's in Barcelona tho :o


  • #45
    matchthis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭matchthis


    cowboyBuilder wrote: »
    I could direct you to a classic cinema, with a big screen, comfortable seats, a big steep drop between rows of seats so even if Michael Jordan was sat in front of you - it wouldn't matter.

    Amazing Dolby ATMOS sound.

    70MM rare showings.

    Shows new and classic films.

    Just a few nights ago they showed GoldFinger in 4k!!!

    It's in Barcelona tho :o

    The one in Wexford or the other one?


  • #46
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I still enjoy going to the cinema. It's nice to be able to sit in a large comfortable chair, enjoy a good beer and watch a movie on a huge screen. Watched the Good, the Bad and the Ugly this week, first time seeing it in the cinema. Goodfellas coming up soon, looking forward to that.


  • #47
    LordSutch
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    I think they're a lot better now then I were a nipper, many moons ago.

    Better seating, digital quality pictures (instead of analogue), and no haze from all the smoke!

    Difficult for younger folk to believe, but nearly all the men smoked in the cinema back in ther day, and when you came home from 'the flicks' you too reaked of fags (even if you didn't smoke). So I think the cinemas are much better nowadays, even if some of the Movies are not up to scratch.


  • #48
    cassid
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    Went to a see films in Fairview, northside of Dublin.

    It had a smell that was unique to the place.

    Would stock up on a quarter of sweets in a little brown bag, bought from the corner shop and if you were really plush like after a communion, you could afford to buy a drink or an icepop. Everything just seemed to taste nicer from the cinema.

    Bus stop just outside and hopefully you remembered the bus you were told to get or did not throw it away on sweets


  • #49
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    I don't attend cinemas, they are an odd setup, I don't have anyone to go with and if you attend yourself you receive stares from people and whispering, it is odd because that is not the case if you go to a sporting event or concert on your one (most of the time anyway)
    I wonder why watching a film in a theatre is seen to be some sort of social occasion and why people don't go on their own like grocery shopping or a barbers.
    I have only met one person who went on their own, that was because there was a theatre beside their university

    This simply doesn't happen. People don't stare at you for going to the cinema on your own.


  • #50
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    pgj2015 wrote: »
    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    I don't attend cinemas, they are an odd setup, I don't have anyone to go with and if you attend yourself you receive stares from people and whispering,



    that is a strange reason to stop you going to a film you want to see, who cares if people stare? if they do it is them who has the problem, not you. I go to the cinema on my own all the time, I have never seen anyone stare at me,not that it would bother me if they did, i could go with friends but prefer to go alone, its more relaxing that way.

    It is not something that bothers me as nowadays you can watch new releases on the computer and I go to everything else on my own such as concerts even though you do hear the odd annoying comment at them too


  • #51
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    pickarooney wrote: »
    This simply doesn't happen. People don't stare at you for going to the cinema on your own.

    that is just from your experience,
    we all have had different experiences and i have heard the comments with my own ears.


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  • #52
    MonkieSocks
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    This simply doesn't happen. People don't stare at you for going to the cinema on your own.


    They do if, you’re wearing a Top Hat.

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #53
    pgj2015
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    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    that is just from your experience,
    we all have had different experiences and i have heard the comments with my own ears.

    id say its just an insecurity you might have about going to the cinema on your own, that makes you think people are staring at you because you are on your own. im sure you look at the other people in the cinema, do they think "is that person looking at me because im with other people"?


  • #54
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Remember when things were better before the ravages of age and a world that insists on kicking you down every time you get a small glimpse of happiness?


  • #55
    darkpagandeath
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    Ah yes, Sticky floors and funny smelling back row.


  • #56
    manyoung
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    Even though it scared me as a child, things just aren't the same without this.


  • #57
    JackieBauer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭JackieBauer


    Cinemas here can be crap but go to the pictures in Rhodes, Greece and you will enter a whole new world - The third world


  • #58
    JackieBauer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭JackieBauer


    On a serious note, I wish these entitled online "dudes" get hacked by China. I never read full threads on AH but I have this one (a mistake) Most people are ok but there is a disgusting stench of entitlement, there really is. Shut down the internet tomorrow and their life is OVER


  • #59
    MilesMorales1
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    I go the cinema on my own all the time, can't say I've ever experienced people looking at me funny, or whispering about it, whatever. Don't make a big deal about it, no one else will.


  • #60
    sassyj
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    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    I go the cinema on my own all the time, can't say I've ever experienced people looking at me funny, or whispering about it, whatever. Don't make a big deal about it, no one else will.
    Likewise, very regular cinema goer, often on own, including Fri/Sat evenings! Plenty of other folk on their own too. It's common place.

    I love seeing a film in the cinema, the experience is much better. I don't buy the drinks or popcorn, it's all crap and overpriced. Some people make awful pigs of themselves at the cinema. Nothing worse then having to listen to munching and rustling.


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  • #61
    Capt'n Midnight
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    manyoung wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8h6XlHSsak

    Even though it scared me as a child, things just aren't the same without this.
    Having ads in the cinema that are the same as on TV just ruined the experience.

    Cinemas should have never let that happen, it's removed yet another differentiator so why not watch the film on TV too ?


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