its about time they did that

I am the Master of Disaster!!!!!!!!

imho it's a dreadful idea, I like my traditional celluloid, I think cinemas are too modern anyway. I like the one in Littlehampton, that's a proper old fashioned cinema with a circle and everything, it even has usherettes and a Kia-Ora/Lyons Maid intermission.

new fangled ideas, pah, cinema was at its height in the 1940s and 1950s. it's all been downhill since

every day is like Sunday, every day is silent and grey..

You reackon that they will put in the little "glitches" and "flashes" on screen that typify seeing a film on a projector which actually uses, well, film?

lol. chips...maybe they'll occasionally drop a spool or two as well and create that lovely "rolling" effect.

taw - I had a feeling you might object I too prefer the old style cinemas...I mean when I was a kid, the old ABC in wigan used to let smokers use the upper circle, there was an interval in anything over 1 and a half hours long, and I used to look forward to the usherettes bringing out the tubs of ice cream with the little wooden spoons. However as much as I'd love them to bring that format back, its looking highly unlikely, so the least I can look forward to when I pay £6+ a ticket is a decent film, played at decent quality, preferably in the right order Bringing in digital will allow for full-scale re-releases of all the classic movies, it will allow us to see foreign movies that we normally have to go to "arthouses" for (aren't you sick of sitting on wooden school chairs??!) and we should get general releases of all uk and low budget movies, that mostly before never made it out of leicester square.

Now if they can do all of that AND give us back our smoking circles, intervals and usherettes I'll be a very happy man

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cinema was at its height in the 1940s and 1950s. it's all been downhill since

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And you wonder why people think you're older than you are, Taw?

Considering that he is still young.

actually we have a very nice arthouse cinema at Stoke Poly which has comfy chairs and everyone stays seated so you can read the credits (how very civilised, I hate having my credits viewing disturbed)

btw I saw Kelly's Heroes at the ABC in Wigan

Edited by - Tawakalna on 5/17/2004 12:52:47 PM

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cinema was at its height in the 1940s and 1950s. it's all been downhill since

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You and Cinema finally have something in common then.

I think its great. My new local cinema is fooking marvelous, i'd love it to be digital, woudlnt loose anything of the close knit, almost family run, feel of the place, or stop selling tea and cakes when you go in. honestly, you so petrified of change.


"I've seen things you people wouldnt believe.
Attacked ships on fire off the shoulder of orion. Ive seen C-Beams glitter in the darkness at tannhauser gate.
All those moments, will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
Time, to die."

Not really understanding why digital cinema would make a cinema not a cinema anymore.

Is it because the new genre that would be shown would draw the wrong crowd or something? Really am curious.... explanation would be appreciated.

I am NOT "petrified" of change, i just don't like it. I don't like modern cinema complexes at all, not one jot. I avoid going whenever i can and i desp miss our local Roxy and ABC. As you also might imagine I don't like shopping malls, supermarkets and out-of-town shopping centres either, I like proper shops and indoor/outdoor markets. Left to me time would be turned back, oh and you would be doing National Service (somewhere unpleasant like Aden) and you'd have a haircut, stop slouching, and you'd take that dam' hat off.

c'mon i've given you so much material there it's like bloody Christmas!


every day is like Sunday, every day is silent and grey..

Morrisson's excepted of course.... you mean don't you?

And how else are you to get all those hated American candies you like so much?

well Morrison's goes without saying really

as to the other matter, well that's your dept, my Manhattan-based confectionery supplier! a gross of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups pls, you can get a discount for bulk buy at the Hersheys store down on Broadway (1593)

in answer to your original question; draw an analogy between cd's and vinyl, digital stills and chemical film, except enlarge it to auditorium proportions. For all that digital cinemas may offer, I suspect that all they will become is more cgi-blockbuster fests showing more mass-produced brain dead pap, despite what the article claims. I'd be interested to see how it goes down in countries with strong national film industries that resist Hollywood encroachment.

And how do you think Kurosawa would have viewed digital cinema? I think he would have been appalled. Projected celluloid has a purity and integrity lacking in all this modern digital rubbish (and it's all just a bloody gimmick anyway to get the masses into the Multiplexes)

every day is like Sunday, every day is silent and grey..


Edited by - Tawakalna on 5/17/2004 3:54:33 PM

Send them over here if you whinging gits don't want them. I've had a gutfull of blurred edges and the crap prints that get sent over to us.

I think that's more due to the alcohol you've consumed before you go into the pictures..

every day is like Sunday, every day is silent and grey..