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ObamaAkbar. posted:https://twitter.com/cineactiongroup/status/1312531227589578752?s=21 While I feel sorry for the employees... Who in their right mind is going to a cinema in this current climate?
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Gonzo McFee posted:They'll do what literally every massive company does, borrow so much money that they aren't allowed to lose all their money. this is how I bankrupted Wonga.com
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Eararaldor posted:While I feel sorry for the employees... Who in their right mind is going to a cinema in this current climate? Yeah there's no films out.
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Oct 4, 2020 10:25
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stev posted:Yeah there's no films out. I reckon there would be a small market for showing very old classics that many of todays adult film buffs wouldn't have had the chance to see in a cinema - Godfather, Alien, original Star Wars, etc. With a lot of outreach to those communities then there could be some income getting raised but I imagine those films are still expensive to get and so getting the numbers in to make it worthwhile isn't something the company thinks is worth doing.
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namesake posted:I reckon there would be a small market for showing very old classics that many of todays adult film buffs wouldn't have had the chance to see in a cinema - Godfather, Alien, original Star Wars, etc. With a lot of outreach to those communities then there could be some income getting raised but I imagine those films are still expensive to get and so getting the numbers in to make it worthwhile isn't something the company thinks is worth doing. They've been doing just that over the last few months. Apparently attendance isn't great on the classics either.
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Eararaldor posted:While I feel sorry for the employees... Who in their right mind is going to a cinema in this current climate? I get emails regularly from Vue and Cineworld because I went there once type thing. Most of what those cinemas were showing during the pandemic has been "classic" films (like Harry Potter, Godfather, various Marvel movies) for like €6. If the Pandemic wasn't on I'd have been tempted to go watch some of them on the big screen, but since this has happened I haven't been to the cinema. The last movie I saw in a cinema was the 2020 Invisible Man. It's was really good, would recommend.
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Gonzo McFee posted:They'll do what literally every massive company does, borrow so much money that they aren't allowed to lose all their money. If you owe a company £100 it’s your problem, if you owe them £100m it’s their problem.
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Would be nice if the cinemas were willing to do this. Licencing a film to put on at a cinema isn't that much in the grand scheme of things. £85 or 1/3rd of your ticket sales whichever is greater. Then whatever the cinema wanted to charge for use of the place.
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The Question IRL posted:I get emails regularly from Vue and Cineworld because I went there once type thing. I don't really fancy going to the cinema either. But I also don't see why it's worse than, say, spending two hours in an indoor pub or restaurant - which are both thriving.
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namesake posted:I reckon there would be a small market for showing very old classics that many of todays adult film buffs wouldn't have had the chance to see in a cinema - Godfather, Alien, original Star Wars, etc. With a lot of outreach to those communities then there could be some income getting raised but I imagine those films are still expensive to get and so getting the numbers in to make it worthwhile isn't something the company thinks is worth doing. When Disney bought 20th Century Fox they stopped letting cinemas show the old films they owned.
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stev posted:I don't really fancy going to the cinema either. But I also don't see why it's worse than, say, spending two hours in an indoor pub or restaurant - which are both thriving. I dunno if pubs and restaurants are thriving right now.
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josh04 posted:Probably Disney though. The future is Disney subsidising everyone to go watch its own movies
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Necrothatcher posted:I dunno if pubs and restaurants are thriving right now. Relatively
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namesake posted:I reckon there would be a small market for showing very old classics that many of todays adult film buffs wouldn't have had the chance to see in a cinema - Godfather, Alien, original Star Wars, etc. With a lot of outreach to those communities then there could be some income getting raised but I imagine those films are still expensive to get and so getting the numbers in to make it worthwhile isn't something the company thinks is worth doing. I'm sure I read somewhere a couple of months back that this had been tried in some of the independents but very little interest from the public and they made a loss. Ed: beaten! Tsietisin posted:Would be nice if the cinemas were willing to do this. Hm when I looked into licencing a film (I had some vague idea about a 'socialist film club' at our local independent fleapit), the public performance licence was quoted as £150 per film. I know one of our local community action groups paid that to show a film (but they were guaranteed a big turnout - our town is very much "we don't do politics, politics has no place in our lives" even though there are thriving amnesty, food, climate change etc groups - but oh, these aren't politics ) We could have got the cinema for free as the manager is a party member as are several staff who work there voluntarily in any case (only way to keep it open). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Oct 4, 2020 |
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Yeah I didn't think that just putting Alien on at 1pm, 5pm and 7pm would pull huge crowds, that's why I said with a lot of outreach. Something like getting some PR people to contact various UK sci-fi clubs or whatever, seeing if there are bases of fans where the cinemas are and then getting them to commit to a particular viewing or schedule so the cinema isn't selling individual tickets anymore, it's basically renting the screen to a group of people. Put social distancing on the seats so they aren't breaking any rules officially and it's probably permitted. Quite a lot of work for uneven returns, and they aren't doing it so obviously don't want to but it was an idea at least.
