Sick of hearing people moaning about the picturehouse cinema

[Louisa]

This thread is designed for people who don't mind paying a small fortune to watch a film (including snacks). Not everyone wants to underpay for something when they can pay over the odds and brag about it to their mates. Now can we please stop with the negativity towards the overpriced facilities that gentrification provides for working class neighbourhoods. Now who wants some popcorn? Anyone?

Louisa.

[FriendsOfTheTerrapin]

The whining is palpable...

[Alan Medic]

I think you need to define 'over the odds'. One person's over the odds is another person's reasonable. It must have been a slow news day for you to start this thread.

[Louisa]

Come on Alan, no more moaning please. This is a positive thread about our beloved cinema! Now pass me the jelly babies I'm loving this Spanish subtitled documentary. It's what cinema was made for.

Louisa.

[DulwichFox]

I haven't been to the Cinema for 40 years but I really need to find out for myself what all the fuss is about.

I've been saving up and I'm going to spoil myself. No expense spared.

I'm heading straight for the 1s/9d's

Foxy.

[Earl Aelfheah]

If you don't like the Picturehouse, or consider unreasonably priced, maybe go somewhere else?

[Louisa]

I don't particularly like the cinema myself. But I usually go down to Beckenham odeon if I do see something I fancy watching on the big screen, nice change of scenery, pop into Nandos for some peri peri chicken beforehand. I do believe cinemas are missing a trick by not offering more variety and competitive pricing but I'm not that fussed about it either way. When I was a kid Peckham had 5 cinemas and ED had an Odeon. Now that's what I call choice!

Louisa.

[adonirum]

Remember the Odeon on Grove Vale, Louisa, ( as you know, now flats like most of E.D.'s "heritage" ), but 5 cinemas in Peckham ?

[Louisa]

Right we had the gaumont on Peckham high street/queens road. The tower cinema on rye lane. The odeon? Where the job centre is near Burger King in Peckham. Let me keep thinking there's definitely two I'm missing out here.

Louisa.

[adonirum]

Check. Check. Check (definitely Odeon).

While we're on the subject, what was the Wetherspoons in Forest Hill? Odeon or ABC ?

[Earl Aelfheah]

Louisa Wrote:

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> I do believe cinemas are

> missing a trick by not offering more variety and

> competitive pricing but I'm not that fussed about

> it either way.

But fussed enough to start yet another disparaging thread.

[*Bob*]

I'm sick of people moaning about being sick of hearing people moaning about the picturehouse cinema.

[DulwichFox]

The Astoria and the Regal Old Kent Road

Foxy

[Jah Lush]

I think you'll find the East Dulwich Odeon has closed Dulwich Fox.

http://i1369.photobucket.com/albums/ag237/jahlushhead/cinema-odeon-eastdulwich11_zpscjjukk3u.jpg

[Louisa]

Since when was this thread disparaging? The aim was create a positive space for people who are sick of all the other negative threads on the forum about this cinema chain.

I'm sick of hearing people moaning about people who make countering threads against those in other threads moaning about gentrified cinema chains. Give it a rest! Rah how about you start a thread about people like me making threads about people moaning about our new cinema? Have we come full circle yet? Happy Saturday everyone!

Louisa.

[DulwichFox]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> I think you'll find the East Dulwich Odeon has

> closed Dulwich Fox.

>

> http://i1369.photobucket.com/albums/ag237/jahlushh

> ead/cinema-odeon-eastdulwich11_zpscjjukk3u.jpg

Yes ? I know ! Why bring my name into it ?

Foxy

[Jah Lush]

Coz you haven't been for 40 years!

[????]

fooking hell it's so tedious now it's beyond that shark jumping thing. Relentless stuck record of unpleasantness, and to think I used to be a fan.

[DulwichFox]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Coz you haven't been for 40 years!

No wrong again.. I have not been to the Dulwich Odeon for 52 years.

Foxy

[Jah Lush]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> I haven't been to the Cinema for 40 years but I

> really need to find out for myself what all the

> fuss is about.

Your words, not mine.

[DulwichFox]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I haven't been to the Cinema for 40 years but I

> > really need to find out for myself what all the

> > fuss is about.

>

> Your words, not mine.

Again selective reading.. it was obviously a joke .

You missed the Punch Line.

1s/9d ??

Perhaps you are too young.

Foxy

[Louisa]

???? Wrote:

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> fooking hell it's so tedious now it's beyond that

> shark jumping thing. Relentless stuck record of

> unpleasantness, and to think I used to be a fan.

But oddly quids you don't respond to the other 50 odd threads covering the same topic of the picturehouse, going over the same old ground in sections of the forum they shouldn't even be in (which I am actually mocking in this here thread)

But as I said in the honey thread, why let that get in the way of anything?

Quick it's flying over your head, turn before it disappears... Quick! ... Damn you missed it. Looks like the sense of humour spacecraft was missed. Better luck next time!

Louisa.

[DulwichFox]

adonirum Wrote:

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> Check. Check. Check (definitely Odeon).

>

> While we're on the subject, what was the

> Wetherspoons in Forest Hill? Odeon or ABC ?

Neither . It was The Capitol.

http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/static/gallery/1025-pub-page.jpg

Foxy

[Otta]

History of the Capitol cinema here.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/2428

"the Capitol Cinema was built in 1928-9 for London & Southern Cinemas and designed by noted cinema architect and garden designer John Stanley Beard.

It opened on 11th February 1929 with John Gilbert in ?Man Woman and Sin?. As the cinema was designed for silent movies, sound equipment had to be installed soon after opening. It originally had a Compton 2Manual/8Ranks theatre organ which was opened by Edgar Peto. There was also a cafe for the convenience of patrons. The stage was 22 feet deep and with three dressing rooms it allowed for variety shows to be staged.

It was taken over by Associated British Cinemas(ABC) from July 1933 and they operated it for the remainder of its cinematic life."

[edhistory]

You can make your own model:

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