School Holiday Movie Survival Guide

School holidays don’t just test your patience, they test your planning. We kick things off by settling our Oscars scorecard and checking how our New Zealand box office predictions stacked up, then we jump straight into the real question parents are asking: what’s actually worth seeing at the cinema over the break?

We walk through a lineup built for families and kids, including The Magic Faraway Tree and why nostalgia is driving interest, the Super Mario Galaxy movie as the likely blockbuster, and Pixar’s Hoppers as a younger-leaning animated pick with a clear environmental message. We also touch on extra options still on screens, plus special programming like the Hunt for the Wilderpeople 10th anniversary re-release, an R16 horror-comedy called They Will Kill You, and even a marathon-length opera screening for the diehards. With budgets tight, we spotlight where $10 tickets can make a proper night out feel possible again.

Then we zoom out to the moviegoing experience itself. We both rate Project Hail Mary a strong 9/10 and talk about why it’s the kind of sci-fi you should see on the biggest screen you can find, along with the smart marketing that’s helping it cut through. We finish with practical cinema tips that save your day when it’s raining and busy: pre-booking, leaving earlier, handling queues, picking aisle seats with kids, and the simple etiquette rules that make a shared theatre work.

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Transcript

Welcome And Show Format

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Eat, sleep, movie, repeat, repeat. A podcast on all things movies with Brent Harbour and Industry Insider Ross Church House.

SPEAKER_01 0:10

G'day young Ross, we've got lots of movies about at the moment, haven't we? Oh, got loads of movies, Brent.

SPEAKER_02 0:16

It's gonna be a bumper bumper school holidays coming up for everybody, which we're gonna talk about today. Yeah, and how you been? All right. Oh, yeah, I'm good. We've just been speaking about it, but I do have a bad back, so if anybody hears me go, ah, sort of do a Ryan um gosling scream, then you'll know why. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

But uh yeah, other than that, you know, it's um it's just another day at the office at the moment. Oh, that's cool. And so have people been coming out to the movies? This is the question. I mean, there's been a lot of rain, especially in Kitiketi. I hope the cinema went unscathed.

Oscars Picks And Surprises

SPEAKER_02 0:48

Yeah, well, we didn't go flooding down the main road, which is probably good. We haven't had too much flooding in town there, but all around town. Yeah, you're definitely seeing it in the lower lying parts. Right. But anyway, yeah, I'll tell you all about that. So let's crack on. Excellent. Okay, folks, welcome to Eats League Move Repeat, brought to you by Cafe Cinemas in Kirk and Lido Cinemas in Hamilton, your home of fine film from around the world. Okay, so this show is about new movies heading your way and things you might like to know about or hear about. Uh, Brent and I are gonna have a bit of a waffle and a bit of a laugh, um, have a bit of a chat, aren't we, Brent? Yes, we are indeed. Absolutely. And of course, we always end our show with a prediction on the New Zealand box office, and we always start the show reconciling the prediction on that box office. So that's exactly what we're gonna do. Um, and we'll kick on because uh last week, Brent, we covered the Oscars.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Yes, the Oscars. Uh I haven't gone and even looked at the list. I'm leaving it up to you to let me know. But from memory, I think I got one. I think I think we I think we both did excellent.

