Alien Covenant and Why Home Cinema is best

Yesterday I saw Alien:Covenant.

"The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape."

The movie was very good, far better than I expected, I have seen all of the other Alien movies and Prometheus (watch this again before you watch Alien:Covenant, I'd forgotten most of it) and it was one of the best.  

In fact I thought the film stood well as a stand alone movie, You don't need to have seen the previous films to enjoy it.

What I didn't enjoy was the actual movie experience, The film was supposed to start at 7:50pm. There was at least 25 mins of adverts, bad adverts as well, mainly for internet and 3G/4G phone data. This was followed by only 2 trailers for movies that I can't even remember, some more adverts for Coke and Popcorn, a Car advert for the surround sound and then finally the movie started.

All I kept thinking as I looked around the empty cinema, with 95% of the seats free was how annoying being forced to watch adverts was and how much more I would enjoy watching this at home or at one of my customers home cinemas.  Walk in press a button, choose a movie and sit back and enjoy, pause it whenever you want, no adverts.

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So in Summary: Good movie, see it but either turn up after the adverts or watch it in your own home cinema for the best experience, unless you like adverts, boring adverts.

Ben Hobbs

Ben is the MD of Thailand's first Smart Home company - H3 Digital.  He uses his Home Technology experience to bring homes to life, featuring the latest in Home Cinema, Multi Room Audio and Lighting Control Systems.

http://www.cinema-at-home.co.uk
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