Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted April 6, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2020 28 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said: We treated my daughter to Trolls: World Tour tonight. £15.99 for a 48 rental, but it would have cost about £20 for a trip to the cinema had it been opened. Inoffensive. seemed pretty similar to the first film but I have sat through far worse kids films of late. i quite like this early release policy. I still don’t think it will change my viewing habits with a cinema trip for most things. But it will come in handy if this policy keeps on when cinemas re-open. However it will be interesting to see how well this does. It doesn’t get released in the US until Friday and was streaming in the usual illegal places first thing this morning It doesn't really affect me because my daughter just loves the experience of going to the cinema. Half the time she doesn't even pay any attention to the film unless it's got a dog or dogs in it. She's mostly interested in the popcorn and the dark. But it will be interesting to see how things change, although I really worry about smaller chains and independent cinemas, which are fewer and further between with each passing year as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted April 6, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2020 I can't see digital downloads still getting an early release once everything settles down. There might be a period of a few months where studios toy with it, but I can imagine piracy putting a massive dent into profits (especially at the prices they are expecting people to pay) and studios reverting to the old model before long. It's a shame as I'd love more movies to become available for download alongside a cinema release, but I really can't see that many people putting £15-20 down on a 2 day rental of a movie when they can torrent it for fuck all and keep it forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted April 6, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 6, 2020 32 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: It doesn't really affect me because my daughter just loves the experience of going to the cinema. Half the time she doesn't even pay any attention to the film unless it's got a dog or dogs in it. She's mostly interested in the popcorn and the dark. But it will be interesting to see how things change, although I really worry about smaller chains and independent cinemas, which are fewer and further between with each passing year as it is. I think the smaller chains will survive actually. It’s the bigger chains I think will suffer over the next 5/10 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 10 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said: I think the smaller chains will survive actually. It’s the bigger chains I think will suffer over the next 5/10 years Should probably take this to another film thread, but I'd like to know why you think that when everything indicates otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members DEF Posted April 7, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 7, 2020 (edited) Never Too Young To Die 12 year old me would have fucking loved this. Its basically a cross between the Mad Max 2 scene of Weird Science x100 combined with Teen Agent and American Ninja aesthetics, oh and it has Gene Simmons playing an absolutely problematic evil hermaphrodite gang boss. (Wtf!) It's absolutely bat shit. Former bond George Lazenby has an extended action sequence as Drew Stargrove. A spy trying to stop the evil doings of Simmons. John Stamos joins the action as his son and all hell breaks loose. If it weren't for the casual homophobia and sexism then if I had 'fuck you money' this is exactly the kind of movie I'd make. The thing about 37 year old DEF is he can identify and disapprove of these things far better than 12 year old DEF and still think it's an amazing experience. The only other criticism I have is that Robert Englund is utterly wasted. It's an awesome clusterfuck.  Edited April 7, 2020 by DEF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted April 7, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 7, 2020 6 hours ago, SuperBacon said: Should probably take this to another film thread, but I'd like to know why you think that when everything indicates otherwise. The overheads. Multiplexes costs loads to run because they are huge. Your little local 2 screener will have less overheads. Also, smaller chains will focus on independent films, cheaper to buy in then big tentpoles. Cinema will become more niche as people start to become more concerned about being in such close proximity to others. China re-opened their cinemas and they closed less then a week later because people were not ready to start going back to them. I think it will take a while to recover, way more than other forms of socialising.  Or, as previously seen, I’m talking tosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted April 7, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 7, 2020 7 hours ago, SuperBacon said: Should probably take this to another film thread, but I'd like to know why you think that when everything indicates otherwise. Not sure I agree but one of the big things coming out of this Coronavirus shitstorm will be to shop local and support local independent businesses, particularly the ones that got us through this. I don't think there's been a better time to be independent, assuming you can survive this downtime. Niche cinema will also have a place but as Dev says, it's been shrinking anyway. Hopefully it can thrive on the sentiment of the next year or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 We always go to our local Savoy cinema, there's only five of them nationwide and it's a bit dearer than going to the likes of Vue or Cineworld but there's a much nicer atmosphere there, only six screens and feels that bit more personal an experience. They even do cinema hire for kids birthdays for £150 quid where you get the whole screen to yourself, take in