Senior Cinema showings

I understand you get a biscuit, cup of tea and chance of a chat for about £3/4.
Just try it Mick, preferable to watching it on a small screen and with other people.

Very poor English there. I did of course mean it is better to watch with other people.

I would go. I've never heard of it where I live.

I went last week

It was awesome !!

I have never seen so many senior citizens in one place. Our Empire cinema run it. They publish a programme 8 weeks in advance and its an eclectic mix of new movies and classics for £3 per person including a cuppa and a chocolate biscuit.

The entire screening room was full( 500 people) - I've rarely seen that in the usual screens at £9.95 a ticket!!

The screen we were in had the latest sound system and the comfy swivelly chairs with plenty of legroom.

I can really recommend it !

We have this at our local Vue Cinema. It's excellent! Coffee and biscuits and good films.

We've been to our Senior Screening at the Vue today. I love it - it feels quite decadent sitting at the pictures in the middle of the day. We mind our DGS2 on Mondays and Wednesdays, so it fits in well for us, and at £3.29 each it's probably about the cost of the coffee and biscuits. We didn't go to the pictures much before we retired, but are seeing all sorts now. And I often find the films I didn't really fancy are the ones I really enjoy.

The Odeon near us does it for £3. I have been a few times with a friend.

My sister and NVD brother in law regularly go to Newcastle, but nothing like it where I am

I've been twice recently. Once to see Room and the other The Martian. Going tomorrow to see Carol. £3. It's a bargain.

Our local Odeon does it, too. My friend and I have been a few times and it's really busy! Last week it was Bridge of Spies that we saw. What's so good, is that the showings are at 11am or 2pm on a Wednesday and Thursday - and it's only £3 for tea and biscuits!

The Vue cinema nearest to me is at Bicester , and its surprising on a Tuesday you see few seniors or Goldie shopping or other
Mick

I've not heard of this. It sounded good so I looked at the Vue cinema nearest to me. The senior screening is on at 12.30 on a Wednesday. This is a most inconvenient time for me and the DH, so we will not be able to go. It's a pity, because the films coming up are really good. We don't have an Odeon near us, so I can't try them.

I enjoy it, cheap, safe, friendly. At one point apparently people were bringing Tupperware boxes to fill with biscuits, there was a threat to stop supplying them!

Oh, how greedy, Elrel The biscuits are just wee plain ones, too! It's a wonder they're not standing there holding out their Thermoses and asking for them to be filled with tea!

I have just checked the screening for next Tuesday at 1100 at Bicester, it is £3. 80p to get in ,although I did see the film under normal price, I enjoy Steven Spielberg films and Bridge of Spies is showing this is a week prior to DVD release.
Mick

Oh, our Vue cookies are the real McCoy. Choc chip, crystallized ginger or choc and orange, two big ones in a pack. And the coffees are massive. I haven't noticed anyone slipping extra cookies into their bags, but I'll be looking out for it now

We get chocolate biscuits too Maggie but I did notice the man sat next to us tucked into his cheese and cucumber sandwiches during the movie ;-)

I'm definitely going to check on my local area. Thanks.

We rarely go to the cinema, DH doesn't like going out, and the sound is painfully loud for me. But our local does cheap senior seats on an afternoon, it is usually full, judging by the queues outside. They used to stop at 1/2 time for tea and cake, but I think they go through the whole film now. It is usually the film which is being show at the time - but we are a very small town!

Going to see Lady in a Van today at 1.30. £3.50 but we're going on a 2-4-1 deal as well. Can't say fairer than that

Our cinema charges £2.50 weekdays and £3.50 Saturday. That's for everybody not just S.C.

I go every week, sometimes with a friend, sometimes on my own but have always felt comfortable, everybody is friendly. I've someitmes sighed when I have seen the film choice for that week and gone to see it anyway as I look forward to my cinema day and found lots of films I really loved which I would never have chosen by the title or preview, so it widens my perspective on life, all for £3 including biscuit and tea. The only down side I found is when asked to go to the cinema at other times at full price I shout....HOW much???

A while ago my DS went with a friend to a silver showing of a film she'd missed-asked how it went and she said "never again!"?
She said it was full and they all had tea and biscuits except. . . . That meant there were regular trips to the loo and, on returning to their seats, they'd stop and have a chat as they passed-"how's your Bill?" And "how's your Mam?"
She said it was worse than a school outing. Lol.

I used to get 2 for 1 tickets on Orange Wednesday's so DH and I once went to see a James Bond release. We realised why we didn't go to the cinema any more.
There was an obese young woman at the end of our row who never stopped noisily stuffing her face with food-was fearful they'd need the fire service to get her out at the end.
Then a row of students came in front of us, all talking all the time.
And who DID make that awful smell?