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ShaneUK wrote: »

Am i going mad?? I can't find the codes thread anywhere? Or has it been deleted due to the above problem?

It's been put in the gone but not forgotten section again. Happens all the time.

quoia

ShaneUK wrote: »

Am i going mad?? I can't find the codes thread anywhere? Or has it been deleted due to the above problem?

Just look in your SUBSCRIBED THREADS (in the QUICK LINKS drop down)

I presume you are SUBSCRIBED to it (with INSTANT Email notification) so that you are made aware of when new code posts are added to the thread.

If not you should be (even if you don't want the Emails option)

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apga

I know it is very late but I have just cancelled 3 tickets for the Book of Life at Edinburgh Cineworld - 10:30 this morning

glider3560

Has anyone been to a screening before where they show live red carpet footage?

I have a ticket for tonight's Fury at 7:30pm where it said something about this live footage. How long does this normally take? I assume it is before the film starts?

(Considering how much trouble my local cinema has getting the preview films to start on-time, I'd be surprised if they could manage a live feed as well)

kalsha

glider3560 wrote: »

Has anyone been to a screening before where they show live red carpet footage?

I have a ticket for tonight's Fury at 7:30pm where it said something about this live footage. How long does this normally take? I assume it is before the film starts?

(Considering how much trouble my local cinema has getting the preview films to start on-time, I'd be surprised if they could manage a live feed as well)

Been to Imitation Game last week where they showed the live red carpet footage. That was just about 30mins before the film started. Our cinema was packed and some couples had to sit separately.

kawan2

Saw Fury last night. They were showing live carpet footage. Film started 30 mins later than scheduled start time.

Daveswife

Saw Fury last night. Screen at about 50% capacity. Liked the tank battle scenes. Lots of gore. Also lots of mumbling. Couldn't tell you the names of any characters apart from Norman and possibly a Gordo? I prefer a war film with a plot line. Slowed almost to a stop half way through. A generous 6/10 from me.

Locky

kawan2 wrote: »

Saw Fury last night. They were showing live carpet footage. Film started 30 mins later than scheduled start time.

What time did your screening start? At mine, the red carpet footage was from 7 onwards and the film started at 8, as scheduled.

My confirmation email said: 'This preview is being shown at the same time as closing night of the London Film Festival and the European Premiere in London. There will be edited footage from the Red Carpet on screen from 7.30pm and the film starts at 8pm.'

Brecon_Beacons

I also went to see Fury last night and had to sit through Edith Bowman interviewing the cast on the red carpet. I wish they wouldn't do this, I know that Shia LaBoeuf will be a total tool (and he was), which biases you against him for watching his performance. With all the PR people they have around them, you would think someone would tell him to shut up!


Well, what to say about FURY? Brad Pitt describes this as a film abouth "the psychological impact of war on men", and appears as the Sergeant commanding a tank pushing forward into Germany in Spring 1945 as the country collapses around them. With little in the way of effective communications and everyone - Allies and Germans - in chaos, the tank soon finds itself in desperate trouble behind enemy lines.


There is a lot of gore - human body parts flung about with gay abandon - and a lot of very predictable plot devices (the story of what the men in the tank having gone through being developed by the introduction of , yes, the 'rookie' to replace one of them that has died).


But I don't feel this film delivered in terms of the impact of war on the psyche. All it told me was that war makes some men feral, and others can (temporarily) rise above themselves to protect the greater good. I think that if you want to see a film that exposes the mental suffering and damage of war on combatants, Katheryn Bigelow's THE HURT LOCKER does it much better.


And I have to protest about the (very small) parts played by women in this film! We all know that invading armies behave badly and the Allies were no better than any other in exploiting their power over German women. But this film presents the rape of a young German girl by the rookie as some kind of 'instant love match' - sheer preposterousness in the circumstances!


And showing the same young German girl walking her bicycle right past the tank, swishing her long bare legs and making eye contact with the occupants, is a nonsense too. German women were rightly terrified of the Allied army - with good reason - and any girl alone seeing an enemy tank approaching would have run for cover, not strutted her stuff. I found the director's approach in this appallingly mysogenistic - as were the tank crew's comments that German women could be 'had' for four squares of chocolate, followed up by shots of a woman climbing in the tank with the stinking, dirty, foul-mouthed occupants. As if! This kind of treatment is an insult to the 'history' the film purports to show.


I take it this film WON'T be screening in Germany, then?


I wouldn't see this film again, but I'm sure there will be those that will enjoy having their prejudices about women confirmed by it.

glider3560

As others have said about Fury, the red carpet footage wasn't really needed, especially the interviews. Maybe 10 minutes would've been ok. Although the entertainment came from watching Brad Pitt's bodyguard physically attempting to stop fans "clinging" to him (or even touching him) during signings/selfies.

I didn't think the film had much of a plotline, nor did it really reflect historical accuracies (especially the parts including women), in my opinion.

I probably wouldn't recommend seeing it.