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[rufus13th]

I always hated the Premier Screen, introuced back in the days of Virgin Cinema. The seats were never as comfortable as they made out (certainly no more than a regular seat). Ok so if you were a fat ass, then you had a little more room. £10 for a ticket was a joke, although it did include snacks and table service. However, I don't like to eat or talk during a movie so that was a waste of money. The only positive thing I could say (and it's not a big deal) is that the extra leg room was kinda nice.

From a business point of view though, UGC and Cineworld suffered from Virgin's mistake, after they inherited the building. With something like 20 seats in the hall (exaggeration I know), capacity was significantly smaller than the other eight screens.

But I've noticed that Cineworld were renovating the premier screen - I saw all the old chairs being thrown out. I was chuffed until I watched Black Dahlia in the premier screen. I expected them to completely reshape the floor in order to accommodate as many seats as possible. Well all they've done is remove the tables and replaced the old seats with new more comfortable ones that recline back (they squeak at the slightest movement though).

Whilst the new seats are decent, I would've converted the premier screen to a normal one. Surely the purpose of a cinema manager is to get as many bums on seats as possible?

Oh and I was disappointed with Black Dahlia.

[KarmaTsunami]

There are more seats in the premier screen. Also a lot more leg room.

Converting the entire screen would have taken AGES - losing business during a busy(ish) period. That's probably why. Either that or Cineworld are just continuing to be cheap.

Haven't been to that cinema for ages, Vue is the best IMO. The wife won't set fut in the place after she found some sort of beastie in her nachos, eee-ww.

In fact being a cheapskate the only time I was ever in the screen that you are talking about was to see Mystic River, but it was just being used as a normal screen at that point.

[Diesel]

Cineworld is pish - that's where all the cleaners & van drivers take their noisy, rude, shell-suited brats for dinner (have you SEEN the amount of food these cunts eat during a movie?).

The Belmont is a bit more laid back, though the bar tends to be full of Frasers & Amelias talking pretentious pish.

Vue is a good compromise. but you need chemotherapy after negotiating the filthy miasma that the disgusting smoking cunts leave floating around the entrance.

DZL

[shaun]

Originally Posted by dieselfeet

The Belmont is a bit more laid back, though the bar tends to be full of Frasers & Amelias talking pretentious pish.

DZL

you shouldn't be eavesdropping then.

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by shaun

you shouldn't be eavesdropping then.

eavesdropping ma hole - ye canny help hearing - they're so LOUD

[Lester Burnham]

VUE is the worst imho. It happens to have a better location though. The seats are fucking filthy and most are coated in melted chocolate (which looks a bit like shite in the light) the quality of cleaning is dire and the toilets are next to always flooded.

Mind you... the last time I was at Cineworld there was a nice sewage problem and the whole toilet area stank of ripe baby shit and piss.

[Snowball]

The reason that they couldn't completely reshape the floor is that the frame in that screen is shaped out of concrete whereas the rest are shaped out of wood, so it was physically impossible to change the amount of rows etc. Apparently.

Cineworld is falling to bits, but that's what you get when you inhabit a building in a shitty leisure park that was built in the 90's on what is essentially a beach.

[KarmaTsunami]

oh well then, clearly you are more in on the loop than myself. Being a lowly scoop-wielding monkey :p

if my interview tomorrow goes well i could be free of the place soon! oh i can't help but smile at the thought.

[rufus13th]

The only reason I go to the Aberdeen Cineworld is because I have a monthly pass, which works out to be great value.

However due to the limited number of screens, we only get garbage mainstream titles.

The Glasgow Cineworld, on the other hand, is 100% sex. Arthouse and contemporary films all the time (as well as mainstream pish).