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Note to self: NEVER GO TO THE CINEMA IN THE SAVOY 5 EVER, EVER AGAIN. I really wanted to catch Batman Begins on the big (or at least big-ish) screen, and didn't want to engage in the Thursday night queue-fest that is trying to get into the UGC, so I checked if it was still on in the Savoy. It was. However, it was in the Savoy 5, one of their two teeny screens. "How bad can it be?", I thought. Here is how bad:
  • On arriving in the miniscule cinema, we take two seats with a reasonable view. They are, however, beside a man eating toffees at a volume hitherto unknown to science. We decide to move. The only other sets of two seats are either beside another man WHO SMELLS (no, I have no idea why the Savoy 5 attracts this clientele), or near the front. We sit in the ones near the front, only to discover that most of the cinema has NO RAKE WHATSOEVER. Possibly it slopes upwards. Even B (who is over six feet tall) cannot see over the person in front of him. We move to the very front. Now the screen can be seen, but only if one is willing to crane one's neck backwards in an awkward, nay, painful fashion. Plus any fast movements on the screen start to make me feel motion sick. We give up on the whole sitting together idea. We find separate seats where we can see and our senses are not being assaulted by our neighbours. The movie starts. Blessed relief. BUT...
  • As soon as the film starts, they switch on the air conditioning. The air conditioning in the Savoy 5, dear readers, seems to consist of an icy gale blasted straight at the audience. I shiver. I wrap my arms around myself. I realize that B still has my bag with my jumper. I disturb several other unfortunate Savoy 5 goers by going to retrieve my jumper. I swathe myself in snuggly cashmere. Perhaps now I can sit back and enjoy the movie. BUT...
  • While I am not sitting beside our old friends Chewy and Smelly, I realize shortly into the film that I am sitting beside a French couple who are celebrating Bastille Day by holding a Festival Of Talking Very Loudly In The Cinema While The Film Is On. I try to remember how to be extremely rude in French. I fail. Eventually I end up hissing "WOULD YOU PLEASE BE QUIET" at them while giving them a Basilisk Stare. This shuts them up for a while, though I have to repeat the Vulcan Death Glare on a couple of occasions. Do these people not know how to go to the cinema? Do they think they are at home in front of the telly? Gah.

In spite of all this, I actually really enjoyed the film. It was scary and exciting, it had the BEST BATMOBILE EVER, and all the Gotham sets were brilliant - I particularly liked the monorail. Christian Bale was an excellent Batman, and our own Cillian Murphy (my celebrity fan!) was appropriately malevolent. I would recommend that you go and see it, if you haven't already. Just not in the Savoy 5.
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