Film

[pete]

Suppose it's just finding a nice cinema. I used to love the Screen cinema in town, you'd have the place to yourself somedays.

[astfgyl]

Interesting move with WB and HBO Max showing all the new movies simultaneously for 2021. Will it be the death knell for the cinema experience as we know it? Will the cinema be the new physical music?

I used to go to the cinema 2 to 4 times a week from my mid-teens to mid-20s but then a few things happened that made me slowly but surely pull back til I (pre-Covid) might only go once or twice a month at most.

Good movies seem (that make it to the multiplex) to be in short supply. Perhaps I'm being too nostalgic but, to me at least, the 1990s was a golden age for film. You got to see blockbusters and indie films - sometimes the latter became the former.

Mobile phones - Christ, put it away for 2 hours.

People talking - Not "Who's he again?" or "Do you want a Cornetto when I'm coming back from the jacks?" but full-blown conversations - people seem to think that the beats in between dialogue were put there by the director to allow them to have a chat. The closest I've come to a fist-fight in a very long time was after I asked a fella to be quiet in a screening of "Phantom Thread". Yeah, soak that in for comedy value.

The cinema is now a place for people to sluice buckets of fake cheese and bin liner bags of nachos into themselves.

Or maybe I'm just a moany cunt and going to the pictures is still wonderful.

No, I'm with you there. The eating and talking and phones and packet rustling drives me to distraction. My wife is always telling me I'm a sour cunt because of how annoyed I get by it. Like fair enough if I'm after bringing the kids to the latest Jurassic World or whatever but during proper films it's really annoying.

[Carnage]

I'm a magnet for it. I can go to a daytime showing where there's 10 other people in a 200 seat room, and they'll plonk directly front of me with armloads of crunchy crap.

[astfgyl]

Surely the cinemas themselves could take a portion of the blame for the choice of crunchy and rustly things that they sell as well because they are really asking for it with the crisps and nachos. Popcorn was always grand it has a sort of soft crunch. Sweets get a bye as well. No straws though so no one can make the straw noise.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

We have an amazing independent cinema here that doesn't sell any snacks at all, and outside of a couple of trailers for films I'd never otherwise hear about, no fucking candy-coloured advertisements either. Course, whatever about the lockdown, having an infant rules the cinema right out!

[Ollkiller]

Suppose it's just finding a nice cinema. I used to love the Screen cinema in town, you'd have the place to yourself somedays.

Oh that wonderous feeling of walking into the cinema and no ones there. Start trying out 6 or 7 different seats for the best view still thinking has it been cancelled or are you in the wrong room but the credits start and still no one there.  For about 10 mins you're still jumpy in case any late cunt arrives in but no, this is one of these momentous occasions. The whole fucking place to yourself. Bliss.

[blessed1]

I love the cinema!
Me and the girlfriend go at least twice a week so I'm delighted they are open again. I'm not too bothered by the sweet packets and rustling and stuuf but people talking wrecks my head.
Went to see a movie before and 2 young ones behind us wouldn't shut up so I turned around and told them to shut the fuck up and they heckled me the whole way through the rest of the film 😂
The girlfriend was mortified ha

[Cailleach]

Responsible Child
Boss Level

The first movie is very good. Boss Level is a  crappy sci- fi movie.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Well, Il Gattopardo is perhaps the most cinematically beautiful film I've ever seen...but it does suffer in the sound department, which is a real pity. Some of Fellini's films are the same, this practice of systematically dubbing the entire movie had some real casualties, and Il Gattopardo is definitely one of them. Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon star in it, and presumably neither of them spoke fluent Italian. In any case, the speech sits really badly in the mix, and it would be great to see some proper work done to bring these up to decent standards.

[Caomhaoin]

We have an amazing independent cinema here that doesn't sell any snacks at all, and outside of a couple of trailers for films I'd never otherwise hear about, no fucking candy-coloured advertisements either. Course, whatever about the lockdown, having an infant rules the cinema right out!

There is a similar place in central Madrid, with a very eclectic selection of films and no snack shite in sale either. The clientele tend toward the pretentious but sure whatever.

The Kino in Cork was a great place when it was open. You could get a mug of tea there. I saw 'Irreversible' there (on a date, not knowing the content) when I was in college. A good dose of people walked out during 'that' scene.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Name of the Rose last night. I thought I'd seen it before, but I think I must have just caught some on tv at some point. Pleasantly surprised by it! Great performances and atmosphere, although the second half or so feels a bit too rushed, but then it was always going to be impossible to capture the book in two hours. Connery essentially plays exactly the same character as his Dr.Jones Sr., which fits perfectly. Still curious to see how the John Turturro serialization fares with the material, given the opportunity to stretch out over several hours.

[Cailleach]

Unhinged.

Meh. Not one of Crowe's better films.

Princess of the Row is a good movie.

[Emphyrio]

Unhinged - A poor man's Falling Down

Sightseers - If Emerdale did Natural Born Killers

[Ollkiller]

The Kino in Cork was a great place when it was open. You could get a mug of tea there. I saw 'Irreversible' there (on a date, not knowing the content) when I was in college. A good dose of people walked out during 'that' scene.

Never saw a film in there but it was a great place for a gig when it still had the cinema layout. The 're furb is nice but I much preferred the vibe before it was done up.

[open face surgery]

The King of Comedy

What a fuckin deadly movie!? De Niro is godlike, as usual. The Joker essentially took everything from it which was slightly disappointing but still a great movie. I do hate Sandra Bernhard though.