New set up at the Ritzy
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Is this targetted at the OP?
Nanker Phelge
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Cunt 
Nanker Phelge
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Pop down. Pm me for my door number.
Gramsci
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No that was a mistake on the programme. It Screen 2 and Screen 3 that can show 3D films. I saw Avatar in Screen 2 Xmas eve last showing beofre Xmas. By this time they had got the heating going. Unlike Nanker ,when it was freezing, it was now so hot thety had to leave one of the doors open.
The heating system, I have been told by staff, is so old that it needs replacing. Something Picture House dont seem to want to do.
Gramsci
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Agree with a lot of the posts here. Especially Nanker Phelge and gainjingirl and Shifty Bag lady.
Example: I met my friend in Bar just before Xmas. He ordered an Irish Coffee (as advertised Xams special). The first member of staff had to ask someone how to do it. It took ages but it almost was right (but I didnt see any cream!). The second one my friend ordered the other staff at the bar just made a coffee and poured Baileys straight into it! Didnt have a clue.
As I have said before this is lack of training.
The downstairs bar seems to have less seating than the old upstairs one and is to cold for my liking.
The projection quality has gone down. I saw Fishtank and it was wrong. I complained twice. In the end they agreed it was wrong (the problem is what projectionists call "keystoning") and I got my money back.
Unusual format or old films they have a problem with. I saw Fishtank at Renoir and it was perfect. I talked to the projectionist there and he immediately knew it was a "keystoning" problem due to the unusual format. He had solved it as Curzon have good technical backup and time to sort projection issues out.
There was a problem with Red Shoes when I saw it at Ritzy. But didnt complain this time.
I have been told that Picture House are moving to digital screens and will therefore get rid of soem projection staff. They think they can just slot films in the morning and semi automate it. That fine for standard films. But not for some "art" films.
The best projection quality is at Renoir, Curzon Mayfair and BFI
Howecer I was impressed by Avatar screening at Ritzy
Example: I met my friend in Bar just before Xmas. He ordered an Irish Coffee (as advertised Xams special). The first member of staff had to ask someone how to do it. It took ages but it almost was right (but I didnt see any cream!). The second one my friend ordered the other staff at the bar just made a coffee and poured Baileys straight into it! Didnt have a clue.
As I have said before this is lack of training.
The downstairs bar seems to have less seating than the old upstairs one and is to cold for my liking.
The projection quality has gone down. I saw Fishtank and it was wrong. I complained twice. In the end they agreed it was wrong (the problem is what projectionists call "keystoning") and I got my money back.
Unusual format or old films they have a problem with. I saw Fishtank at Renoir and it was perfect. I talked to the projectionist there and he immediately knew it was a "keystoning" problem due to the unusual format. He had solved it as Curzon have good technical backup and time to sort projection issues out.
There was a problem with Red Shoes when I saw it at Ritzy. But didnt complain this time.
I have been told that Picture House are moving to digital screens and will therefore get rid of soem projection staff. They think they can just slot films in the morning and semi automate it. That fine for standard films. But not for some "art" films.
The best projection quality is at Renoir, Curzon Mayfair and BFI
Howecer I was impressed by Avatar screening at Ritzy
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
I went to see Where The Wild Things are and I found the seats (in screen one I think) so uncompfotable that I kept moving trying to find a comfortable position but it just wasn't happening and I wanted to leave.
Really spoiled it for me.
Really spoiled it for me.
Can you explain the plot to this film? I saw it and cant decide if what the kid experienced was real or just all made up in his head?
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
No I can't as I was driven to distraction by the poxy seats 
Really, I thought the film was incredibly sad. I make a little sad face just thinking about it. It could have been a wondorous thing about boisterous fun in a land of monsters but instead I found it much too didactic and almost completely joyless.
I'd like to see it again in comfortable seats and take someone who could discuss it further than "Yeah, s'alright"
Really, I thought the film was incredibly sad. I make a little sad face just thinking about it. It could have been a wondorous thing about boisterous fun in a land of monsters but instead I found it much too didactic and almost completely joyless.
I'd like to see it again in comfortable seats and take someone who could discuss it further than "Yeah, s'alright"
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
gaijingirl
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I went last week also to see Avatar in Screen 2 and it was so hot I fell asleep! (Although I have a tendancy towards this anyway).. but yes they left the door to the front left of the screen open too. Lots of complaints about how hot it was in there.
Can't win..
Nanker Phelge
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I got an email back with a fairly weak and defensive response and the offer of two free tickets waiting in an envelope at the box office with my name on....
I later got another response from another staff member saying sorry for your experience, I'll get back to you in the New Year.
To which I then copied the first response, saying 'I appreciate the free tix, but not sure this addresses all my points so I look forward to further comments'.
Went down there today and my free tix were not available in an envelope as promised, and I had to wait around for someone to go get them for me.
I think many of the problems are down to the staff, poorly trained, unmotivated, lacking good management.
It's sad that it's going so downhill, and that these are not isolated incidents.
I later got another response from another staff member saying sorry for your experience, I'll get back to you in the New Year.
To which I then copied the first response, saying 'I appreciate the free tix, but not sure this addresses all my points so I look forward to further comments'.
Went down there today and my free tix were not available in an envelope as promised, and I had to wait around for someone to go get them for me.
I think many of the problems are down to the staff, poorly trained, unmotivated, lacking good management.
