Odeon Cinemas

I’m not a massive fan of going to the cinema, I don’t like other people around me making noise while I’m trying to watch a film!
However Scott got a good deal on some cinema tickets, so we went twice over the weekend.
I enjoyed the films that I saw. The cinema was clean, if a little hot in the lobby, but the rooms with the screens were nice and air conditioned.
I’m giving it three stars simply because I’m not a fan of the cinema, I’d rather watch a film in the comfort of my own home. Also going to the cinema these days is ridiculously expensive!

I always fall asleep watching films.
So I can tell you this, there is enough room to comfortably fall asleep in this Odeon.
They screen all the latest films.
The snacks are ridiculously expensive.
It’s in a great location and is pretty easy to find.
Needs a bit of renovation.

Avoid screen 8 at all costs! Very disappointing visit. The staff were the best thing about the place. Everything else was run down and in a poor state of repair. Faint bad smell in the auditorium. Will avoid in the future unless it is completely renovated.

Good example of the Odeon chain, friendly and helpful staff. But the toilets leave a lot to be desired. not sure what it is with cinemas but at least the movie didn’t stink. No problems with sound or image and we snuck into the première seats so it was a comfy 3 hours. but with 12 Years A Slave we were anything but cosy.

good cinema with cheap prices and good selection of movies the only downfall screening for 3d movies are too dark in this cinema

This place has taken quite a bit flack in the past and, to be honest, it was relevant. However things have improved but there still remains the Parking problem if you need it. There may be deals with Churchill Square but it still comes as additional cost. Why not slightly raise the price of a ticket and offer free parking for punters ??

Large cinema situated at the bottom of West Street. The screens are spread out in a rather haphazard way, screen 1 in particular seems to be miles away from the ticket area. They do get all the blockbusters but tickets/​food etc are quite pricey.
They will refund the cost of your parking in Churchill Square carpark, but they don’t seem to advertise this fact.

Tickets were pricey… although they do have a Premium Seat option for another pound that gave you more legroom and a wider seat I guess. I tried it out, found it not to be worth the money.
I enjoyed the movie, but overall its just a big commercial movie spot, nothing special, does the job.

Went to see the bonkers Piranha 3D here this week. I think it’s a good all-​rounder. Our ticket prices were very reasonable, having taken advantage of a certain mobile phone weekday promotion, especially for a 3D movie.
The cinema is comfortable, perfectly situated and the staff are friendly and helpful.
(Take out a mortgage for the pick and mix though!)

With it’s seafront location, this Odeon lends itself to be easily included in a night out. Despite only being an 8 screen cinema it tends to show a wide range of films and balance the range better than the Brighton Cineworld do.
One of my favourite things about the Odeon is the ‘Director’s Chair’ screening every Tuesday. This is essentially a screening at around 8pm of a slightly more independent or smaller movie that might have had a shorter run at the cinema and offers film buffs a second chance to see it.
Prices on snacks are what’s to be expected from a cinema, but I don’t mind it too much as I know that’s where the cinemas make their money. There is also a Ben and Jerry’s Café attached, proximity to such a range of ice-​cream always helps things.
One issue I found with this Odeon though is that they don’t accept student discounts at the weekend. They do have a loyalty ‘Première Card’ which seems alright, you only have to see 4 or 5 movies to get results from it.

Odeon is pretty good if you want to go see a huge blockbuster and have it scream and shout at you until face bleeds but in terms of personability it falls like toddler.
If the price of the ticket doesn’t offend you, just take a stroll over to the food counter for some extortionately insulting prices. When I was a kid and was accompanied by parents to the cinema, I absolutely adored the Ice Blast-​now I feel bad and want to reimburse my mum for the countless pounds spent on that damn tasty mush.
You can’t really complain about the entertainment, my hometown still has an intermission-​but they do bring out ice creams to you during the break.
They mainly deal with American cheese-​fests, so I would generally opt for the Dukes. But as I said, if you want to get screamed at.

There’s only one reason I go to the Odeon.
That’s to see the Director’s Club screenings every Tuesday evening.
There’s only one screening and sadly the directors are never present — which makes the title a bit misleading I know! — but its a great opportunity to catch films I missed at Duke of York. Occasionally there will be something I couldn’t care less about but usually it’s great art house, independent and world cinema flicks like Into The Wild, Wendy and Lucy and last night’s gem, Synecdoche, New York.
The rest of the time, this ugly multiplex shows mainstream movies like Fame, Harry Potter and Fantastic Mr Fox. They also sell extortionate ice-​cream, popcorn and hot dogs in the foyer. Never tried them myself and unlikely to start now since one of my pet hates is listening to other people eating through a fab movie!

The Odeon is huge. Odeon is huge. It’s a chain and there are many of these multiplexes across the city. Being a Film graduate I am partial to a bit of cinema going and although I love cinemas with charm and a more unique feel, it is nigh on impossible to avoid the multiplexes.
You don’t need to have a degree in film to love movies, or to enjoy going to the cinema to see them and although the independents are often more lovingly treated by their patrons, they can sometimes feel a little exclusive and alienating. Cinema was always seen as a form as escape and one shouldn’t be snobbish about how others choose to escape. The Odeon provides a huge programme of films, which allow this escapism to take place. The prices are reasonable (£7.20, or £5 with a student card Mon-​Thurs); you can take advantage of the two-​for-​one Orange Wednesday offers and they have a new points-​based reward scheme so you can even get free tickets.
The Odeon is of course, housed in a monstrously uninspired building and the price of popcorn and drinks is utterly ludicrous. The screens are fine, but the sound can sometimes be too low. The staff range from being excellent and polite to mournful and miserable, but on the whole, if you want to see some of the most up-​to-​date and popular films, then get down to the Odeon. Just be warned, after all that escaping you might be shocked when you step back into the depressing foyer!

