Cinema Only Free Tickets Discussion thread

Brecon_Beacons

Went to see Kingsman: the Secret Service on Monday.

Wow, are they giving a lot of tickets away for this film - so many previews! Are they worried it won't be a hit?

They needn't be - I think it will - but, like Marmite, some will adore it, some won't, and I've the feeling that the divide will be age-related.

This film is basically a re-hash of the Bond action-film genre for the digital games-playing generation - with nods to Tarantino (and Matthew Vaughan's previous films) thrown in.

Colin Firth plays the stereotypical 'English gentleman spy', who recruits a Sarf-Lunden street kid (Taron Egerton) into a 'save-the-world' plot that comes straight from the pages of a comic book.

There are some brilliant actors in this film: Firth, Michael Caine, Mark Strong, Samuel L. Jackson. Most surprising of all was Mark Hamill (a very aged Luke Skywalker!) who turns up in the first scene as a Science professor. I would never have known it was him, without the credits!

The established actors have fun playing with a variety of accents - with varying degrees of success. Caine plays 'posh', Strong adopts a Scots accent, Jackson does a camp performance as the villain with a speech impairment and a fear of blood and gore - definitely out of place, with the body parts and guts count in this film.

Taron Egerton is the most passable of them - hailing from North Wales, he does a very creditable imitation of the Jamaican/Estuary English patois now commonly spoken by all under 30 south of the River.

The plot: well what can I say. It's very fast paced so you don't notice (or mind?) the holes in it. Good production values, good photography. The 'set piece' action scenes were way too much like a computer game for my liking - but I accept that most people under 40 will be happy and comfortable with exploding heads, or people being sliced in two by a disabled person's running 'blades' that have been sharpened to a lethal weapon.

There's a level of crudity (well known to previous Vaughan films) that stops this from being a classy piece of enjoyment. To me, it breaks the suspension of disbelief to show a 'serious' scene and then drop a sexual joke or crude quip into it. But I know that many are happy with this, and demand no more from a night's entertainment.

Bond it isn't - but it's still entertainment. I can well imagine there will be sequels. Buy your popcorn, go and enjoy - just don't expect high art!

LouFace

Brecon_Beacons wrote: »

Went to see Kingsman: the Secret Service on Monday.

Wow, are they giving a lot of tickets away for this film - so many previews! Are they worried it won't be a hit?

They needn't be - I think it will - but, like Marmite, some will adore it, some won't, and I've the feeling that the divide will be age-related.

This film is basically a re-hash of the Bond action-film genre for the digital games-playing generation - with nods to Tarantino (and Matthew Vaughan's previous films) thrown in.

Colin Firth plays the stereotypical 'English gentleman spy', who recruits a Sarf-Lunden street kid (Taron Egerton) into a 'save-the-world' plot that comes straight from the pages of a comic book.

There are some brilliant actors in this film: Firth, Michael Caine, Mark Strong, Samuel L. Jackson. Most surprising of all was Mark Hamill (a very aged Luke Skywalker!) who turns up in the first scene as a Science professor. I would never have known it was him, without the credits!

The established actors have fun playing with a variety of accents - with varying degrees of success. Caine plays 'posh', Strong adopts a Scots accent, Jackson does a camp performance as the villain with a speech impairment and a fear of blood and gore - definitely out of place, with the body parts and guts count in this film.

Taron Egerton is the most passable of them - hailing from North Wales, he does a very creditable imitation of the Jamaican/Estuary English patois now commonly spoken by all under 30 south of the River.

The plot: well what can I say. It's very fast paced so you don't notice (or mind?) the holes in it. Good production values, good photography. The 'set piece' action scenes were way too much like a computer game for my liking - but I accept that most people under 40 will be happy and comfortable with exploding heads, or people being sliced in two by a disabled person's running 'blades' that have been sharpened to a lethal weapon.

There's a level of crudity (well known to previous Vaughan films) that stops this from being a classy piece of enjoyment. To me, it breaks the suspension of disbelief to show a 'serious' scene and then drop a sexual joke or crude quip into it. But I know that many are happy with this, and demand no more from a night's entertainment.

Bond it isn't - but it's still entertainment. I can well imagine there will be sequels. Buy your popcorn, go and enjoy - just don't expect high art!

I pretty much agree. My friend loved it, I thought it was ok. (My friend also had no idea the Professor was Mark Hamill whereas I did straight away, take from that what you will. I applaud his English accent though.) Enjoyable (especially for free) but quickly forgotten.

The continuous shot in the church was very impressive but that's mostly all I took away from it. I'm sure it will make a lot of money, it's definitely a film for the Michael Bay generation.

quoia

COMING SOON !

