Your Best and Worst Cinema Experiences

Ironhide wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:
... My all time best experiences would be back in the old days when there were intermissions and little old ladies bringing round wooden trays selling cornettos and tubs of ice cream back when there were almost no adds just like two trailers then your Movie and there was the let's all go to the lobby dancing good jingle.

You're roughly the same age as me but I don't remember pcinemas ever having intermissions or the "let's all go to the lobby" jingle.

I guess it varied depending on which cinema you went to, the cinema I used to go to as a kid (at Crystsal Peaks near Sheffield) was fairly new at the time so probably didn't have that tradition. The only other cinema I've ever frequented is the one at Meadowhall and that was at least 15 years ago.

I have been to Meadowhall but never went to the cinema there.
Most of my early Cinema visiting time was spent at a one screen independent Cinema in my hometown so I guess it was a little old fashioned and behind the times, I wouldn't change it for the world though... It was closed years ago but a company brought the building recently and was going to reopen it but then coronovirus happened.

Ironhide wrote:You're roughly the same age as me but I don't remember cinemas ever having intermissions or the "let's all go to the lobby" jingle.

Lyme Regis did that during the Lord of the Rings movies.

I think every cinema should do it. Films are too bloody long.

Chocolate-Milk wrote:I think every cinema should do it. Films are too bloody long.

The last thing people need is to be able to stock up on more food they don't really need :dread:

I propose a designated pee break, then. No food allowed.

I can get behind this

I don’t know about best but the worst was definitely Lost in Space. Only film I’ve ever walked of, it was awful.

Was gonna focus on the negative experiences I had but sod it, best:

Honestly it was probably seeing the Power Rangers movie (the new one, although I also saw the original in the cinema 8-)

), myself, sibling and a couple of friends went, towards the end of the run so as to have the bulk of the room to ourselves. I tend to avoid cinemas due to the likelihood of selfish pricks, y'see. Anyway, it was mainly us, and a group of parents and preteens a few rows back with some others scattered about. Now I enjoyed the movie anyway, 'cause I'm a nostalgia nut, but these kids behind us were being loud in just the right way, clearly enjoying the fight scenes and such. When the theme song had its cameo we all threw a fist upward, it was really enjoyable, and great to see the younger types enjoying what you grew up with.

By far my worst cinema experience was watching Dungeons & Dragons.

I'd been a player of the game for about a decade and have well over 100 D&D novels set in various settings and the film didn't use any of the amazing stories or worlds and was a strawberry floating travesty.
It would be like if they decided to maker a Star Wars film and instead of it being in space or having any of the characters they decided to make it a period costume drama with the occasional stormtrooper butler and 3 mentions of filthy Rebel scum.

Second worst for me was actually a good film that I almost walked out of due to the sound being set to almost ear-bleeding levels, Blade Runner 2049.

Not sure about the best but possible
Lion
I went to the cinema to see the film Life and the person must have misheard me and gave me a ticket to Lion instead and to my relief it was bloody excellent and better than the film I intended to see.

I went to see toy story 4 in the cinema last year, film was fine, but i went to see some kind of autistic kids friendly viewing. Great that they have this for the kids, but it really scuppered my view. Lights on during the whole film, sound really quiet. Children running around through the film. It was a bloody nightmare.

Yeah, the point of those showings is that it's for kids who find the usual cinema experience too overwhelming.

Curls wrote:I went to see toy story 4 in the cinema last year, film was fine, but i went to see some kind of autistic kids friendly viewing. Great that they have this for the kids, but it really scuppered my view. Lights on during the whole film, sound really quiet. Children running around through the film. It was a bloody nightmare.

Surly you were entitled to a refund? If not that would have consumed all my empathy for the week.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:
Curls wrote:I went to see toy story 4 in the cinema last year, film was fine, but i went to see some kind of autistic kids friendly viewing. Great that they have this for the kids, but it really scuppered my view. Lights on during the whole film, sound really quiet. Children running around through the film. It was a bloody nightmare.

Surly you were entitled to a refund? If not that would have consumed all my empathy for the week.

Would have been advertised as autism friendly I imagine? Can't really complain if so.

Best were Jurassic Park when I was about 10, Django unchained and Get Out. Absolute romps, everyone of them and the atmosphere in the theatres were enough to make you feel glad to be alive.

Worst was Harry Potter. I don't even know why I went to watch that gooseberry fool. Also Pirates of the Carribbean. People were streaming out before the end and I should have joined them. Terrible film.

Here's another best:

The Dark Knight

I'd somehow missed all the hype and any info about it at all, and one night a bunch of friends invited me to go and watch it. We all got in one car, and had a great laugh on the way, then all sat together for the film. strawberry float it was so good, just loved every minute of the film. We all left there buzzing and spent the whole trip back talking about it.

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Curls wrote:I went to see toy story 4 in the cinema last year, film was fine, but i went to see some kind of autistic kids friendly viewing. Great that they have this for the kids, but it really scuppered my view. Lights on during the whole film, sound really quiet. Children running around through the film. It was a bloody nightmare.

I feel really strawberry floating bad for laughing at this but that is kind of funny.

Chocolate-Milk wrote:I propose a designated pee break.

I would love this. Long films especially I always have to go at least once and I can never work out when its safe to go so that I don't miss something important :/

The first Pokemon movie. I think in reality it was just over an hour in length. Felt like 4. Man, what a thoroughly boring film...

Limited edition Pokemon card with it though!

That reminds me I went to see one of the pirates of the Caribbean film's in 3D cause my daughter wanted to, I don't tend to do well with 3D and I walked out the cinema with so much pain in my head that I was sick and then proceeded to feel really I'll for about 3 days, had loads of petite Mal seizures and wish I'd just said tough tits were seeing it in 2d

There was a citywide powercut while I was watching The Dark Knight Rises. Odeon had to fastforward the film from the beginning back to where it was when the screen went off but went too far forwards. They then went too far back when rewinding so we had to watch 30 minutes of the film again.

That's pretty much the Odeon experience right there.

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