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Website Of The Week – Odeon

Honoured with a visit this week is the Odeon cinema website, which covers all of the Odeon cinemas in the UK, and includes listings and booking facilities as well as previews and projections.
The site is well presented and simple, with an impressive moving front page and a personalised greeting to meet you once you have registered with the site – NICE! This site is practical in the truest sense of the word, as you can book tickets online for any film showing anywhere, anytime you want, in any Odeon cinema of your choice.
There is a moderately interesting piece on the history of cinema and how it came about, which I suspect only reveiwers like myself and people with time to kill will bother reading throughly.
The Odeon website is also scattered with reviews and accounts of features coming soon, which unfortunately are of the poorest quality. Not only do they provide absolutely no insight into the films themselves, what they attempt to do – which is either to summarise the events of the whole film or set the scene for the avid viewer – is not only unnecessary but quite annoying on the whole. In fact, it is reminiscent of those situations where you go to see a film with someone who has already seen it, and the intolerable spoil-sport keeps telling you about the bits coming up, and if not exactly what’s going to happen, then things like “I love this bit”, and “Oh, you’re not going to believe this part.”
Despite this rather irritating aspect however, on the whole the site is a practical, functional and useful one, and very convenient in the sense that it stops you worrying about whether you are going to have to queue forever outside the cinema on Friday night, only to finally not get in.