Cinema Free Tickets and Films Discussion Thread

AubreyMac

What's up with the lack of SFF codes lately?

geordie_ben

There's a couple moee

Mee

Thank you quoia for clarifying things.

blue_lagoon

I have had both my posts deleted from the code only section as according to Andrea its a duplicate, but the last time it was posted was on the 17th november, its now the 23rd november and still lots of venues have tickets. So if you know anyone who would still like to try and get tickets for bridge of spies on 24/11/15 at 6.30 code 518529 show film first.
She really cant do here job properly

sarah1972

blue_lagoon wrote: »

I have had both my posts deleted from the code only section as according to Andrea its a duplicate, but the last time it was posted was on the 17th november, its now the 23rd november and still lots of venues have tickets. So if you know anyone who would still like to try and get tickets for bridge of spies on 24/11/15 at 6.30 code 518529 show film first.
She really cant do here job properly

Not sure where you get Andrea from?, its me that pm'd you and deleted your posts.

It was decided a long time ago that if there are still tickets available to a film, it doesn't warrant a repost of an already posted code.

Subscribers get very frustrated to get an email every time a duplicate if posted when they are expecting new codes.

This has been clearly explained to you by pm and its the regular members that decided the above policy.

blue_lagoon

What about those who miss out on tickets, im sure they would be grateful for the email.
So your basically saying its tuff if you missed out as those who got tickets dont want to receive codes they have already used and received tickets for.
Well it needs another review quickly.

sarah1972

blue_lagoon wrote: »

What about those who miss out on tickets, im sure they would be grateful for the email

It was decided by the regular users of the thread that its not needed and just clogs up the thread with duplicates.

If it is posted on the discussion thread then people will pick it up from there if they were unable to get tickets originally.

It has been debated and discussed many times and the result is what the masses wanted.

I am sorry that you disagree but I am sure you can understand that we can't please everybody.

geordie_ben

If people want tickets that badly they keep trying the codes. Nice and easy and no duplicates required

Brecon_Beacons

After being bored within 30 minutes by the latest James Bond film (SPECTRE), it was a refreshing relief to watch Bridge of Spies, a piece of film-making of the highest quality. My attention never wavered over the 2 hour running time – and nor did the rest of the audience. We were all engrossed in the story.
Set during the Cold War between Soviet East and Capitalist West, Bridge of Spies starts at one iconic bridge – Brooklyn – with the pursuit and capture of a Soviet spy. It ends at another iconic bridge – the Glienicke bridge in Berlin – with a classic Cold War image, the trading of hostages between East and West.
In between, we rattle through high tech and low tech espionage, courtrooms, prisons, deceit and deception; as both sides circle each other in a dangerous dance that was seen, in 1962, to have brought the world to the brink of global nuclear war.
So far, so familiar: but Steven Spielburg’s amazing eye for detail and authenticity, and the standout acting abilities of the cast make this anything but a routine run-through of events.
Tom Hanks, as the essentially decent lawyer out of his depth in trying to broker a deal between the Stasi, CIA and KGB, is compelling to watch. Much of his best acting comes when he’s not speaking at all and we are watching his reaction to events play out on his face.
Mark Rylance plays a magnificent counterpoint to Hanks, as the laconic captured Russian spy (supposedly a Colonel, but, having lived for many years in North East Britain, played by Rylance with a disconcerting Borders accent). Contrasted to the emotions-written-all-over-my face of Hanks, Rylance’s spy remains an enigma. The camera repeatedly studies his face in close up, but it gives nothing away, it is a granite cliff of imperturbability.
The action swings from cosy apple-pie images of Hanks’s domestic life in America, and the comforting familiarity of its institutions, to the brutal, wintry streets of East Berlin, where civilisation is visibly disintegrating into a stark monochrome of want, disorder and oppression.
The cinematography is pin-sharp and several scenes stay with you long after the film: the downing of the U2 spy plane, the murder of civilians caught trying to flee across the Death Zone around the newly-constructed Berlin Wall.
Bridge of Spies works on many levels. It’s dramatic and visual enough to appeal to action movie lovers; yet also intelligent enough, in it’s dialogue, imagery and philosophic question-setting, to appeal to those who like something more to think about.
The best film to see this weekend, without a doubt.

quoia

Brecon_Beacons wrote: »

After being bored within 30 minutes by the latest James Bond film (SPECTRE), it was a refreshing relief to watch Bridge of Spies, a piece of film-making of the highest quality. My attention never wavered over the 2 hour running time – and nor did the rest of the audience. We were all engrossed in the story.
Set during the Cold War between Soviet East and Capitalist West, Bridge of Spies starts at one iconic bridge – Brooklyn – with the pursuit and capture of a Soviet spy. It ends at another iconic bridge – the Glienicke bridge in Berlin – with a classic Cold War image, the trading of hostages between East and West.
In between, we rattle through high tech and low tech espionage, courtrooms, prisons, deceit and deception; as both sides circle each other in a dangerous dance that was seen, in 1962, to have brought the world to the brink of global nuclear war.
So far, so familiar: but Steven Spielburg’s amazing eye for detail and authenticity, and the standout acting abilities of the cast make this anything but a routine run-through of events.
Tom Hanks, as the essentially decent lawyer out of his depth in trying to broker a deal between the Stasi, CIA and KGB, is compelling to watch. Much of his best acting comes when he’s not speaking at all and we are watching his reaction to events play out on his face.
Mark Rylance plays a magnificent counterpoint to Hanks, as the laconic captured Russian spy (supposedly a Colonel, but, having lived for many years in North East Britain, played by Rylance with a disconcerting Borders accent). Contrasted to the emotions-written-all-over-my face of Hanks, Rylance’s spy remains an enigma. The camera repeatedly studies his face in close up, but it gives nothing away, it is a granite cliff of imperturbability.
The action swings from cosy apple-pie images of Hanks’s domestic life in America, and the comforting familiarity of its institutions, to the brutal, wintry streets of East Berlin, where civilisation is visibly disintegrating into a stark monochrome of want, disorder and oppression.
The cinematography is pin-sharp and several scenes stay with you long after the film: the downing of the U2 spy plane, the murder of civilians caught trying to flee across the Death Zone around the newly-constructed Berlin Wall.
Bridge of Spies works on many levels. It’s dramatic and visual enough to appeal to action movie lovers; yet also intelligent enough, in it’s dialogue, imagery and philosophic question-setting, to appeal to those who like something more to think about.
The best film to see this weekend, without a doubt.

Agree it's a very good film.

Hardly a murmur throughout the screening from the audience of about 400 at my local. Think everyone was really engrossed.

Given it's a fairly lengthy 141 minutes (I only found this out afterwards) it really whizzed by and I would easily have accepted that it was more akin to the usual 90 to 100 minute offerings.

9/10