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Topic: Worst Cinema experience
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Robert Crewdson
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1031
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted July 11, 2013 06:49 AM
My worst cinema experience was at a cinema named The Phoenix, in Walton Street, Oxford. I don't know the history of it, but I think it was probably earmarked for closure and became privately owned. It is still around, now known as the Phoenix Picturehouse. I went there in 1969 to watch 2001: A space Odyssey , I sat near the front and was surprised to see a tripod screen standing in front of the stage where the main screen was. I remember thinking, as it was approaching the time to start, that someone will have to come and remove this screen. Imagine my surprise when the lights went down and we watched this long film on a 60 inch? screen. It was my first and last visit.
Have any of our UK members been to Broadstairs?, I was there in the 1990s and saw Arnie in Twins, this was shown at a privately owned cinema, as all the chain owned cinemas had gone.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted July 11, 2013 12:57 PM
Actually, the very last time I qwent to the movie theater! It was (gasp, that long?) when STAR WARS: Revenge of the Sith was in the theater.
There were screaming kids running all over the bloody place that would only pause long enough to watch something explode on the screen and then run around screaming some more. I didn't want to punch the kids, but I was severely close to "joining the dark side" beating the living hell out some ignorant damned parents who thought they're brats behavior was cute, (and the damned pqrents were too busy chatting on they're fu**ing cell phones to notice they're kids in the first place.
If it wasn't for wanting to see the film, I would have walked out halfway through,k but stormed out as soon as the credits started to roll and bagdered and yelled at the idiot maganer as to why they didn't do anything about the parents and kids. They came back with lame excuses about criminal negligence and potentail lawsuits if they would dare bother the "customer" into curbing they're children.
I could have found a "curb" reel quick!
GRRRRRRRR!
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Paul Adsett
Film God
Posts: 5003
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 11, 2013 07:58 PM
At least you can leave a cinema Osi. A couple of years ago I was stuck on a Virgin Atlantic flight from London for 10 hours, while "the little darlings" played hide and seek up and down the aisles for the whole trip, while the parents slept in their seats or had earphones stuck on watching the movies. The flight attendants just threw their hands up at the situation, not wishing to offend the kids or the parents. After all, going to Disney World is supposed to be fun, right?
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Mark L Barton
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 621
From: Bristol, South Glos, England
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted July 13, 2013 04:35 AM
On the same topic, but not quite. About 15 years ago one of the smaller multi screen independent cinemas in Bristol gave me a call. I had bought earlier some super 8 films from the projectionist so was on chatting terms etc. Any way this guy called me up and asked if I had a 16mm projector, yes i did. Then could i possibly pop over to the cinema tonight with my kit. The reason being he had a premiere of a skate film, the cinema thought they were getting a 35mm, but instead were sent a 16mm print. So i popped along with my kit but there was no way I could project through the portholes etc etc. I ended up with the projector in the aisle near the back with a full house of energetic skater dudes. My set up would have shamed most of you, but once the film started (and i wasnt filling most of the big academy screen) the audience were glued to the screen. Phew! Worst cinema experience for me....The Old Gaumont Cinema, Baldwin Street,Bristol. Watching the Incredible Melting Man as rats scurried between the seats...awful and one of the last film shown before it became a night club.
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