Before I start on the film I've got to get something off my chest
If anyone listens to Kermode & Mayos film show on 5live you will know about non code compliant people and the audience had a few of them tonight. I've never appreciated cinemas selling shitty, noisy food in the most noisy packaging possible and I was subjected to 2 kids behind us talking the entire way through and when not talking, chewing what sounded like wrapping paper and pork scratchings. I don't blame the kids, they were young boys, I squarely blame the shitc$₩nt lazy parents with them. Added to this 2 people in the rows in front regularly dicking about with their phones which is a new one on me and intensely distracting. Cinemas need to do more to make this sort of behaviour totally unacceptable in a movie theatre. It really ruined the whole experience and as the tickets cost over 30 quid for a 3 hour film I was dismayed that these selfish cocksuckers couldn't switch their phones off for 3 hours and were inconsiderate enough to piss about with them in a cinema
Anyway, the film
Some amazing visuals and effects but the fights reminded me of a Michael bay transformers film with too much going on to keep track of, the cast is enormous and it was getting a bit daft trying to keep up with the different character arcs. A lot of people, my wife included found the ending very sad.
I thought the film before was really good but wasn't really impressed with this one if I'm completely honest and I'm honest enough with myself to admit that may be because of the rimmers sat near me.
6/10
Re the kids with 'phones, why didn't you tell them to turn them off?
Re the kids talking, why didn't you tell them to shut up?
I've had people kicked out of the cinema for these 'crimes'. I don't put up with it and no one else should either.
You obviously have the stomach for it. I think most cinemas now and a sizable part of the audience think its okay to talk throughout a film and spend half the time on your phone. I avoid the cinema at certain times as the film will invariably be ruined by those with a short attention span.
I like the Curzon cinema that's not too far from my office. I go see films in their second week there and the place is usually empty and almost never any kids. Not quite the place to myself but good enough for me.
The last two times I've been I've booked a seat all by my lonesome only for some numbnuts to come in during the trailers and sit down right next to me in the almost empty cinema. I had to spend two hours restraining the urge to shout "What the fCK is the matter with you? Fck off and leave me alone!!" But instead I just sit there, silently resenting their entire existence.
I like the cinema but I don't like the people in it much.
I have every sympathy with you. My tactic now is to ask them politely, once, to keep it down. If that doesn't work I move so I'm sitting right behind them and just lean forward and say quietly 'if you don't shut up, I'm going to fucking hurt you' Give it a go.
Before I start on the film I've got to get something off my chest
If anyone listens to Kermode & Mayos film show on 5live you will know about non code compliant people and the audience had a few of them tonight. I've never appreciated cinemas selling shitty, noisy food in the most noisy packaging possible and I was subjected to 2 kids behind us talking the entire way through and when not talking, chewing what sounded like wrapping paper and pork scratchings. I don't blame the kids, they were young boys, I squarely blame the shitc$₩nt lazy parents with them. Added to this 2 people in the rows in front regularly dicking about with their phones which is a new one on me and intensely distracting. Cinemas need to do more to make this sort of behaviour totally unacceptable in a movie theatre. It really ruined the whole experience and as the tickets cost over 30 quid for a 3 hour film I was dismayed that these selfish cocksuckers couldn't switch their phones off for 3 hours and were inconsiderate enough to piss about with them in a cinema
Anyway, the film
Some amazing visuals and effects but the fights reminded me of a Michael bay transformers film with too much going on to keep track of, the cast is enormous and it was getting a bit daft trying to keep up with the different character arcs. A lot of people, my wife included found the ending very sad.
I thought the film before was really good but wasn't really impressed with this one if I'm completely honest and I'm honest enough with myself to admit that may be because of the rimmers sat near me.
6/10
Re the kids with 'phones, why didn't you tell them to turn them off?
Re the kids talking, why didn't you tell them to shut up?
I've had people kicked out of the cinema for these 'crimes'. I don't put up with it and no one else should either.
You obviously have the stomach for it. I think most cinemas now and a sizable part of the audience think its okay to talk throughout a film and spend half the time on your phone. I avoid the cinema at certain times as the film will invariably be ruined by those with a short attention span.
I like the Curzon cinema that's not too far from my office. I go see films in their second week there and the place is usually empty and almost never any kids. Not quite the place to myself but good enough for me.
