Right now I’m in my dressing gown at the tail-end of a ludicrously lazy day, thinking about getting dressed and out of the house to make it on time for the evening screening of The Dark Knight at The Imax Cinema in Millennium Point. I felt I had to book myself a ticket after all the Twitter posts about watching it on the huge screen. If you live and blog in Birmingham, it seems you simply must go and watch the latest Batman film at The Imax and tweeting about it is compulsory:
First off comes the moaning about The Imax’s crap website:
This makes booking tickets hard to do:
I can vouch for this. Booking my ticket online took several attempts and their ‘ticket hotline’ had no-one to answer it. But once tickets were booked excited anticipation followed:
High spirits have often been dampened by bloody great big queues at The Imax:
The screenings have been sold out, which caused nostalgia in some:
So I’d really better get dressed and get there early to avoid front-row seating and a sore neck:
45 minutes early, to be precise, which means I haven’t got that long:
Because the cinema really will be rammed:
Which has often meant that although people have enjoyed the film:
They haven’t always enjoyed the venue:
I really hope it’s worth the effort of getting dressed and Heath’s last stand is indeed, lush:
Watch my twitter account to see how I enjoyed it!
Nice round-up. I used Twitter to suss out how long I needed to queue. I arrived an hour before but 40 mins would have done it.
I did get nostalgic about cinema queues, we seemed to do that all the time once. As Jon Hickman pointed out to me It was actually May ’77 I saw Star Wars not ’76. My dad got us seats in the circle of the Gaumont in central Brum. The Gaumont is one of a series of cinemas (all now gone) I queued outside during the 70s to see blockbusters of the time. The Beaumont in Washwood Heath had a mock Tudor interior and a man at the door with a monkey wrench letting us in to see Jaws. The Capitol in Ward End had the biggest queue I ever joined for Grease and the earliest blockbuster experience I can recall was The Towering Inferno at ABC New Street.
By comparison the queue for TDK was a doddle. The film itself was impressive, huge but 30 mins too long.
Dave