I don't understand why cinema's are struggling..
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I don't understand why cinema's are struggling..
Seems a bit steep. It was £16.99 at the printworks IMAX and that's for the premium section at the weekend.
The UK is a silly country
I guess might be London prices(I was looking at the one in Waterloo as it’s the closest Imax to me). Even in my local Odeon a standard ticket is £24.
The cheapest is cineworld which is £10 but everything about that cinema is shite(Uncomfortable seats, bad sound, expensive drinks and sometimes there are fights between the audience and staff).
Ah, fair enough. I think it was £19.99 at Waterloo back whenever Interstellar came out.
And can they?
No. The two contestants both died after three days.
You're a silly country
Just go to a normal cinema and sit on the front row.
Woah woah woah, what's your beef with IMAX?
IMAX is shite though let’s be honest.
It’s a gimmick. I’m all for immersion but when the screen is so massive that you actually have to move your head to see each side it’s just stupid.
I agree, IMAX is amazing.
Tbh I don’t think I’ve seen an actual proper IMAX film which covers the whole screen. Oddly enough for me the biggest difference in a IMAX cinema is the sound.
Imax is great, in the right conditions
Imax is how blockbusters should be watched
I've only been to one IMAX cinema and that was JJJJJJJJJ. Abrams first ST film.
We were close to the screen and I just remember looking at Chris Pine's facial skin.
We were close to the screen and I just remember looking at Chris Pine's facial skin.
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I saw Dark Knight Rises in IMAX and hated it.
Having said that my favourite cinema experience these days is the one in my local village which is like stepping back in time, it’s a two tier gallery with a very modest size screen and they stop for an intermission to serve little ice cream tubs.
Tickets are £6, the sweets and drinks are the same price as Tesco and the ice creams at the break are £2.
Perfect. So perhaps I’m just not the IMAX target audience.
We've got a village dweller right here.
It’s a local cinema, for local people.
Not a village cinema, for village people?
Oh that sounds amazing. At this stage I’m just happy whenever there is a mostly empty screening.
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Are the intermissions for every film? I used to work at a cinema in a theatre about ten years ago and we had something like this but only for longer movies. Godfather 2 re-release for example.
Every film I believe.
Delightful!
That sounds great… bit of a throwback, used to have one like that as a kid, only sold three things… little ice cream tub, Smarties and orange squash.
Great times.
The only thing that could make that better would be bags of just orange smarties.
Ha! That's great!
A colleague and I were trying to see what CoPilot would do in work… started from basics then kept adding bits and we got it to write about 75% of a credit paper (which we obviously didn’t use).When AI starts writing movie scripts...
Scarily good quality writing too.
It is getting scary good yes. To the extent I suspect some writers use and integrate it in their work
My daughter was in her last year of an Eng Lit degree and was moaning about students who use chatgbt. I naively asked her what it is and she showed me by asking it to write a couple of paragraphs about a very niche sub topic in a book.
Two seconds, two paragraphs which my daughter said were fantastic.
Hopefully in a year or two, it takes my job and I get redundancy so I can semi retire/chill
I'm also not a fan of iMAX as you are always far too close to the screen. Large quality screen and projector, big comfy seats and a small cinema is the way to go. Not cheap usually but I so rarely go to the cinema, largely to avoid the idiots that go to cinemas, I don't mind that cost once every year or two. Plus where I now live no longer has an iMAX cinema. They had one but demand was so low they shut it down.
My daughter was in her last year of an Eng Lit degree and was moaning about students who use chatgbt. I naively asked her what it is and she showed me by asking it to write a couple of paragraphs about a very niche sub topic in a book.
Two seconds, two paragraphs which my daughter said were fantastic.
Hopefully in a year or two, it takes my job and I get redundancy so I can semi retire/chill
I agree with your daughter as organising complex ideas and expressing them clearly in writing is an invaluable skill, but it's an excellent way to refine scattered thoughts and turn them into cohesive, well-structured ideas.
I understand why professional writers would want to do the same.
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