Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Cineworld

Cineworld To Temporarily Close

Cineworld is set to close all 128 of its cinemas in the UK - not to mention those in other countries - from Thursday 8th October. This all comes in the wake of yet another delay of the release of 'No Time To Die'; Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond. On Sunday Cineworld stated through social media that they were "considering the temporary closure" of their UK and US cinemas: We can confirm we are considering the temporary closure of our U.K. and US cinemas, but a final decision has not yet been reached. Once a decision has been made we will update all staff and customers as soon as we can. — Cineworld Cinemas (@cineworld) October 4, 2020 However it has now been confirmed that Cineworld will indeed close its doors for an unknown period of time, stating "Cineworld will continue to monitor the situation closely and will communicate any future plans to resume operations in these markets at the appropriate time". This is nothing short of a tragedy, not

How do Cineworld Unlimited Cards affect Box Office Takings for Individual Movies?

I have been a Cineworld Unlimited member for longer than I can remember and I'm not going to deny it, I love it! The ability to go to the cinema whenever I want without having to pay for a ticket thanks to one monthly subscription, and with todays ticket prices it's great value for money. As you might have guessed, I write a movie blog, imagine how expensive that hobby would be without an Unlimited Card.  But I started to wonder how the monthly subscription I pay affected box office takings for individual movies so I sent them an email. The response I got was not helpful: Now I understand that in a competitive market you have to protect important information but given the success of Unlimited I was expecting a little sharing on Cineworld's part. Odeon have obviously noticed the success of Unlimited because they now offer a similar service in the form of Limitless, which starting at £17.99 a month is still more expensive than Unlimited. As annoying as Cineworld&

4DX – Is it worth it or just a gimmick?

Having watched the promo video what do you think? This week I saw Ghostbusters in 4DX and it definitely made the movie more of a ride. In fact 4DX feels like it was designed to appeal to the roller coaster crowd but will you miss the experience when watching the same movies at home?  When I saw Ghostbusters for the second time I decided to view it in 4DX because I wanted to know what the "environmental effects" did for the movie going experience. If you want to know what I thought of Ghostbusters check out my Average Guy Movie Review . In my honest opinion; right now 4DX is more of a gimmick than an experience. The movement, air bursts, smoke and spraying water were more of a distraction than anything else, all of which felt out of sink with the movie. The effects like the strobe lights went off a split second before whatever they were supposed to augment happened. For example; during a subway scene, the Ghostbusters find a ghost in the tunnel who had been executed