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Post by Whizzo on Sept 16, 2024 14:34:27 GMT
On the slim pickings at the cinema this year I'd agree film has been suffering from its own version of long COVID and then the strikes gave it another whack. I've certainly not been going to the cinema as much this year, a normal year (without lockdowns) would normally mean on average twice a week and I've only been to the cinema about 35 times at a quick count of my cinema booking emails.
One thing that it has meant that a lot of older films have come back to the cinema for another run which is quite nice, as I briefly posted earlier I saw Rogue One again last night and the cinema must have been about 75% full for a film a lot of people have already got access to elsewhere. I remembered to book my ticket for next Sunday's Star Wars showing when I got back and it is looking like it's going to be nearly full.
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Post by britesparc on Sept 16, 2024 14:54:33 GMT
Christ, I'd love to be able to go to the cinema twice a week. I'm lucky if I can manage once a fortnight. I think I only went once in August.
Tbh, even pre-kids I think I was only going about 35-40 times a year, and I thought that was pretty good, more than most of my friends went.
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Post by zisssou on Sept 16, 2024 14:57:01 GMT
Anyone fancy Batman & Robin tonight at the Odeon Luxe? £11.. ouch.
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 16, 2024 15:05:47 GMT
Christ, I'd love to be able to go to the cinema twice a week. I'm lucky if I can manage once a fortnight. I think I only went once in August. Tbh, even pre-kids I think I was only going about 35-40 times a year, and I thought that was pretty good, more than most of my friends went. When you're paying 11 quid a month for unlimited films I like to get my money's worth!
Pre-COVID it was quite possible I'd do three films in a day, my own little film festival, but that's incredibly unusual now.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Sept 16, 2024 15:10:37 GMT
Matilda (1996) - 8/10
Showcase's family favourites summer has allowed us to get to the cinema and see things we know our son loves, and TBH this is a big personal favourite of my own, more so than the musical. Absolutely packed with brilliant scenes, Bruce Bogtrotter always being my highlight.
Best of all, there was no one else there to watch it, so we had our own private screening in those massive leather relaxers.
A Paddington replay next month - fingers crossed for the same!
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Post by Tomo on Sept 16, 2024 15:24:55 GMT
I've seen some amazing films this year. Nominees for me so far: Dune 2 Challengers Perfect Days About Dry Grasses Poor Things Zone of Interest All of Us Strangers Speak No Evil But my fave so far this year is La Chimera. Honourable mention to Alien: Romulus... ho ho ho
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Post by Binky on Sept 16, 2024 15:25:53 GMT
Christ, I'd love to be able to go to the cinema twice a week. I'm lucky if I can manage once a fortnight. I think I only went once in August. Tbh, even pre-kids I think I was only going about 35-40 times a year, and I thought that was pretty good, more than most of my friends went. When you're paying 11 quid a month for unlimited films I like to get my money's worth!
Pre-COVID it was quite possible I'd do three films in a day, my own little film festival, but that's incredibly unusual now.
2 things sprung to mind there. 1) oh god, my ass 2) that's a lot of adverts to sit through* *But then I figured perhaps you'd perfected cinema screen timings?
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Post by Tomo on Sept 16, 2024 15:27:07 GMT
Worst film I saw was probably The Beast. Absolute bobbins.
Most disappointing was probably MaXXXine – such a strong franchise, this was surprisingly dull and repeatedly nonsensical.
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Post by rawshark on Sept 16, 2024 15:27:12 GMT
Anyone fancy Batman & Robin tonight at the Odeon Luxe? £11.. ouch.
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Post by Vortex on Sept 16, 2024 15:29:18 GMT
Man alive, i get to the cinema maybe once a year!
Tbf a lot of weekend time is beside football pitches watching the boy, or doing stuff myself, but jeezo, I don't get that kind of free time at all!
Go to quite a few gigs through the year if i can though.
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Post by Tomo on Sept 16, 2024 15:32:56 GMT
I got a Mubi Go sub about 2 years ago, then started compressed hours at work so moved to 4-day week about 12 months ago. Means Friday has basically become cinema day. Great way to chill out before the weekend starts.
Also, I've found myself playing increasingly less games in last 18 months and for probably the first time in my life it doesn't bother me. So I've switched to watching films at cinema or on my (relatively) new 4K TV.
