[Film] Film 2024

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Odeon Brighton is shut down for a month due to some kind of emergency repairs. Not surprised judging by the state of the outside of the place.

Due to open again mid-November. No news on what they're doing about those on Limitless.

Just wondering if the Odeon is back open? Last time I went past the site (after seeing Jason Manford at the Brighton Centre) the entire complex that the Odeon is in looked pretty derelict and ripe for demolition. I used to go to the Odeon back in the 1970s (trudging up the external escalator that I don't remember EVER working) and 1980s (along with the ABC) but in the 1990s starting using the MGM (then Virgin, then UGC, then Cineworld) at the Marina, signing up for whatever the first unlimited card was. Think it was Virgin who introduced it. UGC took it over and IIRC was renamed Cineworld, and my card shows I've been a member of the subsequent scheme since December 1999.

Back on the subject of the Odeon, I always think it's quite anonymous and unless you know it is there, you'd miss it. Other cities, the cinemas seem more obvious and prominent? Having said that, at one point Vue were looking possibilities of taking over the Hippodrome site and that building REALLY doesn't get much in the way of passers by!

Have Odeon done anything for unlimited cardholders locally? Suspect not...

 

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Just wondering if the Odeon is back open? Last time I went past the site (after seeing Jason Manford at the Brighton Centre) the entire complex that the Odeon is in looked pretty derelict and ripe for demolition. I used to go to the Odeon back in the 1970s (trudging up the external escalator that I don't remember EVER working) and 1980s (along with the ABC) but in the 1990s starting using the MGM (then Virgin, then UGC, then Cineworld) at the Marina, signing up for whatever the first unlimited card was. Think it was Virgin who introduced it. UGC took it over and IIRC was renamed Cineworld, and my card shows I've been a member of the subsequent scheme since December 1999.

Back on the subject of the Odeon, I always think it's quite anonymous and unless you know it is there, you'd miss it. Other cities, the cinemas seem more obvious and prominent? Having said that, at one point Vue were looking possibilities of taking over the Hippodrome site and that building REALLY doesn't get much in the way of passers by!

Have Odeon done anything for unlimited cardholders locally? Suspect not...

Last time I walked past they don't seem to even have started any work? (Originally said closed for a month). It wouldn't surprise me if the complex closed down.

Annoying as I still have some free Odeon tickets given to me by family, Lloyds bank freebies.

 

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Last time I walked past they don't seem to even have started any work? (Originally said closed for a month). It wouldn't surprise me if the complex closed down.

Annoying as I still have some free Odeon tickets given to me by family, Lloyds bank freebies.

Just been doing a bit of digging - the external walls are at risk of collapse, particularly with any "wind pressure", so that's why it is closed. Quite major then! Or in finest NSC tradition, a five minute job.

Anyway, off to the Marina today for Gladiator II. Expecting a visual spectacle, and as I spent a week in Rome in July, will be fun to see key buildings as the film makers imagined they looked at the time. Not expecting loads from the story though!

 

[Weststander]

Wicked - took my daughter to watch this at Cineworld. It’s great, enjoyed it more than the show, an incredible performance from Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande was excellent too.

Part II is out next November!

 

[Weststander]

Just wondering if the Odeon is back open? Last time I went past the site (after seeing Jason Manford at the Brighton Centre) the entire complex that the Odeon is in looked pretty derelict and ripe for demolition. I used to go to the Odeon back in the 1970s (trudging up the external escalator that I don't remember EVER working) and 1980s (along with the ABC) but in the 1990s starting using the MGM (then Virgin, then UGC, then Cineworld) at the Marina, signing up for whatever the first unlimited card was. Think it was Virgin who introduced it. UGC took it over and IIRC was renamed Cineworld, and my card shows I've been a member of the subsequent scheme since December 1999.

Back on the subject of the Odeon, I always think it's quite anonymous and unless you know it is there, you'd miss it. Other cities, the cinemas seem more obvious and prominent? Having said that, at one point Vue were looking possibilities of taking over the Hippodrome site and that building REALLY doesn't get much in the way of passers by!

Have Odeon done anything for unlimited cardholders locally? Suspect not...

It’s still closed.

 

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Saw Gladiator II this afternoon. Sound for this at the Marina was unusually poor - shrill/almost painfully loud in action sequences, and in stereo, I think. A member of staff did come in and walked around presumably to assess, but no discernible difference.

In brief, fairly decent action, quite a lot of blood in places, some rather, erm... fanciful foes in the Colosseum, and didn't think Paul Mescal had sufficient charisma for the role. Denzel was decent but didn't look like the role particularly stretched him.

3/5 I guess...