7 Suggestions That Would INSTANTLY Improve Cinemas

Going to see a film at the cinema can seem like a chore; even when you're fired up with excitement on opening night, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with your best buddies and you can't wait to see a film you've been waiting for.

It isn't just booking tickets, driving out, finding a parking space, queuing up to get your ticket, and then queuing up again to get yourself a snack; once you're seated in the theatre you enter a Mad Max wasteland of lawlessness where it's every twit against the other in a race to see who can be the most rude, obnoxious or downright ignorant of the other people around them.

Since theatre etiquette was invented, the rules have been bent and broken, to the point where some people are loathe to attend the cinemas and instead wait for films to come out on Blu-Ray or streaming services. Even worse are the folks who are actively harming the film and cinema industry by illegally streaming films from their iPads and laptops, but that's an entirely different issue altogether

While some cinema brands have gone to great lengths to make things a little more comfortable for paying customers; (a shout out has to go to ODEON Luxe for turning their theatres into a First Class airplane ride), the battle to drive potential audiences off their sofas and back into the screens still wages on.

So let's look at seven ways cinemas could improve or adapt, and re-attract paying customers.

Game of Thrones could go down as one of the most cinematic TV shows in history; thanks to the budget and spectacle that went behind the production of its impressive battle sequences and CGI set pieces.

But for many fans of the show, their experience watching it tended to be on their own flat-screens or laptops. While some bars and even fewer independent cinemas did screen premier episodes like they were events, the ability to watch an episode with as much effort put into it as a film was always limited to the small screen.

It's understood that Movies and TV are two completely seperate business entities, but the want to see the expertly shot episodes of Breaking Bad or True Detective surely exist and much like a later entry in this article, re-watching them could also have demand?

While we're not permitting this idea be opened up to everything (no one wants to watch Eastenders on a 40ft screen), TV shows that boasted on being shot with superb cinematography deserve the chance to be shown on something wider than a 50" Samsung, and heard via something more spectacular than a Sound Bar.

And while the argument can be made that TV shows should stay away from cinema screens and the two should never meet, a similar argument can be made that an opportunity to watch The Battle of the Bastards on a big screen with amped up sound and 4K visuals would warrant attention and sales, even if it's a one-off screening.