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Post by 49thand8th on Aug 31, 2016 15:34:23 GMT
I love nachos, but I don't think I've ever bought them in a theatre except when it was packed and I knew the room would smell like everything anyway. Not like they're worth it since once you get through 12 minutes of trailers, half your chips are soggy!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 15:37:31 GMT
^Fascinating, buddyvlc. Care to elaborate? Simple - as kids in the mid 50s we went to Saturday morning cinema sessions at the Gloucester Regal. These sessions were kids only and lasted about 2 hours from 10am to 12 noon. We saw serials like Flash Gordon and kids films usually made by the Children's Film Foundation. Sweets to last for that length of time would have been too expensive so we were usually given a pomegranate and a pin to stab at the seeds and pop into your mouth as the session went on. There was something satisfying about watching a cliffhanger and jabbing into the pomegaranate during the tense moments. God knows what Health and Safety would make of something like that but back then we did a lot of things that are looked down upon now. |
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Post by firefingers on Aug 31, 2016 15:42:23 GMT
I've said it before and I'll say it again. You need to chose the right cinema. Going down the out of town Vue with a bowling alley and a TGI Fridays isn't going to go well. For big blockbusters I go to Picturehouse Central, price-y but very comfortable, well behaved audiences and great cafe. For indie stuff and classic/event pictures, Prince Charles Cinema is incredible. During the day they screen recent releases for £4 for members (great if you work evenings like I do). Affordable and a dedicated audience who actually care about the film and not their phones. Both show pre-screening trailers on bad behavior. Bliss.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 15:44:02 GMT
But wasn't a pomegranate a rare and exotic, expensive extravagance in Gloucester in the mid 50s?
I suppose a bottle of soda water was too dear so you sucked on a comfort rag soaked in champagne?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 15:44:20 GMT
Perhaps we could bring the Pomegranate and Pin... At least for us oldies. And as soon as someone rustles their bag of sweets, they could be jabbed hard. With the pin. We then apologise profusely saying that we had lost one of the seeds down the arm of the seat.  |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 31, 2016 15:47:51 GMT
Bring back Kia Ora orange squash in that sealed plastic carton. No chance of spillage, you couldn't bloody get into it!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 15:50:53 GMT
I'm iffy on pomegranates, but I can't deny there's a certain appeal in having a pin directly to hand in an audience scenario...  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 16:28:15 GMT
But wasn't a pomegranate a rare and exotic, expensive extravagance in Gloucester in the mid 50s? I suppose a bottle of soda water was too dear so you sucked on a comfort rag soaked in champagne? They might have been rare and exotic but if there had been any whiff of expensive we certainly wouldn't have had them bought for us. Gloucester was a real melting pot in the 50s with quite a few shops specialising in exotic fruit and veg. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 31, 2016 16:37:50 GMT
Are you sure it was a pomegranate?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 16:51:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 16:52:51 GMT
I'm iffy on pomegranates, but I can't deny there's a certain appeal in having a pin directly to hand in an audience scenario... Especially if the pin is a metre long and has a hilt. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 31, 2016 19:56:35 GMT
King Lear Saturday night a couple of talkers further down the row behind. I shushed several times in the first half.
