jono62
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Post by jono62 on May 30, 2023 14:29:56 GMT
How the fuck do you fit an XL pizza into a backpack. Was it definitely a backpack? As opposed to, you know, a large suitcase. It was Gary Fuckface and it moulded round his back. |
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Post by Saul1138 on May 30, 2023 14:32:27 GMT
If it is the one, I am hazy on whether it was an Odeon or not, that was the one I went to see the Star Wars SE’s. I was studying Fine Art there, in the building opposite. I lived a little up the road from it.
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Post by geefe on May 30, 2023 14:45:42 GMT
Bring back ushers. I think cinemas should be a silent experience and if it's shite, you just leave. It's why I rarely go now as I just end up telling people to shut the fuck up. I can imagine you doing that during the ads before the film. I found I started enjoying cinema trips more when I picked seats closer to the screen, and didn’t have to worry about silhouettes of bobbing heads, mid-film toilet trips or the glow of everyone’s phones. No, people are fine to talk through adverts. Actually I'm rather on board with it. Though I try and get there close to film time and if it's still adverts I'll wait outside. I'm not being shouted at to buy a car, fuck you very much. |
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Post by HoyaWobmaJ on May 30, 2023 14:48:26 GMT
How the fuck do you fit an XL pizza into a backpack. Was it definitely a backpack? As opposed to, you know, a large suitcase. It was Gary Fuckface and it moulded round his back. No doubt he picked it up from Naples before he went to the cinema. |
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Post by KD on May 30, 2023 14:50:37 GMT
I started taking some cans of White Claw to the cinema, get a little drunk and nobody around me smells the alcohol.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 30, 2023 14:55:56 GMT
No, people are fine to talk through adverts. Actually I'm rather on board with it. Though I try and get there close to film time and if it's still adverts I'll wait outside. I'm not being shouted at to buy a car, fuck you very much. I still have a soft spot for proper old-school cinema adverts, the ones you used to see before *every* movie for about 10 years because they almost never changed them.
I can still recite this one off by heart, although I think at the time I was way too young to know what Bacardi was. I assumed it was something like lemonade.
Don't make me start posting other ones!
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Post by Whizzo on May 30, 2023 15:24:05 GMT
How the fuck do you fit an XL pizza into a backpack. Was it definitely a backpack? As opposed to, you know, a large suitcase. It was probably closer to a calzone when they opened the box but I don't think they cared too much about the presentation. |
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Post by simple on May 30, 2023 15:34:47 GMT
Niche local adverts were always good at the cinema. The UCI at the Metro Centre used to run an ad for Sadie The Bra Lady who was a middle aged woman from up near Consett before basically every movie for years.
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Post by gamingdave on May 30, 2023 17:18:59 GMT
Further into rural Northumberland, and the local cinema had an ad for one of the local Indian restaurants and the builders merchants before the trailers (and cartoons) which were probably shown for over 10 years - I can still see them in my head.
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Post by eleven63 on May 30, 2023 17:47:08 GMT
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Paris (don't shoot the messenger), April 1969. I was 5 1/2 my brother nearly 4. Thankfully it was shown in English with French subtitles.
We did attempt to see Grand Prix, 1966. But given that I was 3, my brother a baby, and it's a really noisy film, we had to leave due to brothers crying. Not sure what my parents were thinking.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 30, 2023 18:11:53 GMT
You did get to see what feels like 3 hours of motor racing at the start, so it all evens out.
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Post by Lukus on May 30, 2023 20:01:23 GMT
I think technically Bambi was the first film I saw at the cinema, though it was some weird school trip when we were about 5 and so my only memory of it is the place being like a disaster zone full of sobbing children when *spoilers* his mum gets her face blasted off.
The film I properly remember as being my first cinema trip (I think for my brother's birthday) is Honey I Shrunk the Kids. And I also remember Robin Hood Prince of Thieves being the next! We didn't go to the cinema very often as a family.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 30, 2023 20:14:15 GMT
One thing I do reflect on is being just old enough to catch the absolute decline of franchises. I’ve only seen Superman 4, Karate Kid 3, robocop 3, police academy 6 and, obviously, Indy 4 at the cinema.
Lucky they released the OT special editions before Phantom Menace or late gen x would be cursed.
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Post by HoyaWobmaJ on May 30, 2023 20:19:58 GMT
I'm not sure why I actively chose to spend my pocket money on Police Academy 7 Mission to Moscow.
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Post by Nitrous on May 30, 2023 20:57:28 GMT
I genuinely can't remember. Probably a Bugs Life with my mum or Toy Story.
Had a similar conversation at work when the subject of a cruise came up. Basically wouldn't go on one, what if it sinks? I said someone has been watching a bit too much Titanic until I thought about... "You wasn't even born when it was released at the cinema"
It just made us feel very old. Wouldn't believe me that you could smoke on a plane either or see inside where the pilot sat. Blew her tiny mind haha
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Post by muddyfunster on May 30, 2023 21:11:42 GMT
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Paris (don't shoot the messenger), April 1969. I was 5 1/2 my brother nearly 4. Thankfully it was shown in English with French subtitles. We did attempt to see Grand Prix, 1966. But given that I was 3, my brother a baby, and it's a really noisy film, we had to leave due to brothers crying. Not sure what my parents were thinking. Grand Prix is such an incredible film for fans of historic racing. The lengths they went to for authenticity is still amazing. It includes genuine Grand Prix footage and many of the real drivers are extras. A few even have lines. They stuck cams on the cars and the lead actor supposedly trained for months and got to a very decent club racing level. The cast and crew just followed the season for a while and were accepted as part of the circus. It's not an amazing plot it anything but the it's an interesting historical document of the time. And if you don't like Motorsport, Francois Hardy is just absurdly attractive. Probably the main reason why the intrusive filming was tolerated! |
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Post by geefe on May 30, 2023 22:10:17 GMT
I'm not sure why I actively chose to spend my pocket money on Police Academy 7 Mission to Moscow. First movie shot in Russia post Communism. I rented it from the video shop. |
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Post by AccidentProne on May 31, 2023 6:45:31 GMT
One of my earliest memories is the massive queue around the market square in Cambridge for Star Wars, so I'd always assumed this was my first film. I also remember seeing Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, which was apparently out before Star Wars, though that could have been a re-release or one of those Saturday morning matinee things mentioned above.