The last two times I've been I've booked a seat all by my lonesome only for some numbnuts to come in during the trailers and sit down right next to me in the almost empty cinema. I had to spend two hours restraining the urge to shout "What the fCK is the matter with you? Fck off and leave me alone!!" But instead I just sit there, silently resenting their entire existence.
I like the cinema but I don't like the people in it much.
I have every sympathy with you. My tactic now is to ask them politely, once, to keep it down. If that doesn't work I move so I'm sitting right behind them and just lean forward and say quietly 'if you don't shut up, I'm going to fucking hurt you' Give it a go.
Trouble is, they weren't being noisy. They just plonked themselves down in my personal space, which at the cinema is two seats either side wide! Unfortunately, I'm somewhat unreasonably anti-social and wish most of the human race would die in a series of horrendous selfie photo taking accidents.
Before I start on the film I've got to get something off my chest
If anyone listens to Kermode & Mayos film show on 5live you will know about non code compliant people and the audience had a few of them tonight. I've never appreciated cinemas selling shitty, noisy food in the most noisy packaging possible and I was subjected to 2 kids behind us talking the entire way through and when not talking, chewing what sounded like wrapping paper and pork scratchings. I don't blame the kids, they were young boys, I squarely blame the shitc$₩nt lazy parents with them. Added to this 2 people in the rows in front regularly dicking about with their phones which is a new one on me and intensely distracting. Cinemas need to do more to make this sort of behaviour totally unacceptable in a movie theatre. It really ruined the whole experience and as the tickets cost over 30 quid for a 3 hour film I was dismayed that these selfish cocksuckers couldn't switch their phones off for 3 hours and were inconsiderate enough to piss about with them in a cinema
Anyway, the film
Some amazing visuals and effects but the fights reminded me of a Michael bay transformers film with too much going on to keep track of, the cast is enormous and it was getting a bit daft trying to keep up with the different character arcs. A lot of people, my wife included found the ending very sad.
I thought the film before was really good but wasn't really impressed with this one if I'm completely honest and I'm honest enough with myself to admit that may be because of the rimmers sat near me.
6/10
Re the kids with 'phones, why didn't you tell them to turn them off?
Re the kids talking, why didn't you tell them to shut up?
I've had people kicked out of the cinema for these 'crimes'. I don't put up with it and no one else should either.
You obviously have the stomach for it. I think most cinemas now and a sizable part of the audience think its okay to talk throughout a film and spend half the time on your phone. I avoid the cinema at certain times as the film will invariably be ruined by those with a short attention span.
I like the Curzon cinema that's not too far from my office. I go see films in their second week there and the place is usually empty and almost never any kids. Not quite the place to myself but good enough for me.
The last two times I've been I've booked a seat all by my lonesome only for some numbnuts to come in during the trailers and sit down right next to me in the almost empty cinema. I had to spend two hours restraining the urge to shout "What the fCK is the matter with you? Fck off and leave me alone!!" But instead I just sit there, silently resenting their entire existence.
I like the cinema but I don't like the people in it much.
I have every sympathy with you. My tactic now is to ask them politely, once, to keep it down. If that doesn't work I move so I'm sitting right behind them and just lean forward and say quietly 'if you don't shut up, I'm going to fucking hurt you' Give it a go.
Trouble is, they weren't being noisy. They just plonked themselves down in my personal space, which at the cinema is two seats either side wide! Unfortunately, I'm somewhat unreasonably anti-social and wish most of the human race would die in a series of horrendous selfie photo taking accidents.
Before I start on the film I've got to get something off my chest
If anyone listens to Kermode & Mayos film show on 5live you will know about non code compliant people and the audience had a few of them tonight. I've never appreciated cinemas selling shitty, noisy food in the most noisy packaging possible and I was subjected to 2 kids behind us talking the entire way through and when not talking, chewing what sounded like wrapping paper and pork scratchings. I don't blame the kids, they were young boys, I squarely blame the shitc$₩nt lazy parents with them. Added to this 2 people in the rows in front regularly dicking about with their phones which is a new one on me and intensely distracting. Cinemas need to do more to make this sort of behaviour totally unacceptable in a movie theatre. It really ruined the whole experience and as the tickets cost over 30 quid for a 3 hour film I was dismayed that these selfish cocksuckers couldn't switch their phones off for 3 hours and were inconsiderate enough to piss about with them in a cinema
Anyway, the film
Some amazing visuals and effects but the fights reminded me of a Michael bay transformers film with too much going on to keep track of, the cast is enormous and it was getting a bit daft trying to keep up with the different character arcs. A lot of people, my wife included found the ending very sad.
