Cheap at one-third the price
A while back, it dawned on Lailah and I that nobody checks your tickets at the screen doors in cinemas, so technically, once you'd bought a ticket, you could just stay in the cinema all day and see every good film going. Now, to most people, I suppose this would have remained a hypothetical scenario, but we were actually sad enough to plan an all-day Movie Marathon.
We couldn't make it the mammoth event we'd envisaged, because Lailah had other stuff to do (it's reassuring to know that at least one of us has a life), but we did turn up at the cinema armed with pizza, pasta, Pringles and other alliterative foods at 12.30pm today, and we did stay till 7pm. We managed to get in three films (Ocean's Twelve, The Magic Roundabout and The Sea Inside), without attracting so much as a suspicious glance, which I think is fairly good going. To be honest, it was probably a good thing we only had time for three, because we may have developed deep-vein thrombosis if we'd stayed there any longer. Still, three films for £3 can't be bad. You should try it some time.
Hopefully, we'll be doing another one at Easter (on an Orange Wednesday, just to really take the piss) - so if anyone feels like joining us for one or more films throughout the day, feel free to get in touch.
posted by Christine @ 4:35 am
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In my experience, cinemas don't like you taking your own food - any cinema into which you can successfully carry pizza and Pringles clearly isn't providing enough of a challenge. And be glad you didn't see The Aviator - you really would have got DVT (though I suppose it would at least have been appropriate.)
Well, obviously we weren't waving food around, we were carrying it in shoulder bags along with our other stuff. Unless the cinemas round your area search people's stuff for illicit food... in which case, I really do pity you.
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