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wes streeting upset that there were enough complaints about his mate to warrant an investigation https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/1312648265071054851?s=20
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stev posted:I don't really fancy going to the cinema either. But I also don't see why it's worse than, say, spending two hours in an indoor pub or restaurant - which are both thriving. Its because going to the cinema is poo poo and you can re-create 90% of it at home. That's literally the reason. The experience is awful at big chain places. poo poo seats, poo poo sound mixing, poo poo screens. Add in noisy fuckers and it makes an already bad experience miserable. I would rather pay £20 to watch a film at home with the wife than £20 to watch it in a cinema.
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Guavanaut posted:One for OwlFancier. Flitter mouse is barely distinct from the German. Hodmadod and bishy barnabee I am already familiar with but I am skeptical of the veracity of the others. Especially who the hell calls a pig a jonamy jones?? OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Oct 4, 2020 |
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serious gaylord posted:Its because going to the cinema is poo poo and you can re-create 90% of it at home. And you can pause it when you need a bathroom break so you don't miss the crucial bit in The Matrix where it is revealed to be a virtual world and spend the rest of the film wondering what the fk is going on....... (Mind you, I DO like going to the cinema. Our local fleapit is £5.50 and in normal times has a film a week plus is on the 'comedy' circuit and local am drams put on shows 3 or 4 times a year, it sells little tubs of icecream, regular chocolate bars and coffee, no popcorn. Most people round here though drive 20-30 miles to go to the big multi-screen jobs in Newport or Bristol and chuck £12 per person at it and about £10 each on a snack and drink.)
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Mail Online money pages this morning: The shape of things to come? (It usually shows the Friday closing position all weekend.) Can I have chocolate when I'm up against the wall instead of a cigarette?
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I still love the experience of sitting in a massive dark room and watching a film on a huge screen. Maybe it's just ingrained from childhood but there's something magic about it, even if it's a poo poo film. It really can't be replicated at home - even the little home cinemas millionaires have don't come close to it. Everything surrounding that experience is loving awful though, yes. I don't blame anyone at all for ditching the cinema and pirating films or waiting for them to go on Netflix these days.
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OwlFancier posted:Flitter mouse is barely distinct from the German.  Puddock is definitely real. As was harnser, but that's almost extinct as a term now other than in some pub names. Jonamy Jones I believe refers to a pig in a story, rather than a slang term for any pig, because that sounds ridiculous. But then again bishy barnabee.
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the last good movie i saw in the cinema was dragonball broly after drinking a titanic amount of innis & gunn. i am an intellectual i think the last actual movie i saw was midsommar which we all thought was a bit crap but we had the cinema to ourselves for the whole fifteen hour running time and we were eating edibles so that added some fun to the proceedings. if i squint i can see what people liked in that movie but i just thought the opening was so good and intense then it just becomes a slow b-movie. i did go back and watch hereditary though which is loving great
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I've never really enjoyed going to cinemas but its more about the experience, getting out the house for a while, maybe picking up a cheeky McDonalds on the way home, all things considered I'd much rather watch a film in my home at my own pace.
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I think the last film I ever saw in the cinema was the second hobbit movie. Also the most modern film I ever saw. And the only film I've seen in the "make everything CGI" age. I might like to see Alien in the cinema but not enough to like, pay for it. Guavanaut posted:
Harnser and puddock I can believe. Hedge betty isn't that weird as a bird name, bandy I guess is about the right sound and size for an animal word. Jumping jacob is daft but is the right kind of daft, so guess they're all plausible. Which itself is an indictment of the english language I guess.
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I'd love to go to cinemas more regularly but its so expensive these days and most of the time you'll have maybe two or three days in a single week to watch a screening of a movie that you're waiting for because every other screen has been taken up by a Marvel movie or some other tentpole.
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Gorn Myson posted:I'd love to go to cinemas more regularly but its so expensive these days and most of the time you'll have maybe two or three days in a single week to watch a screening of a movie that you're waiting for because every other screen has been taken up by a Marvel movie or some other tentpole. Unlimited cards were great for this until every cinema outright stopped showing films that aren't made by Disney about three years ago. I used to make a point of going every week and seeing whatever was on, which more often than not was a good experience.
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Do goon opinions on cinemas reflect the general population? The billions that anything Marvel or Disney plop out makes suggest the answer is no.
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Was by the local Cineworld last night, Tenet is still showing, there's a new Cats and Dogs which may have been done largely under lockdown. Otherwise it's mostly reissues. You can watch a different Rocky movie each night, and they also had Akira, which I think I'd like to see on the big screen. Might consider it if it's not cancelled, don't know how great the risk is in a probably sparsely filled screening.
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OwlFancier posted:I think the last film I ever saw in the cinema was the second hobbit movie. Last one I saw was Parasite, it was excellent. At least cinema died on a high note.
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Gort posted:it was excellent. At least cinema died on a high note. I also think that 
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BizarroAzrael posted:Was by the local Cineworld last night, Tenet is still showing, there's a new Cats and Dogs which may have been done largely under lockdown. Otherwise it's mostly reissues. You can watch a different Rocky movie each night, and they also had Akira, which I think I'd like to see on the big screen. Might consider it if it's not cancelled, don't know how great the risk is in a probably sparsely filled screening. akira might've got me out to see something were i not in a lockdown area lol
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