Free Cinema Tickets - Discussion thread

cineman

Noticed a few of you complain about your freebies and my reackoning is this:

If it's free and you don't like it...it must be bloody sh*t! :rotfl:

How do you guys screen which movies you want to see and which you skip? Or do you just go to anything? If the latter I think you are [censored by MSE] haha!

until recently i used rotten tomatoes but avoided IMDB as the latter seemed to have loads of fake reviews.

But these days I am not sure about rotten tomatoes either. I just want something i can check at-a-glance without knowing plot, themes etc as i prefer not to know anything about a film before seeing it unless i know it's at least good!

Another option i have checked is Four Word Film Review where users must review a film in four words or less. It's run by a guy called Benjy who some of the characters of Wallace & Grommit are based on!

One of the classic reviews i read on that site was for Titatic and it read "Icy dead people". More classic reviews here

geordie_ben

cineman wrote: »

Noticed a few of you complain about your freebies and my reackoning is this:

If it's free and you don't like it...it must be bloody sh*t! :rotfl:

How do you guys screen which movies you want to see and which you skip? Or do you just go to anything? If the latter I think you are [censored by MSE] haha!

i go and see everything i can get tickets for and purposely never read reviews. reviews are based on someone elses opinion, not mine, and by reading them you give yourself a rejudged opinion of how someone else thinks you will judge the movie (if that makes sense)

i love the surprise of if the movie is crap or not, if it is, i havent paid for it, and probs would have been sat at home anyway, and if it is good (which most hast been) then i've seen a good movie for free

Poochface

geordie_ben wrote: »

it was a toss up between TLE and cyrus, which we'd chose the latter now. i kinda have a feeling all the funny bits from cryus may be in the trailer aswell... hmmmm

No they aren't Ben. The trailer is very cleverly edited. The scenes you see don't always match up with the dialogue in the film. It's a very good film, extremely dry wit and very well acted.

Poochface

cineman wrote: »

Noticed a few of you complain about your freebies and my reackoning is this:

If it's free and you don't like it...it must be bloody sh*t! :rotfl:

How do you guys screen which movies you want to see and which you skip? Or do you just go to anything? If the latter I think you are [censored by MSE] haha!

until recently i used rotten tomatoes but avoided IMDB as the latter seemed to have loads of fake reviews.

But these days I am not sure about rotten tomatoes either. I just want something i can check at-a-glance without knowing plot, themes etc as i prefer not to know anything about a film before seeing it unless i know it's at least good!

Another option i have checked is Four Word Film Review where users must review a film in four words or less. It's run by a guy called Benjy who some of the characters of Wallace & Grommit are based on!

One of the classic reviews i read on that site was for Titatic and it read "Icy dead people". More classic reviews here

I go to all the previews regardles of genre and usually without knowing too much about the film itself. I certainly don't read professional critiques. When you apply for your tickets there is usually a synopsis on Showff and Seeff, I find that helps. The only problem now is that once the tickets have all gone you can't access the page with the synopsis.

I still use imdb for a general idea but I'll give the other site you mention, a go.:)

cineman

Interesting. I'm guessing both of you are more cinema enthusiasts where I'm more a fun enthusiast. I just find there is usually so many other things to than to see a film that is being universally panned. Would you really go see a film that almost everyone was saying was bad?

Since I've started to see so many more films for free I've realised I'm getting more desensitised to the cinema experience in general. Even sitting at the best seats in an imax doesn't give me the high it used to.

Films are like drugs!

geordie_ben

cineman wrote: »

Would you really go see a film that almost everyone was saying was bad?!

1, yes i would, my opinion is very different to everyone else, everyone seemed to love avatar and inception - i didnt. over hyped.

2, i wouldnt know if almost everyone was saying it was bad as i dont read reviews :cool::rotfl::cool::rotfl::cool:

Poochface

cineman wrote: »

Interesting. I'm guessing both of you are more cinema enthusiasts where I'm more a fun enthusiast. I just find there is usually so many other things to than to see a film that is being universally panned. Would you really go see a film that almost everyone was saying was bad?

Since I've started to see so many more films for free I've realised I'm getting more desensitised to the cinema experience in general. Even sitting at the best seats in an imax doesn't give me the high it used to.

Films are like drugs!

Often we see the previews before the crits have been posted but as I said I like to make my own mind up. After all a review/critique is only an opinion and too many reviewers have a chip on their shoulder about something so their crit isn't unbiased.

The Last Airbender didn't get the best reviews but I enjoyed it when I saw it albeit with a few moans.

Going to the previews has given me a new life in a way. I've made so many friends online and lots of us visit each other, talk and text each other regularly. I've also made quite a few friends with others who go to the previews regularly. It gets me out of the house and being disabled now, getting out and about isn't as easy as it used to be. I know lots of staff at the various cinemas and talk to them a lot plus at one cinema there is a great cafe that lots of people use for a variety of reasons; meetings, internet users and people who want to sit and relax chatting. I do have other interests but this is what keeps me going.:)

geordie_ben

can anyone get wall street to work on timesplus? it wont show any cinemas on the drop down menu

willeynotwiley

cineman wrote: »

Interesting. I'm guessing both of you are more cinema enthusiasts where I'm more a fun enthusiast. I just find there is usually so many other things to than to see a film that is being universally panned. Would you really go see a film that almost everyone was saying was bad?

Since I've started to see so many more films for free I've realised I'm getting more desensitised to the cinema experience in general. Even sitting at the best seats in an imax doesn't give me the high it used to.

Films are like drugs!

I too will watch pretty much anything...too easy to judge a book as it were.Having said that not sure I could face Scott Pilgrim

willeynotwiley

cineman wrote: »

Films are like drugs!

Too true and I'm an addict who has yet to become desensitised...do you think there is a special clinic we could all go to for our addiction???