When I go to the cinema I generally try and book tickets online before I go, that way I’m guaranteed the seats to the movie I wish to see. When we go to an Odeon, I use their website, which works even though it’s a little clunky.
Normally however, we go to the show case cinema at Bluewater as they have loads of screens and show films very late, which works for us night time people. The only problem is that they use movietickets.com as their chosen form of accepting online payment for tickets.

Every encounter I have with that website is a bad one.

• It constantly asks me to login even when I logged in on the page before
• It rejects my card details even though they’re identical to that on my card!
• They use the Natwest card validation procedure which requires me to type in an online banking password for my Natwest card. Even when I type that in to prove to Natwest it is me using my card, it still rejects my card
• When I go back to try again (because my card has been rejected) the seats I originally selected are now taken because there’s someone “still trying to book them”. That person would be me but you rejected my card!

This happens every time I encounter that website. I emailed their support department twice, but heard nothing back. I’m loathed to use that website because of the bad experience I get every time. And don’t get me started about the service charge for “ticket handling”!

I went to see Cloverfield last night and actually quite enjoyed the film. The film itself is very short when compared to traditional films, running at roughly an hour and thirty minutes including the adverts shown before!

The film is not too dissimilar from the shooting style of the Blair Witch Project, but much better. One audience member on the other side of the cinema got a little nauseous and threw up but asides from that I think it was well received.
One thing I did notice was when the film when deadly silent the entire cinema was also silent. Not even a rustle of sweet wrappers or popcorn could be heard. Very unusual!

Definitely a film to see at the cinema as you get much better sound and lets face it, sound makes a huge difference on a film like this.

Now this looks like a great idea. Instead of showing adverts before a movie in the cinema, hook up a motion sensor and let the entire audience play a giant game of NewsBreaker! I’d sure like to give that a try.