Autism Friendly Cinema Screenings

We dream of going back to Sunday closing! I feel sorry for everyone who doesn't know what that was like.

Yes, remember the tubs! And boxes of fruit gums in fruit shapes. And boxes of Maltesers.

And albatross...

I haven't been to the cinema in years but used to go all the time (I have a degree in film studies), usually in the afternoon as there would often be a handful of people in. I only recall being alone once, for Blade 2, and I sat right at the front for maximum whoosh. I couldn't have coped with no heating though, omg.

I read your that as "The Great Escape" and thought of Steve McQueen on his motorbike 

I watched The Great Escaper at a local cinema today  https://youtu.be/vKgpfUOja2s?feature=shared I turned out to be the only person in the auditorium (my first ever experience of that for an entire film) and the heating was broken in that screen room and so was pretty cool but ok for me all round 

My local cinema does these screenings, but they're all for children's films on a Saturday morning. I'd quite like to go if theyhad something I'd like to see, but I can't imagine there's much call for autism-friendly showings of horror comedy and niche sci-fi in my small suburban town

I put in my flare earpieces now to take the edge off the blasting sound, though it only helps a tiny bit. I rarely go to the cinema any more, just occasionally. 

The sound in cinemas is ludicrously loud, I love the idea of the quieter screenings. However, I actually like trailers, so taking those out seems a shame. 

Our local cinema had an orchestra pit at the front and while the film was being changed an usherette stood down by the stage and sold ice cream. It was a high sided tray with a light on it. She wore it around her neck, I think it had Lyon’s Maid written on it. Tubs of ice cream with a small plastic spoon. They also sold a Lyon’s Mivi, it was a fruit flavour on the outside and ice cream in the middle.

It’s just made me remember Sundays when I was small, I would cycle back from the newsagents as fast as I could. A block of vanilla ice cream wrapped in newspaper and wafers. The highlight of any Sunday. It had to be as everything else was closed.

Not a dream! Also there always used to be a short film before the main feature and you could go in at any time during the film and stay to watch it more than once.

I read the other day that because films are getting longer intermissions are making a comeback, so praps the ice cream seller will reappear too?

I don't know whether that will change the noise and disruption and fighting that I also keep reading about though! That's the main reason I wouldn't go nowadays.

When I was a child a boy in our neighbourhood used to play organ (wearing a bow tie) at our local cinema which would rise up I think before the film etc. I remember there being staff who went around during the intermission selling ice creams (or perhaps I dreamed all that, it was a long time ago now after all) 

I just stream films from home. If the cinemas don't want my money enough to make autism friendly screenings for adults at regular times I'm not going to give them a single penny. Besides you can't pause the cinema to go for a break so they shot themselves in the foot decades ago when they did away with the intermission imo, even before streaming and being able to pause tv I always just waited for films to come out on VHS and then DVD. Cinema used to have a golden age but its been in its self inflicted deathroes for a while now, all the "bright" ideas they come up with now are just too little too late as far as I'm concerned.

I normally go to our small art deco cinema that has removed every other row of seats, I  always book end of isle so only my wife is next to me. If I have to go to the big cinema , I wait until a film has been showing for a while,  lucky if there are more than 10 people in there. Me sitting next to a stranger is the easiest way to find me, I’m the one sitting diagonally. 
our big cinema does autism friendly showings on a Saturday morning once a month, I looked into it, they allow your own food and many other accommodations, it seems to be aimed at children, nothing new there.

I just pick an empty cinema..:’D

The only experience I've had like that where I was the only one there was when I watched The Man From London youtu.be/uyb-7Mb7irA It was at a local film society I was a member of. They would meet and select the films for each coming season earlier in the year. Even though they'd picked this film, because it is very slow everyone gradually left until there was only me and the projectionist left at the end. I enjoyed having a chat with him about what it's like being the projectionist and so on

might aswell be now as all new release films are sent direct to a streaming service now so you can get new cinema releases on your livingroom tv now

I didn't go to the cinema for years and have started again this year (when it's quiet and just a handful of others in there). I might go and watch The Great Escaper this week youtu.be/vKgpfUOja2s

Are you sure that it wasn't just your front room?

my local cinema is shut down now.... but i considered it autism friendly because nobody went to it lol

literally, i went in any time any day, even the most popular screening.... pick a seat, go in... no one else there... no one at all just me having the cinema all to myself... i could sit anywhere despite my chosen seat because theres no one else in using any seats... but yeah i guess thats why it closed down in the end, couldnt make money as no one but me used it.

The cinema here does autism screenings but they are children's films. They do OAP sessions too of silver screen favourites during the working week. 

Dog Friendly? I mean WTF lol.

Actually now that you mention it, our local theatre does have some autism friendly events - one recent one being an Autism Friendly Rave aimed at autistic kids and young adults.
Don't worry, I think it was more about the music of the 90's than the "chemical scene" (if you know what I mean).