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Author Topic: Cinema Beds-Worst new idea in theatres Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-17-2019 10:35 PM                        CBS Minnesota quote: MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Watching movies on the big screen has gotten much more comfortable over the years, thanks to reclining seats, but a theater in Switzerland is taking that to a whole new level. They have actual beds — 11 of them. They’re double-bed “seats.” The theater opened last week. Tickets cost about $50, in American currency. There’s gourmet food, and a champagne bar. And the theater assures customers the beds are freshly made between screenings.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-17-2019 11:38 PM                        Hopefully they keep the lights at least partly up...or have partitions between the "seats." One or the other.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-18-2019 01:34 AM                     Ya, people gonna be fuckin' in those beds if MGMT don't chaperon that action! Or they're just going to have to wake up customers if the movie was boring as hell. Sounds like too much work and too much cleanup for it to be worth it. I can just picture the theater's dumpster stacked up with soiled mattresses from whatever customers were doing on them. Could be the first theater to suffer from a bedbugs outbreak. I don't know what kind of rope someone was smoking to think sticking beds in a movie theater auditorium would be a good idea. Honestly the visual of a bunch of beds in a room like that would make me think it was the video production set of some kinky hardcore porn orgy video.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 05-18-2019 04:22 AM                     Like so many ideas, this already existed. Electric Cinema in Nothing Hill (London) already features beds as part of their offering and they have done so for a few years at the least now... I'm not sure if those beds will be prone to other activities happening, but I see the many hygienic complications with such an idea...  |  IP: Logged Allan Young Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: EGHAM, Surrey UK Registered: Jun 2011 posted 05-18-2019 06:26 AM                     We had this conversation nearly five years ago...  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-18-2019 09:13 AM                        True, but they've taken a bad idea and made it worse. The whole damn auditorium is beds. I do have a nightmare vision of showing Disney movies in there with dozens of kids bouncing on the beds during the show. Who knows if $50 a pop is enough to keep them away.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-18-2019 11:07 AM                        There was a theater near here that had couches instead of seats. I assume a baby or two was made in there, but it's closed now.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-18-2019 01:24 PM                     Please edit the title of this thread to remove the "teaser" aspect of it.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-18-2019 02:38 PM                        Ok, but I really do want whomever came up with this to Die!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-18-2019 04:40 PM                     Now, now, wait your turn...the people who started the trend of foregoing masking need to depart first.  |  IP: Logged

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