I thought the film before was really good but wasn't really impressed with this one if I'm completely honest and I'm honest enough with myself to admit that may be because of the rimmers sat near me.
6/10
Re the kids with 'phones, why didn't you tell them to turn them off?
Re the kids talking, why didn't you tell them to shut up?
I've had people kicked out of the cinema for these 'crimes'. I don't put up with it and no one else should either.
You obviously have the stomach for it. I think most cinemas now and a sizable part of the audience think its okay to talk throughout a film and spend half the time on your phone. I avoid the cinema at certain times as the film will invariably be ruined by those with a short attention span.
I like the Curzon cinema that's not too far from my office. I go see films in their second week there and the place is usually empty and almost never any kids. Not quite the place to myself but good enough for me.
The last two times I've been I've booked a seat all by my lonesome only for some numbnuts to come in during the trailers and sit down right next to me in the almost empty cinema. I had to spend two hours restraining the urge to shout "What the fCK is the matter with you? Fck off and leave me alone!!" But instead I just sit there, silently resenting their entire existence.
I like the cinema but I don't like the people in it much.
I have every sympathy with you. My tactic now is to ask them politely, once, to keep it down. If that doesn't work I move so I'm sitting right behind them and just lean forward and say quietly 'if you don't shut up, I'm going to fucking hurt you' Give it a go.
Trouble is, they weren't being noisy. They just plonked themselves down in my personal space, which at the cinema is two seats either side wide! Unfortunately, I'm somewhat unreasonably anti-social and wish most of the human race would die in a series of horrendous selfie photo taking accidents.
Ha! I remember once buying a cinema ticket online, carefully selecting my seat, and when I pitched up it turned out they'd sold only two other tickets. The two middle aged women, with the whole auditorium to choose from, had plonked themselves down in the very seat I had chosen for myself (and the one next to it, obvs). With over 80 other seats to choose from, it seemed ridiculous to ask them to move. So I just sat immediately in front of them, and refused to take off my sombrero.
It’s one of the reasons that I rarely go to the cinema. Best screenings are the silver haired screenings at odd afternoon times that are generally cheaper and not filled with annoying little shits. The audience don’t want popcorn getting stuck under their plate and have respect enough to keep quiet.
By no means a 'new film', there's a Kubrik classic on BBC4 tonight at 9.00, Barry Lyndon .. well worth recording
Funnily enough I was watching the making of this on YouTube and the lighting techniques involved to make it were incredible. Shooting scenes in actual historic places inbetween gaps while tourists were going from room to room and also taking care not to melt any of the paintings because of the heat being generated by the additional lighting.
Love immersing myself in a good film. Generally I have to watch alone as I get easily distracted by the inevitable noise from the audience. I either see films at the cinema when it's full or empty. A full screening will generally keep the audience in check.
It’s one of the reasons that I rarely go to the cinema. Best screenings are the silver haired screenings at odd afternoon times that are generally cheaper and not filled with annoying little shits. The audience don’t want popcorn getting stuck under their plate and have respect enough to keep quiet.
Funnily enough some of the worst experiences in a cinema I've had have been at the Regent Centre in God's waiting room aka Christchurch. It is like a social occasion for pensioners (...which it is I know) who are treated to a night out by their family or with their bowls club or whatever and use it as an opportunity to catch up on how the grandkids are getting on at ballet class, whether Joan has bought that knitting pattern back yet or whether Clive's got a date for his appointment for the proctologist?
It genuinely took me back to the old Saturday morning pictures days, it was that noisy. And it goes on right through from the trailers to the end.
I can't remember which film it was in particular but it had one of those timelines that jumps about backwards and forwards. That seemed to completely throw some of the audience who couldn't get their heads around it*. So we had the, "...but I thought he was dead?" type of comment followed by a group discussion of what was going on alongside who was who. All conducted at full volume.
Tbh it as been so bad there my wife enjoys my discomfort and inner fury at the behaviour of some of our fellow cinema goers more than some of the films we've seen.
*my old man's a bugger for this also and my mum deserves a medal for deconstructing every plot line of anything more complicated than Paddington for him.
Eighth Grade is very good, if you have a chance to see it.
Saw this yesterday and really enjoyed it. A universal tale of the awkwardness of being a teenager in the modern world and a great performance from the lead Elsie Fisher. Very funny in places.
