It's been a few months since we've been to the cinema, so when I saw all the great write ups for The Departed, we made a date and went to see it on Sunday. things have changed slightly since last we were went to the pictures though....

When I paid for the tickets, I was asked if I wanted Premier Seats. Not knowing what the heck that was I asked, and told they were £1 extra over the normal price, and were a group of seats in the centre of the auditorium. I passed, and said I check them out for next time.

So in we went, and right enough, the middle third of the central seating area now had seats marked as PREMIER.

Can you see what's wrong with that picture?

The seats I USED to sit in, are now deemed exclusive PREMIER seats, and to sit in them now I have to pay an additional fee! A pound is not exactly a huge amount of money, BUT, on top of already what I would call expensive cinema pricing, this is just too much to bear!

Oh, and the best bit was this. We sat right behind these exclusive seats, which was still a good viewpoint, and noted that only a very small percentage of people had paid the extra pound for these seats. Then, get this, a staff member comes in AND ASKS PEOPLE IN THAT ARE IN THE SPECIAL SEATS TO PRODUCE THEIR TICKETS! So, yeh, if I had bought a ticket, I would have been inconvienienced by having to fumble about to try and find a pair of tickets I did not expect to have to pull out in a fricking pitch black cinema!

Not only that, but this process actually meant 3 couples had to move, because they had SHOCK HORROR sat in the wrong seats.

Maybe I am on a short fuse, but this whole concept ###### me off.

Luckily though, the film was ace.

Oh, and while we are in moaning mood. Never EVER let your partner get the popcorn. Your sugar coated popcorn is the icing on the cake of a good evening at the cinema, so don't risk it - get it yourself, otherwise instead of a nice carton of fluffy sweet popcorn, you could end up with 2/3rds good stuff and a bottom third of tiny wee bits, you know, like the bottom of a box of coco pops breakfast cereal. Ladies, always ALWAYS scoop popcorn from the MIDDLE not the bottom.