SPEAKER_02 1:49

If we just if if people don't listen to the last show, we'll just tell everybody that we got all of them right. I think I got one. That was uh from from memory. Done. Don't worry, uh all will be revealed. Okay, so look, we did the uh Oscar show and we thought it was pretty cool. And we want to um say right from the get-go, we're not professionals, we had no idea what we're talking about, you know. We're just two guys on a podcast. Yeah. So, you know, don't hold that against us. So we covered uh the usual six categories that we hang, I'm not gonna add that up now. One, two, three, four. Yeah, those six categories. Um, and it's best actor, best actress, best supporting actor and actress, best director, and best film. So we just do those six, otherwise we'd be there all week. Yeah. Um now, Brent, in the best actor category, you chose Timothy Chalamet, I chose Michael B. Jordan, and no spoilers because we're well past the Oscars now. Michael B. Jordan won for the movie Sinners. Yeah, I was happy to see that, actually. I was happy for you, but happy for him as well. Yeah, oh look, I I was too, and I think that was the right choice in the end. Um, there was a lot of backlash for old Marty Supreme um and Timothy Chalamet. Got a lot of backlash for something he said about the Oscars and the ball uh ballet and um opera. Yeah, yeah. And um people going, oh, well, see what happens when you say this stuff, but the voting for the Oscars had closed well before he said that. Yeah, sure. So that really had zero impact. But it's I guess people need to sometimes find a correlation as to why he didn't win. Yeah. So that's quite interesting. Um, best actress, you and I both chose Jesse Buckley for Hamlet, and Jesse Buckley won. Again, no spoilers there. That was great. So we get one point each. So I'm currently got two, you've got one. Okay. Um, best supporting actor. Uh I chose Beniciel Del Toro, and you chose Sean Penn, and you got Sean Penn correct. Oh, I did get two. Amazing. Yeah, so it's yeah, amaze, amaze, amaze. We'll get to that in a minute. Yeah. Um, so yeah, best supporting actress. Now I chose Al Fanning and you chose I'm sorry, you chose Al Fanning, and I chose Tiana Taylor, and we were both wrong. It was Amy Madigan for the movie Weapons. And um, it's really funny because when I I I heard the name Amy Madigan, I'm like, who what is she used to be in? And I went back and had a look at all of her filmography. I was like, oh, that's that woman. Wonder whatever happened to her, you know? Yeah. So no, she was great, and that was cool. Uh well deserved. Best director, okay, went uh you and I both went Chloe Zow for Hamnet. And we were both wrong because Paul Thomas Anderson won with one battle after another. And the best picture, you and I both chose Hamnet, and surprise, surprise, we were wrong. It was uh one battle after another. So there you go. That was uh that was the end of it. So really we came out um two each, I think it was, from that. Yeah, well, okay. Even Stevens again. But wait, there's more folks. We also did a prediction on the box office for the movie Reminders of Him. Oh, right. This is where I lose. Yep. This is where you lose. This is where it this is where it all gets forced to bits for you. So we were talking about the Colleen Hoover movie, Reminders of Him, and how the first one came out with a$835,000 box office, which was absolutely phenomenal. And then the second one comes out and it only scrapes$213,000 at the box office. So, Bren, you predicted$189 for this outing, and I predicted$220. And the film actually made a reasonably respectable$286,000.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Oh, well, that's good actually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Yeah, no, it was good. So it did hand me the win, and I've tallied it up, and you and I are both now sitting at four wins apiece.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Okay, lot a lot of even Stevens going on this year.

School Holiday Kids Movie Guide

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Yeah, back to square one, start from scratch. None of the stuff that we've done already even matters. It's okay. Just throw the rules out the window, start from zero. Yep. That'll be fine. Yeah. So uh we'll see what we do at the end of this and see how we go next week. Okay, so let's talk about the school holidays. Um, it's the favorite subject, isn't it, for parents across the country? What to do with your kids. Yes. But there's some really good movies coming up for the school holidays. Yeah, there are some really good movies coming up. And I tell you what, the way the price of petrol's going, pretty soon, a movie ticket will be cheaper than a liter of petrol. Absolutely shocking. Honestly, absolutely shocking. But um, yeah, we're not going to get into the petrol price, folks. It's uh we all we all know what we're thinking. Yes. Oh, disappointing. Anyway, let's talk about movies. So, look, there's a great bunch of kids' movies coming up. Really spoiled this holiday for kids' movies. So we'll start off with the first one. It's called The Magic Faraway Tree. Now, this is based on the book by Enid Blyton. Many of us of a certain age either read the book or had the book read to us. I actually had it read to me when I was in school, and I would have been six years old when it was read to me. But I always remembered the story, but I'd never gone back to it.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

So yeah, did you ever read it? Yeah, yeah. And uh I know a lot of people are pretty excited about it. And then I I saw the trailer and I I have to say I was disappointed. Don't know why.

