#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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#88

Love that spoons, a mate lives/ed on that very street in that photo

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#89

Occasionally went to ‘the loft’ metal night

#90

Oh yeah, went to the loft loads as well as the student night. It was a fairly standard indie night when I went though rather than a metal night. The metal was played in the smaller room upstairs.

A group of regulars had worked out a dance routine to Beaver Patrol by PWEI and would get on stage to do it whenever it was played. Always found that odd, why that song?

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#91

Ah, just watched the beaver patrol video and I see there’s a kind of dance routine that looks like what I remember. Apologies to @thewarn for my lack of PWEI knowledge.

#92

Yeah - that’s the one on the London Road in Westcliff. I think it might have been called the Classic before it became the Cannon.

#93

ive got a feeling it was She’s All That at the Warner Village in Pilsworth for my friend’s birthday. i well fancied her and was pretty annoyed when my dad came to pick me up as soon as the film finished so i couldnt dick about on the arcades afterwards with everyone else

pretty sure its not there anymore but theres a new cinema in bury which is way more accessible