Avengers- End Game (will post before reading other comments) 9/10 Fantastic film, only slight annoyance is they tried a bit too many jokes, which also got annoying with silly little ones which were barely funny but people near were just OTT laughing for the sake of it (it felt like).
I really enjoyed it, i probably haven't seen all of the ones linked in but most of them. I thought the whole thing was perfect other than OTT on the jokes/silly bits. I would recommend although you would need to see quite a few of the linked movies to get it fully. The final fight was really good and i did come out of it thinking WOW fantastic movie, i will rewatch again probably when out on TV, but first thoughts it didn't disappoint and up there with the best of the series. Personally preferred to Infinity
Edit- not quite sure why people were annoyed by the long haired one, probably again a bit over the top but he didn't really annoy me lol
Edit- not quite sure why people were annoyed by the long haired one, probably again a bit over the top but he didn't really annoy me lol
Personally, I wouldn't say I was annoyed by him. He served a perfectly decent comic relief purpose. I think I was just disappointed we didn't see more of what we saw in IW. The scene with Rocket when he's talking about what he's lost was (relatively) powerful. How serious he was when he nailed Thanos at the end too was something I liked. Seemed a shame to lose that in order to have the fat joke thing.
The PTSD parts played by the likes of Iron Man and Thor were some of the best bits about the early stages of EndGame for me
The Stark / Rogers argument in the early stages where it was just rage from the former was a really good bit of writing, you knew that he had no cause for his words (as we saw in IW) but what he'd been through had tipped him over the edge so sympathised with him
Same with Thor when we first see him in the Village; for me the fat joke hadn't quite started by that point as was another excellent example of how downhill a person can go in that sort of situation - Had they then gotten Thor back into some sort of better shape (after Asgard and the salad comment at the very least) then it would have been perfectly done
Before I start on the film I've got to get something off my chest
If anyone listens to Kermode & Mayos film show on 5live you will know about non code compliant people and the audience had a few of them tonight. I've never appreciated cinemas selling shitty, noisy food in the most noisy packaging possible and I was subjected to 2 kids behind us talking the entire way through and when not talking, chewing what sounded like wrapping paper and pork scratchings. I don't blame the kids, they were young boys, I squarely blame the shitc$₩nt lazy parents with them. Added to this 2 people in the rows in front regularly dicking about with their phones which is a new one on me and intensely distracting. Cinemas need to do more to make this sort of behaviour totally unacceptable in a movie theatre. It really ruined the whole experience and as the tickets cost over 30 quid for a 3 hour film I was dismayed that these selfish cocksuckers couldn't switch their phones off for 3 hours and were inconsiderate enough to piss about with them in a cinema
Anyway, the film
Some amazing visuals and effects but the fights reminded me of a Michael bay transformers film with too much going on to keep track of, the cast is enormous and it was getting a bit daft trying to keep up with the different character arcs. A lot of people, my wife included found the ending very sad.
I thought the film before was really good but wasn't really impressed with this one if I'm completely honest and I'm honest enough with myself to admit that may be because of the rimmers sat near me.
6/10
Re the kids with 'phones, why didn't you tell them to turn them off?
Re the kids talking, why didn't you tell them to shut up?
I've had people kicked out of the cinema for these 'crimes'. I don't put up with it and no one else should either.
You obviously have the stomach for it. I think most cinemas now and a sizable part of the audience think its okay to talk throughout a film and spend half the time on your phone. I avoid the cinema at certain times as the film will invariably be ruined by those with a short attention span.
I like the Curzon cinema that's not too far from my office. I go see films in their second week there and the place is usually empty and almost never any kids. Not quite the place to myself but good enough for me.
The last two times I've been I've booked a seat all by my lonesome only for some numbnuts to come in during the trailers and sit down right next to me in the almost empty cinema. I had to spend two hours restraining the urge to shout "What the fCK is the matter with you? Fck off and leave me alone!!" But instead I just sit there, silently resenting their entire existence.
I like the cinema but I don't like the people in it much.
I have every sympathy with you. My tactic now is to ask them politely, once, to keep it down. If that doesn't work I move so I'm sitting right behind them and just lean forward and say quietly 'if you don't shut up, I'm going to fucking hurt you' Give it a go.
So now that Endgame is out, are we finally retiring most of the characters for a few years? I am about as bored with these actors as I was Harrison Ford playing Han Solo. Would love to see these characters disappear and the characters rebooted in 5 years. Otherwise the Marvel franchise might become the next X-Men.
