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Tom Photiou
Film God
Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted January 12, 2018 06:04 AM
I have to say its been years since i went to the pictures because i no longer enjoy it. It's nothing to do with the digital change, its the donkeys that go and generally have no manners or respect for anyone else around them. Dickheads with mobile phones, tossers who want to talk all the way through and idiots who stuff there faces with sweets that for some reason are wrapped in the nosiest of wrappings. All this makes me mad and i cant enjoy the movie, the worst of them being the dickheads with mobiles, mainly dim teenagers and students who pay sod all to get in anyway.I much prefer my home cinema. It's a shame as i do enjoy the pictures and the big screens of today. Today, there is an absolute lack of any respect, this is something i hear more and more about and it needs to be taught by parents and schools, unfortunately we all see it constantly on the TV, the way soaps and movies today it seems to actually generate this way of behavior and has become the norm. I know it's not everyone, but it is a hell of a majority of people, especially the under 30s.
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Tom Photiou
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Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted January 12, 2018 06:31 AM
Here in Plymouth we have a VUE 15 screen cinema, three of the screens are extreme screens, in others words, extra big, but the old ABC, now a Reel, is closing, this was a three screen, they are building poxy flats on the site, probably for students again, yet they are currently building another 15 screen cinema less than a mile from the VUE!!!
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted January 12, 2018 12:26 PM
Clive you hit the nail on the head.
Its something I always did for every session before the start, to back off the volume from the downstairs control, at the back of the cinema and once the feature starts, then adjust it to the "age and size" of the audience, plus it kept me fit running up and down the stairs all day
Another thing is the "ageing process", yes folks thats us as you age, both your hearing and eyesight and other things change. As your hearing changes some sounds in the mid to high frequency range, can sound a lot more irritating, so as a projectionist its not a case of older people being in general more grumpy, which they usually are, as more the fact its the way there hearing has become over time.
Digital or Film.....well it comes down to a cinema that cares for its customers and if they want to survive into the future they have to get it right, and the volume level is certainly one of them.
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