FastFreddy2 Posted January 4, 2015 Report Share Posted January 4, 2015 Went to see Guardians of the Galaxy. Can't remember my footwear, but it was a really good film. I wasn't the only person to think so, if I remember it did the best at the box office in 2014. More recently I went to see Interstellar. Wore heels, having to keep my feet fairly still for 3 hours, sitting on chair fitted to a slope. Felt like I was wearing 6 inch heels at the time ...... The experience was spoiled by the two 'erberts sitting next to me. Place was practically empty, but the next two seats to me had people in them. The worst was they used their phones for texts/Twitter/Facebook while seated, and both ate popcorn continuously for the first 30-40 minutes of the film. I swore it was my last visit to a public cinema. While they were in their mid-twenties, I might have well been sitting next to a couple of 10 year olds. Adults, they weren't. That aside, the film was really really good. It did not seem at all like a 3 hour film, and apart from one (almost forgivable) hole in the plot that was pretty missable, it was entertainment from the first minute to the last. Took a couple of minutes to warm up my ankles when we left, but going in and leaving were eventless. P.S. I may have just realised, the last four films I've seen (at least four that is) were sci-fi. I'm obviously a child of the 60's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 The Freddies are getting ready to go see Jupiter Ascending. Despite me saying I wasn't going to return. I can't believe how much it might cost to go see a film, locally in 3D; £12-50 each!! Not hard to understand why people would invest in home cinema systems. Not only spending silly amounts to see a film (once) but having to suffer the munchers and slurpers ..... £25 per couple for half a night out .... Get the DVD for £12/£13 and watch as many times as you like ..... Can I wait? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hh4evr1 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Wear a nice pair of heels to make the experience more enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 (edited) Taking a Super-Soaker and getting away with half-drowning the munchers and the slurpers, would make it a more enjoyable experience .... I have wondered what it would add to the cost of the tickets, if I could arrange a viewing where drinks/food/phones are banned. Anyone making noises, gets hoofed out .... I can dream ..... Shoes with heels (for me) are a must. Edited February 7, 2015 by FastFreddy2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heels Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Last time I went to the Cinema was when Clash of the Titans 3D came out. I tend to only go the cinema If I,m dating or if there is a very special film. Like Star Wars. These days I wait until it comes on normal TV. At the moment I have Netflix so I catch up with loads of films I have missed out on.. I think the film must of been out for a couple of weeks as wasn't that busy in there and I didn't notice any noise from others. You are right going to the cinema is an expensive night out these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 My reason for visiting the cinema, is size -and possibly type- of screen. I'll just about watch any film as long as there's not too much violence, and no harm seen done to women or children. Like most people, I find it's easier to immerse myself on a larger screen. Chick-flicks/rom-coms and semi autobiographical stories I'm happy to watch on a smaller screen, without super-duper sound systems. "Epics", in particular sci-fi films, can only be maximised by watching on a large (3D) screen with ear bending audio. Since I don't own a 3D screen, nor audio system of any sort, the short term solution to this is the cinema. Along with the munchers and slurpers. The current thinking with regard to Jupiter Ascending is, there'll be so much noise from the action in the film, the munchers and slurpers won't be heard....... I hope ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hh4evr1 Posted February 7, 2015 Report Share Posted February 7, 2015 Timing can help. Maybe pick a time it will be less busy in general. Less people = less munchers, slurpers etc. Side note less people to see your heels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted March 5, 2015 Report Share Posted March 5, 2015 (edited) Well, thanks to Mrs Freddy's ability to put things off (that surpasses mine - unbelievably), I didn't get to see the film in 3D after all. Frankly, without 3D it was quite a boring film. Huge interstellar scenes, Aerial dogfights, all wasted in 2D, so just a mess really. Mila Kunis is staggeringly beautiful in the film. Eddie Redmayne is wasted talent, playing a thuggish godfather type figure, fairly badly given his build. I wore heels, which was a mixed blessing. I would like to have kicked the fella behind me, as hard as he kicked my chair (twice) during the film. When it was time to leave, I waited until we both did, and I was (usefully) taller than him. He would have