Lights on in Odeon Cinema

The spotlights would annoy me alright, their excuse for them doesn't make sense to me. I've had similar problems with the exit lights in The Square but they're a legal requirement. No point in having an emergency exit sign if no one can see it in the dark.

can’t comment on most of this, emergency exit lights over exit doors are a requirement. As for emergency lighting in the room that only needs to come on in the event of power outage. In most places of business there would be minimum lux levels not sure how that would be worked out for a movie theatre but there must be guidelines somewhere for it.

The emergency light above the exit door is fair enough but in some cinema screens it seems to be 1000 watt

Should hace requested your money back. Never had the problem you describe. I did notice the last time I was in the point though that the screen was a lot darker and harder to see compared to the Vue screens.

I doubt it's even done manually anymore - most modern cinemas are completely automated, the projectors all power up and down automatically, the films start and stop automatically, and all the lighting and controls are triggered by the playout server. You might get someone up into the projection booth maybe once a week to load content deliveries but that's it. The days of projectionists loading the film reels for each show, starting them off, checking the focus and framing are well gone.

I stopped going to Vue because their technical standards were awful when they went digital, they'd show 2D films with the 3D lens still attached which dims the picture fairly significantly. At one stage one of their screens surround sound channels were mapped incorrectly for weeks, the dialog would all come from the left rear speakers rather than from the centre of the screen. I don't think they even bother masking the screens correctly anymore when switching between wide and ultrawide formats.

wow haven’t been to cinema in a long time but those bright lights (not the emergency ones) would put me off big time

I remember going to see Dune (first one) in the Odeon at the Point and they left the lights on. My brother immediately went out to complain and they gave him the health and safety nonsense reason. Dune is very dark in places and leaving the lights on ruined it as a theatre experience. I haven't gone back there since but have been told they are still doing the same thing. It's absolutely unacceptable. If they are leaving the lights on because there's a lack of floor or hallway lighting, that's their problem that they need to resolve. The solution should never be to leave all the lights on in the cinema. People should avoid the cinema at the Point at all costs or at the very least send them waves of complaints so they realise how poor a service that is......

The exit sign issue is annoying, but I'm sure there are ways for them to mitigate the reflection on the screen, if they were at all bothered......

Odeon Coolock is my go to, and the emergency lights are annoying but the cinema is largely still the classic structure as the UCI before it, so I can forgive it.

Those lights though around the screen are not in coolock however, that is quite odd placement. Was it possibly a special screening you went to that add to cater to certain needs.

just this screen? they should have cancelled the showing