Was going to say something at half time but it turned out to be a seven year old(ish) lad who was enthralled with being at the theatre, loving the production and really trying to understand the production. Second half the talking continued but it didn't bother me. Another convert I thought. Well in young'un
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Post by Flim Flam on Aug 31, 2016 20:44:50 GMT
We used to eat pomegranates with a pin when I was a schoolgirl. Remember them well. Don't ever remember taking them to the cinema though. Mind you, many years ago, when my dad was a lad, his mother used to take him to the cinema. She always used to take an empty metal biscuit tin to rest her feet on (she was very short and the seats were high), and also used to take peas with her to shell (what can I say, they were greengrocers). Sometimes people used to try and rush past her to reach their seats, and accidently kick the tin, causing a loud crash, and also knocking her off her perch, thus causing the peas and their discarded shells to launch themselves into the surrounding rows. Those were the days! |
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Post by glossie on Sept 1, 2016 9:38:43 GMT
When I was a kid, the cinema (read The ABC minors) used to mean a pomegranate and a pin. Much quieter and they lasted much longer. Although now in Gloucester, my local was the Vandyke in Fishponds, Bristol! Who's for a sing-along.. "We are the boys and girls well known as The minors of the ABC And every Saturday we line up to see the films we love and shout aloud with glee... We like to laugh and have a sing song Such a happy crowd are we We're all pals together The minors of the ABC!" except if we did 'shout aloud' during the films and bang the seats, the manager used to come to the front and threaten us with cancelling the show! :-) If we were lucky we had thruppence for penny sweets and four-a-penny chews - happy days! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 10:28:30 GMT
When I was a kid, the cinema (read The ABC minors) used to mean a pomegranate and a pin. Much quieter and they lasted much longer. Although now in Gloucester, my local was the Vandyke in Fishponds, Bristol! Who's for a sing-along.. "We are the boys and girls well known as The minors of the ABC And every Saturday we line up to see the films we love and shout aloud with glee... We like to laugh and have a sing song Such a happy crowd are we We're all pals together The minors of the ABC!" except if we did 'shout aloud' during the films and bang the seats, the manager used to come to the front and threaten us with cancelling the show! :-) If we were lucky we had thruppence for penny sweets and four-a-penny chews - happy days! I can just picture some kids banging the seats... Some naughty kids used to do it at my childhood flicks. And running up and down the aisles hollering. And yes, the manager appearing, usually wielding a torch...! Why did we equate going to The Pictures with being silly? I suppose it's because we used to go in little groups, unsupervised by our mums and dads, and that freedom- together with being in the blanket of cinema darkness- loosened our inhibitions. And I seem to remember we didn't really care which films we saw. Joining one half-way through, playing around a bit, making ourselves sit through the B film, and then waiting until we got to the bit we'd seen before in the main one before we launched ourselves into the light again. And then we messed around a bit on the bus on the way home too... (And we'd chucked our Kia-Ora cartons on the floor.) |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 16:55:05 GMT
We used to eat pomegranates with a pin when I was a schoolgirl. Remember them well. Don't ever remember taking them to the cinema though. Probably because people generally take dates to the cinema, don't they? I'll get me coat... Taking dates to the theatre is a figment of your imagination Monkey. Sorry i couldn't resist that. |
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Post by d'James on Sept 3, 2016 0:54:02 GMT
Not really bad behaviour but annoying cock-up with seating and latecomers meant I gave up my seat and ended up the row behind where I was meant to sit at In The Heights tonight. I'm sure the ushers would have sorted it if it hadn't been 5 minutes into the first act. It was particularly annoying as the person I gave my seat up for was rather tall. After the Interval I sat back in my original seat.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 3, 2016 14:58:12 GMT
We used to eat pomegranates with a pin when I was a schoolgirl. Remember them well. Don't ever remember taking them to the cinema though. Probably because people generally take dates to the cinema, don't they? I'll get me coat... Oh my God. TAXIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 3, 2016 14:59:06 GMT
I think it's time for a Patti
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 3, 2016 15:40:44 GMT
I think it's time for a Patti Oh the irony! Surely it's just as against the rules to be recording in the theatre? Or did someone change the law?! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 3, 2016 15:43:56 GMT
It's the Law Of Patti. And I think it's time people started Oh-pprecitaing that!
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 3, 2016 15:47:02 GMT
It's the Law Of Patti. And I think it's time people started Oh-pprecitaing that! Oh-nderstood, Burlybear! |
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Post by lynette on Sept 3, 2016 16:45:42 GMT
Not really bad behaviour but annoying cock-up with seating and latecomers meant I gave up my seat and ended up the row behind where I was meant to sit at In The Heights tonight. I'm sure the ushers would have sorted it if it hadn't been 5 minutes into the first act. It was particularly annoying as the person I gave my seat up for was rather tall. After the Interval I sat back in my original seat. Latecomers should never make anyone move. So disturbing. Sit em at the back til interval. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 17:00:22 GMT
Not really bad behaviour but annoying cock-up with seating and latecomers meant I gave up my seat and ended up the row behind where I was meant to sit at In The Heights tonight. I'm sure the ushers would have sorted it if it hadn't been 5 minutes into the first act. It was particularly annoying as the person I gave my seat up for was rather tall. After the Interval I sat back in my original seat. Latecomers should never make anyone move. So disturbing. Sit em at the back til interval. ... blindfolded, and pricked with buddyvic's Pomegranate Pin! |
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Post by Flim Flam on Sept 3, 2016 17:28:01 GMT
Latecomers should never make anyone move. So disturbing. Sit em at the back til interval. Isn't that a line from The Crucible? |
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