cinema visit

folkswagen

went to see a great film with my kids yesterday:)

experience of the cinema was terrible - thought it was poor in the past (customer service, hygiene etc) but it was a complete joke yesterday:eek:

it is such a shame given that it is our only cinema and a great new building with many screens - but, so badly run.......

Madge

Haven't gone in a while; it is very overpriced, tickets must be approaching 10Euro now? The price of snacks and sweets is extortionate aswell!
Aside from that what are your actual gripes with the place? I've always found it to be a good experience- clean, comfy etc.

TequilaMockingBird

If your bringing kids, they do a Kids Club on Sundays at 12. Adults are free and its e3 for each child. The smell is bad, I agree. As for the snacks, I carry a LARGE handbag.

Btw, keep an eye out for pervs. I complained once, and they laughed at me. They said "maybe he's got an itch". He was masturbating. At a kids movie.

Madge

sueme wrote: »

Btw, keep an eye out for pervs. I complained once, and they laughed at me. They said "maybe he's got an itch". He was masturbating. At a kids movie.

OMG! Thats terrible. Was the perv sitting nearby? Did you walk out?!

Xiney

sueme wrote: »

If your bringing kids, they do a Kids Club on Sundays at 12. Adults are free and its e3 for each child. The smell is bad, I agree. As for the snacks, I carry a LARGE handbag.

Btw, keep an eye out for pervs. I complained once, and they laughed at me. They said "maybe he's got an itch". He was masturbating. At a kids movie.

Agree on the handbag....

As for the perv, I'd have called the gardai. That's disgusting, and the cinema's attitude to it was too.

TequilaMockingBird

Yep, took the kids out, complained, got laughed at, got abuse from the kids, rang Guards, went home, never heard another thing about it.

A few weeks ago my girls Dad took her to a movie, and again, a lone man watching a kids movie.

Xiney

wow. that's just so wrong.

anybody have a camera phone handy?

muffler

Xiney wrote: »

anybody have a camera phone handy?

Perv

Xiney

muffler wrote: »

Perv

ugh!

I of course meant, to have something to identify him to the police with...

Gillie

The cinema is gone to hell i'm afraid!

A few years ago another developer wanted to open a multiplex at carraroe.
The guy who owns the Gaiety was up in arms saying that "this town isn't big enough for the two of us..."
He had to upgrade the gaiety and did so but after they got the new cinema stopped they obviously didn't bother with the upkeep of it.

Shame!

JoeyJJ

Last time I was there I went late night and some carer brought in people she was looking after and they all fell asleep behind me and were snoring the whole way through the film. Really enjoyable.

Alot of the staff don't seem to give a crap about the place, no competition in town but if I lived in east sligo i'd prob head to carrick.

TequilaMockingBird

JoeyJJ wrote: »

Last time I was there I went late night and some carer brought in people she was looking after and they all fell asleep behind me and were snoring the whole way through the film. Really enjoyable.

Not really the staffs problem there, to be fair.

I slept through the entire 43 hours of The Aviator.

Apologies to everyone there on the night.

Rozbeef

I like it, go once or twice a month. Not too overprices, seats are always comfy enough.

Sometimes get a few twats making noise and stuff. But overall I've never had many problems.

Gillie

sueme wrote: »

Not really the staffs problem there, to be fair.

I slept through the entire 43 hours of The Aviator.

Apologies to everyone there on the night.

I sleep through The Horse Whisperer!
Robert Redford does that to me!

I did other things through other movies in my youth!;)

muffler

Gillie wrote: »

I did other things through other movies in my youth!;)

Thank God there were no mobile/camera phones about then

TequilaMockingBird

Gillie wrote: »

I sleep through The Horse Whisperer!
Robert Redford does that to me!

I did other things through other movies in my youth!;)

Well if you could sleep through a Robert Redford movie, then despite popular opinion, you are indeed, a man.

I have laid the matter to rest .... let there be no more confusion.

Gillie

muffler wrote: »

Thank God there were no mobile/camera phones about then

I know!:eek:
There were Marathon and Star bars!
Michael Jackson was still cool and safe...
Lada's were popular...
I was quite thin and had lots of piercings!!:D
Those were the days:(

sueme wrote: »

Well if you could sleep through a Robert Redford movie, then despite popular opinion, you are indeed, a man.

I have laid the matter to rest .... let there be no more confusion.

