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Twice recently I have failed to get in to see the film of my choice on Orange Wednesday. Tonight's experience was worse than ever though! We had to queue along a main road to get into the participating cinema car park. I then had to leave my husband to drive the car to the furthest point of the overflow car park while I joined the ticket queue forming outside the cinema.
we were delayed getting into the cinema...
It was pouring down with rain (and I mean REALLY pouring!). Eventually we got to the door and were directed to a queue for our cinema tickets. When we got to the front to buy our 2 for 1 tickets to see The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 we were 5 minutes late. We were told the film had already started as it had no trailer!!! How many films have no trailer these days?
The real problem and the reason we were delayed getting into the cinema was the hundreds of people queueing for Harry Potter showing on two screens at the same time. This wasn't helped by the cinema staff who did not have the sense to form separate queues so that other people could see their films too. We didn't go in to see our film in the end because I hate missing the start of a film, the only thing worse would be missing the end of the film.
We did arrive at the cinema with plenty of time to spare. It was just unfortunate that Orange Wednesdays are now very popular, perhaps more so on a wet night and at the same time the Harry Potter crowds were out in force too. This happened before when we tried to go and see Slumdog Millionaire just after it won all those Oscars.
By: deskjet
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Oh no! I've missed a whole 5 minutes of a film because I wanted a free ticket like everyone else!
If it does then, as Congo says, you'd just as well wait and watch it in the comfort of your own home and have things like subtitles and extras too!
And, yes grumpyoldwoman you were right to avoid the Hitchikers remake - it was wholly awful.
You're right about the remakes, I think the "money men" who rule the roost these days go for something "safe"; if it was a hit the first time it will be again is the thinking. As for the new "Hitchhikers", I decided never to see it when I saw the cast (Martin Freeman may have been ok) and the new, altogether too cute looking, Marvin!
And why waste time and put up with all that inconvenience simply to suffer a flashy, poorly directed rehash of a very good film? Hire a DVD and see the original and better effort.
There have been far too many of these cynical and lazy attempts to cash in on the reputations of classic films - Italian Job, Wicker Man, Sleuth, Get Carter, The Fog to name but a few.
Excellent films in their own right pointlessly remade as inferior copies.
And don't even start me on 'Hitch Hikers Guide', what an absolute PC emasculated travesty that was.
Aren't the cinema staff supposed to be there to stop customers from being noisy? Or am I going back too far into "the good old days" when people knew how to behave in public? Hardly ever go these days; but with what they charge to get in I would have thought they could employ armed guards to make sure everyone behaves!
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