It's sad that it's going so downhill, and that these are not isolated incidents.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I went last week also to see Avatar in Screen 2 and it was so hot I fell asleep! (Although I have a tendancy towards this anyway).. but yes they left the door to the front left of the screen open too. Lots of complaints about how hot it was in there.
Can't win..
Today they had signs up on 2 saying it was too hot.
Just spend some money installing a proper HVAC system in the screens! The Screening rooms are at the heart of what they do, and they need to be comfortable because people will go elsewhere of they're not.
gaijingirl
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Just an aside (if all this hasn't put anyone off too much) - if you are a member and you renew before the end of this month you get membership next year at this year's prices. I'm not sure how much of a saving this is, but we always get membership as the free tix pretty much cover the price of membership anyway (before you start factoring in cheaper tickets and food etc).
I do hope they get their act together soon though...
I do hope they get their act together soon though...
Gramsci
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I went last week also to see Avatar in Screen 2 and it was so hot I fell asleep! (Although I have a tendancy towards this anyway).. but yes they left the door to the front left of the screen open too. Lots of complaints about how hot it was in there.
Can't win..
Neytiri kept me awake
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dogmatique
merde alors
Anyone have an opinion on Streatham Odeon's ability to screen 3D? They're showing Avatar on Screen 5 there, (tiny box next to loos?) and I'm trying to pick between my general dislike of the place, and their crappy old video projector (my Star Trek experience was ruined by a projector that was like watching footie at the Hob) and overheating / freezing at the Ritzy.
Not much of a friggin choice, is it? :
Not much of a friggin choice, is it? :
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Anyone have an opinion on Streatham Odeon's ability to screen 3D? They're showing Avatar on Screen 5 there, (tiny box next to loos?) and I'm trying to pick between my general dislike of the place, and their crappy old video projector (my Star Trek experience was ruined by a projector that was like watching footie at the Hob) and overheating / freezing at the Ritzy.
Not much of a friggin choice, is it? :
The Streatham Odious has always been a terrible cinema - the whole experience there is rotten from going through the door to leaving again.
Sticky carpets, careless staff, over-priced food and drink, shit screening rooms and sound systems - awful.
The main screen there could be fucking awesome - after the refurd I saw King Kong and Casinon Royale and it was amazing sound and picture quality. The other screens are all shit.
Always full of fucking kids running about as well. Dunno why some parents think it's ok to let kids run about in cinemas.
dogmatique
merde alors
You reckon that's a no then? Tell me gently, is that worse than the Ritzy? 
Nanker Phelge
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You reckon that's a no then? Tell me gently, is that worse than the Ritzy?
Yeah, it's worse....by a nose at the moment...
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Nanker Phelge
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Comfortable...but sticky.
ShiftyBagLady
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Are they? I've never noticed but then, I have been fully clothed.
I dread to think what it is that makes them sticky
I dread to think what it is that makes them sticky
Nanker Phelge
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Toffee popcorn? Fizzy slop?
I cracks me up when you see little kids with huge great cartons of Popcorn four times bigger than their head. It's only a matter of time before it's over them, over the chairs, over the floor, along with the mighty carton of fizzy goo that their stupid parents have paid silly money for.
I don't know what encourages parents to spend money to watch their children throw crap foodstuff on the floor.
I'm sounding like a curmudgeon, I know...but having a child and having to endure other parents and their children, has been one of my personal gripes with cinema for years.....many, not all, treat the cinema screening rooms as a 'no rule zone' not considering that there may be adults and other children who actually want to watch and enjoy a film that they've paid a fair few quid to see...
...but yes...I am also a curmudgeon.
Gramsci
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No its not curmudgeonly. It depends on cinema culture.We have imported a US one. A French friend of mine (well ex but i wont go into that
) once worked in the US. As she is a Cinephile (like a lot of French people) she went to see a film but walked out as everyone was eating popcorn and "supersize" cokes.
Pop corn is the worst thing to sell in cinemas. BFI dont allow eating. Renoir,Lumiere dont sell it.
) once worked in the US. As she is a Cinephile (like a lot of French people) she went to see a film but walked out as everyone was eating popcorn and "supersize" cokes.Pop corn is the worst thing to sell in cinemas. BFI dont allow eating. Renoir,Lumiere dont sell it.
Nanker Phelge
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Well, Picture House are foolish then.
Do they want a great cinema or a pseudo-trendy eatery?
It's wasteful of the great facilities they've got not to maintain them and make them the best they can be.
miss minnie
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No its not curmudgeonly. It depends on cinema culture.We have imported a US one. A French friend of mine (well ex but i wont go into that
Pop corn is the worst thing to sell in cinemas. BFI dont allow eating. Renoir,Lumiere dont sell it.
I was astounded by US cinema super-sized seating and people with lap-trays piled with nachos and chilli and hot-dogs as well as the usual crisps, popcorn, chocs and fizzy drinks.
When the film was over, the credits had rolled and the lights went up there were still some with food piled in front of them, munching away, determined to stay until they had finished.
gaijingirl
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I think it's at Greenwich where they do some deal where you pay £15 and get unlimited popcorn/hot dogs/sweets or something and big old seats with trays etc with your tickets... I have some dusty memory of being told that. It's true - complete opposite to European cinemas where you wouldn't dare go *crunch* during a film and the glares if you leave before the credits roll...
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