been surprised I'm sure, because I had kept myself out of his line of sight during the film, and he doubtless thought I was tiny. In heels, I must be just a little shy of 6ft. His lady partner did nothing to ease the tensions either. She spent the whole film munching her way through a giant box of popcorn. The Heimlich Manoeuvre wasn't required though it had been expected. Not hard to understand why Netflix and Blinkbox are so popular. The cinema seems to be frequented by many with poorer social skills than mine. A notion I find hard to believe..... Edited March 6, 2015 by FastFreddy2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Visited the cinema last night. Watched The Martian, in 3D .... Had it not been for the 3D aspect, it would have been another night in.Expecting the worst, we went and got tickets before the performance, picking seats toward the rear in the hope we'd be away from the core centre mass.We walked some of the way to the venue, so I could give myself some exercise in heels... I chose some cowboy boots with slim high shafts, that are both the closest thing I have to a fitted knee boot, and an acceptable man's cowboy boot. (No piccies at the moment.) While walking into the cinema, I spotted a fella who must of been at least 6'6", and a girlfriend who was close to 6ft. I remarked "I hope they are not seeing the same film as us", and laughed...Once seated, we were alone in our row .... Until this fella and a woman sat next to us.... Him with the largest carton of popcorn I've sever seen. (I don't get out much.) I expected munching throughout the whole of the 2h 20min film, (and I got 2 hrs worth). While watching the adverts, he had his phone laying on his armrest away from me, lighting up the back corner of the cinema. I leant over, and suggested the phone was "quite irritating". He replied that he "didn't need a lecture". My next remark might have been along the lines of 'act like a child, treated like a child' but Mrs Freddy got there first with "I'm not coming to the cinema with you again!" whispered loud enough for matey to hear - possibly.The film was good. If you get the chance, go see it. Visually stimulating, AND a good story.One little pleasant event .. About 20 minutes from the end of the film, matey knocked over his remaining popcorn, which sounded like there was still enough left to float a small ship .... When we got up to leave, I was expecting a little stress, but matey (it turned out) was a good bit shorter than me, and Mrs Freddy assured me his 'date' was probably his mum. I'd have put him in his early thirties, so not a school kid despite his behaviour. The walk from the cinema was quiet though cold. I'm sure one or two noticed my boots, but no-one would think them 'girlie' because they do look like men's cowboy boots. As long as you don't see the shaft that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyheels Posted October 24, 2015 Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 Maybe its that movie. My wife and daughter went to see it the other day and returned with tales of some family crunching and lip-smacking their way through a small mountain of popcorn, crisps, pretzels etc. The entire time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 The 'munching' problem is so bad (for me) I keep saying I'm not going back. Mrs Freddy has said she would buy me a home cinema system so we could watch films in the quiet of our own home, but I don't know 3D is available for home systems?There was a time when the worst noise heard in a cinema, was the popping of an ice cream tub during an intermission. Sounds good, except that it's so long ago, smoking was still allowed in the cinema. (In the circle seats - if I remember.) These days the cinema positively encourages noise, though food and drink sales. Sugary drinks, and for the most part sugary foods, not only increasing profits but doing it at the expense of the customer's health. I suppose the 'sugar high' making the viewing experience even more dramatic?During one of my previous moments of frustration, I did think to buy every ticket for one showing, and advertising it as a food/noise/phone free viewing of the film, so like-minded (grumpy) people like me could enjoy the film in silence. Anyone caught with a phone lighting up the place, or sucking a boiled sweet - out on their ear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyheels Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 I sympathise. I don't know if 3D is available for home systems. Probably, but at a pretty steep price, I'd imagine. Is the availability (or not) of 3D a deal breaker for you? I have not warmed up to 3D at all myself. It just bugs me. I am always aware of a degree of artifice in the production, my eye picks up the subtle thngs that are wrong' as well making me constantly aware of the technique that is being used to produce the effect. Perhaps it's the photographer in me. I like to lose myself in the story and cinematography, not be constantly aware of the gimmickry that has gone into a futile attempt to deceive my eye. Not to mention the tiresome way producers have of thrusting things in your face to reinforce, constantly, the 3D effects. It just makes me roll my eyes and look at my watch and wonder how much more of this I have to sit through.on the 2D front, I am looking forward to seeing Spectre...hopefully in a quiet theatre... