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@dandan Enjoy!
The nearest IMAX is just too far away to make it realistic so I'll have to make do with a normal screen.
Can't wait.
At last!
I think I will.
Finished the Bondathon on Sunday.
Was surprised at how... slow (for want of a better word)... Skyfall felt.
I enjoyed it again, especially Silva, but it wasn't quite as exciting as I remembered it...
I'm up for a 'lighter' Bond adventure. I have actually done well avoiding major spoilers, so I'm going in not knowing the full story.
A Welsh woman saw the Sound of Music....940 times. :-O
DAF I have seen exactly 5x in theatre but at least 50x total.
GF and DAF I watch compulsively and always will.
Two favourite Bond films, but I do rank both TB and YOLT higher than GF. However those two films require more of a commitment, so I don't watch them as often.
To the matter at hand, viewing #5 is in the books. Planning a couple more at least.
I do not weary of this film. I think it's because of the Bond versus Blofeld ... and Bond being normal again.
This is a first for first-run cinema Bond for me
I've mostly quit at 3 viewings in past, with hard cap of 5.
At last.
And once I have seen it, just think all that reading catching-up I have as well!
Still processing!
So what do I make of this new-fangled IMAX thing? Well, I was impressed... but not blown away. Yes, it's a big screen - but (in my eyes) not all that much bigger than the Showcase X-Plus screens. Maybe my expectations were too high. I expected the screen to be positively GIGANTIC, causing me to gasp in awe at it's towering enormity. The picture quality is undeniable superb. I'm glad I saw it there... but it didn't have the wow factor I was hoping for.
Still enjoyed it, of course... apart from the curse of cinema-going: the audience. Well, certain members of it. Why oh why are some people seemingly incapable of watching a movie without noisily stuffing their face with popcorn, hot dogs and gallons of tooth-rotting fizzy pop? You don't sit down at a table in a restaurant and start to watch a film - so why go to a cinema and spend your time eating?
Also, as I've found to my extreme disgruntlement (to put it politely) at seated concerts, why is it that people whose seats are located at the centre of the row are always the last to arrive in the auditorium - thus causing the rest of us to have to keep standing up to let them pass? As for people (often these same mid-row latecomers!) who repeatedly get up and leave the auditorium to go and buy more food and drinks or go to the loo (they must have bladders the size of peanuts!)... Don't get me started! Leaving aside the annoyance they cause to their fellow patrons - how can they casually miss chunks of the film like that?
And as an addendum to the oft-voiced bewilderment at people leaping from their seats and heading for the exit the instant the (admittedly somewhat long drawn out) end credits start to roll as though the cinema were on fire - why do so many of them feel the need to switch on their mobile phones and start checking their texts and e-mails before they've even stepped into the aisle? It's like they're thinking to themselves, "Oh my god! My phone's been off for over two hours! How has the world managed without being able to get hold of me?" Um... quite easily, I would imagine.
Okay. Rant over. It must be going without seeing SP for such a long time that's made me such a grumpy old git tonight.
Oh alright, one last little moan. Doesn't it bug the heck out of you when someone speaks about Bond within earshot... when they clearly haven't a clue what they're talking about? Preceding the performance there were 007 title songs playing over the sound system, accompanying a slide show of posters and press photos from SP. Anyway, a middle-aged couple were sitting next to me and as AVTAK played I heard them saying that it was Duran Duran. Which is fair enough. But then TLD started and the woman asked, "Is this Duran Duran as well?" Her husband rightly said that he didn't think it was. They seemed to ponder it for a few moments before she piped up, "I think it's Spandau Ballet." To which he replied, "Yes, you're right. It is Spandau Ballet." To add insult to injury she wondered aloud which film it was from to which her spouse confidently attested that it was, "...from one of the 80's or 90's ones starring Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan." I didn't put them right - tempted though I was!
No.1:- 'quantumofsolace' - 14 viewings
No.2= :- 'Monsieur_Aubergine' - 7 viewings
No.2= :- 'Trigger' - 7 viewings
Last visit? No, I'm sure I'll squeeze a few more in. Trouble is there are considerably fewer screenings now that that 'Hunger Games' nonsense has been released. It's gone from the X-Plus screen in Derby and is now only on one conventional screen and the Director's Lounge. And when the 'Star Wars' behemoth lands it's screenings will inevitably dwindle still further. Not fair! The showing yesterday was pretty well packed out - but I suppose that's because going to see a film in IMAX is considered an event rather than just a visit to the flicks.
One additional moan about yesterday: A guy in his late 30's/early 40's was sitting with his partner on the other side of me from the couple who can't tell A-ha from Spandau Ballet and he laughed repeatedly at moments in the film that really weren't funny. He kept giving snorts of laughter at lines that were at best only very, very slightly amusing... and almost wet himself at "It tells the time" and the airbag scene. Could you imagine sitting through an actual comedy with this walking whoopee-cushion?
Apart from someone sitting next to you with a vast bin of popcorn, which lasts the entire film............the worst is having some giggling teens who talk through the whole film, and are basically at the cinema for a chat, and not to watch the film.
I remember a couple or so years ago, me and another woman in the cinema....when after a film had finished, confronted a pair of teens who just ruined the film experience for us by non stop chatting for 2 hours.......i complained to the cinema........and at least the Cineworld manager gave me 2 free tickets, as compensation.
Yep, those are indeed the worst. Had a group of (early)teens at the last viewing who'd managed to bring in bags of crisps illegally and kept on passing those on back and forth, walking amongst their own row. I was about to say something to them when I noticed there were adults there too with them, who'd apparantly not bothered to say anything about it. Very annoying.
I enjoyed it (far more than it's two predecessors) and will definitely add it to my BluRay collection, but the clumsy melodrama and Mendes' flat action sequences (apart from PTS) don't entice me enough for a second viewing.
To put it into perspective though, apart from my top 5 I don't think I'd see any of them more than once (at the cinema) if they were to come out in the current era.
I've got that feeling too after 4. Still, worth another go. Maybe tonight.
@quantumofsolace
One does need to be wary of IMAX rooms. The instant you walk into a true IMAX room, you know it. The screen literally goes from the floor to the ceiling and it you're staring at the biggest screen you've ever seen in your life.
Then there is what is jokingly referred to as LieMAX. It's a big screen, yes, but clearly not as large as real IMAX, yet they'll charge you an IMAX ticket for it anyways. I would know: there are two multiplexes, run by the same chain no less, about a dozen blocks from one another in the city where I live that both advertise their IMAX rooms. In the one is a real IMAX screen, absolutely gargantuan. In the other, definitely LieMAX: a nice big screen, but visibly, and I mean visibly smaller than the IMAX screen at the other cinema.