A couple of years ago I brought a chinese friend of mine to film at Savoy Cinema in Dublin. The reason why we went there was because I hate queueing at the nearby 17-screen multiplex, there’s always huge queues there but at the Savoy with its mere six screens, there were are hardly ever any queues (which may have you wonder if the Savoy is making any money but let’s not worry about such things, not queueing is good!).
Like all stately dames, the Savoy has her quirks. After the ads and the trailers, the curtains close and the lights come on, giving you that extra chance to go out and by popcorn or icecream to replace what you ate during the trailers. When this happened my Chinese friend (who had been in Dublin for years but at the Savoy for the first time) got a bit confused and asked me what was going on (this doesn’t happen in the multiplex). I explained about how may years ago movies were on film and the cinema only had one trailers reel which was shared between all the screens
After Saturday’s failed attempt to find something light and frothy, I decided to try again and try “The Proposal”. I still needed something light and while it was risky going for something with Sandra Bullock in it, I was hoping that maybe Ryan Reynolds would save it and he did. It’s kinda cross between “Green Card” and “The Family Stone” and is even funny at times, just what the doctor ordered with one tiny problem…
Remember when you were really young, back when films were actual film and strange things used to happen like right in the middle of the most important parts of an exciting action movie the film would just stop and we’d be treated with “The Intermission”?
Well, come to the Netherlands and you too can relive those glory days of “Intermission”s, with films cut arbitrarily in half and having to wait 15-20 minutes to find out what happens next…
The worst bit is that when you’re in the middle of a dreadful film, there’s nothing to stop you walking out at the intermission and reclaiming some of that wasted time, wait, that’s not quite as much of a disadvantage as I first thought….