Random Rant: Cinema

Hello all.

I went to the cinema last night to watch Chronicle (good film actually).

It served to remind me of all the things I despise about a trip mto the cinema. There are two I'd like to focus on;

1. The amount of time it takes to get to the actual bloody film. What with the adverts, the cinema advertising itself, the stupid annoying Orange 'turn off your phone' malarky, and the trailers that are now so long and give away so much of the films they advertise, they might as well be the films themselves.

2. Even more irritating is the stupid pricing of the whole thing. I love film and I enjoy watching things on the big screen. But I rarely go and when I do it's only ever on Wednesdays to make use of the Orange Wednesday two for one tickets. If the cinema lowered the ticket prices to a resonable level, then I would go a lot more often. I'm sure a lot of people feel the same. then you get there and you're faced with having to pay like £8 for a tub of popcorn, or £4 for a small drink, or god knows how much for some pick and mix. I always take a drink and often some snacks to and sneak them into the cinema. Or I go without. And again, why don't cinemas realise that if they lowered their prices just a bit, just to a reasonable ok we know this is expensive but but we appreciate you have to make money level, then many more people would buy snacks and drinks. Or buy more snacks and drinks.

It's not rocket science.