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Post by Vandelay on Sept 16, 2024 15:34:39 GMT
Anyone fancy Batman & Robin tonight at the Odeon Luxe? £11.. ouch. Don't worry about the cost, I'll put on this:
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 16, 2024 15:37:47 GMT
things sprung to mind there. 1) oh god, my ass 2) that's a lot of adverts to sit through* *But then I figured perhaps you'd perfected cinema screen timings? was usually around 30-45 minutes between films so enough time to go for a stretch and get something to eat or drink. Handy when you've got a Morrisons and a Spoons quite close to the cinema.
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Post by britesparc on Sept 16, 2024 15:43:53 GMT
Christ, I'd love to be able to go to the cinema twice a week. I'm lucky if I can manage once a fortnight. I think I only went once in August. Tbh, even pre-kids I think I was only going about 35-40 times a year, and I thought that was pretty good, more than most of my friends went. When you're paying 11 quid a month for unlimited films I like to get my money's worth!
Pre-COVID it was quite possible I'd do three films in a day, my own little film festival, but that's incredibly unusual now.
Yeah, pre-kids we had Unlimited passes too, which I think paid for themselves if you went more than about 25 times a year (we worked it out so we knew we had a kind of bare minimum of cinema visits!). I guess I've always been too busy to do more than that! I think the past five years, apart from COVID, I've averaged about 18-24 cinema visits, something like that. Weirdly there always seems to be one month that I don't go tho; so far I've managed every month this year, so fingers crossed! This might be my best year since 2011!
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Post by Dougs on Sept 16, 2024 15:45:56 GMT
Man alive, i get to the cinema maybe once a year! Tbf a lot of weekend time is beside football pitches watching the boy, or doing stuff myself, but jeezo, I don't get that kind of free time at all! Go to quite a few gigs through the year if i can though. Same boat. Kids even have some cinema vouchers unspent from last Christmas. Been trying to get to see Beetlejuice 2 for weeks.
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Post by Zomoniac on Sept 16, 2024 15:50:03 GMT
Anyone fancy Batman & Robin tonight at the Odeon Luxe? £11.. ouch. 37 people booked in to see it at mine tonight. The anniversary re-releases that Odeon do so often seem to get better attendance than new stuff. Saw yesterday they were showing Interstellar this Friday, went to book on but it’s fully sold out.
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Post by simple on Sept 16, 2024 16:06:19 GMT
I think I’ve only been the cinema once post-covid (Barbarian). Parenting and work just eat up every hour of the day.
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Post by mikeck on Sept 16, 2024 16:30:24 GMT
Saw two great animated films over the weekend, one a first-watch, the other I've seen quite a few times. Nimona (2023) *****Really interesting, visually unique fantasy, mixing cyberpunk futurism with swords & sorcery shenanigans. The plot, with its dissection of "difference" and "who's the real monster" stuff, is fairly on-the-nose, but it's a nice hook to hang the central performances on. Pleasingly progressive, utterly gorgeous, nicely emotional, and incredibly good, gnarly fun for kids. (Netflix) Nimona is a huge hit with our 7 year old daughter, she loves it. It's also a very easy watch for us parents too, the animation is lovely. We bought her the graphic novel it is based on, and it is very different, but also worth a read if you like that sort of thing
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Post by rawshark on Sept 16, 2024 17:42:04 GMT
Anyone fancy Batman & Robin tonight at the Odeon Luxe? £11.. ouch. 37 people booked in to see it at mine tonight. The anniversary re-releases that Odeon do so often seem to get better attendance than new stuff. You’d have to play the drinking game. Drink for every butt shot.
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Post by apollo on Sept 16, 2024 19:17:07 GMT
The watched aka The watchers
There is another Shyamalan (for some reason I thought that was M Night one) The film had potential with interesting set up but it fails to do anything with the premise. Also giant plot holes like the Professors" office left untouched for 32 years on campus? and no one moved th rug in years to find the trap door
Only Dakota Fanning does a good job in the film - with what the bad script gives her, the rest are mixture of crap bbc actors and the old woman is almost like something from the happening (but at least that was so really bad, its funny)
4/10
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Post by britesparc on Sept 16, 2024 20:02:13 GMT
Saw two great animated films over the weekend, one a first-watch, the other I've seen quite a few times. Nimona (2023) *****Really interesting, visually unique fantasy, mixing cyberpunk futurism with swords & sorcery shenanigans. The plot, with its dissection of "difference" and "who's the real monster" stuff, is fairly on-the-nose, but it's a nice hook to hang the central performances on. Pleasingly progressive, utterly gorgeous, nicely emotional, and incredibly good, gnarly fun for kids. (Netflix) Nimona is a huge hit with our 7 year old daughter, she loves it. It's also a very easy watch for us parents too, the animation is lovely. We bought her the graphic novel it is based on, and it is very different, but also worth a read if you like that sort of thing I've not read the whole thing, but funny enough I used to read it occasionally back when ND Stevenson was posting it up page by page online, I guess when they were first writing it. I really need to buy it and read the whole thing.
