Going to the Cinema during Covid

I rarely buy food in the cinema beyond the occasional hotdog. I wouldn't be opposed to buying some food as condition of ticket. It would have to be temporary tho!

titan18 wrote:

Cork Omniplex have one film on their schedule from 3rd July on (Sonic). Maybe they're putting that Friday as their reopening, or could just be an error

Galway omniplex reopening on the 3rd..now showings announced yet...

No mention of the reopening of the Ennis cinema yet on their website

Wonder what they'll do with the omnipass too, or Cineworld and their multipass.

It's hard to justify keeping it if there's no new films coming out. Tenet and Mulan if they stay justify it, but without those, there's nothing in July. August is rather empty too.

With C19 spiking again in the US, I wonder if some of the big films we're hoping to see here soon will be put on ice again. If American cinemas are forced to rethink their reopening, the studios will surely forego releasing blockbusters in the rest of the world weeks or months earlier than their most lucrative territories.

titan18 wrote: »

Wonder what they'll do with the omnipass too, or Cineworld and their multipass.

It's hard to justify keeping it if there's no new films coming out. Tenet and Mulan if they stay justify it, but without those, there's nothing in July. August is rather empty too.

I have a Cineworld Unlimited Card - they haven't charged the monthly membership for the last 3 months. It will be interesting to see what will happen in July. I reckon the Dublin Cineworld might have to follow guidelines from/align with the UK Cineworlds?

My local is opening next week with lots of older blockbusters, a good mix of family and others. At the moment you can book any seats, I'd imagine that as soon as a group of seats is booked, they block out the seats either side, in front and behind. Be interesting to see. Means they're better off getting bigger groups.
Still won't be going near it for a while, let someone else be the guinea pig.

Omniplex posted there films

Joker, Peter Rabbit, Sonic, Onward, 1917, The Conjuring, The Greatest Showman, The Lego Movie and Spiderman Homecoming.


It's a list of films that makes me not want to go. I'd have taken TDK trilogy and Empire Strikes Back.

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

As much as I love the cinema I don't think I'll be going for a good while yet.

Id go if it was a new release. I'm not sure i can justify going to see films I can just watch at home anyway. Maybe if I was really bored and knew it'd be empty (which I reckon it will) or if there's no out on the omnipass as if I'm still paying for it, might as well use it

I'm surprised there's no uproar about masks like with AMC. Are these cinemas requiring face coverings or not? Can you sue them if you get sick?

Love the cinema but would not risk it again until a new movie really draws me in.

I am looking at the film release calendar and the first movie on it that appeals to me is: The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson (scheduled out in UK on 16 Oct).

silverharp wrote: »

If nobody had invented cinema, you wouldnt do it today unless for novelty value like like the occasional summer drive in or perhaps some kind of festival where its more of an event. While it wont go away soon, it might one of those things when you look back in 10 years and see that 2019 was a hard peak?

People have been saying that since the 80s when VHS and Betamax came out but cinemas when on to be come even more popular.

Cinema will always be popular, big screen sound, atmosphere and reaction of an audience.

It's just something you can't get at home in the same way and I think it will be around for a long time yet.

There's plenty of smaller films shown in the cinemas and there's always The Lighthouse and IFI in Dublin.

I will be heading to cinema this Sunday a fancy one with lots of spacing in cork.
Cannot wait tbh.
Also my first time outside county Dublin since February I think!

I think the point will be my go to for a good while, as everyone says it's half empty to begin with. I'll be going to see allot less films. Gonna let people be guinea pigs to see the measures put in place. I would love to visit the lighthouse but again wait and see

correction wrote: »

Was in an Omniplex Friday night. Was very good. Doors are locked so a member of staff comes to open up when you arrive, hand sanitizing station inside the door. Everything booked online including food and drinks so just scan your QR code at the checkout and they'll hand everything out to you. Plexi glass covering everywhere a staff member might be. No one allowed to the front, back or side of you in the screen.

All in all it felt very safe, there was a fair few people at the cinema too but we still never ended up being anywhere near within 2m of people.

That genuinely sounds great

The biggest problem I have with going to the cinema normally is people being around me (kicking seats, looking at fans etc).

Was it assigned seats on booking or just spaced out and sit where you like?

pixelburp wrote: »

What I think might happen, and the way Blockbusters have been going it has arguably already begun, is that "cinema" becomes a glorified theme park ride. In that one doesn't go because that's the only place to enjoy a modestly budgeted feature film - clearly Amazon and Netflix are hoovering up that space - rather it's where you go for a brain-off cavalcade of outsized superficial stimuli. And because of the sway studios already hold over cinema chains, smaller movies are being squeezed out anyway - witness Disney effectively strong-arming chains by demanding a larger cut of screenings, forcing cinemas to put on more showings.

The modern blockbuster is loud, bombastic and best enjoyed on a large canvas, and often you'll struggle to find anything "smaller" at the movies. To use a tenuous analogy: the car didn't cause the extinction of the horse; rather the animal became a niche hobby with a small, but profitable industry behind it.

I don't disagree with your point in total, I think your points about the shifting economics of cinema is, broadly speaking, correct but at the same time I'm not fully convinced that the future role of the cinema is to increasingly feature as a themepark ride, of sorts, and that it's harder and harder for smaller films to find their way to the screen.

I'm from Galway, for most of my childhood and teenage years there was one cinema around here. It showed all the usual big releases and the odd left-field choice that had made it through the cracks. It wasn't small, it had 11 screens - it probably did as well as any regional cinema in the country in terms of trying to offer a wide variety of films. But, when it came to seeing 80-90% of the indie titles I read about, it was a case of wait for the video/dvd, if you were lucky.

These days Galway has four cinemas, one is particularly art-house focused and all the others offer a variety of choice that would have been simply beyond comprehension twenty years ago. I know it's all anecdotal, but, for me, as a cinema goer there's never been more choice and a greater variety of films to see - or at least there was! - than right now.

Arghus wrote: »

I know it's all anecdotal, but, for me, as a cinema goer there's never been more choice and a greater variety of films to see - or at least there was! - than right now.

Likewise; growing up, my local cinema had 3 screens. Granted, there was a lot more accessible once I was old enough to cycle into Dublin, but the same cinema has about a dozen screens now. For all the empty noise the tent-poles make, choice is better than ever. Some of the smallest screens are hardly worth a trip out though, and that's without the threat of the virus. I'll be monitoring how things are going, but I can't see anything but Tenet tempting me to a cinema for now.