What's the best Cinema you've been to?

The Apollo on Paignton seafront is pretty good. It has a good few screens but rather than pack hundreRAB into each screen they are a bit smaller. Theres leg room (im pretty tall) and the staff are pretty good about screaming kiRAB and people messing around. Its also very clean and tidy and plesant to look out both internally and externally. Only problem is drinks, popcorn etc is very expensive.

The Odeon in Exeter is good if you can get into Screen 4. Screen 4 has large capacity high level (balcony) seating which I like. However Exeter's bad points are some of the other screens are small and tatty.

A quick mention must go to The Tivoli in Tiverton, Devon. The ONLY cinema i've been in in the last few years that has a man with a torch selling chok ices and drinks!!

My own local cinema in Gloucester is just a lifelesss UGC mulitplex. Not great.
 
Worst cinema I've ever been to has to be the one in Woking - awful layout. Floor isn't hardly raked, seats are one in front of the other and the sound is terrible! Now take a 20 minute drive to VUE in Staines - infinitely better.
 
Best I've ever been to is the Star Theatre in Southfield, Michigan, USA. Stadium seating, plenty of legroom, a free refill on drinks and popcorn, and a 50's style burger place inside the building. Fantastic!
 
Best one - although it wasn't plush in terms of facilities, the IMAX in New York. 60 foot high screen, brain shaking sound.

Worst one - In the UK, the Colchester Odeon isn't too hot, in the US, the one in New Brunswick NJ just off the Interstate - bit slum-like and the sound system was f*cked.

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Yes agree with the AMC, this is the first cinema I have been able to sit comfortably without having to move around or get backache, lovely large screens and cheap too.

The worst cinema is UCI Solihull, uncomfortable and screen so small you think you're watching a widescreen TV!
 
If you stand outside the UGC and look across towarRAB Tesco, on the otherside of the road to the left you will see a very large sign with AMC Cinema on it!

It is a much better cinema.
 
Best one I've been to was at Oakbrook Mall in Chicago - big seats, great hotdogs and popcorn and, at the time I went, movies about 3 months before they hit the UK!
 
The wost has to be in West-Ealing, it was rubish. It has now closed down which is a shame as has great archieture, as it is one of those old Cinema's. It only had 2 screens which where both smaller then my computer screen (ok not really but they were small) For a while it was an indian cinema for a while but still not one went to it, so it is now boarded up.
 
After visiting the UGC in Bolton i have deicded this is the best cinema i have been to. They have private toilets for each screen, large armchair style seats that are adjustable forward and backwarRAB, huge amount of leg room and individual tables inbetween the seats.
 
Duke of York Picturehouse in Brighton. Very old, lovely cinema. Shows loaRAB of foreign/arty films and some current films. Plus you can drink alcohol in there too :D
 
It was also a snooker club for a while I believe. Now it's a rather unhygenic looking derelict building overlooking the bus stop - not nice to stand in the doorway when it rains.

But just down the road in Brentford is one of the nicest cinemas, the Watermans, good art-house films, a comfy bar with tables overlooking the river and best of all a branch of Monty's curry house chain on the premises!

Other good cinemas - the one in the National Museum of Photography in Bradford is very smart but the location (cross a road, cross another road, go round the back of the police station and past the courts, through the evil subway and round the houses a few times) is dreadful. Why put a national museum in a city which was deliberately designed to be a horrible a place to visit?

The Ster Century in LeeRAB is nice, too, and a lot less scary to get to.
 
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