- October 13th, 2019, 4:06 am#4925590I'm going tomorrow. It was a complete surprise to me. I went to the cinema last week to see Joker and Judy and they had it up on the list. I've seen Ghostbusters 1 and 2 in the cinema a couple of times at the Prince Charles Cinema (a theatre in Leicester Square that shows old films) but it's still not quite the same as a real, current day, Big Screen cinema.
While we're on the subject of money, when I was a student I could go and see films for £3 a time and I would routinely go and see films that happened to be on at the time I walked in there without any clue of what the film was about - I'm quite open-minded with my genres and the surprise was all part of the thrill. I discovered some great films that I still love to this day; Changing Lanes, Mr Deeds, The Life of David Gale, Chicago, Catch Me if You Can, The Terminal and plenty more. These days, it's not possible to do that because I can't afford to drop £10 on a film I might not like.
I guess it's fair to say that the cinema experience has been devalued by the prevalence of widescreen TVs, disc media, streaming services and high definition. For relatively little financial outlay, you can get an experience that's more or less comparable to the theatrical exhibition and, for a few grand, you can pretty much have a cinema in your own home. When VHS was king, the cinema was an indisputably better experience to what you could get in the home; even if you had a Laser Disc player.
But, for some reason, I still keep going.
"You call this coffee? This coffee tastes like mud... oh, sorry, it is mud!"