Good for a movie — Orange weds etc… take your own food and drinks as buying in there is a definate no go, as they charge an absolute fortune… Popcorn u may as well go XL if you do buy it as the small is tiny and only about 50p less.

I’ve been to see a couple of films here, usually on an Orange Wednesday ticket because full price seems too much to sit in a concrete corporate box that happens to have a film screen. Compared to the Duke of York’s this cinema has absolutely no personality– the outside is an ugly dirt brown pebbled-​dashed monstrosity and the inside smells of stale popcorn and has tacky Las Vegas carpeting without the Las Vegas. I have to grudgingly admit though that to see the Bourne trilogy the huge screens and surround sound of the Odeon is pretty good. If the Duke of York’s has another screen though that showed a few more of the junk food films that we all like to indulge in sometimes… but then it wouldn’t be the Duke of York’s…a conundrum.

Easy to find cinema on the sea front.
The building is a little too big and felt a bit creepy being sent up in a lift to an unknown layout.
The screen was a good size and seats were comfy.
These were allocated and an unsher helpfully showed up to where we need to sit.
The 3d presentation was crisp, though we had to rummage out our own 3d glasses from in front of the auditorium doors.
We got lost on the way out as the cinema is so spread out and felt quite isolated with such gaps in design and direction.
Still you can’t beat the central location. The different types of seat vary in price depending on where you’d like to be positioned. Obviously middle center is the predictable favourite.

I saw a couple films here and it was spectatularly average. It wasn’t too expensive but it wasn’t cheap. The theaters weren’t amazing but they were certainly clean enough for my liking.

years ago, when i was young, this was THE cinema to go to. HUGE screens, perfect for seeing the wonders of Star Wars looming ahead of you. It felt so fancy to go up in the big escalators. Sadly, when remodelling the large screens were carved up into lots of smaller ones, and you rarely get the big cinema experience you used to. Having said that, if you plump for the posh seats at the back you get plenty of leg room and if you park in the right car park and get your ticket scanned you can get a couple of hours of free parking

dmj1962’s said most of it, but this is pretty good for a multiplex cinema: three big plus points are that it is central (so not out-​of-​town) and accessible by public transport; it has a couple of very large auditoriums; and has a wonderful position on the sea front. The minus point is that the building is so ugly, even by multiplex standards. How did we get to here starting from the wonderful Art Deco heritage of cinema?
The food available is pretty much junk — I really don’t understand the attraction of mass-​produced popcorn, which to me is like eating expanded polystyrene. And it seems to be coming in ever larger boxes — one couple the other night had a box about 1ft tall between them.
The drink selection in the bar is pretty limited, too — the only beers are in bottles (and nothing exciting at that), and they have two choices of red wine. It’s OK for a quick pre-​film drink, but it’s not like a theatre bar. The views from it are good, though.
Be aware that West Street is the binge drinking centre of Brighton, so you could go to see a nice film on a Saturday at 7:30pm when it’s fairly quiet, and emerge at 10pm to face a stream of intoxicated youth, corralled by Police vans. It can be a bit of a shock. Turning hard left reveals a small side road (via some steps) to the car parks and Russell Place without having to run the gauntlet of West Street, or simply turn right and right again to go via the sea front. It’s not dangerous (too many Police for that) but may feel a bit intimidating if you’re not prepared for it.

What can one say? This is pretty much like any other Odeon multiplex cinema. It’s part of the complex adjacent to the Brighton Centre, and now has a large (and separately operated) bar complex beneath it. As modern buildings of its type go, it’s not the worst, but it definitely doesn’t work in what is a prime town centre/​seafront location.
The interior is a warren of mezzanines and stairs, all decked out in the corporate colours with blue patterned carpets and cream walls. There are 8 screens in all, all of which except for screen 7 are wheelchair accessible (ie level access via lifts) and and have wheelchair spaces.
On the ground floor there is a shop and snack bar selling confectionery and popcorn, and from 17:30h daily there is a licensed bar open to patrons only. This actually has stunning views of the seafront, but they don’t seem to make much of it (a badly placed pillar doesn’t help, but you still feel it is a missed opportunity).
The film choice is your standard Hollywood blockbuster, and it doesn’t stray far from this tried and tested formula. The staff seem pleasant and efficient enough, and some of the screens are quite large, which is good for recent releases.
Prices are standard for non-​London cinemas, with single adult tickets at £6 off peak and £7 at peak times (roughly week-​day evenings and week-​end afternoons and evenings). There are all sorts of discounts and concessions listed on the website.
One advantage of the central location is that it is very easy to get to by public transport: the main Churchill Square bus stops are 5 minutes away, the railway station 10 minutes, and adjacent are the huge multi-​storey car parks of the Churchill Centre.
For performances with advertised start times of 17:30h onwards, customers using the Churchill Centre NCP 1 or 2 car parks get the first three hours free, provided they get their car park ticket validated by cinema staff. (This does not apply to the Russell Square NCP car park).