SPEAKER_02 6:43

Yeah, look, it's it's a tricky one. I guess whenever somebody takes any literary work and puts it on the screen, um, with what we saw with Project Hail Mary, you know, people either love it or they hate it. Um the good news for Project Hail Mary, uh, which we're not really talking about at the moment, but that movie, everybody is loving it. Now, the Magic Faraway Tree has had good initial responses in England. Oh, good. So good. And it's probably, to be honest, it's the movie that I have been getting asked the most about by parents and and grandparents about taking their kids to this thing because they're obviously looking at that nostalgia side as well. And I think the Magic Faraway Tree will be a pretty good bet for school holidays, this uh school holidays. And it's basically about a family who are forced to move to a remote English countryside where they end up living in a barn and they the kids are all kind of connected to Wi-Fi and they're you know, got their headphones on all the time, but of course there's nothing out there to do, there's no reception, there's no Wi-Fi. And one of the girls goes for a walk in the um forest after being told, do not go for a walk in that forest, typical child, and meets these interesting characters who take her on adventures. So look, I think Magic Faraway Tree is definitely for the six to sort of 16-ish age group, family-wise, good family movie. Little's lilies might get a little bit bored because it's a lot of talking, but I think uh for the most part, it's it's still gonna be visually stunning and I think they'll enjoy it. And it's made by the people who made Paddington.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

Oh, okay, so it'll be fine. So I'm completely wrong on this thing, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Yeah, look, I think I think Magic Faroway should be fine. Um, the next movie, of course, this is probably the gonna be the biggest kids' movie of the holidays, is the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Now, the last Super Mario movie, I can't remember, I should have done a bit more research. Um, it was well over five million dollars box office from memory. So it should be a solid, solid film, and it will be probably the first film this year that breaks five million. Uh I think there's a few more to go, um, which we'll talk about as we go through the year, but this should theoretically be up there. More Mario, more Luigi, more Princess Peach. Everybody knows the IP, everybody loves playing Mario, everybody loves the first Mario film, so I think this one looks like it's gonna be uh a winner. Now the next movie is called Hoppers. Now I've actually had an opportunity to see Hoppers. There was some advanced screenings last weekend that people went and saw. Hoppers is a great little film made by Pixar. It is the story of a young girl called Mabel who's a bit of a um what would you call her? An eco-warrior from a from childbirth, basically. And it's how she eventually discovers that there's um these uh professors at her university who have developed this ability to take their consciousness and put it into robot animals and then go out and find out what the animals are up to. So being a bit of an eco-warrior, she kind of thinks that they're trying to exploit the animals. So she takes control of one of these beavers and goes off and does this um interesting thing. This movie, look, I I thought it was good. Um, I think it's gonna play younger. I think it sits in that sort of two to sort of uh eight-year-old mode, but it's it's definitely plays to a younger audience. And being animation, I think it's gonna be something that little kids will get more um engaged by than adults and actual real life things at Faraway Tree.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

So yeah, it'll it looks good, Hoppers. I've watched the trailer for it, it looks quite fun.

