Stafford Cinema - ups & downs.

kyoto49

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"Massively cheaper". How on earth can you say that? Can you produce figures to back up your statement?

When was the last time you used the cinema?


Allied, couple of weeks back. I went to watch a film, enjoyed it. Reckon you're all a bunch of whiners :)
 

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
@kyoto49 Glad you are using the cinema and are prepared to accept substandard facilities.

Last time I did was about two years ago. I had to wear coat, hat and gloves because it was so cold in there. Having to do that is just not acceptable so now I go elsewhere.

I will be glad when the new cinema complex opens as it means I won't have to travel to watch a film on the big screen.
 

Withnail

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It would be MASSIVELY cheaper to renovate the existing cinema...
"Massively cheaper". How on earth can you say that? Can you produce figures to back up your statement?
Of course ze can't - ze lives in La La Land.

Where everything is simple. Lke the brains that such organisms inhabit - simple.

Simples [funny Meerkat noise], innit?

Nothing about creating access to comply with DDA, nothing about VAT rated renovations that don't apply to new-builds, nothing about any sort of business plan that would create any financial backing for such a scheme, just a basic statement of what should be fact, in what should be a basic world.

Basic, simple, uncomplicated misunderstanding of the way the world actually works.

We've all had enough of experts.

Perhaps it's time we had enough of halfwits?
 

BobClay

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The Picture House in 1978, still a cinema then. Definitely looking a bit worse for wear at that time.

picturehouse.jpg
 

cj1

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I for one travel out of town to see movies on the big screen. I will not be sorry to see this place replaced with a modern cinema fit for the 21 century. just hope it is not left empty for years. if no other uses can be found for it then redevelop the whole site.
 

Withnail

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I went to see Rogue One at the cinema in Uttoxeter.

Not that i have that much of a problem with our cinema, more that the people i went with did.

Not that i don't have any problems with our cinema because i do - the last time i went it was, pardon my English, f**king freezing in there.

Now that i've been to the cinema in Uttoxeter, i would do so again.

Because it has become more apparent to me that temperature control, whilst it should be the most of their immediate worries, is the least of their worries in the entirety of the worries they face as a cinema. Which is more than worrisome.

It is a pig to which no manner of lipstick could be applied to make it any other than the pig that it is.

RIP
 

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
I went to see Rogue One at the cinema in Uttoxeter.

I didn't go to Stafford because it's not fit for purpose. And it's too fecking cold.
 

kyoto49

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I went to see Rogue One at the cinema in Uttoxeter.

I didn't go to Stafford because it's not fit for purpose. And it's too fecking cold.

I went tonight to Stafford cinema and I genuinely don't get your complaints. The staff were polite, the seats comfy and the place warm, almost cosy, and I'm quite nesh. Perfectly fit for the purpose of sitting and watching a film for a couple of hours.
 

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
I went tonight to Stafford cinema and I genuinely don't get your complaints. The staff were polite, the seats comfy and the place warm, almost cosy, and I'm quite nesh. Perfectly fit for the purpose of sitting and watching a film for a couple of hours.
It may have been because they have fixed the heating recently.

I don't know how tall you are but the seats are not comfortable for me and I'm not that tall at 6ft.

As for the staff, I never complained about them.
 

kyoto49

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It may have been because they have fixed the heating recently.

I don't know how tall you are but the seats are not comfortable for me and I'm not that tall at 6ft.

As for the staff, I never complained about them.

You called it substandard earlier and I'm not sure what u think makes it so, surely a comfy seat and heating is all one needs. It's a dark room for watching a film. End of. Granted the disabled facilities are 20th century, I get that, but it fulfils all other requirements of a cinema imo.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
You called it substandard earlier and I'm not sure what u think makes it so, surely a comfy seat and heating is all one needs. It's a dark room for watching a film. End of. Granted the disabled facilities are 20th century, I get that, but it fulfils all other requirements of a cinema imo.
Other people clearly don't feel the same as you otherwise they wouldn't be selling up.

But don't worry, I get it, you are right and everyone else is wrong...
 

Gareth

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Personally I agree, give me Stafford cinema over the dumps that are Festival Park disgusting and filthy Vue Newcastle some of the audience always seem to want to the main attraction and Walsall Junction 10, when is someone not smoking weed or.dealing drugs on the back row.

I went to see Rogue One New Years Eve and people complained how warm it was ( it was ).
 
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