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  1. Gamora
    It's so great to be back at the movies, already seen Shang-Chi four times and Eternals once, with another IMAX viewing tomorrow. Holy fuck it looks incredible there, I was seriously in awe during the 1.43 scenes in particular. IMAX really is the shit, I'm so glad we have one. 😄 Dune is taking over all IMAX showings from Thursday onwards which is a bummer since I wanted to catch Eternals there a third time on the weekend, but alas. Can't even blame them for giving them all to Dune though, from the 16th only NWH has the screen and Dune has basically been selling out every showing. With the 100 limit they want to get it as full as possible so it's logical if a bit of a bummer for me.
  2. Gamora
    Gotta say, having to steer clear of 95% of online MCU talk for the last three months to avoid spoilers while in lockdown was a blessing in disguise. Caught up with this thread yesterday and was glad I could fast forward through that all. The clip is 18 seconds so I'd need way more context just to start. Also it was posted by a Wanda stan so you have to take their hyperbole into account.
  3. Gamora
    I was able to finally catch up with the MCU today (lockdown induced) so bring on a trailer.
  4. Gamora
    It'll be interesting to see how it goes, I'd say lockdown/covid will have some impact, between people maybe being hesitant to be in enclosed spaces, and maybe people not realising they'll need to be quick with booking tickets due to capacity/social distancing measures? I imagine it'll eventually fill up but Wellington is doing really well. Although I suppose since their screens are more limited it's easier for them to sell faster. I just wish Hoyts and Reading were as easy to check the maps for as Event is, you literally just need to hover for them and they have number of seats available too. Reading is better since you only have to click on the showing to see seats but Hoyts makes you go through another screen. Why won't they think of us?!
  5. Gamora
    I get standard tickets from my work for Event for $10, and then $2.50 IMAX upgrade and $1.50 booking fee = $14 for IMAX. It's the only reason I can afford to go so much, if I had to pay full price of $26.50 (plus booking fee), lol no. Absolutely crazy that VMax is the same price for a regular seat and $29.50 for the recliner, couldn't be me spending that much. Funnily enough IMAX pricing has actually gone down, previously it was $16.50 for 2D and $19.50 for 3D using my work tickets and booking online. Now they don't do 3D but as above the price has decreased. Not sure about if the full price ones did since I never bought them and didn't pay much attention. I almost wanted to query why that happened but then I was like, why would you do that, just shut up and pay the $14.
  6. Gamora
    Haha thanks, I think I saw it just before I saw this notification. As I said on the Spidey thread, goddamn person who messed up IMAX making me lose sleep and then fixing their problem this morning. 😅 I'm just thankful I could get in with good seats, that's why I stayed up and was worried, this is gonna sell like crazy and IMAX is gonna be the hot ticket, just like Dune for the first week open is already gone. And yeah, tracking seems pointless with the capacity restrictions. It's definitely selling well though, particularly at The Grand in Wellington. I like to keep an eye on that one since it's the biggest theatre and they don't have the 100 limit in this case so it's cool to see a lot of tickets snapped up already.
  7. Gamora
    Bloody hell, whichever dummy was in charge of putting up the sessions at midnight this morning failed, they put them all up except the goddamn theatre that has IMAX. I stayed up until 1:20am hoping they'd realise their mistake but they didn't. Just got up about 30 mins ago for work (after having checked at 5am and 7am) and they're fucking up now finally. Maybe it's a blessing, there were a bunch of people complaining that IMAX wasn't up on insta and FB so it might've been more work if they hadn't been incompetent. Managed to pick up Thursday night and Friday night tickets without much fuss, now I can relax. Also, it felt so good buying tickets after 3.5 months of lockdown.
  8. Gamora
    Tickets don't go on sale here until Wednesday so I'm just chilling until then. I wouldn't normally be too worried since I'm meh over Spider-man but IMAX has a 100 person limit down from the 425 seats available, so that's the only thing that's concerning me. I don't care about making the first showing but good seats are going to go quick due to spacing requirements. If they did go on-sale at midnight I'm usually up then anyway, but they haven't specified. The only time I remember the Event site here having issues was TFA. TLJ was decent and TRoS was a lot easier. IW was pretty slow to fill up and EG went live at like 2am but the first session wasn't the most popular since it was at 10am on a work day so that was a lot slower while the other sessions filled pretty quickly, so it'll be interesting to see how this goes here.
  9. Gamora
    Yeah, I pretty much expected that. It's just too crammed now with four other IMAX movies in release and then Spidey coming in less than two weeks after opening. Between it releasing ages ago and being on Disney+/physical release it was a given but still a bummer. Been a long-ass time since I missed out on an MCU movie in IMAX (outside of SMH and FFH I've seen them all there since GotG). Stupid lockdown. Oh well, I should be glad it's getting a limited release, gonna have to cram in my viewings since I like seeing MCU movies multiple times in theatres. Probably gonna see it twice on the third, then again on the morning of the 4th and Eternals IMAX in the afternoon just for starters. Also people are gonna have to be on the ball to get into screenings more so than usual due to the capacity limits. Dune in IMAX is already doing the best by far, one session sold out already and a couple more incredibly close.
  10. Gamora
    3rd of December we move to Red light and cinemas can re-open, fucking finally. I'm gonna spend all night refreshing cinema websites waiting for sessions to go up so I hope they do. 🙏 I'm jonseing to buy some tickets, give 'em to me. ETA: Reading Cinemas has a couple of sessions up for Shang-Chi, aww yissss. Waiting for Event but at least we have that.
