Interesting experience

I went along to see Mirrormask at the fesitival as i posted earlier and it was as i titled this post an interesting experience, i thought i'd point out the few things i noticed that were different from what i've come to expect from the average multiplex experience.

First off and this wasn't a huge suprise no adverts or trailers, absolute bliss just the film you have paid to watch, even the background music before the film came on wasn't to bad. I wouldn't object to this being more like the regular movie going experience, ordinarily i don't mind the trailers to much but on top of the usual advertising onslaught i'd rather do without.

The next thing i noticed was the audience, not a single annoying popcorn chewing bampot in sight. There was however a hint of pretentiousness in the air as i had to suffer two guys talking about the recent works of Quentin Tarantino as if they were film critics, i personally think you can sum up most of Tarantino's work as films for teenage boys, enjoyable enough but hardly anything special, but then thats just my opionion and like arseholes everybody has one.

The other thing i noticed about the crowd was at the end of the film at least 90% of them stayed to watch the entirety of the credits. I found that behavour to be a mite odd, i'd only met one other person in my life up until that point that insisted on waiting to watch the credits of films. It appears they are a common breed at film festivals, again not entirely suprising in hindsight.

The other thing i noticed brought on a sense of nostalgia, as well as a sense of almost toppling over as i'll explain. Becuase the film was being shown in an independent cinema it also happened to be a rather old one. In good condition and all but still designed the way cinemas were designed back in the 30's possibly. On the whole the place seemed cosier and less obviously a place designed to part me from my money than the modern day multiplex, stll that wasn't what really caught my attention. It was at the end of the film as i stood up and staggered along the row i had been seated in like a drunken bufoon that the penny dropped, the entire floor was on a slope and it reminded me how that just wasn't the case anymore in new cinemas. It's probably an improvement but it reminded how some things change without our even noticing, it brought back a sense of a bygone age when i saw films as a child and the big cinema was the one over in the metropolis of Hamilton which had 3 screens!

As for the fim itself i thought it was very good, kind of what i had expected from the imagination from Neil Gaimen, and that is a good thing in my book. More imagination in that one film than you would find in all the Harry Potter novels, which reminds me i guess it was a film aimed at a young audience. Certainly the main star was a young probably teenage girl, and for all it had some disturbing images it certainly wasn't designed to shock you into fright nor did it contain gore to get a 15 or 18 rating. Perhaps aimed at a young audience isn't the right way to decribe it, i'd say accessable to a younger audience as it definately wasn't a kids film it was far to good to be labelled as that.