Mission Impossible in the Superscreen showing at Cineworld on a Wednesday night 7pm. Meerkat movies so cheaper and there's no one around.
The cinema isn't how I remember it, would have expected a lot more people!
by Scared-Staff6251
Mission Impossible in the Superscreen showing at Cineworld on a Wednesday night 7pm. Meerkat movies so cheaper and there's no one around.
The cinema isn't how I remember it, would have expected a lot more people!
by Scared-Staff6251
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Tbf, it’s cheaper because Wednesdays are not a peak cinema night.
I was at the cinema last night but left. Some strange person sat right in front of me and kept standing up and taking photos of the seats in front of them. Put me right off.
I mean those seats look hardly more comfortable than the ones on the bus
It has been out for a week and last week was half term so plenty of people were seeing it during the day (at least that was the case at my local cinema) so not surprised it’s quiet.
I saw it last night in the Odeon near me and it was pretty busy considering it was a Wednesday and it’s been out a couple weeks already.
I was also surprised how many films I want to see are coming out in the next month or so.
M:I came out a few weeks ago during half term, so I’m guessing most people who were going to go have been already.
Also assuming the Superscreen is pricier than your standard ticket? The sort of people willing to pay the premium were probably there opening weekend.
Cineworld is crazy expensive near me. If me and my partner want to take our son to a move (unlikely to be on a Wednesday) it costs £47 just for the tickets. Snacks would be an extra £20-£25.
We do go to a smaller independent place that costs about half that but not overly often.
I know it’s a century-old tradition, but… Finding childcare, travelling to and from the cinema, buying tickets, buying a drink and popcorn, for two of us – it’s getting alarmingly close to the three-figure mark to see *one film*.
Compared to just.. watching a film on the big screen TV I already have, in excellent quality, with my kid in bed upstairs, a pint in my hand, and I can pause it whenever I need.
A few reasons why I’ve noticed my cinema visits declining over the last few years:
1. Cost. Tickets for a family of 4 plus snacks can easily come to well over £70. That’s for approx 2 hours entertainment. Not good value in my book.
2. Delay to home release shrinking. Films are now on streaming services around 6 weeks after cinema release. I’ll wait, thank you.
3. Increase on quality of home screens and sound systems.
4. Length of films. Some films are just too damn long. I’m over 40 now and need to pee every couple of hours, I can’t hit a pause button in the cinema!
5. Linked to above but adverts. 2 and a half hour film with 30 mins of adverts before become a 3 hour time commitment. Not a chance.
And the biggest reason of all…
OTHER FUCKING PEOPLE!
Can’t stay off their phones for more than 2 minutes, constant chatting, kids going to the toilet every few minutes. No thanks. I’ll wait a few weeks, save a bit of money and watch it in the comfort of my own home
I work at a cinema and it’s definitely getting better. The writers and SAG-AFTRA strikes, as 100% needed as they were, definitely harmed the industry temporarily. It’s improving now, but most people come to see new movies opening weekend these days, midweek is always quiet unless there are special releases or live events.
It’s more dead than it used to be.
However you’d probably find more people there closer to release date, or in normal screens (Super Screen uplift price probably puts some people off).
Mate, you struck gold. It’s a rare thing unless you go reaaaaaaallllyyyyy early to a 15 or 18 IME.
Covid really did a number on the cinema experience. Many people took the money they would have spent on going to movies and upgraded their TV’s at home. Also the push to streaming sooner and the increase in ticket prices, its cheaper to just wait 4 weeks and rent a stream at home. You can now pause the film to take a piss halfway through the 3 hour movie and you dont have loud people being distracting or annoying.
I used to go once a month, now its once every 6 months at a push. Too expensive for what you get.
I’m not surprised given how expensive and anti social it is nowadays. I’d rather watch at home on my 15 subscriptions.
Covid, crappy movies and ridiculous high ticket prices killed it.
Tbf it is a weekday, my local is packed on weekends but during the week it’s mostly empty
Do they still do Orange Wednesdays (or the equivalent on whatever the network is called now)? You could barely get a seat on Wednesday night in my local Cineworld in about 2010, even for the shit films. People just wanted to take advantage of that offer.
I went to see the salt path on Monday night in a pretty packed Everyman cinema.
I feel like the target audience for these huge big budget movies just wait to watch at home in a months time when it comes to streaming. Those who like more artsy farty stuff, or things not falling under action movies will still go out.
