[Gllug] Odeon website

[Martyn Drake]

Ben Fitzgerald wrote:

> <rant>
> If you ask me their site reflects their company atitude. I avoid their
> cinemas. (except the _really_ big one in Leicester Sq. for stuff like
> LOTR). Poor sound quality and screens of a size that blur the
> boundary between cinema and television all at the high end of the
> London price range. 
> 
> Plus they never staff the theatres during a film so if kids start
> fooling around you have to tell them to shut up.
> 
> Long live the NFT!
> </rant>

Oh, I've been insulted in the local Kingston branch.  Some silly staff woman
was laughing at me while I was enjoying a beer in the bar and then at the
end of the film a bunch of them were larking about waiting for everybody to
leave the cinema when the same woman said "Goodbye Wally". 

Given that I work for a post-production company I had a good mind to go up
to the staff member, flash my company ID at them and state that while
they're mopping up after their customers and being paid a pittance for it,
we're working on the movies themselves.  Or something like that.  Completely
OTT I know, but it puts them in their place.

I've also suffered from silly teenagers trying to make out in the back of
the cinema, making horrible slurping/sucking noises - they've no idea of how
to kiss and it's just embarrassing for both them and the rest of the
audience.

These days I tend to watch stuff on DVD anyway - the missus doesn't like
anything with monsters or loads of violence which pretty much rules out 90%
of the films currently showing.

Regards,

	Martyn


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