Stafford Cinema - ups & downs.

[proactive]

• Improved seating (so theres a chance you don't get DVT)
• Improved sound
• Improved toilets
• Improved ticket offers
• Improved food and drink offerings
• Improved access for disabled customers
• Confidence that the company running the venture is actually interested in the long term and not just driving something into the ground

I think it will work.....

All of the above will encourage locals to use it instead of going elsewhere (we always go to Telford now) as well as bringing additional cinema goers from the surrounds.

Can't understand the reasoning behind @HopesDad's negativity.

 

[John Marwood]

The current cinema struggles, and fails, to fill three screens with customers. So how will the new one fill six?

A bar
It's shiny
It's new

People like the above

 

[Withnail]

When was the last time anyone went here..?

January, to see the now-not-so-new Star Wars movie.

They may even put the heating on during the winter.

It was feckin' freezing in there.

 

[kyoto49]

Meanwhile, back at the former Odeon/Stafford Cinema....

Why doesn't whoever is going to run the new Riverside cinema buy it, and run it as a cinema?

That way the existing cinema, which is fully functional and not totally unattractive, could be retained and there would be no need to construct another box monstrosity on Riverside.

Or am I missing something?

I don't get this need to constantly build new as it will be better than the old, only for the 'new' to very soon be old . I'll be sad to see the old cinema close and doubt I'll visit the soulless new one if the new ones I have visited previously are anything to go by . Junk food and sweets have little appeal personally.

Having said that, I'm not a regular attendee, but the facilities were fine for the couple of hours I spent in there, . Last few films I've seen weren't recently but that's more a reflection on modern Hollywood film-making than the cinema itself. Prefer the independant and world cinema shown at the Lighthouse in Wolverhampton.

 

[HopesDad]

Surely it will cost a lot less to refurbish and upgrade an existing cinema than create a new barn cinema from scratch. And it would be one less silver metal cube that has to be built to a lower standard than the building it is replacing.

 

[John Marwood]

Surely it will cost a lot less to refurbish and upgrade an existing cinema than create a new barn cinema from scratch. And it would be one less silver metal cube that has to be built to a lower standard than the building it is replacing.

Fat people need fat seats and fast food

This new cinema will cater for the slovenly slack jawed suburban shopper wanting to be seen to be out on the thick shaggpile carpet

UK cinema prices are the highest in the world

 

[HopesDad]

All of the above will encourage locals to use it instead of going elsewhere (we always go to Telford now) as well as bringing additional cinema goers from the surrounds.

Can't understand the reasoning behind @HopesDad's negativity.

I'm not being negative, just realistic. The new cinema will be busy for a few months till the novelty wears off, then it will be just as empty as the old Odeon.

By way of comparison, I refer my learned friends to the sad case of Stafford market. In the beginning was the market hall and the market arcade. Both were dated but functional, and full of stalls and customers.

Despite, or perhaps because of, that, it was all demolished and replaced with the Guildhall Centre, which was modern and clean and shiny and people liked it. The future of shopping in Stafford - shopping as it should be. And for a time it was busy, but then stalls started to close, shops closed and we now have a virtually empty market and an empty market arcade. No shops, no stalls, no customers.

So we build a new complex, the Riverside Centre. Which is modern and clean and shiny. People like it. The future of shopping in Stafford. Shopping as it should be. And for a time it will be busy ....

You get the idea.

 

[John Marwood]

People who are stupid generally don't notice they are because they am

If you rub lemon juice over your face do you become invisible or do people just not see you?

 

[Jonah]

The are more reasons to the demise of the market and Guildhall than the wearing off of any shininess.

 

[HopesDad]

The are more reasons to the demise of the market and Guildhall than the wearing off of any shininess.

Of course. And those same reasons will, sooner or later, apply to the new places.

 

[John Marwood]

The cinema can be a means of escape

Particularly if you do not live in your own abode

The same price as drugs but with a happy ending

 

[HopesDad]

The cinema can be a means of escape

Particularly if you do not live in your own abode

The same price as drugs but with a happy ending

A cinema that provides a happy ending? Now that might be worth a visit after all

 

[John Marwood]

A cinema that provides a happy ending? Now that might be worth a visit after all

One swallow does not make a cinema

 

[proactive]

One swallow does not make a cinema

Fantasising about the back row again are you?

 

[Withnail]

...Having said that, I'm not a regular attendee..

Which makes it all the more surprising that they don't hone the facilities exactly to your specifications.

Because if i was looking to create some sort of business opportunity, the first thing i would try to understand would be the needs of the people who were unlikely to be regular attendees.

In fairness, i have on the whole got out a bit more.

 

[John Marwood]

 

[Withnail]

In all fairness, some films are quite good.

I'd even go so far as to say some of them are really actually jolly good.

Some films are best seen on a very big screen, with very big sound, in the way that nature intended.

Whether that experience is worth £8.24 is a matter of opinion.

I watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? in an empty cinema on the outskirts of Bristol - i'd pay double to do that again.

Jurassic Park made me cry - that sequence when they look over the entirety of the Park for the first time, the Diplodocus reaching up to the top of the tree and the crashing down - it was just so immense.

There's nothing really wrong about the current Cinema, but there are a lot of things that are a bit wrong about it. Lots of these little bits of wrong easily add up to one big lot of wrong. Which is ultimately rather unfortunate.

But inescapable.

 

[Rusty03]

Millar Sandy have been instructed to market The Stafford Cinema, Newport Road, Stafford, by the freeholder, Eros Properties Limited. Built in the 1930s as an Odeon in a style typical of the time, the property is prominently situated at the south end of the town centre close to the new Riverside leisure development and provides three screens with a total seating capacity of 610. Subject to the appropriate planning consent, the building would be suitable for alternative entertainment uses including a nightclub, restaurant or bar and is available for either purchase or lease with an asking guide price of £750,000. The property includes two small retail units which have been producing a rental income of £14,500 per annum by way of sub-lettings.

I wouldn't buy it, if you look carefully it has a large crack up the side of the building

 

[John Marwood]

I wouldn't buy it, if you look carefully it has a large crack up the side of the building

Too much fast food

Not enough excercise

 

[Glam]

I wouldn't buy it, if you look carefully it has a large crack up the side of the building

What would you do with the building then? Bulldoze it and bung a monstrosity such as Riverside Centre in its place?