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lupogirl wrote:
Just seen the post about additional cost for 3D. Wonder if the additional cost is to cover the 3D glasses ? Blimey, I've got about 4 pairs. Be great to bring your own and get money off!
Try it, but I'd imagine the cinema will insist you pay anyway - Most are using the extra charge for 3D as a way of paying for the projector upgrades, etc. :(
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Saw The Uninvited a few days ago. Oh dear! A film that was devoid of any suspense or atmosphere. Very much a watered down version of Tale of Two Sisters. The only good thing about this film is the poster for it.

Then saw a far darker film called Coraline in 3D. Very enjoyable film with a mix of stop motion and CGI. Maybe a tad overlong but still watchable. There is something quite creepy about buttons for eyes.
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I can't see them giving you money off for bringing your own 3D glasses.

When I went to see My Bloody Valentine 3D they tried to collect everyones glasses at the end even though we had paid extra for them!

I've got 3D glasses at home from Bloody Valentine, Monster House and some retro ones from the Freddy's Dead VHS.
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Actually went to see Coraline after the annoucement of additional charge. I was not asked for the £1.50. Still got to keep my glasses. Did not know at other Cineworlds they were asking for them back.
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orlovsky wrote:
lupogirl wrote:
Just seen the post about additional cost for 3D. Wonder if the additional cost is to cover the 3D glasses ? Blimey, I've got about 4 pairs. Be great to bring your own and get money off!
Try it, but I'd imagine the cinema will insist you pay anyway - Most are using the extra charge for 3D as a way of paying for the projector upgrades, etc. :(
Which is a complete lie, because they've had those screens and projectors in for at least eighteen months - I saw Beowulf in November 2007 and I'm not sure that one was the first. Did the Hannah Montana and U2 concert films come before Beowulf?
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streetrw wrote:
orlovsky wrote:
lupogirl wrote:
Just seen the post about additional cost for 3D. Wonder if the additional cost is to cover the 3D glasses ? Blimey, I've got about 4 pairs. Be great to bring your own and get money off!
Try it, but I'd imagine the cinema will insist you pay anyway - Most are using the extra charge for 3D as a way of paying for the projector upgrades, etc. :(
Which is a complete lie, because they've had those screens and projectors in for at least eighteen months - I saw Beowulf in November 2007 and I'm not sure that one was the first. Did the Hannah Montana and U2 concert films come before Beowulf?
Well, given the fact that there's 2 competing technologies, and the earlier digital projectors won't support the newer Dolby tech (which doesn't require the "silver" screen to work), some of those cinemas that upgraded their hardware may of had to replace equipment. That said, the instances of cinemas requiring glasses back may be related to the more expensive Dolby glasses (which are designed to be reused by the cinema, and even have security tags in the left arm), and not the "RealD" type, we used for Scar 3D.
I'm not sure about Hannah Montana, but I'm pretty sure the U2 concert was out around the same time as Beowulf.
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On this whole 3D thing, has anyone really been blown away by it? In comparison to IMAX 3D which can be pretty amazing, the 3D effect on the new tech movies i've seen (Beowulf, Bolt, MBV and Coraline - I won't count Scar because it didn't work at FF) have been pretty meh IMHO. I haven't seen anything to suggest that this is the future. Avatar needs to be a lot better to justify the hype.

Coraline probably has the most interesting and imaginative use of the effects I've seen, but honestly I don't think it's worth the additional charge.

Forgetting the 3D and viewed on its own merits though Coraline is fantastic.
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orlovsky wrote: That said, the instances of cinemas requiring glasses back may be related to the more expensive Dolby glasses (which are designed to be reused by the cinema, and even have security tags in the left arm), and not the "RealD" type, we used for Scar 3D.
It was definately 'RealD' glasses that they were collecting, this was an Odeon cinema by the way. There were two ushers at the exit collecting the glasses as everyone left. Most people were giving them back but I kept mine as a souvenir, although they weren't branded to the My Bloody Valentine film.
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MaxRenn wrote:On this whole 3D thing, has anyone really been blown away by it? In comparison to IMAX 3D which can be pretty amazing, the 3D effect on the new tech movies i've seen (Beowulf, Bolt, MBV and Coraline - I won't count Scar because it didn't work at FF) have been pretty meh IMHO. I haven't seen anything to suggest that this is the future. Avatar needs to be a lot better to justify the hype.