For SUN PERKS Subscribers

TWO NIGHT STAND



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140619

Certificate 15
Tuesday 10th February
18:00 for 18:30

Locations (possibly subject to change)

Ashford
Birmingham
Boldon Tyne And Wear
Bradford
Bristol
Cardiff
Chichester
Enfield
Glasgow - Renfrew Street
Greenwich - The O2
Ipswich
London Wandsworth
Manchester - Didsbury
Middlesbrough
Milton Keynes
Nottingham
Sheffield
Stevenage


http://perks.thesun.co.uk/public-perks/sunscreening-two-night-stand

BOOKING OPENS at 00.00 on January 30, 2015


A no-strings-attached, online hook-up turns into a morning after disaster for twenty-something New Yorkers Alec (BAFTA-nominated Miles Teller: Whiplash, Divergent) and Megan (Analeigh Tipton: Lucy, Crazy Stupid Love) when a paralyzing blizzard hits the city, trapping the couple in Alec’s cramped Brooklyn apartment. Like it or not, they are forced to get to know each other far beyond the confines of a typical one-night stand.

With blisteringly funny dialogue, outstanding performances and a truly romantic story of love in the digital age.

quoia

COMING SOON !

For SUN PERKS Subscribers

PROJECT ALMANAC



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2436386

Certificate 12A
Thursday 19th February
18:00 for 18:30

Locations TBA

A brilliant high school student and his friends uncover blueprints for a mysterious device with limitless potential, it's the secret plans of a time machine and they construct one.
However, things start to get out of control, inadvertently putting lives in danger.

geordie_ben

I thought Two Night Stand was already out as it's on a couple of not so legal streaming sites already.

Miles is getting himself around at the moment isn't he!

quoia

geordie_ben wrote: »

I thought Two Night Stand was already out as it's on a couple of not so legal streaming sites already.

Miles is getting himself around at the moment isn't he!

"Everywhere else" in the world yes.

Official UK release is 13th Feb

geordie_ben

quoia wrote: »

"Everywhere else" in the world yes.

Official UK release is 13th Feb

Good point, didn't think of that

quoia

quoia wrote: »

Preliminary list of locations

and it's just possible that this might be held on Saturday 31st January instead.

Birmingham Broadway Plaza
Bluewater
Brighton
Bristol - Cinema De Lux
Cardiff
Colchester
Derby - Cinema De Lux
Dudley
Edinburgh Wester Hailes
Glasgow Quay
Kingston-Upon-Thames
Lee Valley
Leeds
Leeds/Bradford
Leicester - Cinema De Lux
Maidstone
Manchester Printworks
Newham
Nottingham
Peterborough
Reading
Sheffield
Southampton
Teesside
Wimbledon

Looks like this will be taking place (as above) at these cinemas ....

ODEON cinemas

Birmingham
Brighton
Cardiff
Colchester
Edinburgh Wester Hailes
Glascow Quay
Kingston-Upon-Thames
Lee Valley
Leeds/Bradford
Maidstone
Manchester Printworks
Sheffield
Southampton
Wimbledon

SHOWCASE cinemas

Bluewater
Bristol - Cinema De Lux
Derby - Cinema De Lux
Dudley
Leeds
Leicester
Newham
Nottingham
Peterborough
Reading
Teesside


... on SATURDAY 31st JANUARY .....

with an earlier start time of 09:45 am IF you'd like to join in the fun ...


Join us from 9:45am IN THE FOYER for face painting, balloon modelling and other fun activities!

AND you will be able to get up to FOUR TICKETS per Sun+ member

quoia

COMING SOON !

From SMS - STUDENT MONEY SAVER

SELMA



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020072

A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights
via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

Certificate 12A
Sunday 1st February
10:00 for 10:30

Following locations (subject to change)

Birmingham New Street
Bristol - Cinema De Lux
Cardiff
Coventry
Leeds
London
Manchester Printworks
Nottingham


PRODUCED BY OPRAH WINFREY, BRAD PITT’S COMPANY PLAN B
(12 YEARS A SLAVE ) AND CHRISTIAN COLSON ( SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE ), THE ACCLAIMED FILM SELMA TELLS THE GRIPPING AND MOVING TRUE STORY OF THE PIVOTAL MOMENT IN DR.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S EPIC CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE - THE 1965 PROTEST MARCH FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA TO SECURE VOTING RIGHTS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS.

STARRING BRITISH ACTOR DAVID OYELOWO ( THE BUTLER, A MOST VIOLENT YEAR) AS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ALONGSIDE TOM WILKINSON, CARMEN EJOGO, TIM ROTH AND OPRAH WINFREY , THE 2015 RELEASE OF SELMA CELEBRATES THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PASSING OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT AND THIS TRIUMPHANT STORY OF THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE.

geordie_ben

Does anyone know if Times+ have had movies on at any Newcastle cinemas other than Silverlink recently?