Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Did a test today in Plumstead. Took less than an hour from booking it online to being back home. Pretty impressive. I arrived at 7:30pm and there were no other people getting tested.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55177741

Anyone else noticing an obvious problem with this gesture?

Anyone wondering when the world will get back to normal should take a cautionary look at Warner Bros.

Every film they release next year will be on premium streaming at the same time as the cinema. Basically a signal that you ain’t going out in large numbers anytime soon so we are still planning for a 2021 spent largely at home.

Warner Bros' films set for simultaneous cinema and US streaming https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55180055

Doom and fucking gloom everyone, doom and fucking gloom. Somebody get me a scotch egg and five pints of mild.

Can’t even do that in Manchester. The long nights are pretty depressing without the sanctuary of the pub once in a while. Silver lining is there is no Xmas party to try and avoid this year.

I wonder if some of that is the studios wanting to test more streaming releases. They have been wanting simultaneous cinema and streaming for years but the cinemas hate it and would boycott the films completely in normal times.

The theory is there is a market of people that don't mind paying the ticket price of seeing the new film (perhaps £30 quid for a couple at the cinema or for 24 hour stream access) and don't currently go to the cinema because of the extra effort of things like organising babysitters.

£30?!?

Lol that's more expensive than my local in Zone 2 London, assume they would deliver popcorn and drinks at that price

I agree, I think the 12 month limited plan will become normal in 2022 and large Cinema’s will struggle. I have no sympathy as since they started selling hot food smothered in cheese I’ve largely avoided anything but small independent places with no hot food.

I’m in HK where the pubs are shut, you can only drink in restaurants (which look a lot like pubs with a food licence). Not all places insist on serving food with your drinks either, most food pubs just leave a food menu on the table and serve as many drinks as you want while you are deciding whether to eat there or not. They all have to close at ten so if you haven’t decided by then its take away only.

Two tickets for Tenet tonight at the Everyman in Barnet is £32.90 including booking fee. They do deliver food and drink to your seat but that is extra.

I do want to see the film but still haven't got round to it. It doesn't help that my partner isn't interested. I'll probably buy a DVD/get one for Christmas but that is a lot less revenue for the studio as I might have streamed it months ago if I had the opportunity.

Cinemas here (china) were one of the last things to open, and then they shut again after a day. They're back open again now but as I have no interest in 2 hour "dramas" about how amazing the people's liberation army is, I haven't been. Also not cheap here either. And salted popcorn doesn't exist, only sweet.

I would pay £30 for that to be honest, think I’ve been paying about £10 for nice comfy seats at a cinema near me. I wouldn’t pay it for your average ciniworld type experience though.

One of the downsides (and i realise this is just about the firstest world problem) of lockdown is that the Bafta screeners are all coming out digitally instead of DVD and the missus' boss is too technologically inept to pass them on to us. So pretty much no #screason for us this year.

Surely that just means you're too technically inept to be a pirate.

Pirating is taking the food out of my children's mouths. Every time you stream something illegally I have to take away a fish finger. Thanks, son's crying.

I like the legroom at Everyman Barnet but I don't find the sofas especially comfortable. I'd rather a more traditional cinema seat.

When it opened as Warner Village the cinema next to Finchley Lido was fantastic (good seats, good racking, decent screen size etc) but it has gone downhill as Vue have stripped the finishings and crammed extra screens in.

Still haven't been to Odeon Leicester Square since their most recent refurb. Must do that. Also need to see what Everyman did to Muswell Hill Odeon. And morn the loss of MOMI, with bits modelled on Muswell Hill Odeon. I really should get to the Cinema Musuem. I've just found KentMOMI, another thing to add to the list.

(this is now way off thread, sorry)

Do they like fish sticks?

Bafta screeners are all coming out digitally instead of DVD and the missus' boss is too technologically inept to pass them on to us

Do they not still have the special DVD players that are required to play them? Used to be a thing at some point.

What is a fish stick?

No - regular DVDs. Mostly watermarked. TBH they have been going more digital for a few years now, but this seems to have been the tipping point.

https://youtu.be/gvQ1cqlilnQ

I know he’s a dickhead because he display a collection of fedoras on a shelf in his front room.

#bringbackrep

I may have been a bit rash in suspecting Biden's influence in why Johnson's feeling it necessary to distance himself temporarily from Cummings; this may be the more proximate reason:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/04/durham-police-dominic-cummings-nazir-ifzal-dossier

I still think that what they enacted around his 'departure' was just a charade.

I still think that what they enacted around his 'departure' was just a charade.

I know f all about politics but when I saw him leave nb 10 out the front carrying the prototype "i've just cleared my desk out" box it seemed pretty set up for the cameras.

Or perhaps this is possible now that C****ings is not longer protected?

Now for him paying all the fees on the cottage built without planning permission...though no idea if anybody can legally appeal such a decision.