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The Film Thread

Rex

You are sooooo clever Burnsy!

Burnwinter

That's certifiable. Or I am - never can remember.

Klaus

Burnsy is Google.

asajoseph

Bold Tone wrote:
Went with my work colleagues to the Odeon Lee Valley a few years ago and the pricing was ridiculous. We all ordered a large drink which was "on offer" except one of my mates who asked for a small drink. When we looked at the bill, his drink was almost double the price of ours!

I don't know what it is about cinemas that makes the ticket & snack buying process so bloody inefficient, but Odeons, and Lee Valley in particular, are some of the worst out there (presumably because it's so close to WHL).

I cannot understand why it takes 5 minutes for a surly teenager to sell someone a ticket to a film, and then another 5 minutes to sell them a bag of popcorn and a drink. These are simple transactions, that shouldn't take the same amount of time as settling a divorce.

Oh, and people who get to the front of the queue and haven't decided what they want to watch. What is wrong with you?!?

Why are cinema goers so afraid to use automated ticketing machines? Seriously, with cinemas so hard up at the moment, one of the best efficiencies would surely to be to automate ALL of this. Some people may be too stupid to work this stuff out, for sure, but I guess they can just wait for the Fast and the Furious 17 to come out on Betamax.

I have a lot of film-related hang-ups...

Burnwinter

Klaus wrote:
Burnsy is Google.

We all are, Klaus. We all are.

goon

asajoseph wrote:
Bold Tone wrote:
Went with my work colleagues to the Odeon Lee Valley a few years ago and the pricing was ridiculous. We all ordered a large drink which was "on offer" except one of my mates who asked for a small drink. When we looked at the bill, his drink was almost double the price of ours!

I don't know what it is about cinemas that makes the ticket & snack buying process so bloody inefficient, but Odeons, and Lee Valley in particular, are some of the worst out there (presumably because it's so close to WHL).

I cannot understand why it takes 5 minutes for a surly teenager to sell someone a ticket to a film, and then another 5 minutes to sell them a bag of popcorn and a drink. These are simple transactions, that shouldn't take the same amount of time as settling a divorce.

Oh, and people who get to the front of the queue and haven't decided what they want to watch. What is wrong with you?!?

Why are cinema goers so afraid to use automated ticketing machines? Seriously, with cinemas so hard up at the moment, one of the best efficiencies would surely to be to automate ALL of this. Some people may be too stupid to work this stuff out, for sure, but I guess they can just wait for the Fast and the Furious 17 to come out on Betamax.

I have a lot of film-related hang-ups...

Ugh, so true. Nothing worse than running late while going to see a film then having to que up for half an hour to get a ticket that I've already paid for online. Had to watch MiB3 from right at the front as a result... might as well have been looking up at the ceiling.

MuswellHillGooner

BTW, what is the worst film you have seen and the worst you have actually paid to watch?

asajoseph

The new Batman is right up there, though there've been a few over the years.
Btw - you still in Muswell?

MuswellHillGooner

Yup. Love the place and know better than to go to the Odeon!

asajoseph

Good lad, we must practically be neighbours then.

Is there anywhere nearer than the pins that had the dodgy sky?

MuswellHillGooner

Are you n6 or n8?

Mirth

asajoseph wrote:
Bold Tone wrote:
Went with my work colleagues to the Odeon Lee Valley a few years ago and the pricing was ridiculous. We all ordered a large drink which was "on offer" except one of my mates who asked for a small drink. When we looked at the bill, his drink was almost double the price of ours!

I don't know what it is about cinemas that makes the ticket & snack buying process so bloody inefficient, but Odeons, and Lee Valley in particular, are some of the worst out there (presumably because it's so close to WHL).

I cannot understand why it takes 5 minutes for a surly teenager to sell someone a ticket to a film, and then another 5 minutes to sell them a bag of popcorn and a drink. These are simple transactions, that shouldn't take the same amount of time as settling a divorce.

Oh, and people who get to the front of the queue and haven't decided what they want to watch. What is wrong with you?!?

Why are cinema goers so afraid to use automated ticketing machines? Seriously, with cinemas so hard up at the moment, one of the best efficiencies would surely to be to automate ALL of this. Some people may be too stupid to work this stuff out, for sure, but I guess they can just wait for the Fast and the Furious 17 to come out on Betamax.

I have a lot of film-related hang-ups...

😆

asajoseph

Muswell Hill Gooner wrote:
Are you n6 or n8?

N8. I'm not a fucking pikey.

MuswellHillGooner

I guessed right. I knew you were above n22,n11,n2,etc

asajoseph

Where are these places of which you speak? 😉

Bold Tone

asajoseph wrote:
Where are these places of which you speak? 😉

😆
Better than the shithole that is n17

Tony Montana

N6 is Highgate isn't it? Not pikey at all.

Bold Tone

I thought that as well. The Bishops Avenue is in Highgate and George Michael lives in the area as well

RocktheCasbah

otfgoon wrote:
asajoseph wrote:
I don't know what it is about cinemas that makes the ticket & snack buying process so bloody inefficient, but Odeons, and Lee Valley in particular, are some of the worst out there (presumably because it's so close to WHL).

I cannot understand why it takes 5 minutes for a surly teenager to sell someone a ticket to a film, and then another 5 minutes to sell them a bag of popcorn and a drink. These are simple transactions, that shouldn't take the same amount of time as settling a divorce.

Oh, and people who get to the front of the queue and haven't decided what they want to watch. What is wrong with you?!?

Why are cinema goers so afraid to use automated ticketing machines? Seriously, with cinemas so hard up at the moment, one of the best efficiencies would surely to be to automate ALL of this. Some people may be too stupid to work this stuff out, for sure, but I guess they can just wait for the Fast and the Furious 17 to come out on Betamax.

I have a lot of film-related hang-ups...

Ugh, so true. Nothing worse than running late while going to see a film then having to que up for half an hour to get a ticket that I've already paid for online. Had to watch MiB3 from right at the front as a result... might as well have been looking up at the ceiling.

Serves you right for going to see MiB3, I reckon..

RocktheCasbah

On that note....

Muswell Hill Gooner wrote:
BTW, what is the worst film you have seen and the worst you have actually paid to watch?

asajoseph wrote:
The new Batman is right up there, though there've been a few over the years.
Btw - you still in Muswell?

Really? I've seen some films that have made me so angry I've wanted to kill someone. I wouldn't put TDKR anywhere near those.

The two Joel Schumacher Batmans come immediately to mind, particularly the last one- Batman Forever, I think.

I went to see Moulin Rouge (my ex's choice, obviously she wasn't my ex at the time) and hated it, hated it, hated it. John Carpenter's Vampires was a serious disappointment and I fell asleep during Evita- on a first date no less.

There haven't been too many recently, basically because I'm a bit more choosy these days and Jo has pretty good taste in films. That said, I know she hated Open Water, whilst I wasn't a big fan of Collateral. Although having watched some of that since, I might have been wrong on that.

Also on a serious disappointment theme, Gangs of New York and the first Mission: Impossible film. I remember going to see that with 2 friends and we sat there, heads in our hands throughout.

I hated everything about Gangs that wasn't Daniel Day Lewis. And the big gang fight sequence.

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