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sometimes people really piss me off…. so then I watch a movie

• 31 July 2009

So everyone keeps going on about how Pirating and Downloading is bad and if you do it, the Government will track you down and lock you up and eat you for breakfast! Well, maybe they will. But I’ll take my chances till then.

The reason being that I don’t feel cinemas are doing their bit against the whole download issue. Ok, so they put the Piracy warning at the beginning of the film, but that’s just meant to scare people into going to the cinema, out of fear of being caught watching a film at home. What cinemas should be doing is lowering their prices! I know I live in Central London but still, £9.80 to watch a film I might not even enjoy? Cinemas argue that they need to charge more because less people are coming to the cinema, because they’re downloading films and watching them at home. But, they could turn this around. If every cinema ticket was £5, no matter what time you went to watch the film, people wouldn’t bother to download films. They would be able to go to any film they fancied the look of, whether blockbusters, independent, foreign or indie films!

Furthermore, cinemas are claiming you’re paying £9.80 for the ‘cinema experience’, the ‘unique’ sound system and the ‘extra-comfy’ seats. The problem is that my cinema experience has been ruined several times by un-comfy seats, bad acoustics and noisy chavs chatting throughout the film! For example, Odeon charges extra money if you sit in their ‘Premium’ seats. These are meant to have the best view and acoustics of the whole cinema. But, I once sat in some which were slightly to the side of the screen and couldn’t hear half of the film. I don’t ever ‘upgrade to Premium’ anymore. And neither should you!

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