Stafford Cinema - ups & downs.

Trumpet

Trumpet

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Gareth said:
Was disappointed when I went, sound was dreadful. Music in movie was loud but actors talking was almost inaudible.

When you can go to the odeon at festival park for a fiver........it is a rip off and the was not an enjoyable experience I am after.

The red carpet place at barton under needwood is the way to do this sort of thing properly
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Personally had no problems with sound quality.
Wouldn't drive to Stoke to watch a film and certainly not to Barton.
Just don't like being surrounded by a large mass of people talking over the film, rustling crisp packets, fractious children etc.
A couple of dozen people with sufficient attention span to watch a film without getting distracted and distracting others around them works for me personally.
 
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Gareth

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HopesDad said:
It is a room above a pub in a country village. It is not claiming to be the Odeon Leicester Square.
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For a bloody fiver, a rip off in a tiny screen and crap sound. A novelity that isn't worth a visit more than once

I am a movie buff and visit cinemas across the midlands and locally without any issues. If I am paying a fiver.........you get a top picture and sound quality at the Odeon ( for the same price), not in a room where you can hear what is going on in others rooms and poor sound quality.

Done way way better in many other places.
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Gareth said:
For a bloody fiver, a rip off in a tiny screen and crap sound. A novelity that isn't worth a visit more than once

I am a movie buff and visit cinemas across the midlands and locally without any issues. If I am paying a fiver.........you get a top picture and sound quality at the Odeon ( for the same price), not in a room where you can hear what is going on in others rooms and poor sound quality.

Done way way better in many other places.
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That reads so much like the type of response one would expect from HopelessDad.
 
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Gareth

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You are one to talk with the comments on crap food establishments recently ;)

But at the end of the day there is a difference between being negative for negatives sake and an opinion on an actual poor experience.
 
PeterD

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
I am not a movie buff and as of next week I will be a proud wearer of not one but two hearing aids. With that in mind I found the cinema experience in town good, the 3 times I ever went there.
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Gareth said:
You are one to talk with the comments on crap food establishments recently ;)
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It wasn't your opinion I had a problem with. The language you used in that particular post was very similar to the Hopeless one, that's all.

Peace and love :D
 
kyoto49

kyoto49

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Gareth said:
For a bloody fiver, a rip off in a tiny screen and crap sound. A novelity that isn't worth a visit more than once

I am a movie buff and visit cinemas across the midlands and locally without any issues. If I am paying a fiver.........you get a top picture and sound quality at the Odeon ( for the same price), not in a room where you can hear what is going on in others rooms and poor sound quality.

Done way way better in many other places.
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Odeon ticket prices for an adult:


Off Peak Mon-Thu before 5pm. - Adult (Ages 18+)£6.00 - £11.00

Peak - Adult (Ages 18+)£10.95 - £13.95

Someone is telling porkies, a fiver my arse!

https://www.movietheaterprices.com/odeon-cinema-prices/
 
Wormella

Wormella

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So - hand written posters have appeared on the closed Stafford cinema saying

'Opening Soon, Staff required Management & Projection plus Receptionists, Experience Preferred - phone 07812 192714 for details"

No other details.

I can't see anything on planning / license details - anyone know anything?
 
Feed The Goat

Feed The Goat

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Wormella said:
So - hand written posters have appeared on the closed Stafford cinema saying

'Opening Soon, Staff required Management & Projection plus Receptionists, Experience Preferred - phone 07812 192714 for details"

No other details.

I can't see anything on planning / license details - anyone know anything?
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The building is currently under offer with millar sandy.
 
The Hawk

The Hawk

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Wormella said:
So - hand written posters have appeared on the closed Stafford cinema saying

'Opening Soon, Staff required Management & Projection plus Receptionists, Experience Preferred - phone 07812 192714 for details"

No other details.

I can't see anything on planning / license details - anyone know anything?
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Hand written posters? Mobile phone number? :ohno:
 
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bunique

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Projection? Surely not reopening as a cinema. Perhaps it’s the new place recruiting, albeit very oddly?
 
macabremagpie

macabremagpie

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I used to work there and, though I can't say much else, I can confirm that the people who put those signs up do indeed want to reopen it as a cinema.
 
The Hawk

The Hawk

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Tumble weed said:
Well someone's clearly been in, the lights were on when I walked past this evening .
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Ah, the town's motto:
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