Went to see the Sherlock Holmes movie in Plymouth on Friday. After coughing up £10 each for tickets, we were stuffed into a tiny screen, subjected to 20 minutes of adverts, 10 minutes of anti-piracy warnings, and then they left the lights on full brightness during the fillum.
To the morons who run Vue:
1. If you charge £10 for a ticket, show the damn movie on a screen bigger than a tea towel.
2. Don't charge a £1.50 card handling fee when I use a debit card.
3. I don't mind watching the ads if they subsidise the cost of showing the film, but you're clearly just raking it in 'cos you can.
4. Showing anti-piracy ads to someone who's paid to be there is deeply insulting. I loathe today's culture of guilty until proved innocent, and would point out that if I had pirated the movie, I'd be at least £30 better off and could have started watching it 25 minutes earlier.
5. The lights were on full intensity and seared my eyeballs for the whole two hours. You could easily read under them. I initially assumed that they'd forgotten to turn them off and nipped out at the start of the movie to tell someone, only to be informed it was for security to stop people copying the film. I refer you to point 4.
Is it me?
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