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Post by britesparc on Jul 18, 2023 14:20:06 GMT
I do feel for people who don't live in the North though (for many reasons!). My local Vue is a fiver, and I just paid £14 for my IMAX 70mm Oppenheimer ticket. I'm in posh leafy Surrey and it is still cheap here. About a year or 2 before COVID, Vue cut their prices here and, I think, it is similar price at all their venues, at least the ones outside of cities. Other chains also have all you can eat memberships that for many would work out being even better. Yes, I think I'd heard that somewhere actually - that Vue prices outside city centres are all quite low. I'm pleasantly surprised by the fact that my next two closest cinemas - Odeon and Cineworld - are both below ten pounds a ticket, at least outside of fancy screenings or IMAX. I paid £25 for an IMAX ticket in central London nearly ten years ago, so £14 at (I think) the only other cinema in the country that can show a 70mm IMAX print is pretty good going. It is, of course, a lot more expensive if you're taking other people with you, especially as my kids always want popcorn and stuff (I just - whisper it - sneak a can of Pepsi in with me). I imagine it'll cost me somewhere in the region of £30 to see Barbie.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 18, 2023 14:20:11 GMT
Yeah, I think the cinema ticket cut is almost nil at this point.
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Post by britesparc on Jul 18, 2023 14:20:58 GMT
Yeah, I think the cinema ticket cut is almost nil at this point. I think it's weighted heavily for studios/distributors in the first week of release and then the percentage drops over time, so the cinema gets a bigger and bigger cut. This is why studios always push for a huge opening weekend.
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Post by Vandelay on Jul 18, 2023 14:23:30 GMT
Edit - Britesparc beat me to it.
The amount that goes to the studios is normally on a sliding percentage. First weekend is basically all going to the studio (I have 80% in my head as a regular figure for your big budget Marvel-like films, but could be wrong). That percentage decreases over time.
I believe Vue actually ran into some trouble with studios when they first introduced their new pricing. I think one of the big ones threatened to pull their films, but it ended up not coming to anything.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 18, 2023 14:28:06 GMT
Whereas here all the ticket prices are fixed by the cartel, so every cinema has to be basically the same price. Which makes the remote regional ones much more expensive, comparative to income. The cinemas do seem to have started doing lots of membership deals / point schemes to slightly get away from the headline price though. (about 10 pounds 50, but the yen is super weak right now).
[edit] anyway, if you have kids, it's not the ticket prices that kill you, it's all the popcorn and drinks.
When I go to the cinema by myself I never buy any of that stuff.
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Post by britesparc on Jul 18, 2023 14:36:39 GMT
I used to have a Cineworld Unlimited card and my wife and I would go almost every week (I think I used to see about forty-odd films a year). That was so long ago, though, that it only cost a tenner a month. Isn't it nearly twenty quid now?
Still, good value if you're a proper old movie nerd.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 18, 2023 14:37:59 GMT
I'd have killed for that when I was young and single. These days I'd rather have an unlimited popcorn card
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Post by britesparc on Jul 18, 2023 14:48:59 GMT
The kids' buckets you get at cinemas nowadays - with popcorn, sweets, and a drink - are a blessing and a curse. Pretty decent value compared to buying it all separately, but it's still more than the price of a ticket round my neck of the woods!
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 18, 2023 14:52:41 GMT
At least they include a lot of ketchup and mustard.
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Post by Reviewer on Jul 18, 2023 15:38:25 GMT
All that rustling when trying to watch a film.
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Post by geefe on Jul 18, 2023 15:42:10 GMT
No. Can't be dealing with that. I remember watching Green Room and some cunts behind me were chatting and had nachos with other shite. They put them away after a word.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 18, 2023 17:16:25 GMT
No. Can't be dealing with that. I remember watching Green Room and some cunts behind me were chatting and had nachos with other shite. They put them away after a word. Was the word "what's the movie about?"
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Post by geefe on Jul 18, 2023 17:20:12 GMT
I believe I asked which of the rooms was green.
On a more serious note, I don't really enjoy films based on real events. I'd rather just watch a documentary. I don't mind things set against the backdrop of something but there's too many instances of things being twisted for cinema, that I just want them to make an original story.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 18, 2023 17:21:32 GMT
Who are these people with shaved heads and why are they so angry? What does that logo on those flags mean?