Also have memories of being terrified by Watership Down around this time too.
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Post by gamingdave on May 31, 2023 8:58:23 GMT
I'm not sure why I actively chose to spend my pocket money on Police Academy 7 Mission to Moscow. Me too, even if it was the cheap Monday night showing, and it was the only time I have ever walked out of the cinema before the end of the film. |
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Post by wunty on May 31, 2023 9:01:32 GMT
Niche local adverts were always good at the cinema. The UCI at the Metro Centre used to run an ad for Sadie The Bra Lady who was a middle aged woman from up near Consett before basically every movie for years. UCI! I was trying to remember the chain that we used to go to. That was it. |
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Post by Dougs on May 31, 2023 11:53:10 GMT
Another distinct cinema memory as a kid was my brother taking me to see Crocodile Dundee (a 15 at the time) when I was 12/13. Silly arse asked for "one and a half please". We watched Trail of the Pink Panther instead (whichever one was stitched together after Sellars died)
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 31, 2023 13:27:58 GMT
I'm not sure why I actively chose to spend my pocket money on Police Academy 7 Mission to Moscow. Me too, even if it was the cheap Monday night showing, and it was the only time I have ever walked out of the cinema before the end of the film. I'm gonna assume it was the poster promoting Callahan's assets. |
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Post by EMarkM on May 31, 2023 13:33:31 GMT
On a related note, and I believe I raised this at the old place, as well as on a couple of relevant Subreddits, without really getting a specific answer, but I have a cinema memory that I have never really been able to get to the bottom of.
Back in the late 70s/early 80s, we went along to watch whatever movie was on at the time and, amongst the trailers and adverts, they showed a short film which felt like a trailer for something that was coming up, but I have since been advised that it may have been one of many experimental "shorts" that used to appear.
The setting was a forest, presumably in medieval or fantasy times, as the character that appeared was the traditional "knight in shining armour".
At some point, he either was attacked or otherwise fell into a river. As he sank, drowning due to the weight of his armour, a female voice declared, "take me off!", implying that the armour was magical and sentient, and that it knew he would drown if he kept it on.
Does that mean anything to anyone else?
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Post by dfunked on May 31, 2023 13:48:01 GMT
The timing kind of lines up with Excalibur. Could've been "take me up" instead of "take me off"? Can't remember those words being used in the film, but they're written on the sword.
It has a scene with Perceval drowning and taking off his armour iirc. (trying to avoid sticking it on now while I'm supposed to be working!)
It's a cracker of a film regardless.
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Post by EMarkM on May 31, 2023 14:04:42 GMT
The timing kind of lines up with Excalibur. Could've been take me up instead of take me off? Can't remember those words being used in the film, but they're written on the sword. It has a scene with Perceval drowning and taking off his armour iirc. (trying to avoid sticking it on now while I'm supposed to be working!) It's a cracker of a film regardless. Bloody hell! I wonder if it actually was... More research needed by me, but thanks for that suggestion :-) |
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 31, 2023 14:25:34 GMT
Excalibur would have been my guess too, but I don't remember that scene. It sounds like the sort of thing it'd have. Either that or Lord of the Rings  |
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Post by nemesis on May 31, 2023 19:30:29 GMT
Ahhhhh. Excalibur. Don’t take the armour off mate you won’t be staying in the bed long.
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Post by nemesis on May 31, 2023 19:34:17 GMT
Oh. And Spider-Man in ‘77 is my first film that I can recall. Apparently I went and saw Star Wars, but that I have no memory of. 🤷♂️
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Post by Lizard on Jun 1, 2023 4:40:03 GMT
On a related note, and I believe I raised this at the old place, as well as on a couple of relevant Subreddits, without really getting a specific answer, but I have a cinema memory that I have never really been able to get to the bottom of. Back in the late 70s/early 80s, we went along to watch whatever movie was on at the time and, amongst the trailers and adverts, they showed a short film which felt like a trailer for something that was coming up, but I have since been advised that it may have been one of many experimental "shorts" that used to appear. The setting was a forest, presumably in medieval or fantasy times, as the character that appeared was the traditional "knight in shining armour". At some point, he either was attacked or otherwise fell into a river. As he sank, drowning due to the weight of his armour, a female voice declared, "take me off!", implying that the armour was magical and sentient, and that it knew he would drown if he kept it on. Does that mean anything to anyone else? Early cut of Alien 3 for sure. |
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Post by clemfandango on Jun 1, 2023 7:38:06 GMT
One of my earliest memories is the massive queue around the market square in Cambridge for Star Wars, so I'd always assumed this was my first film. I also remember seeing Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, which was apparently out before Star Wars, though that could have been a re-release or one of those Saturday morning matinee things mentioned above. Also have memories of being terrified by Watership Down around this time too. I got the watership down treat at a party in a pub, all the parents got pissed downstairs and 10 kids were sent upstairs in the house bit and we watched watership down. I think we all were aged 4-11. Absolute nightmare fuel |
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