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 If I'm going to watch a film in 2D, I'll do that at home. Cost has some to do with that, but the "cinema" experience doesn't work for me any longer. I will go see films at the cinema where there is some benefit to a huge screen, and possibly 3D. One of the best 3D films ever IMO was Avatar.I'm not sure film makers still use the 3D effects for sensationalism, as in arrows being fired into the audience, or spears being thrown at them. That said, the 'chase' scene in Jupiter Arising was pointless in 2D and could have been cut to a fraction of the time it lasted. It's a film where 3D was actually useful to give scenes obvious scale. I'm still a bit miffed I didn't see it in 3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyheels Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 I didn't see Avatar in 3D although I understand it was very well done in 3D.i seldom go to the cinema. Nearly all of the new release movies I see are on airplanes. I am keen to see Spectre so I will probably go to the cinema rather than wait for it to appear on a seatback near me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euchrid Posted October 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) Another film outing tonight. Last Witch Hunter at my local odeon. Changed into stiletto boots in the car, then strolled into the foyer for tickets, a costa coffee & the movie. No stress, no agro. Lots of fun. The heels were mostly hidden but visible to anyone observant.on another topic, I was out last night with a few friends. One girl, new to the group, said at one point "I'm really out of practice wearing high heels" . She was wearing Tiny kitten heels - barely noticeable. It always makes me smile to know I can wear heels higher than many woman would dare. Edited October 25, 2015 by euchrid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 Another film outing tonight. Last Witch Hunter at my local odeon. Any good? Saw the trailer for it while my popcorn munching neighbour was playing with his phone ... Looked promising? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euchrid Posted October 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Any good? Saw the trailer for it while my popcorn munching neighbour was playing with his phone ... Looked promising?Yeah, not bad. Not exactly an epic but some fun moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyheels Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 Saw Spectre last night. A bit underwhelmed. It was a well crafted movie, all right, but it surely lacked the vibrancy and pace and plot of Casino Royale. That, to me, was the high point in the Bond franchise. Quantum of Solace carried over some of Casino Royale's class and style, but Skyfall was dreadful and while Spectre was better it seemed really downbeat and that's not really what you go to see a Bond movie for. i had read much about the film's spectacular opening sequence in Mexico. Again I was underwhelmed. It was okay, nothing more (given what one expects from a movie like this) but a far cry from the dynamic stuff that opened Casino Royale and Quantum. Daniel Craig's Bond, ten years down the track from his first outing, seemed weary and downbeat - probably a good interpretation of the character after the passage of time, but not really what one wants from James Bond. there were also too many references to previous films. It was not a bad film really, but well short of the hype. My opinion, anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 I haven't seen any Bond films with Daniel (I don't like guns) Craig, in them. Last week I might have missed a TV showing of Skyfall, which I would have watched if I had found it on a bit earlier. Looks like I'll wait for both these films to become available on TV. Not least because anyone in maison Freddy caught making noise during the filum, gets ejected. We don't have audience generated noise during films here .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyheels Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 (edited) I had completely given up on the Bond franchise and had no interest whatever in seeing Casino Royale and watched it only because we got a Blu-ray player and I had been told (correctly) that Casino Royale was a movie where the clarity and resolution of Blu-Ray really stood out. So it was for that reason alone I watched it - on a borrowed disc - and was instantly sold on Daniel Craig as Bond. He actually out-does Sean Connery. It was a great movie which made me want to watch Quantum of Solace, which I also enjoyed. I had been hugely looking forward to Skyfall, thinking more of the same, but it was to my mind much more of a Roger Moore Bond movie. This latest out is more of a generic spy thriller with