I saw the last deadpool movie and it was pretty quiet. Saw all of us strangers and there wasn’t a spare seat. Granted they aren’t huge screens where I go but still.
I went to the cinema Saturday evening to see doctor who, and it was packed…
Post Covid, I will only go if it’s a film that really needs to be seen on the big screen. So often people act completely feral in public these days and it’s deeply unpleasant.
I saw it the day it came out, and the IMAX screen was packed.
What were you there to see?
I work at a cinema and yeah, unless it’s school vacation/holidays, there’s usually around 5-6 people in any screening, sometimes it’s even less.
Personally, I will never visit a cinema again. The cinemas hire children that, rightly or wrongly, aren’t stopping anti-social behaviour, and when I’m paying through the nose for the experience, I’d like to be able to watch the film uninterrupted by talking or phone lights. I’ll just wait a few months until it’s on a streaming service.
Stopped going to cinema years ago due to other people and their lack of manners and anti-social behaviour. It’s easier and cheaper to just watch at home.
Went and saw Sinners last week which has been out for a few weeks and that was fairly busy, think it really depends on how much social media coverage it gets honestly.
I think the big places like vue sort of are dying, especially as a lot of them are out of town.
In chester they have a smaller picurehouse (which I think is owned by cineworld) and it’s properly nice. A family ticket for four is £25 or so, they’ve got a nice bar with snacks, let you take your own food in, barista coffee and all the seats are like the VIP ones in Vue but better – with nice fluffy seats and the little table.
They show the big movies, but often have a range of weird indie movies, local art stuff and older films. They also do kids movies for £2.50 or something on the weekend.
Its always busy.
Before covid, i was at the cinema almost once a week, got some cheap tickets via work – so pretty much went just because I could.
However.. after covid, every time I went, there were always loads of people that insisted playing on their phones, or having full volume conversations, it kind of ruined the magic of the cinema for me.
After I realised cinema etiquette was dead, I never really got back the want to go to the cinema. I’ve actually found that this appears to be the same with a lot of people, as hardly anyone at my work or friends group talk about the latest cinema releases, we now wait for them to be released on streaming services.
I’m friends with lots of marvel fan boys, but no on went to watch captain America or thunderbolts at the cinema, everyone is happy waiting for them to come out on Disney plus.
Id say so. There’s so many things competing with it now, and if you wait a couple of weeks the new releases are on the high seas so you can watch at your leisure on a beautiful OLED TV in your own home with a snack that doesn’t have a 500 percent markup on it.
“Help me Gemini I’ve poured a shit load of sugar into my bolognese sauce because I’m an idiot!!”
Probably something to do with the fact that they haven’t released anything worth watching for years
I’ll probably never go the the cinema again. My home set up is excellent, and it’s not worth the extra to go. I’ll just wait until the digital release and “acquire” it on the day to watch through Plex onto my screen and speakers. No annoying teenagers, no unwashed bodies around, no uncomfortable seats after an hour, no unbelievably loud soundtrack. Stop it when you want, turn it off even, if you find it’s awful. I think that cinemas should have a refund system if you walk out before the end, you obviously haven’t enjoyed the film, so you should get your money back!
Jeez, even in an empty cinema there’s always someone with their phone out. tut.
I watched Mission Impossible on IMAX last week and it was a nightmare. A gang of dickheads behind me kicking chairs, a weird family to my left shaking popcorn like maracas and a twat to my right blasting God rays out of his phone screen.
Too many feral pricks these days.
My kids wanted to go and watch Lilo and Stitch. Around north London/Herts/Essex most cinemas wanted about £60 for 2 adults and 2 children for a 10am Sunday morning screening.
I managed to find a smaller independent cinema in Hertford that was about £40, but it’s too expensive for what it is.
I know things have gotten more expensive but I feel that the cinema is prohibitively so.
CINEMAS are dead. I used to go every week but if they’re not going to kick out people talking or eating KFC or on their phones throughout movies I’m not going to bother going.
I do think it’s on the decline. I think a big part is that the quality of movies being released recently have been dire with a few exceptions. Also the amount of time it’s in movies before being released on streaming is tiny like it used to be ad least a month or two before it was released on cd but now it’s like 2 weeks until it’s on streaming. The snacks have got so expensive now I just bring my own.
It’s dying for sure. Cinema used to be packed. Now I can’t remember the last time I went to a cinema where the place was more than 1/4 full.
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