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Post by crowblack on Aug 25, 2018 22:04:43 GMT
I'm fine with £6.75 or £7.00 to see a film. I've just hard a (London?) radio 5 guest saying, of some 'youtuber' boxing match idiocy, "it's only £7.50, which is the price of a cinema ticket." We really are being ripped off up here. And yes, Home is a terrible name. Try googling it, or looking it up on Twitter. The venue itself is nice, though: you can get some good theatre seat bargains too.
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Post by sf on Aug 25, 2018 22:11:31 GMT
I'm fine with £6.75 or £7.00 to see a film. I've just hard a (London?) radio 5 guest saying, of some 'youtuber' boxing match idiocy, "it's only £7.50, which is the price of a cinema ticket." We really are being ripped off up here. And yes, Home is a terrible name. Try googling it, or looking it up on Twitter. The venue itself is nice, though: you can get some good theatre seat bargains too.
"I'm seeing a film tonight at home." "On Netflix?" "No, I'm seeing it at Home."
The worst part: somebody GOT PAID to come up with this rubbish.
Stupid as the name is, though, I do like the venue - and yes, there are some excellent theatre seat bargains.
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Aug 26, 2018 8:15:01 GMT
I'm currently pondering a membership to Picturehouse Central. I see a lot of independent films and the place is wonderful! I've got Picturehouse Central membership, agree its a good deal (even at full price) particularly when you take into account the food and drink discount. Never had a problem with the member's bar being closed but did get annoyed the other week to find they don't serve food in there after 5PM. They do have strange license restrictions in all of the bars that you can't get a drink after 9PM without a cinema ticket, and even then it's only 1 drink per ticket. But a handy spot for food and drink pre-theatre. Also have Curzon membership (Classic rather than Cult) - 4 free tickets, plus discounts, and a lot of Curzon's own releases have £5 member previews which tend to be at 11AM so good for a pre-matinee slot if I get up early enough Used to have Odeon Limitless (before I joined Curzon) - good deal if you see a lot there but as noted above it doesn't include "event cinema" and unlike some of the other schemes I don't think you can pay an "uplift" for these screenings (although you can for 3D etc). Gave this up when they closed the Odeon Leicester Square for refurbishment as that had a big knock-on effect on the selection of films at their other London cinemas.
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Post by kathryn on Aug 26, 2018 8:21:00 GMT
Yes, that’s why I’m finding it so hard to see the smaller films - even the Haymarket and Covent Garden Odeons are showing the big blockbusters while Leicester Square is being refurbished.
The trouble is Odeon is the only cinema locally!
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Post by ellie1981 on Aug 26, 2018 8:57:30 GMT
Yes, that’s why I’m finding it so hard to see the smaller films - even the Haymarket and Covent Garden Odeons are showing the big blockbusters while Leicester Square is being refurbished. The trouble is Odeon is the only cinema locally! In central London they appear to have moved the smaller films to the Odeon Luxe on Panton Street, which is very expensive.
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Post by kathryn on Aug 26, 2018 9:11:03 GMT
Panton Street is the Haymarket one - currently showing Mamma Mia HWGA, Mission Imposible Fallout, The Meg, The Equalizer 2, and The Spy Who Dumped Me. 😒
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Post by ellie1981 on Aug 26, 2018 9:52:59 GMT
Panton Street is the Haymarket one - currently showing Mamma Mia HWGA, Mission Imposible Fallout, The Meg, The Equalizer 2, and The Spy Who Dumped Me. 😒 Oh wow, they’ve totally changed it then. I went once earlier in the year because it was the only London cinema from any chain showing Roman J Israel Esq (not recommended by the way).
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Xanderl
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Post by Xanderl on Aug 26, 2018 10:19:31 GMT
Yes - Leicester Square closing means they've lost the big blockbuster screen plus the 5 "studio" screens in there so the arthouse stuff has been pushed out of Covent Garden and Panton Street / Haymarket. Also Panton Street is now v. expensive as it's a "Luxe" rather than the cheap option it used to be!
On the other hand the Luxe seats are very nice (they also have them at Swiss Cottage) and it is included in the Limitless subscription.
Presumably the mix of films will improve once Leicester Square re-opens.
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Post by grannyjx6 on Aug 26, 2018 13:58:55 GMT
I've been going to The Light cinema, which only opened in the city centre about a year ago and is wonderful with huge comfy reclining seats and even reasonably priced drinks. (My friend and I take a bottle of wine in with us and it's under a tenner). It is pricy though. £13 each for live theatre and about £7 for standard films (and that's with a senior discount of about £2).
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 26, 2018 19:21:03 GMT
£4.99 every day of the week at Vue Manchester. More for imax and 3D.
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Post by crowblack on Aug 27, 2018 8:39:54 GMT
It is pricy though. £13 each for live theatre and about £7 for standard films Picturehouse in Liverpool charges around £22 for NT Live, £64 for a family ticket - not going to bring in a younger 'lets try theatre' audience with that. And they don't - very grey haired audiences. Oh, and all tickets have an online booking fee of £1.50. When we go, we practically have the place to ourselves, unsurprisngly. One of the few exceptions was a preview of Beast, so popular by word-of-mouth they had to move it to a bigger screen, but it was a '£6 discover Tuesdays' screening. If they dropped their prices across the board I'm sure they could fill the place - and the bar and cafe.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 27, 2018 8:52:36 GMT
I've just hard a (London?) radio 5 guest saying, of some 'youtuber' boxing match idiocy, "it's only £7.50, which is the price of a cinema ticket." We really are being ripped off up here. And yes, Home is a terrible name. Try googling it, or looking it up on Twitter. The venue itself is nice, though: you can get some good theatre seat bargains too.
"I'm seeing a film tonight at home." "On Netflix?" "No, I'm seeing it at Home."
The worst part: somebody GOT PAID to come up with this rubbish.
Stupid as the name is, though, I do like the venue - and yes, there are some excellent theatre seat bargains.
Indian Tiffin Room next door to Home is nice for a bite to eat. Indian street food and small tapas-like dishes. Was there the other night.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 9:01:37 GMT
Premiere Cinema opened in Cardiff a couple of years back, tickets £4/£3. It's smaller, and mainly the 'big' films, but if you need to see an Avengers or big kid's film etc you can't go wrong. Cineworld and Odeon are about the same as quoted above outside London. The arts cinema at Chapter varies from £5.10-£7.20 depending on concessions and (I think) time of week etc. Which really for an arts cinema that also goes to support the theatre/art/classes/rehearsal spaces in the building I don't mind.
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Post by crowblack on Aug 27, 2018 9:31:24 GMT
Thanks - might try that next time we're there.
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