Horror Opera And Special Screenings

SPEAKER_02 10:08

So it's got good ecological messaging, which is great, and of course, then we've got a couple of other movies coming out which aren't for the kids, or some of them are the kids, but uh we'll cut through these very quickly because there is some more stuff to talk about. So the first one is uh we'll do They Will Kill You. Now, They Will Kill You, R16, is another one of these horror kind of comedies, very similar to um the Ready or Not 2 movie that we had talked about last time. And it's basically about a woman who takes a job as a housekeeper in a high rise, unaware that the building has a history of disappearances, and she suddenly becomes uh the hunted person in the um in the hotel by all the um assassins who frequent the hotel. It's that kind of a vibe. Think think John Wick, but a comedy John Wick almost. Um yeah, so that's what that's about. We're obviously playing more of our lovely operas. Screw you, Timothy Chalamet. Um we're playing opera, we're gonna like it. So um yeah, look, our opera fans are really big uh and they're positive. They will drive quite far. Hopefully the roads will be open and they won't be washed away. Um, but this weekend we've got the opera Arabella. Um, this opera's really getting your bang for your buck because it's 252 minutes long with a break in the middle. That's a lot of time sitting in a seat, you know? So uh yeah, be aware of that one, folks. It's almost like you could fly to Sydney quicker than you can watch Arabella, which is pretty interesting. Anyway, but um look, if you like opera, definitely the thing for you this weekend. And the other movie that we've got, which we'll touch on very briefly, is Hunt for the Boulder People, 10th anniversary re-release.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

I hope lots of people buy tickets to this. Uh there's a lot of people chatting about it.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

Yeah, look, we um we've had some great support with um the studio um who who put the movie out originally. Uh I talked to the studio maybe six months ago when they were asking about how to how we felt as cinema owners it would be the best way to get people to come to the movies. So obviously gave them a bit of um my thought process and and they've taken some of those things on, which is great because you know you're engaging the cinemas to engage the audience. And and I know that some cinemas around the country are selling tickets like hotcakes because it's 10th anniversary. What we're doing is you can dress up as one of the characters, come along and you might win a spot prize. Um, madman have given us a um a flat cap, uh sort of a heck cap to wear. Oh, okay. Um so there's that to win, you know. We've gonna have a sausage sizzle there so they can have their pork and watercress uh sausages and you know get a Cadbury flake and just theme it up a little bit and have a lot of fun with it. And that's what the movie's all about. And if if people haven't seen the movie, and I actually met some women the other day who've never seen the movie ever, and I described it to them and they were like, oh, we should go and see that. But if you haven't seen it, go along and see it. If you have seen it and your kids haven't seen it, bring them along because you know they'll have a ball.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

I I I went to the movies the other day, and there was a the great at the beginning of it about turning your mobile phone off that they obviously recorded for it, and that was playing again, so it was good to see that.

Ten-Dollar Tickets And Value Nights

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Yeah, yeah, turn your phone off. Sam Neil's so good in that film, he's just like grumpy Uncle Hector. Yeah. In fact, my favourite scene is when they're singing the Ricky Baker song, and the look on Sam Neil's face when they're singing that song is just priceless. So thank you, Sam Neil. You made my day. And the other couple of movies we've actually got, again, back to the kids, uh, we're still showing the movie Goat. Now, Goat came out about a month or two months ago now, about a basketball playing goat, and it and it wasn't really well supported, but everybody who saw it told me how much they liked it. And I think this is one of those economy issues. So I thought, well, we're gonna hold on to goat. We're gonna play goat into the school holidays and make sure that people do get the opportunity to see it when the school holidays are on. Um, and to help them along, goat is only gonna cost them$10 to go and see. And that's the same for Hunt for the Wilder people because it's the 10th anniversary, we're gonna do the tickets for that for$10 as well. And one last kid's sort of semi-kids, semi-adults animated film is the movie David. Now, you might remember we talked about David back at Christmas time. So it's the story of David and Goliath and how David becomes the king, etc. The movie was scheduled to come out in December, and just around about the time it was meant to come out, we had that terrible shooting in Sydney of the um the Jewish gathering. And so it was basically almost came off the screens. It basically came off the screens because there was a concern that maybe more things could happen because this is our story about a Jewish king in the Bible, right? So the movie then got re-released a little while back, but I thought it's pretty better for us to show it over Easter. So again, we're showing it in Easter time. It's a musical, great animation. It's a really, really good positive messaging story. If you if you follow, you know, if you're that way inclined, if you enjoy you know, religion and and you want to show your kids a good story, this is a good way to go. And again, it's just gonna be$10 for Easter weekend. That's awesome. Good work. Well, it just means that they're able to um to go and see the movie. I mean, we all get how high expensive everything's getting right now. Uh, I've also got a couple of other movies um which are adult films, some of that older stuff that we've had hanging around for a little while. We're gonna still be having those at$10 as well. So about 50% of the movies you can see are about$10 a piece.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

Oh, that's great. No, I mean that is a good night out for$10 a person.

