#68

Read that as “sensual discount centre”.

#69

Biggles at Saturday Morning Cinema at The Cannon in Southend for my mate Tim’s birthday

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It’s a Halfords now, where I had a job for a few years. “I remember this place when it was all fields”

Shite film

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#70

Not completely sure but the one that insantly springs to mind is going to see Masters of the Universe with my mate on a Saturday afternoon.

We were the only people in the cinema about twenty minutes before the film started so he managed to persuade the ticket woman to turn off the crappy music and put on his freshly purchased cassette copy of Introducing the Hardline According to… Terence Trent D’Arby.

It was in this place which did shut down completely for a few years in the 90s but has since been saved and, after a few missteps, is currently a theatre, cafe and small cinema again.

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#71

Easy terms arranged.

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#72

I’m going to guess it was Bruce Almighty, for my 11th birthday (so one year before I should have been able to see it!!!)

It was in the big boring multiplex cinema that had just opened, but there was a small pokey one that I went to when I was a child in the middle of the town. I can’t even find any pictures of it online, but it was run by two old women and had two screens, and I’m pretty sure one of the screens had the chairs sloping up towards the screen, which made no sense

#73

Probably the Street Fighter movie with mates in Newry Savoy cinema.

Long since demolished and a bar/restaurant stands in it’s place.
Ah didn’t mean to reply here. Apologies

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#74

Possibly bill and teds bogus journey. Guildford old odeon’s screen one was as big as the sky

Now it is a foxtons

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#75

It was Up 'n Under (featuring Samantha Janus in the shower)

It was a 12 and we were only 10/11, so felt very daring/like I was about to be discovered and kicked out at any moment.

It was at Chelmsford Odeon, but back when the entrance was tiny and caused massive bottleneck issues. They since built a new entrance further round and simply bricked up the old one, making it look pretty weird:

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#76

Breathless, QFT, was 13

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#77

Guildford had another cinema that became a nightclub then derelict, currently a pile of rubble with a pop up market

#78

obviously not when it originally came out

#79

Looks like a future Sun Kil Moon LP cover.

#80

No fucking clue why but a group of us went to see Pearl Harbour
THREE HOURS AND FOUR MINUTES. I was 12 ffs.

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#81

genuinely think it was 2 Fast 2 Furious

#82

dunno

#83

If we’re discussing re-purposed cinemas there’s the old Coronet on Holloway Road. Originally an ABC called the Savoy, opened in 1940

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Then it later became a Coronet in the 70s

and closed in 1983. I recall it being a terrible, cold cinema and the Odeon up the road was always preferable so no wonder it closed. Afterwards it became a urine-soaked snooker hall:

before Wetherspoons finally bought it and put it out of Holloway’s misery. It’s really nice on the inside now.

(Did once have an old guy ask me where the ABC cinema was in the 2000s but we quickly established he was just after the Odeon.)

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#84

Was confused for a while because I remember the cannon in Southend being on Alexandra Street but that’s the westcliff one isn’t it?

#85

I saw this when I was eight with my mate Bob. His Mam and my Mam were best friends and I assume they let us go together without a parent as we were big fans of Batman. Spent most of the screening running up and down the aisles.

It’s the building on the right in this picture. Every single other unit in the development it is in is now empty. If you wanted you could have bought basically the entire town centre of Clonmel for €950,000 a few years ago.

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#86

Went to Bojanglez so many times. Saw Take That in there once. They were filming the back for good video nearby. Gary Barlow’s body guard blocked off the blokes toilet so he could take a slash in peace.

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#87

Think it was Dr Doolittle. We went to see X-Files but they wouldn’t let me in because it was a 15 :angry:
They built the cinema on a flood plain so the car park flooded all the time

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