Coraline probably has the most interesting and imaginative use of the effects I've seen, but honestly I don't think it's worth the additional charge.

Forgetting the 3D and viewed on its own merits though Coraline is fantastic.
I thought 3D in MBV was nice and immersive, although nothing that would of required a trouser change due to excitement, Coraline was pretty the same (although I _really_ enjoyed Coraline 3D or no 3D)
Malachi wrote:It was definately 'RealD' glasses that they were collecting, this was an Odeon cinema by the way. There were two ushers at the exit collecting the glasses as everyone left. Most people were giving them back but I kept mine as a souvenir, although they weren't branded to the My Bloody Valentine film.
Do they look like mirrored sun glasses? Those are the ones the cinema should be planning on getting back, you bad man :)
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watched 'Martyrs' which was awesome, well the first hour was ,could of done with less torture porn after that!! and also watched 'Storm Warning' which wasn't very good at all!!
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A mixed bag of movies this weekend,Convoy nice to watch this again,the fox and the child,great photography,but i just couldnt stand the young actress,has horror desensitized me? i couldnt watch it,with out thinking of nutters in the woods,and bad things happening.
Chocolate a cracking martial arts movie from the director of Ongbak,still have Onibaba to watch.
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Post by Rue-morgue Jay »

Just saw 'the uninvited'. I really liked it. I can now watch 'tale of two sisters' so i can digress and chew the cud, but it was good. I must be getting old because i never saw it coming?! :( :D
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With regards to the £1.50 extra for 3d films. Some cineworlds, like Enfield and Wood Green, you give your ticket to one guy who stands at a main entrance which leads to all the screens. So you could actually get a ticket to one film and just go into a different screen.

So if you have an old pair of 3d specs then, to get one over on them, get a ticket to the 2d version, or any other film which starts around the same time, and just go into the 3d film instead of whichever film you got a ticket for.

Daft that it has to come to that though.
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Wishbaby is a very low-budget, shot-on-HD British horror pic about a group of unlikeable teens in an urban hell: when they happy-slap an old woman (Fenella Fielding?!?!?) one of thees young girls helps her and is introduced to the magic of the Wishbaby: a doll brought to life which, if loved, will do whatever is asked of it.

It's directed by Stephen Parsons, who is best known as a score composer for such offerings as Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch and the absolutely terrible Funny Man. He's not known as a director, for obvious reasons. Wishbaby is tiresome, ugly, full of foul characters about whom I didn't care one whit whether they lived or died, uninterestingly shot and certainly the worst genre rental in several years - and that includes a large handful by Jess Franco at his zoom-happy dullest. It's only 76 minutes, but it's an hour and a quarter of absolute rubbish that feels like a week. Worthless on every single level.
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Laymonite wrote:With regards to the £1.50 extra for 3d films. Some cineworlds, like Enfield and Wood Green, you give your ticket to one guy who stands at a main entrance which leads to all the screens. So you could actually get a ticket to one film and just go into a different screen.
I asked about this 3D extra malarkey at Cineworld Trocadero this afternoon. The extra £1.50 is not for the glasses, it's for the "premium experience" (albeit one which you can only get with the glasses). The "premium experience" is the 3D. Apparently people are perfectly happy to pay the extra fee for The Premium Experience, which is another stone cold lie from Cineworld Trocadero's hamster on the tills, as the extra fee even hasn't been introduced yet.

I feel a letter to Cineworld's Chief Stoat is called for.
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