Bond as a character and references throughout of the previous three Craig-Bond movies. It was all right, worth seeing, but nothing really special. Casino Royale was. Edited November 5, 2015 by Shyheels 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffer Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 At the risk of sounding like the old fart I probably am, I have to say that the Bond films interest me hardly at all these days. In my book, Sean Connery was the one true Bond, with credible plots and characters, and From Russia with Love the best of the bunch, with a gradual deterioration after Goldfinger. The Roger Moore series, fun though they were, simply made the villains more and more ridiculous, the stunts less and less possible and the humour mostly out of place - and nothing since has redeemed the genre. I have seen them all since (I think) apart from Spectre (won't bother either) and thought that Skyfall was poor, if not complete rubbbish - and worsened by that dreadful mournful dirge of a song. I'm rapidly gaining the view that most entertainment, along with a large measure of lifestyle, has gone steadily downhill since Grace Archer died. And now we are in danger of stilettos going out of fashion (again) ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 (edited) 20 hours ago, Shyheels said: was instantly sold on Daniel Craig as Bond. He actually out-does Sean Connery. That sir, is frankly an impossible situation. Thanks for the heads-up on the DC group of James Bond films. I will make a point of watching Casino Royale, and probably Quantum of Solace (though the title sucks.) Whenever I see the film title Casino Royale, I always think of the original send up version with the late great David Niven. I authored this comment a good 12 hours ago, but seems I may have neglected to press the 'go' button? For some reason it loitered long enough to give me the chance to post it after all? Edited November 6, 2015 by FastFreddy2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 5 hours ago, Puffer said: In my book, Sean Connery was the one true Bond, with credible plots and characters, and From Russia with Love the best of the bunch, with a gradual deterioration after Goldfinger. Well said sir, a true connoisseur obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shyheels Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 I had always thought Sean Connery was the ultimate Bond, too. Daniel Craig in Casino Royale captures the brutal suaveness of the character (Bond in the books is rather a nasty piece of work) in a way that probably would not really have gone over well in the early 60s when Sean Connery was doing him. I was really impressed with Casino Royale and grudgingly have to give Daniel Craig the nod (in that picture) as the single best James Bond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFreddy2 Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 I've not read any of the James Bond books, nor am I likely to, so will accept your comments on the probable brutality of the original character 'as written'. That accepted, it's an easy concept to understand bearing in mind the time the stories were written. It's also easy to understand how the film version should include a more charismatic version of Bond to help ensure the success of the film. If it had used a version of the character Vin Diesel usually plays, (cold/ruthless) the franchise might have lasted no more than one film. ("no more" ~ Dr No ~ get-it?) In that respect Sean Connery, in mind at least, wipes the floor with the significantly less charismatic Daniel Craig. I will make a point of watching Casino Royale, on your recommendation. The newer version of course. As a side note, about two/three weeks ago for no reason than the idea just popped into my head, I listened to Matt Munro singing 'From Russia with Love'. Might have been a subconscious suggestion from all the Spectre PR, but it brought back sentimental feelings of my youth. Sunday dinners of roast lamb with mince sauce, potatoes, 'greens' and "family favourites" on the radio with mentions for people in BFPO something or other all over the world. I think the word is "nostalgia". Not sure it would or could have made any difference, but I really wish my father had told me more about his life. I always meant to have him tell me, especially as he got much older, but I foolishly thought he was going to live forever. What was the rush? And why did no-one give the guidance to a better life I could have used, rather than believing that as long as I was earning I was doing well? Mrs Freddy had the same encouragement from her (also working class/working class mentality parents) that she should do typical 'girlie' work, expecting to start a family and become a housewife, with her life mapped out from the age of 15. This despite the fact she was grammar school educated (and can often be the most intelligent person I know - and I've worked with professional academics.) Oh if only ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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