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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 14:12:35 GMT
I like going to the cinema, the whole expensive experience, the popcorn, the massive screen, brilliant. I can watch a film on the small screen at home, but nothing beats the cinema experience. However I think due to the likes of Netflix and sky cinema, that cinemas will decrease rather than not exist anymore. It's kinda sad, i'm kinda with Spielberg on this, but I think he's on the losing side.
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Post by tory on Mar 1, 2019 14:16:21 GMT
I love it too. It's important to me - away from the touch of a button culture that we have now. I don't go as often as I would like and it seems to me that we've passed a golden age for film so there is usually little that I want to see anyway.
I try to make it to the BFI at least three times a year to see an old film.
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Post by oh oooh on Mar 1, 2019 14:17:29 GMT
You'll always watch the film all the way through if you pay to see it in a cinema.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 14:21:19 GMT
You'll always watch the film all the way through if you pay to see it in a cinema.
You obviously never paid to watch Alexander played by Colin Farrell. I would have paid to leave early.
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Post by oh oooh on Mar 1, 2019 14:29:09 GMT
Colin Farrell gets panned for everything, doesn't he? Is he really that bad?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 14:38:46 GMT
No I think he's redeemed himself lately with a few low profile films. The Lobster In Brugees The Killing of a Sacred Deer
I think since he's calmed down in terms of the beer and drugs his career is doing well.
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Post by loveless on Mar 1, 2019 15:34:59 GMT
Oh, I live for it.
There's an immersion that you can't get at home. Counts for a lot.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Mar 1, 2019 16:45:50 GMT
I enjoy it and don't do it nearly enough. Once in a while I'll take the afternoon off work if I can get away with it and mosey over to a nearby cinema to catch a film. It's a great little theatre with three or four screens, which are all a decent size considering it's in the basement of an 80's condo building. Also, tickets are 'only' $10 and there's hardly ever anyone there during the day. I love it, although the last time I went, walking out into the sunshine and crowds after seeing 'Dunkirk' was a pretty trippy experience.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Mar 1, 2019 17:26:11 GMT
I go quite a lot. At its best it's magical and overwhelming. That can be quite rare mind but it's a high I'm happy to keep chasing. Like Loveless says, it's immersive in a way you can't replicate at home.
It seems a bit old world these days. Some "young people" I know are very dismissive and that makes me sad.
What fucking beats 2001 in the cinema with the music pounding out? Maybe a wank on poppers but not much else folks.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 17:32:49 GMT
Maybe a wank on poppers but not much else folks.
50/50 to be fair.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 19:59:21 GMT
It's expensive and there's very few independent cinemas left, so you've got so little choice. But it's always so much better than watching at home. I think it will always survive in some form. If television didn't kill it off, Netflix won't.
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Post by Inspector Norse on Mar 1, 2019 20:15:47 GMT
It's expensive and there's very few independent cinemas left, so you've got so little choice. But it's always so much better than watching at home. I think it will always survive in some form. If television didn't kill it off, Netflix won't. But early TVs were small and had crap sound. Now, it won’t be long until everyone has a giant screen and surround sound at home. There will perhaps, and hopefully, be enough people who want the ”going to the cinema” experience to keep them going but they will decrease in number. How much influence do big cinema chains have on the distributors? I imagine Netflix can outbid many of them now for new releases.
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Post by Inspector Norse on Mar 1, 2019 20:29:41 GMT
You'll always watch the film all the way through if you pay to see it in a cinema. I was just getting up to walk out of Sin City when a fire alarm went off. I told the staff not to bother putting the film back on afterwards as I was the only one in the room and I thought the film was wank. I also walked out of that David Cronenberg one about Russian gangsters, because as I remember it it was a load of laughable stereotypes running around.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 22:12:57 GMT
Colin Farrell gets panned for everything, doesn't he? Is he really that bad? No, he really isn't.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2019 17:48:17 GMT
I don't think there's any point in starting another thread, so i'll fire this here.
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48283447
I prefer the cinema, but I don't see how the streaming of movies can be stopped from being taken as serious as cinema released films. It's just gonna happen, and cinemas are gonna suffer.
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