Hoppers Box Office Predictions

SPEAKER_02 15:51

Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Well, the Ricky Baker, the opening night, 31st of um March, Tuesday night, that's a nationwide event. So cinemas across New Zealand are doing that on that night. And like I said, 10 bucks gets you possibly a a ticket if you win the spot prize, a sausage in a in a in a Cadbury flake, um, a great movie, a fun night out, and ten bucks, man. You can't go wrong. No, that is a bargain. Yeah, absolutely. So look, um, we'll do a prediction, Brent, and then we'll just have a quick chat about a couple other things. So, um, first thing is we're gonna do a prediction on Hoppers. How do you think Hoppers is going to do?

SPEAKER_01 16:30

Well, I I feel there's a lot of talk about Hoppers and the Faraway tree, mainly those two movies around that I'm hearing at the moment. So for Hoppers, an animated movie, I'm gonna go for let's see, 600,000. You know what? I had a feeling you were gonna say that.

Project Hail Mary Gets A Nine

SPEAKER_02 16:46

600,000 it is. Okay, I'm gonna push the boat out a little bit more. And I know it's tough economy right now, but I think we're gonna get about 750,000. Um cool. I hope so. Wait a minute, hang on. I'm gonna have a rethink. Wait a minute. I'm having a rethink. It hasn't it's not school holidays yet, is it? Start it starts next week. Yeah. So okay. I'm gonna go I'm probably gonna I'm gonna shoot myself in the foot here. I just know it. Uh I'll go$590,000. Okay. Hedging your bets. I am, yeah. I was gonna go high, but you know, I always go high and optimistic, and I always seem to be wrong. So I'm just gonna go a little bit lower than you and see how I go. I think it's a I think it's a good it's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off from exactly. People out there hopefully get that reference. But if you if you don't, go watch Dodgeball. So yeah, look, it's it's been a it's been a really interesting time at the movies uh recently, Red. You know, we've had a lot of rain. Uh I know the box office numbers were up today because of the rain. As soon as it rains, movies just go crazy. So one one thing we did on our Facebook page earlier this evening was we posted a thing out there to sort of give people hints and tips about going to the movies and and planning. And I thought that might be a good idea for us just to talk about that because um it is it is quite uh a hassle sometimes going to the movies, and people get themselves in quite a fluster. So, you know, I hopefully this will make it easier on you folks. Um actually, before we talk about that, we would just talk about one thing. Uh you saw Project Hail Mary, correct? I did, yes, yeah. And what would you rate that out of ten? Oh, I'd give it a good nine. Yeah, I I saw it and I would absolutely rate it a good solid nine as well. Um, Project Hail Mary, in my opinion, is probably one of the best sci-fi films or you know, or best almost buddy films that's come out of Hollywood in maybe five, ten years.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

Yeah, it it's spectacular too on this big screen. You've got to see it. It's um beautifully shot. You know, all the we were just talking about it coming out of all the the great shots of the camera sort of coming down and twisting back when it comes to Earth like they've been in orbit on the on the space station. Just very subtle but clever things all the way through. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 18:59

I think it's it's well worth the watch, folks. So uh do go and check out Project Hail Mary. Um, it's the kind of movie, in my opinion, that gets people of that um 16 plus to say 30 back to the movies because it's it's a movie you do want to see on the big screen. I know that sounds really um self-serving, I suppose, but I know that uh people who've seen it in IMAX just blew their minds. Um, you know, obviously we only have two IMAX cinemas in New Zealand at the moment, so if you're in Wellington or Auckland, you're okay. But outside of that, just find the biggest screen you can find to watch it on, and um you'll have a ball.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

And I think the, you know, and and the true sign of algorithms, the first thing that popped up in my Facebook feed after I'd seen the movie was a Rocky Plush toy.

