Bikepete and I went to the recently opened Reel Cinema in York yesterday to watch the new Harry Potter film, 8PM showing. First time we'd been back since it closed a few years ago (as an Odeon). We got there nice and early at around 7:20...
It turned out to be a FOUR HOUR epic involving one chap trying to seat 600+ people single-handed (with no seat numbers!), finding out it was overbooked and putting out chairs in the aisles (!), followed swiftly by removing the chairs from the aisles after someone with a grasp of fire regs etc had a word... slow handclaps from the audience as the film had not started an hour and a half after its due time!
To add insult to injury the gent's toilets were out of order...
Eventually it started and after a few focus blips went on to half-way when the curtains suddenly closed and the chap said there was going to be just a one minute intermission. When it came back on, the interval music was still playing over the film soundtrack...
Finally got out about 11:30!
It turned out to be a FOUR HOUR epic involving one chap trying to seat 600+ people single-handed (with no seat numbers!), finding out it was overbooked and putting out chairs in the aisles (!), followed swiftly by removing the chairs from the aisles after someone with a grasp of fire regs etc had a word... slow handclaps from the audience as the film had not started an hour and a half after its due time!
To add insult to injury the gent's toilets were out of order...
Eventually it started and after a few focus blips went on to half-way when the curtains suddenly closed and the chap said there was going to be just a one minute intermission. When it came back on, the interval music was still playing over the film soundtrack...
Finally got out about 11:30!