your own food, we've done it a couple of times and it's awesome. We'll continue to go there, hopefully they manage to make it through. On topic we watched Escape Room last night for probably the forth time. Yeah it's a bit daft in parts (see spoiler tag) but it's a cool concept, good fun and I think only one jump scare which suits me fine. The escape rooms themselves are really well designed and really ramp up the tension, particularly the one in the bar. To me it sits in a similar ball park to the first two Final Destination movies by at least making you want to give a shit about the characters. I'm looking forward to the sequel, I just hope they don't go down the route of the later films in the Final Destination series or something like the Saw sequels where the kills get more spectacular and convoluted as they go along but you can't remember the victims names. After Ben escapes the last room and comes out in to the technical area and meets the Games Master it gets a bit Saw 2. Yorick van Wageningen feels like he's seconds away from going "MWOOOHAHAHAHA" and going full panto which takes the shine off it for me. That lifting choke still looks vicious though. I do like the almost Cabin In The Woods thing of seeing the mysterious villains testing the next escape room though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted April 7, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 7, 2020 Watched Trolls World Tour last night and I'm very happy that I didn't pay for it. Even my 7 year old daughter thought it was a load of gik and asked could she put on Fairly Odd Parents instead, towards the end of the movie. Then myself and the missus watched Vivarium. I'm also very happy that no money was spent on the viewing of this movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted April 7, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 7, 2020 18 minutes ago, cobra_gordo said: On topic we watched Escape Room last night for probably the forth time. I'd rather take my chances with the corona. 12 minutes ago, Scott Malbranque said: Then myself and the missus watched Vivarium. I'm also very happy that no money was spent on the viewing of this movie. I was going to catch this at the cinema before they all shut. Sci-fi has been very hit and miss the last few years with me and I suspect I won't like this either but I'll still watch it for the Poots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted April 7, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted April 7, 2020 The attitude of other cinema goers makes me less and less interested in the cinema as I get older. "Just checking" their phones completely pisses me off. For that reason alone I'd welcome day-in-date releases. The cinema industry was ripe for proper digital disruption. Music held out for as long as it could, TV's old format is rotting, cinema's time is up in it's current format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted April 7, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 7, 2020 49 minutes ago, Scott Malbranque said: Then myself and the missus watched Vivarium. I'm also very happy that no money was spent on the viewing of this movie. I couldn't stand this. It doesn't help that I find Jesse Eisenberg to be one of the most irritating actors going. This just felt like a shit episode of Inside No 9 streched out to 90 minutes. I really want Imogen Poots to start picking better projects as she's lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wordsfromlee Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 I much prefer going to watch a movie at the cinema if I can. As someone with an horrendous concentration span, I zone out or end up looking at my phone or something when watching at home. At a cinema I can give the movie my full attention. Plus we have a Odeon Luxe with the reclining chairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted April 7, 2020 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, Onyx2 said: The cinema industry was ripe for proper digital disruption. Music held out for as long as it could, TV's old format is rotting, cinema's time is up in it's current format. I think this is a generalisation, really, because the range of cinema experiences you can have now are expanding as smaller chains and independents look for ways to diversify the experience. I guess I'm lucky in Manchester and Stockport. We have two generic huge chains in Manchester that are cheap and accessible. But in Stockport we have an independent just down the road from me which is modelled on the old school cinema experience, and it's always packed out. In the town centre, we have The Light, which I really like and is a modernisation of the big chain. We've just had an Everyman open in Manchester too which is a mixture of tradition and forward-thinking in terms of its presentation of the experience, and its selection of films is a nice mix of the most popular and slightly more niche offerings. But their cinemas have high quality restaurants and bars in them too. Then there's mine and Houchen's artisanal ponce hangout, HOME, which is a theatre and art hub rather than just a cinema. Diversification is the key. It's why I think Scorchdish has a point about the larger chains arguably being in danger. They're the ones who are ultimately going to be challenged because it's, by and large, more casual cinemagoers who will stay away after all this has passed over when they realise they could be watching A Hollywood Film at home instead of forking out to go and sit in a fleapit. Film nerd twats like me will keep going regardless, even more so in my case with it being pretty much the only time I properly go anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 So by that theory, if 3pm football matches were shown, then football audiences will dwindle massively? After all, what's the point of going if you can watch at home? I don't think this will affect most things like cinemas, gigs etc. People will carry on as normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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