Free Cinema Tickets - Discussion thread

midian

i really enjoyed up in the air. especially the conversations between the younger and older woman characters. the cinema i was in almost hummed with delight when sam elliott turned up (or was that just me?).

i thought the first half of the film much better than the second but my friend thought the opposite.

not a great film but a good one.

Kitty_Wren

fruitcake wrote: »

I really liked "Up in the Air", you could tell the same people who did Juno were behind this.

Really? I had no idea lol

angelflower_2

went to see The Boys are Back last night and loved it. Thanks to sky perks.

Never seen that side of Australia before and thought the scenery was great. Clive Owen great as ever, his youngest son was great but couldnt quite get into the older son character, he reminded me too much of Ron Weasley!!

(I think I used the word great too often in the above but have limited vocab this morning LOL)

Kitty_Wren

angelflower wrote: »

... couldnt quite get into the older son character, he reminded me too much of Ron Weasley!!

Is that the ginger kid from Harry Potter? I was thinking the exact same thing!!

YeovilFC

angelflower wrote: »

went to see The Boys are Back last night and loved it. Thanks to sky perks.

Never seen that side of Australia before and thought the scenery was great. Clive Owen great as ever, his youngest son was great but couldnt quite get into the older son character, he reminded me too much of Ron Weasley!!

(I think I used the word great too often in the above but have limited vocab this morning LOL)

Thought it was pretty good, a nice change from a lot of the films I usually watch, but not one that will stick in the mind for long.

Ditto about the older son, when he first appeared at the airport, me and my partner had one of those "yes it is him, no it isn't, yes it is" type conversations!

Crazyangel

Sorry if this has been previously asked, but do they over-subscribe tickets to these free screenings?
I've got tickets for one, and it starts at 6.30pm but I'm not sure if I should get there really early (like with TV audience tickets where you get turned away if you are near the back of the queue?).

marialionza

This is a video of The American Museum Of Natural History I found by chance on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U&feature=player_embedded#


Enjoy!

The magic of this film, though, happens as the inky black expands. Pulling farther and farther from Earth, you see the deep blue of the Pacific give way to night as the Sun comes into focus, the orbits of the solar system shrink smaller and smaller, the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpio stretch and distort, and, as the Milky Way receeds, the spidery structure of millions of other galaxies come into view. Then, you reach the limit of the observable universe, the afterglow of the Big Bang. This light has taken more than 13.7 billion years to reach our planet, and you return, back to Earth, to two lakes that are nestled between Mount Kailash and Mount Gurla Mandhata in the Himalayas.

The structure of The Known Universe is based on precise, scientifically-accurate observations and research. The Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History maintains the Digital Universe Atlas, the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe. The Digital Universe started nearly a decade ago. It is continually updated and is the primary resource for production of the Museum’s Space Shows such as the current Journey to the Stars, and is used in live, real-time renderings for Virtual Tours of the Universe, a public program held on the first Tuesday of every month. Last year, some 30,000 people downloaded the Digital Universe to their personal computers, and the Digital Universe will soon be updated with a more accurate and user-friendly software interface. Digital Universe is licensed to many other planetariums and theaters world-wide.

“I liken the Digital Universe to the invention of the globe,” says Curator Ben R. Oppenheimer, an astrophysicist at the Museum. “When Mercator invented the globe, everyone wanted one. He had back orders for years. It gave everyone a new perspective on where they live in relation to others, and we hope that the Digital Universe does the same on a grander, cosmic scale.”

The new film was produced by Michael Hoffman, and directed by Carter Emmart. Brian Abbot manages and Ben R. Oppenheimer curates the Digital Universe Atlas. The exhibition at the Rubin, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, opened on December 11 and continues through May 10.

Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/

Poochface

Crazyangel wrote: »

Sorry if this has been previously asked, but do they over-subscribe tickets to these free screenings?
I've got tickets for one, and it starts at 6.30pm but I'm not sure if I should get there really early (like with TV audience tickets where you get turned away if you are near the back of the queue?).

Yes, the agencies like SFF do over subscribe to compensate for no shows but it is rare that the cinemas are so full they turn people away. However, it does happen and has done recently at a preview for Norwich, I think.

You should try and get there for 6pm for a 6.30pm screening if you can.

Crazyangel

Thanks Poochface! I wasn't sure if getting there for 6pm would be early enough!
But I'll take your advice, thank you! xx

Poochface

You're welcome Crazyangel. The printouts used to say 6pm for 6.30pm but I had a look at mine for The Lovely Bones and it says starts at 6.30pm which is probably why there are latecomers in many screenings.