Cinema Only Free Tickets Discussion thread

angelaw21

Sky rewards were showing 'we bought a zoo' tickets available soon., but this has been removed! Strange? Maybe it conflicted with times+ free screening of we bought a zoo.

Poochface

angelaw21 wrote: »

Sky rewards were showing 'we bought a zoo' tickets available soon., but this has been removed! Strange? Maybe it conflicted with times+ free screening of we bought a zoo.

Oooh, hope we get a new date. Fingers crossed.

geordie_ben

This Mean War - not bad at all!

holidaysforme

geordie_ben wrote: »

This Mean War - not bad at all!

Looking forward to seeing it on monday night.:) tried to get tickets for 21 jump street with the code you kindly posted earlier. All tickets sold out. :eek: that was about an hour and a half ago. I guess Some go really quickly or have i just been luckly so far.

quoia

tamasina wrote: »

I went to see Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in Cardiff last night with Sky screenings. There were only about 10 seats free and it is probably the biggest venue i've seen a screening in. Unfortunately due to a funeral before hand, we were late getting there which is unusual for us, so had to sit in the very front row, neck ache and dizzyness to begin with. I really enjoyed the film and thought Thomas Horn was a very good young actor. The storyline was very original and having heard what the film was about i did not find it depressing at all.

The_Old_Bag wrote: »

I thought it was a brilliant film. Not perfect, but one of the most moving I have ever been to.
I cannot remember the last time I cried so much and so often during a film.
There were faults and weaknesses in the film and script, but Thomas Horn was absolutely superb.
His performance was spell-binding.

The_Old_Bag wrote: »

After seeing the film I read some reviews (presumably American) which seemed to be totally focused on the "twin tower" aspect.
As far as I am concerned, this could have been any year, any location - the twin towers was not the centre of the film, although it did add to the poignancy
It was the loss, guilt, confusion and isolation of a boy with Aspergers. How he 'coped' after he lost his beloved father.
I absolutely adored "The Blind side" and was struggling to understand the role of Sandra Bullock in ELAIC . Thankfully the last ten minutes answered all my questions, and also made me feel guilty that I had ever doubted the love and devotion of Oskars mother.

Wonderful to have such a fabulous sympathetic enlightened view of ASD. No disrespect to Hoffman, but personally I feel we have had only Rain Man for too long now. It is called a 'spectrum' because there is a wide variety of presentations.

I don't know if you've seen the NEWSPAPER SUMMARY threads for this weekend (or the Free Giveaway CDs & DVDs thread) ....

... BUT there is a FREE DOWNLOAD of the book

It's an AUDIOBOOK

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

Read by KERRY SHALE from JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER'S original novel

UNTIL 23:59 Monday 27th Feb >>> http://www.audiogo.co.uk/guardian-loud


I believe it is abridged but might be worth sticking on your MP3 player to listen to when stretched out catching some rays on your summer holidays

thefrenzexperiment

holidaysforme wrote: »

Looking forward to seeing it on monday night.:) tried to get tickets for 21 jump street with the code you kindly posted earlier.

If you're going to credit people, please credit the correct person - it was canadianmaple who posted the code.

holidaysforme

thefrenzexperiment wrote: »

If you're going to credit people, please credit the correct person - it was canadianmaple who posted the code.

Apologies canadianmaple. Who are you though the forum police:D

avidfilmfan

holidaysforme wrote: »

Saw the best exotic marigold hotel tonight in my local cineworld. All went very smoothly. The member of staff just took my printed ticket,- never asked for my nat west card, although i had it in my hand.
The cinema was almost full but not quite.
There were no searches of handbags either, and we had left our mobile phones at home anyway.
Best of all enjoyed the film a lot more than i had thought, and taking our own sweets in (which i always do anyway) made for a completley free evening.
Here's to the next one:)

i enjoyed it too!..Judy Dench and Bill Nighy were excellent. i took my mum and i dont think there was anyone under the age of 50 in my cinema, the atmosphere was brill..and it was 100% full ! i got my tickets through a competition via Vue cinema. my print out was thoroughly checked on arrival and a warning about mobile phones was shown on screen before the film started.. night vision binoculars were used by two weedy looking men with armbands during the movie and one person was asked to turn their mobile off during the film... i wish they had people to check for mobile use during EVERY screening !

holidaysforme

I'm glad you enjoyed it avidfilmfan:) i was actually a bit dubious having seen the trailers,- thought it might be a bit cliche laded, and to some extent it was. However, i think that was the point in a way.
I thought that the charachter of maggie smith showed some redemable features in the end. The audience,- well the one in my cinema anyway was laughing at and not with her and her little englender persona:)
. Not sure about penelope wilton's charachter though. Dont think i came away liking her any more than at the start of the film.

Queenriderbrekke

holidaysforme wrote: »

I'm glad you enjoyed it avidfilmfan:) i was actually a bit dubious having seen the trailers,- thought it might be a bit cliche laded, and to some extent it was. However, i think that was the point in a way.
I thought that the charachter of maggie smith showed some redemable features in the end. The audience,- well the one in my cinema anyway was laughing at and not with her and her little englender persona:)
. Not sure about penelope wilton's charachter though. Dont think i came away liking her any more than at the start of the film.

Have seen Marigold twice now, Penelope Wilton's character was throughly depressing and soul destroying, fortunately the rest of the characters balanced it out nicely so that it emphasised how little she was perpared to move outside her comfort zone for others:)!