  11. Gamora
    So, seems likely 29th November is when we can move to the red traffic light aka goddamn cinemas can open. Seems more likely than moving to stage 3 which will also open cinemas, but either way at least we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Will definitely be holding off on watching Shang-Chi on Disney+ come Friday and looking forward to seeing Eternals of course as well. Plus at least we can have some certainty once we move to red since there won't be closures, just capacity limits. With NWH and Matrix Resurrections coming I don't want to have to be worried I can't see them asap.
  12. Gamora
    Brb, forging essential worker documents and getting a covid test so I can sneak out. If I get caught I haven't used my diversion yet so I've got that in my back pocket. 🙏
  13. Gamora
    Such a goddamn waste since it was entirely shot in IMAX. I won't hold my breath but they can usually fit in 4 showings a day for IMAX, so give them each one showing a day. At this point I'm just hoping we can get cinemas open before goddamn Hawkeye starts airing, I'm spoiler free but if they're still shut with SC and Eternals unwatched, what if there's something relevant we're missing? Then I'll have to delay watching the one thing I should be guaranteed to be able to watch. Boo! ETA: I saw Eternals tickets have gone on-sale already, so no delaying that. It makes sense though since Venom's just a couple of weeks later, I can see why they wouldn't want them to go head-to-head. Just adds to my misery though, the rest of the country at least gets some small pleasures while we're still fucked.
  14. Gamora
    Gotta say, I'm glad I'm seeing BW showing in NSW when checking Event Cinemas, gives me hope I can catch Shang-Chi in theatres when they finally fucking reopen here. I don't care if I have to wait until after it's come out on Disney+, I want to see it in an effing cinema. IMAX is preferable but I'll take a regular one at this point. Don't think I haven't thought of ways to smuggle myself out of Auckland just to watch it a few times and come back. If I didn't have cats to look after I'd seriously consider it.
  15. Gamora
    Can the government start up with the vaccine passport already, we need to push that shit otherwise we're gonna be in this shit for too many goddamn weeks. The anti-vax fuckwits holding out need to know they're not going to be able to do things soon. Fuck's sake.
  16. Gamora
    I can see them splitting the showings if Bond didn't move (which it probably won't because there's nowhere to move to), they've done that previously with close releases. Would be stupid to give up MCU money, particularly when the entire movie is formatted for IMAX. I waited for Raya until its theatre release but I saw it a couple of times there because it really was a good film. And lol at bringing up Hamilton, don't think I haven't had vague fantasies about how I could sneak across the border to see SC. 😂 I don't have Covid, I swear, now lemme out.
  17. Gamora
    Oh shit, we're back on the board: Also, screw watching Shang-Chi on Disney+ unless I absolutely have to, idc if I have to hold out until after it's been put on for free, I'm seeing it in IMAX first even if there's only one goddamn showing. Speaking of SC, saw an ad for it yesterday with the release date of the 16th with an asterisk saying "Excluding Auckland".
  18. Gamora
    Le sigh. Just saw this has a New Year's Day release in NZ/Oz, same as Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Hoping for an early-ass preview so I don't have to avoid spoilers for over a week, but who knows.
  19. Gamora
    Just saw the release date on Event Cinemas and it looks like this has been moved up to 16th December in NZ/Oz so I guess we won't have to be dodging spoilers for over a week. Now we just need for the cinemas to be open...
  20. Gamora
    Good idea, I never got around to watching that.
  21. Gamora
    On my second watch of Reloaded there was barely anyone in the cinema and the people a couple of seats down from me talked solidly for the first 20 minutes, I'm pretty sure one was catching the other up on the first movie. It was obviously annoying af so I got mad and asked if they were going to talk throughout the entire showing, and it shut them up thankfully. Anyway, this didn't give much away but I like that, and it's hit me right in my older millennial nostalgic feels. Makes me want to install that Matrix code screensaver again lol (for real, I really might). Will definitely be avoiding as much talk/spec as I can and I'll be cracking open my The Matrix/Reloaded 4Ks and regular Revolutions blu-ray closer to this coming out. Definitely a pity it's getting caught up in the HBO Max thing, would've been great to see how this did on a purely theatrical release.
  22. Gamora
    I was going to try to not watch the trailer since going in super fresh would be amazing, but I'm just too hyped and I can't watch Shang-Chi for the time being, so I need something to give me joy, so I guess this'll have to be it. Looks like I'll be late to the party since it'll be released at 1am my time, but oh well. Sometimes I'm still up at that time but I probably shouldn't stay up and watch it, I'll never get to sleep.
  23. Gamora
    I was in my late-teens when Reloaded came out and I saw the first showing with my aunty. The cave orgy and cake orgasm scenes made me regret that decision lol. I ended up seeing it four times in theatres since I had a card to use up six showings, think I used the other two on X2. The Chateau and Freeway scenes were the obvious highlights, but yeah, the Architect scene was particularly baffling and parodied a lot. Agreed that it was a fairly immediate reaction to them not living up to the first one, even though I liked a lot about Reloaded myself. Wasn't a fan at all of Revolutions though, even having done a rewatch for it last year for the first time since it released.
  24. Gamora
    Don't forget Tony.
  25. Gamora
    I haven't found either of the MCU Spidey movies interesting tbh so the only thing I was looking forward to in this one was Strange (and Wong but who knows how much he's in it), so the trailer delivered on the only thing I care about. 👍 This could be the first of his MCU films I bother to watch more than once. The setup of Strange fucking around against Wong's advice and Peter not shutting up do seem dumb but I'll reserve my thoughts on that until we actually see it. Looks like it still has a Boxing Day release for NZ, I hope there's previews much earlier than that otherwise it'll be a reasonable wait from its worldwide release.
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