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Post by geefe on Jul 18, 2023 17:22:39 GMT
Why is Picard's voice weird and when does the Enterprise show up?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2023 17:35:37 GMT
I believe I asked which of the rooms was green. On a more serious note, I don't really enjoy films based on real events. I'd rather just watch a documentary. I don't mind things set against the backdrop of something but there's too many instances of things being twisted for cinema, that I just want them to make an original story. I’m the opposite. I’d rather it acted than just watch sad people talk about it into a camera.
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Post by geefe on Jul 18, 2023 17:49:48 GMT
But on point Patrick Stewart was fucking weird casting. Love the man and love Green Room but no.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 18, 2023 17:54:34 GMT
But on point Patrick Stewart was fucking weird casting. Love the man and love Green Room but no. I'll let Patrick know.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2023 17:57:07 GMT
Is he sharing a cell with Brian?
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Post by Reviewer on Jul 18, 2023 17:58:23 GMT
I believe I asked which of the rooms was green. On a more serious note, I don't really enjoy films based on real events. I'd rather just watch a documentary. I don't mind things set against the backdrop of something but there's too many instances of things being twisted for cinema, that I just want them to make an original story. That rules out an awful lot of films: Pretty much all war films, goodfellas (and several other Scorsese films), The Matrix, quite a lot of films by Spielberg, Fincher and many more.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2023 18:00:19 GMT
I still remember when I turned on the news and a computer programmer kung fued 90 versions of the same agent. Chilling stuff.
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Post by Reviewer on Jul 18, 2023 18:02:17 GMT
It wasn’t on the news but we all know it happened.
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Post by geefe on Jul 18, 2023 18:06:29 GMT
Don't get me wrong, some can be great but it's the likes of Argo and Sully, etc. Woohoo. You made a film about an event.
Being inspired by is fine but the documentary will suffice. Case in point - Man on Wire vs the Joseph Gordon Levitt film.
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Post by Whizzo on Jul 18, 2023 19:46:12 GMT
I used to have a Cineworld Unlimited card and my wife and I would go almost every week (I think I used to see about forty-odd films a year). That was so long ago, though, that it only cost a tenner a month. Isn't it nearly twenty quid now? Still, good value if you're a proper old movie nerd. Cineworld Unlimited got rejigged after COVID, it's priced in more bands other than West End and everywhere else, my local cinema is in the smallest and cheapest group so it £10.99 a month, cheaper than ever. As I've been a member over a year my Black card gives 25% off concession stand prices too but as I usually walk the two miles I've got my water bottle on me so that isn't much of a factor. Lunchtime screenings are different though, I'll get a meal deal from the Morrisons that's 200 metres away!
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Post by Reviewer on Jul 18, 2023 21:29:33 GMT
I used to have one which, before kids and with my work office being a 5 walk from a cineworld meant I’d go and see 2-4 films a month.
Now I work from home 90% of the time and have next to no time available anyway but the unlimited card is £20 a month for a shitty cinema which kills off any interest.
There is an independent cinema that’s about half the price and the big screen is fantastic but I always forget about it as it’s in a nearby town I never go to.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jul 19, 2023 1:34:32 GMT
Can't you sign up to their email newsletter or something? So they keep reminding you of their existence.
On a different note, while watching Guardians 3, with it's slimy organic space stations and giant skull head space stations, did anyone else want them to make a 40k movie? With Nathan Fillion as a space marine.
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Post by aubergine on Jul 19, 2023 10:46:38 GMT
One more episode of Secret Invasion coming next week. The deafening lack of discussion makes me think everyone is watching it, because it’s there, but barely cares about it.
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Post by Whizzo on Jul 19, 2023 11:09:02 GMT
It's just pretty much rubbish. One line of dialogue in the latest episode hints that it had a reduced budget than it was supposed to as well, Gravik said the awful action scene from the last episode happened on a motorway, it was a B road at best. If it had supposed to have been on a motorway it may have been a bit more epic rather than it turned out.
The writing is all over the place and I'm not sure why they bothered.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 19, 2023 11:13:39 GMT
Had a chat about it in work with a die hard MCU fan and even he's struggling with it. Doesn't exactly make me want to rush into watching it.
Positives - Samuel L Jackson Negatives - everything else
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 19, 2023 11:18:35 GMT
It's average; I've had more fun watching the Lincoln Lawyer and that's just a bloke in a car doing a lot of paperwork.
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