Tuesday, September 30, 2003
My local cinema is just around the corner from here. It's one of those big, fancy monster-things, that I found great when I just moved here, and that I now despise.
In the beginning it was cool. It had a student discount, that applied every weekday and not only in the morning.
I do like a little snack (read: giant size popcorn and medium coke + occasionally Haagen-Daaz and chocolate, especially M&M's) and this cinema caters really well for people with the munchies.
They have the newest films and a variety of show-times, so there's usually room for everyone.
However!
1) There's always a massive ticket-queue which means that if you haven't pre-booked - or pre-bought, actually - you'll have to turn up almost an hour in advance in order to catch the beginning of the film.
2) The cinema is really dirty - we're not just talking about abandoned rubbish on the floor, NO, we've got popcorn and milkshakes (or whatever it is - I don't want to think about it) smeared on the seats. Do they not even tidy A LITTLE BIT inbetween shows?
3) Many of the cinema-goers are teenagers, who seem to use the cinema as dating-agency or club or the like - walking in and out of shows at random.
4) In all cinemas there are usually problems with people's mobile phones ringing. This cinema is no different. However, even more appaling is the fact that many people seem to RING OUT of the cinema. 'Hi, it's me, the film is finishing in 5 minutes, I'll meet you in the carpark'-kind of thing. WTF?!?!
This weekend we went to see Once Upon A Time in Mexico. It's a great film - the story sucks, but who cares? Plenty of iconic Antonio and Salma-postures as well as a film-stealing Johnny Depp (and so beautiful he is too), lots of pining and shooting. It even managed to make Enrique Iglesias look good (hm, I guess that was never really the problem - look capable, I mean) - his style of soppy romantic Latin lover happens to fit well in. There's Willem Defoe, not doing much,but lending casual cool creepiness to the entire thing, and Mickey Rourke, appealing, in spite of the many beauty operations that have left his face looking rather Tussaud-ised.
So, in short, the film kicked ass and I was giggling like a child and suddenly, towards the end (I presume), the film stopped and on came adverts for the 'joy' of going to the cinema.
That was it and we did not get the ending of the film. But we did get free tickets! One each! To use for any film of our choice! Even The Matrix! (They actually said that.) The cinema-employer-twat was full of Butlins-gesturing and employment-course-speech and didn't quite understand why everybody were so upset, as 'there's not that much left anyway.'
It's over.
I shan't come back.
Great cinemas in London that,among others, I'll be frequenting more from now on:
Electric Cinema
Gate Cinema
Curzon Soho
In the beginning it was cool. It had a student discount, that applied every weekday and not only in the morning.
I do like a little snack (read: giant size popcorn and medium coke + occasionally Haagen-Daaz and chocolate, especially M&M's) and this cinema caters really well for people with the munchies.
They have the newest films and a variety of show-times, so there's usually room for everyone.
However!
1) There's always a massive ticket-queue which means that if you haven't pre-booked - or pre-bought, actually - you'll have to turn up almost an hour in advance in order to catch the beginning of the film.
2) The cinema is really dirty - we're not just talking about abandoned rubbish on the floor, NO, we've got popcorn and milkshakes (or whatever it is - I don't want to think about it) smeared on the seats. Do they not even tidy A LITTLE BIT inbetween shows?
3) Many of the cinema-goers are teenagers, who seem to use the cinema as dating-agency or club or the like - walking in and out of shows at random.
4) In all cinemas there are usually problems with people's mobile phones ringing. This cinema is no different. However, even more appaling is the fact that many people seem to RING OUT of the cinema. 'Hi, it's me, the film is finishing in 5 minutes, I'll meet you in the carpark'-kind of thing. WTF?!?!
This weekend we went to see Once Upon A Time in Mexico. It's a great film - the story sucks, but who cares? Plenty of iconic Antonio and Salma-postures as well as a film-stealing Johnny Depp (and so beautiful he is too), lots of pining and shooting. It even managed to make Enrique Iglesias look good (hm, I guess that was never really the problem - look capable, I mean) - his style of soppy romantic Latin lover happens to fit well in. There's Willem Defoe, not doing much,but lending casual cool creepiness to the entire thing, and Mickey Rourke, appealing, in spite of the many beauty operations that have left his face looking rather Tussaud-ised.
So, in short, the film kicked ass and I was giggling like a child and suddenly, towards the end (I presume), the film stopped and on came adverts for the 'joy' of going to the cinema.
That was it and we did not get the ending of the film. But we did get free tickets! One each! To use for any film of our choice! Even The Matrix! (They actually said that.) The cinema-employer-twat was full of Butlins-gesturing and employment-course-speech and didn't quite understand why everybody were so upset, as 'there's not that much left anyway.'
It's over.
I shan't come back.
Great cinemas in London that,among others, I'll be frequenting more from now on:
Electric Cinema
Gate Cinema
Curzon Soho
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