Anyone else here remember when cinemas were good?

Capt'n Midnight · 21-03-2016 03:16AM

Mr.S wrote: »

You do realise that nearly every 3D film is also in 2D....?

Just get two sets of 3D glasses and swap the lenses so you have a set with two lefts and the other set with two rights

Jim Bob Scratcher · 21-03-2016 04:36AM

People still go to the cinema in this day and age ?

I thought they died out years ago like extra vision :pac:

K-9 · 21-03-2016 09:29AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Remember when they used to show a cartoon before the film? You'd have your Macaroon bar ate and your Smak Pineapple drunk before Who Framed Roger Rabbit started.

And the rats running around your feet to keep you sharp.

Tickets are about €6 here on Tuesday night, seems fair enough, drink and nuts for a tenner all in. Won't buy sweets there anymore, absolute rip off.

K-9 · 21-03-2016 09:32AM

AMKC wrote: »

Cinema,s were good.
They really are gone to the dogs these days. Was thinking of going to catch a few films but there is nothing good on. Would get it hard to book one film never mind 3 or 4.
The solution is simple and hopefully it happens sooner rather than latter. Get rid of 3D films they are the biggest load of bull****. Then the cinema,s can run a proper schedule again and we can all go see 3 or 4 films in one day again that was when cinema,s were good.

There are some great films out if you go past the usual blockbuster spoon fed stuff. High Rise is out next week I think, looks good. Still some good Independent or alternative choices out there.

K-9 · 21-03-2016 09:39AM

TheOtherBloke wrote: »

Cinemas will be history very soon because you can watch all of the latest films online at home

And for free.

Not really. You're like the TV guy in Hail, Ceaser! predicting the fall of cinema in the 50's or the video store owner the same in the 80's.

murpho999 · 21-03-2016 10:13AM

LordSutch wrote: »

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.

Would agree with all except the quality.

Older films were always film (not analogue) and were high quality. Today is a mix of both.

whisky_galore · 21-03-2016 12:33PM

With the demolition of a well known cinema, there were online outpourings of grief and comments that 'they should put a cinema back there again'.

It was a brutally ugly building, my abiding memory of the interior were half-cleaned carpets your feet would nearly glue onto with generations of spilled popcorn and soft drinks.

Faith+1 · 21-03-2016 12:37PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

With the demolition of a well known cinema, there were online outpourings of grief and comments that 'they should put a cinema back there again'.

It was a brutally ugly building, my abiding memory of the interior were half-cleaned carpets your feet would nearly glue onto with generations of spilled popcorn and soft drinks.

Yep...it was a sh*tehole alright

Grayditch · 21-03-2016 12:40PM

I'd go to the IFI or places like that, but not the big cinemas that are full of cretins talking in their phone.

MilesMorales1 · 21-03-2016 01:41PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

With the demolition of a well known cinema, there were online outpourings of grief and comments that 'they should put a cinema back there again'.

It was a brutally ugly building, my abiding memory of the interior were half-cleaned carpets your feet would nearly glue onto with generations of spilled popcorn and soft drinks.

Nostalgia is an amazing thing, convincing us complete ****e was actually amazing.

whisky_galore · 21-03-2016 01:43PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Nostalgia is an amazing thing, convincing us complete ****e was actually amazing.

Nostalgia fills in the potholes of Memory Lane.

sassyj · 21-03-2016 02:13PM

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

People still go to the cinema in this day and age ? I thought they died out years ago like extra vision :pac:

Practically every week! Have been known to go twice some weeks

Anyone else here remember when cinemas were good?

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