How To Plan A Smooth Visit

Etiquette That Saves Everyone’s Night

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Yeah. Well, uh again, their marketing is so on point. Yeah. Ryan Gosling, who's in the film, he um he's obviously the star of it, but he's also the producer of the film. And he's absolutely nailed the marketing and the planning and everything around it. And there was a I just before I got you on this link, um, I just watching a one on YouTube where Ryan Gosling is trying to sleep. Yes, and and Rocky's going, you know, oh Ryan Gosling is sleeping. It's so funny. He goes, hang on, I'll count the seconds until you wake up. It's very clever. It's they're big, really clever, really smart marketing. And I love the marketing for this film. I go I gave Sony a shout out um previously and said to them, look, you know, fair play. They've done a great marketing campaign for this film. Um, and it's better than any marketing campaign I've seen for a very long time for any other film, literally since COVID. They've just done such a great job. So well done, Sony, if you're listening. Okay, so let's talk about movie tips and uh movie picks. Now we've already talked about the movie picks, right? The kids' films for the holidays. But here's a couple of tips that we posted on our Facebook page. Make sure you have a time plan. One of the worst things in the world is throwing the kids into the car and racing to the movie theatre, hurry, and you know, especially when it's raining and bad weather and it's cold and miserable or it's dark. If you're in a hurry to get the movie theatre, that might go against you because the car parks will all be full. So it's a really good idea to make sure you plan early, uh, leave the house earlier, um, especially with all the traffic and stuff, because you might get held up and you know, if you've booked tickets already, great. But if you haven't booked tickets and you roll up, you're in a panic to get them and buy some popcorn and get the kids to the toilet. So always we recommend people give themselves a good bit of time to get to the cinema, even if it's just your local cinema. Um, don't and it look, worst case scenario, if you do turn up late, just and you missed half the movie, just go up to the counter and ask them to swap your tickets into the next film and then go have some lunch or go shopping and then come back and watch the film in the next session. Just a better way to go. Obviously, rain, we're having a lot of rain at the moment. The rule of thumb with rain is everything sells out at movie theatres and. And people are always surprised how busy movie theatres are when it rains, um, especially in the summer, but in the winter as well. So recommend that if you are thinking going to movies and it's raining on the next day, you and you're planning to go, book online. You will pay a booking fee, but the booking fee obviously covers the cost of all the um technology they use and we all use to actually um make that stuff work. But I'd rather pay a dollar, dollar fifty booking fee per ticket than drive 45 minutes, get to the theatre, and find out it was all sold out. Yeah, I always pre-book online, always. Yeah. And if you happen to be in town, like if you're gonna go to the movie on a Friday and you're in town anyway on a Thursday, go to the movie theater and just walk in, buy the tickets there and then. You can even get and show you where your seats are and they'll sort you out, they'll look after you. And that way you don't even have to worry about queuing up unless you want to buy some candy items, you know. Okay, so um that's the online tickets, definitely pre-book. Um biggest thing I say to people is just relax because it's very stressful, and I see this all the time, and being a parent, you're a parent, you know, it's like when we had little kids. Just relax. Even if everything seems to be going to custard, just take it easy. Uh, we get some people who get very irate when they're waiting in the queue and the queues are long and they're saying they're going, why can't I just why can't I get into my movie theatre? Um, if you do find yourself turning up late and you're at the back of a queue, just again pop over and speak to a staff member and say, Look, um, my movie's about to start. Is there any way I could get taken to the front of the line? Um, some cinemas will do this, maybe some don't. I always do. I'll I'll just basically be yelling out to people in the queue, is anybody going to this movie? Five people put their hand up, I just say, excuse me, folks, the movie's about to start. And we just bring them to the front. And I think that that's um, you know, it's really important that you just take it easy, relax. And it is very stressful for you, but it's also stressful for the staff when it's busy. So everybody just take a chill pill. Yeah. And I mean, the next thing I've said in my little notes there was that just enjoy yourself and be kind to everybody else. Um, and what I mean by that is when you're watching the films, um, if you put your feet on the seats and the person beh in front of you something has your feet in their hair, that's not a very cool thing to do. Cinemas don't want people's feet on their seats. If you're taking a phone call, and unfortunately a lot of people just seem to think this is totally fine now, texting their mates, taking photographs of themselves in the theatre while the movie's going, or um, you know, uh talking on the phone, taking phone calls. Uh if you want to do that, you shouldn't be in a cinema, in my opinion. You should probably go to a library and annoy them. That's my thought on that. Or some or go somewhere else. But being in the theatre is definitely not where you need to be right now. Um so yeah, just enjoy yourself and enjoy the film. And uh, of course, at the end of the film, be a tidy kiwi, pick up all your rubbish and put it in the bin. I know sometimes it's not easy, but if you the quicker that we get those cinemas cleaned between sessions, the quicker we can get the next hundred, two hundred people into that theatre to make sure that they also enjoy themselves. There's nothing worse than having to spend an extra 15 minutes cleaning a cinema because it's so filthy, and you know that that's just backing the queues up outside. But you we don't want people to come into a theatre and have to sit in other people's mess. And uh yeah, again, just make sure you choose your movies. If there's so much stuff to watch, you just need to go on your local cinema's website and check them out, and uh they'll be able to help you. I mean, look, at the end of the day, we're all in the business of giving people great entertainment and we want you to have an amazing time. So for us, it's a case of just wanting you guys to pop in, have a great time, um, and then maybe choose from what you see on the screen, choose what you're wanting to see next. Whenever we do an event, especially for schools, on the top of the run sheet that I send to school, say, This is what's going to happen, these are the time frames, uh, it says make sure you take the kids to the toilet before the movie starts. That's the number one thing.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