So now that Endgame is out, are we finally retiring most of the characters for a few years? I am about as bored with these actors as I was Harrison Ford playing Han Solo. Would love to see these characters disappear and the characters rebooted in 5 years. Otherwise the Marvel franchise might become the next X-Men.
I hope they don't do reboots of them. So many films these days are reboots and rarely improve on what went before.
So now that Endgame is out, are we finally retiring most of the characters for a few years? I am about as bored with these actors as I was Harrison Ford playing Han Solo. Would love to see these characters disappear and the characters rebooted in 5 years. Otherwise the Marvel franchise might become the next X-Men.
There's talk of a Black Widow solo film with Johansson but a lot of the major characters' actors are now out of contract so, as the characters are too valuable for the money men to leave alone, I suspect they will be rebooted.
Part of Disney’s attraction to buying Fox was getting so many Marvel characters back.
Its hard to imagine now, but the likes of Thor, the Guardians and Iron Man weren’t the big hitters before the MCU started. Not compared to Wolverine and co.
So so it’s worked out quite nicely. They’ve made billions out of the second or third tier characters, and now they have the X-Men back. I’d imagine Dark Phoenix will be the last of the X movies as we know them, and a full reboot will take place over the next MCU arc, post-infinity stones.
Part of Disney’s attraction to buying Fox was getting so many Marvel characters back.
Its hard to imagine now, but the likes of Thor, the Guardians and Iron Man weren’t the big hitters before the MCU started. Not compared to Wolverine and co.
So so it’s worked out quite nicely. They’ve made billions out of the second or third tier characters, and now they have the X-Men back. I’d imagine Dark Phoenix will be the last of the X movies as we know them, and a full reboot will take place over the next MCU arc, post-infinity stones.
Good point. Hopefully we get a decent X-Men movie. Apart from Logan and, to a lesser extent Days of Future Past, they've been pants since X-Men 2.
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Thought it was good. Ozzy Osbourne is an animal!
Give it a go.
With over 80 other seats to choose from, it seemed ridiculous to ask them to move.
So I just sat immediately in front of them, and refused to take off my sombrero.
It genuinely took me back to the old Saturday morning pictures days, it was that noisy. And it goes on right through from the trailers to the end.
I can't remember which film it was in particular but it had one of those timelines that jumps about backwards and forwards. That seemed to completely throw some of the audience who couldn't get their heads around it*. So we had the, "...but I thought he was dead?" type of comment followed by a group discussion of what was going on alongside who was who. All conducted at full volume.
Tbh it as been so bad there my wife enjoys my discomfort and inner fury at the behaviour of some of our fellow cinema goers more than some of the films we've seen.
*my old man's a bugger for this also and my mum deserves a medal for deconstructing every plot line of anything more complicated than Paddington for him.
Fantastic film, only slight annoyance is they tried a bit too many jokes, which also got annoying with silly little ones which were barely funny but people near were just OTT laughing for the sake of it (it felt like).
I really enjoyed it, i probably haven't seen all of the ones linked in but most of them. I thought the whole thing was perfect other than OTT on the jokes/silly bits. I would recommend although you would need to see quite a few of the linked movies to get it fully. The final fight was really good and i did come out of it thinking WOW fantastic movie, i will rewatch again probably when out on TV, but first thoughts it didn't disappoint and up there with the best of the series. Personally preferred to Infinity
Edit- not quite sure why people were annoyed by the long haired one, probably again a bit over the top but he didn't really annoy me lol
Ridiculous article in the Guardian
The PTSD parts played by the likes of Iron Man and Thor were some of the best bits about the early stages of EndGame for me
The Stark / Rogers argument in the early stages where it was just rage from the former was a really good bit of writing, you knew that he had no cause for his words (as we saw in IW) but what he'd been through had tipped him over the edge so sympathised with him
Same with Thor when we first see him in the Village; for me the fat joke hadn't quite started by that point as was another excellent example of how downhill a person can go in that sort of situation - Had they then gotten Thor back into some sort of better shape (after Asgard and the salad comment at the very least) then it would have been perfectly done
Its hard to imagine now, but the likes of Thor, the Guardians and Iron Man weren’t the big hitters before the MCU started. Not compared to Wolverine and co.
So so it’s worked out quite nicely. They’ve made billions out of the second or third tier characters, and now they have the X-Men back. I’d imagine Dark Phoenix will be the last of the X movies as we know them, and a full reboot will take place over the next MCU arc, post-infinity stones.