Hang on a sec.... Yep just checked again there.
I am a man.:cool:

TequilaMockingBird

Gillie wrote: »

Hang on a sec.... Yep just checked again there.
I am a man.:cool:

Eewwww...







Basquille, Gillie and Muffler are posting off topic. Ban them both. Thanks.

Gillie

sueme wrote: »

Eewwww...







Basquille, Gillie and Muffler are posting off topic. Ban them both. Thanks.

I believe I was responding to an off-topic post by sueme when I strayed!

But you do what you have to basq!:o

TequilaMockingBird

Gillie wrote: »

I believe I was responding to an off-topic post by sueme when I strayed!

But you do what you have to basq!:o

No, I mentioned the word "Movie" in my post, so technically not off topic.

Haaa!

takola

sueme wrote: »

Well if you could sleep through a Robert Redford movie, then despite popular opinion, you are indeed, a man.

I have laid the matter to rest .... let there be no more confusion.

We need no further proof!

muffler

sueme wrote: »

Basquille, Gillie and Muffler are posting off topic. Ban them both.

Thats 3 posting off topic

Where the hell is nanook when you need him

Anyways arent you all lucky you have a cinema. None in the twin towns sadly.

takola

muffler wrote: »

Thats 3 posting off topic

Where the hell is nanook when you need him

Anyways arent you all lucky you have a cinema. None in the twin towns sadly.

That's because Sligo's just better!

I like the cinema. In sayin that I don't go very often!

Horrible to think people can get away with that though! :mad:

TequilaMockingBird

muffler wrote: »

Thats 3 posting off topic

Where the hell is nanook when you need him

Anyways arent you all lucky you have a cinema. None in the twin towns sadly.

Yeeeeeah, but we want a better cinema... one with 40 screens, plug in air fresheners and Special Branch Officers as ushers. Not too much to ask is it..??

I blame the NDP, the Seven Sisters, Roma beggers and Argos.

brianthebard

Gillie wrote: »

The cinema is gone to hell i'm afraid!

A few years ago another developer wanted to open a multiplex at carraroe.
The guy who owns the Gaiety was up in arms saying that "this town isn't big enough for the two of us..."
He had to upgrade the gaiety and did so but after they got the new cinema stopped they obviously didn't bother with the upkeep of it.

Shame!

There used to be two cinemas in Sligo in the fifties and sixties, plus one in Ballymote, Tubber and somewhere else I think.

(helping my sister with a project-involves looking at old Sligo Champions.)

genie

There is a mobile cinema but it badly needs to visit more areas, like Geevagh because nothing ever happens here! It goes to Tubbercurry AFAIK so why not this end of the county?

I haven't been to Sligo cinema for years as it was full of under age kids who shouted, slurped and crunched through most of the films I went to see. Now, when I do go to the cinema, I go to Carrick on Shannon, and it's a lovely cinema.

tuppence

genie wrote: »

There is a mobile cinema but it badly needs to visit more areas, like Geevagh because nothing ever happens here! It goes to Tubbercurry AFAIK so why not this end of the county?

I haven't been to Sligo cinema for years as it was full of under age kids who shouted, slurped and crunched through most of the films I went to see. Now, when I do go to the cinema, I go to Carrick on Shannon, and it's a lovely cinema.

Yes theres a mobile cinema. Used to be called Reels on Wheels now relaunched....(basquille your a film head do you know? ) Its a Leitrim thing that expanded into Sligo. Hope its not a charitable venture looking for funds...:eek:
Best tell them not to take the van up the Sligo way.;)

il gatto

If you go to a big movie, especially the first week or two it's on, it's terrible. Ill mannered teens texting and making phonecalls. They walk around between the screens. They throw stuff, I got hit on the head with popcorn a few times. They were throwing it everywhere. They only stopped when they realised my friend was holding me back and saying "Don't. You'll go to prison. They're only kids."
There's no ushers and the place is filthy. It reeks of multiple layers of middle management with nobody accountable and nobody to be accountable to.
Otherwise, it's great:)

AckwelFoley

Madge wrote: »

OMG! Thats terrible. Was the perv sitting nearby? Did you walk out?!

Jeez..

I seen a girl give a guy head at the front of the cinema in Athlone once.

Lil Miss Raep

snyper wrote: »

Jeez..

I seen a girl give a guy head at the front of the cinema in Athlone once.

That's probably not true.

AckwelFoley

Lil Miss Raep wrote: »

That's probably not true.

Yes. It is true.


I was sitting there.

I seen the back of her head.