Yeah, uh yeah, getting up and getting out and missing the movie, not what you spend your money on.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Exactly. Yeah, exactly. And if you've got a kid, I always, again, when when you're buying your tickets, if you've got a little kid with you and you think they may need to go to the toilet, um, sit on the aisle. Makes it so much easier to get up and whisk them out rather than trying to push your way through a whole lot of people if you're sitting in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Yeah, exactly. I know those are all good tips. And you got that on the cafe and Lido Facebook pages? Yeah, it's on the cafe page.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

I might put it on the Lido Facebook page as well. But it's it's just we we try and put these tips out every holidays just to help people along because um, you know, it's all education at the end of the day. Um, you'd think it would be easy, but um, I know that when you've got a bunch of kids at home and it's raining and it's the school holidays, and you think, aha, I'll go to the movies. Parking is the biggest problem you're gonna find is trying trying to find somewhere to park, that you're not gonna be, you know, getting yourself soaked on the way to the theatre.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

I know that's all good. And look, we'll see how our prediction goes, and you've hedged your bets, and hopefully I can actually claw back a win at some stage. Oh, well, I wouldn't be surprised if you do win.

SPEAKER_02 27:06

I haven't bothered to look at what Hoppers is doing, but um I'm I try and avoid looking at the films we're gonna we're gonna make these predictions on because I don't want to have any advanfair advantage. Um but I think you know we're we're both in for a good good chance of being right, uh especially with this weather this weekend.

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SPEAKER_00 27:21

Absolutely. All right, well, we'll catch up next time. Excellent. Thank you, buddy. Thanks for listening to Eat Sleep Movie. Repeat, repeat a movie podcast available at Bug Sprout, Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.