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Post by brokenkey on Sept 16, 2024 21:08:00 GMT
Speak No Evil (the new one) Thought I'd seen the Danish one. Haven't actually! Thoroughly enjoyed my time with this. Excruciatingly tense at times. James McAvoy was amazing. Almost an Oscar nom worthy grade-A knobhead performance I reckon. Whole cast was decent across the board. Most fun I've had watching a horror in a while. Very intrigued to watch the original now. 9/10 McAvoy's west country accent is abysmal though.
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Post by malek86 on Sept 16, 2024 21:27:10 GMT
The Last Starfighter
Well... I thought it started off ridiculously cringeworthy (see the scene where they all cheer Alex when he's about to break the high score). But the middle part is actually pretty funny. Then the finale is cringeworthy again. Essentially, the movie works best when it's a comedy rather than straight space action.
Of course it looks dated today too. Must have been astounding at the time, except I have a feeling it might have looked relatively simple even back then, because the models are simply too barebone. Tron seemed more impressive to me, perhaps just because it had a more distinct visual style.
6/10
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Post by Tomo on Sept 16, 2024 21:36:40 GMT
Speak No Evil (the new one) Thought I'd seen the Danish one. Haven't actually! Thoroughly enjoyed my time with this. Excruciatingly tense at times. James McAvoy was amazing. Almost an Oscar nom worthy grade-A knobhead performance I reckon. Whole cast was decent across the board. Most fun I've had watching a horror in a while. Very intrigued to watch the original now. 9/10 McAvoy's west country accent is abysmal though. Part of the charm
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Post by Tomo on Sept 16, 2024 21:39:47 GMT
Hit Man - 9/10
Cor, what a treat. Felt like quite an old school 80s/90s Hollywood type set up. Feel like you don't see many films like it any more. Absolutely loved it. Possibly the hottest leading duo going?! Yeesh.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 16, 2024 22:44:27 GMT
Alright put it back in your pants.
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Post by simple on Sept 17, 2024 0:10:54 GMT
The Northman (all4)
This feels like its taking itself very seriously. It got a strong Shakespearean streak, looks hard and bleak, and the violence is pretty brutal. Not sure the acting is super convincing since its very stylised but its a very singular piece of work.
Maybe Eggers weakest film but only because there are moments of iffy cgi or where the budget lets the bigger scope of the film down.
Should be interesting to see what he does with Nosferatu.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 17, 2024 5:53:11 GMT
I started but didn't finish that. As you say. Was a little dry.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 17, 2024 8:46:09 GMT
Baghead - An English Girl inherits and English Pub from her Scottish father. She turns up to the pub with her English friend and an English guy tries to pay her 2k to look in the Pubs spooky basement. So, the movie itself is entirely set in Berlin...
Aside from that being completely jarring, this is possibly the least scary horror movie I have ever seen. Partly because its so stupid, the 'rules' are set out immediately and everyone instantly ignores them, and partly because its just so cheap. It doesn't quite feel finished, its badly edited making it feel really disjointed, badly colour graded and the effects are woeful. Its like a student movie that got out into the wild.
3/10
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Post by retro74 on Sept 17, 2024 21:01:12 GMT
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (ODEON)
I’m not a big Tim Burton fan to be honest, I like his movies but I don’t think he’s ever made one that I love. Was still looking forward to this though, just to see most of the original cast back in their roles
In terms of good bits, I thought Keaton was great (when he was actually in it) and it felt like the exactly same Beetlejuice character from the original. BOB was terrific too and the best thing in it
Bad bits were it was incredibly predictable, especially the daughter’s side plot and Winona Ryder’s acting was bizarre, really hammy facial overreactions that bore no relation to what was happening. It was like she did the whole thing on green screen and was reacting to descriptions- very weird
Also Monica Belluci? What was the point? I said on leaving the cinema “he’s either fucking her or he wants to”, quick google later
Tim Burton Partner : Monica Belluci
Ah! There you go, makes sense now. Casting your other half in a completely pointless role to keep her sweet isn’t for everyone I suppose
Overall a pretty generous..
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