The Rialto In Newmarket
Fancy Feeling Fancy?
Forgot to mention this yesterday, but the Rialto in Newmarket where we saw Broken Flowers has been recently redecorated and is very stylish and fancy-looking. Very comfortable seats both in the foyer and the theatre itself, and in addition to having little table things where you can put wine glasses should you be so inclined (as opposed to the cup holders you see elsewhere) there is *omfg!!!!1!!11!!* actually enough room for people to walk across in front of you to get to their seats without tripping over your legs. However, as with the movie itself, there is often more to read in the subtext than what is merely on the surface, and in this case the service at the counter was amateurish to say the least. Notable incidents were that we couldn't choose our seats despite the film having allocated seating (at least the randomised ones from the computer were good anyway), and that they wouldn't let Janko use his student card for discount if I was using a get-one-ticket-get-one-free voucher despite the fact that the attendant could have counted that voucher as having been used with Simon or Julia's ticket where the condition of "no additional special offers" would become redundant (with Janko purchasing "seperately"). Where oh where have the competent employees gone? David seems happy with his co-workers, so perhaps the Berkeley is a good bet, but then I guess you expect top-notch service at the "circle lounge" when you and the crowd around you are collectively funding the budget of the film you are watching.
But anyway, if you're watching a movie that doesn't have allocated seating and not using any kind of discount and the film you want to see isn't playing on the MEGASCREEN I recommend the Rialto on Newmarket as a great place to go to see a movie.
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Wasn't overly impressed by the arthouse previews at the Rialto, but before King Kong they aired the cool Munich trailer - can't wait to see it, yet no theatre chain has as yet listed it on their coming attractions and thus don't know when I will be able to - and the decent M:I:III teaser, the latter perhaps having done enough just on paper (Hoffman, Abrams) to restore my faith in the franchise. I should say though, there's this rubbish Mizone ad that plays before a lot of films in which a guy is running through a city the people around him are each saying the next word of Queen's "We Will Rock You." This ad is stupid and comes across as thinking it achieves something somehow without actually doing so. I hate this ad to the extent that I feel like hunting down its creators and poking them in the shoulder with a pointed stick. Or a piece of fruit.
Forgot to mention this yesterday, but the Rialto in Newmarket where we saw Broken Flowers has been recently redecorated and is very stylish and fancy-looking. Very comfortable seats both in the foyer and the theatre itself, and in addition to having little table things where you can put wine glasses should you be so inclined (as opposed to the cup holders you see elsewhere) there is *omfg!!!!1!!11!!* actually enough room for people to walk across in front of you to get to their seats without tripping over your legs. However, as with the movie itself, there is often more to read in the subtext than what is merely on the surface, and in this case the service at the counter was amateurish to say the least. Notable incidents were that we couldn't choose our seats despite the film having allocated seating (at least the randomised ones from the computer were good anyway), and that they wouldn't let Janko use his student card for discount if I was using a get-one-ticket-get-one-free voucher despite the fact that the attendant could have counted that voucher as having been used with Simon or Julia's ticket where the condition of "no additional special offers" would become redundant (with Janko purchasing "seperately"). Where oh where have the competent employees gone? David seems happy with his co-workers, so perhaps the Berkeley is a good bet, but then I guess you expect top-notch service at the "circle lounge" when you and the crowd around you are collectively funding the budget of the film you are watching.
But anyway, if you're watching a movie that doesn't have allocated seating and not using any kind of discount and the film you want to see isn't playing on the MEGASCREEN I recommend the Rialto on Newmarket as a great place to go to see a movie.
Ads and Trailers
Wasn't overly impressed by the arthouse previews at the Rialto, but before King Kong they aired the cool Munich trailer - can't wait to see it, yet no theatre chain has as yet listed it on their coming attractions and thus don't know when I will be able to - and the decent M:I:III teaser, the latter perhaps having done enough just on paper (Hoffman, Abrams) to restore my faith in the franchise. I should say though, there's this rubbish Mizone ad that plays before a lot of films in which a guy is running through a city the people around him are each saying the next word of Queen's "We Will Rock You." This ad is stupid and comes across as thinking it achieves something somehow without actually doing so. I hate this ad to the extent that I feel like hunting down its creators and poking them in the shoulder with a pointed stick. Or a piece of fruit.
posted by Steve @ 9:48 AM
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