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Secret Cinema

I'd never heard of it until a few months and as they are gearing up to a much bigger project this year they seem to have chosen a film that would appeal to a massive audience and taken it from a 'secret society' to mass marketing.

Last year was Back to the Future which, by all accounts, had some issues due to the size of the project but this year with the Empire Strikes Back it looks like it is going to be very popular, in terms of numbers, despite the price of £80 for a ticket.

Has anyone been to one if these in the past and is anyone planning on going this summer, or has anyone been yet?
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Eighty quid? Seriously?
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Chizz said:

    Eighty quid? Seriously?

    if you're on a budget I think the one in New Cross is cheaper.
  • Well, not exactly - I was rounding. The tickets are £78 for adults and £52 for children but there is a £2.50 booking fee per transaction, not per ticket, so for two adults it would work out at £79.25 each.
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772

    There will be more than just screening a film, based on previous ones.
  • You can watch it round my house for £50 a ticket, will even chuck in 4 tins of strongbow.
  • GreenWithEnvy
    GreenWithEnvy Posts: 1,841
    Been to a couple of their productions and have a ticket for Empire Strikes back this year too. Shawshank was really very, very good. I describe it as a total immersive experience where the cinematic world is recreated around you. Dressing up is highly advised to keep up the illusion. Word is that the latest one will totally justify the admittedly high entry price. They have even set up a recreation of the Cantina somewhere in London which is open to the public (but you need to pay entry). the whole enterprise must be raking it in! End of the day you are nuts or nutty enough about the film to pay the price.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    £80 ? i wan't a ride on the Millennium Falcon for that.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,081
    I went to the Back To The Future One, biggest load of shit I've ever been too. Complete rip off.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331

    £80 ? i wan't a ride on the Millennium Falcon for that.

    I'd want a piggy-back on a wookie for that.
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 934
    I'd want more than a piggy back!
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  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    What is it?
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    I don't get Secret Cinema. I guess it's an imagination thing but it doesn't work for me at all. I'd be interested if the production was done with the input of the filmmakers, offering behind the scenes stuff, props, a Q&A with the cast and crew, stuff like that. But local actors dressing up and some cheap imitation sets....I'd even be more interested in going to a cinema made up to look like 1980 and enjoying a fake version of the movie's original release.
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 986
    Eighty quid? Oh well if people are daft enough............
  • reserves
    reserves Posts: 795
    I got invited to the preview on Tuesday, was good, quite a lot happens before the film starts so it's a full evening.

    Depends what you expect for £80 I guess.
  • Danny Addick
    Danny Addick Posts: 3,930
    I went last night and it was amazing.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
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  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    My wife went to The Lost Boys one. She said it was awful, really cramped and couldn't get any drinks as the queues for the were ridiculous, as was the loo situation. Said it was one of the most poorly organised events she had ever been to.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131

    I went to the Back To The Future One, biggest load of shit I've ever been too. Complete rip off.

    If only you could go back in time and tell yourself not to bother!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,081
    JiMMy 85 said:

    I don't get Secret Cinema. I guess it's an imagination thing but it doesn't work for me at all. I'd be interested if the production was done with the input of the filmmakers, offering behind the scenes stuff, props, a Q&A with the cast and crew, stuff like that. But local actors dressing up and some cheap imitation sets....I'd even be more interested in going to a cinema made up to look like 1980 and enjoying a fake version of the movie's original release.

    Exactly. Just a weird crowd. I think they're known as hipsters!
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    edited August 2018
    Anyone going to Romeo + Juliet Secret Cinema this August?
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  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954

    Anyone going to Romeo + Juliet Secret Cinema this August?

    It's Secret Cinema, Suzi ...... nobody's going to tell you. :smile:

  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    They did one at our local garden centre, even had Michael J Fox there.
    Well I'm not sure it was him, he had his back to the fuscia.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,847
    What do you get for your money at these things?
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,517
    edited August 2018
    I've got a pair of tickets for this Sunday 12th that I'm reluctantly selling, face value of £134 for the pair but prepared to sell for less to a fellow Addick!

    If anyone is interested please let me know.
  • I've got a pair of tickets for this Sunday 12th that I'm reluctantly selling, face value if £134 for the pair but prepared to sell for less to a fellow Addick!

    If anyone is interested please let me know.

    You could have spent that on a season ticket!
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    MrOneLung said:

    What do you get for your money at these things?

    Not sure as never been before and got bought my tickets as a birthday present, but v impressed with the set up so far with regards to the prep you have to do.

    Apparently I was arrested for brawling on 24th June 1996. I'm a Capulat Cobra but my husband signed up and he's pledged his allegience to Montague Vipers so i wondered if anyone had gone in a pair and got split up as then I probably wont enjoy as much!
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    I couldn’t think of anything worse . When I go to the cinema I want silence and normality not hoards of over excited people in fancy dress .
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    All sounds a bit grown ups playing at dressing up to me.
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,583
    Going to Dirty Dancing today at Gunnersbury Park (meet at Acton Town tube). I'm going with the wife, sister in law and two nieces and one of there mates. Never been to one before so not to sure what to expect....wish me luck. 
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,583
    buckshee said:
    All sounds a bit grown ups playing at dressing up to me.
    Yes I think it is, I've got a Kellermans t-shirt but that's about it.