Dun Dun Dun Dun Da Dun Dun De Dun

This afternoon

Odean Cinema, Charlestown, Finglas, Dublin 11

Gavin Warren (in Darth mask) conducts the Finglas Concert Marching Band as the Odeon cinema annouce that 90% of sales at its cinemas this weekend were for Star Wars:The Force Awakens.

Ninety per cent.

Thanks Aislinn.

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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26 thoughts on “Dun Dun Dun Dun Da Dun Dun De Dun”

Clampers Outside! December 21, 2015 at 3:10 pm

Fair play !

And fair play to Cineworld staff on Parnell St for managing a massive long queue with great haste and smiles on Saturday night :)

DubLoony December 21, 2015 at 3:15 pm

Savoy cinema all screen had Star Wars over the weekend apart from one showing of Brooklyn.
Place was crammed with kids and adults reliving their childhood. Great fun.
Just not buying the merchandise.

scottser December 21, 2015 at 3:23 pm

i took d mammy there on sunday, pretty cool as she took an 8 year old scottser to the first one in 1977..
1. Spaghetti Hoop December 21, 2015 at 4:03 pm
  
  Well I hope she didn’t fall asleep in the cinema and snore loudly like my father did for E.T. in the Savoy ’82.
  1. scottser December 21, 2015 at 4:13 pm
    
    :) no, but now she wants to see the skelligs ‘before i die’. jeez louise..

Funster Fionnanánn December 21, 2015 at 3:20 pm

The Americanization of a nation.

Depressing.

Are drive thru banks on the way?

vaD December 21, 2015 at 3:23 pm

If the BluShirts get back into power in the forthcoming GE, Americanisation will be enforced in incremental fashion. Drive “through” banks are on the way (back – AIB has had at least two – Baggot Street and Cornelscourt, where Zig & Zag’s spaceship landed)
ReproBertie December 21, 2015 at 3:24 pm

We already had a drive through bank in Cornelscourt.

Ah, the irony of spelling americanisation with a z.
1. Clampers Outside! December 21, 2015 at 3:25 pm
  
  That’s a Boom-Boom! of a spot Repro :)
  1. Funster Fionnanánn December 21, 2015 at 3:55 pm
    
    Bunch of clowns.
    
    My iPhone is American.
    
    And it’s drive thru. Drive through is a crime.
    1. ReproBertie December 21, 2015 at 3:57 pm
      
      My iphone is also American but my brain and fingers are Irish.
      
      All that aside, how is people going to see a film the americanisation of a nation? Particularly when the film is about a galaxy far, far away.
    2. Funster Fionnanánn December 21, 2015 at 4:00 pm
      
      The celebration of a movie franchise is embarrassing. It’s what Americans do.
      
      But you keep sipping your sugary cream topped “coffee”.
      
      And if you take the time to change the automatic spelling when commenting on this site you are mental.
    3. Caroline December 21, 2015 at 4:04 pm
      
      It’s actually just called coffee here too.
    4. Funster Fionnanánn December 21, 2015 at 4:06 pm
      
      Cream and sprinkles does not a coffee make.
    5. ReproBertie December 21, 2015 at 4:06 pm
      
      I don’t drink coffee.
      
      I correct automatic spelling when it’s wrong because it’s wrong.
      
      A band being used in conjunction with the release of a film that’s getting a lot of publicity to promote a newly opened cinema is many things. A sign that Ireland is being Americanised is not one of those things. Except in your perception. Maybe you should put your sugary cream topped “coffee” down and wonder why your perception has coloured it as such.
    6. Funster Fionnanánn December 21, 2015 at 4:17 pm
      
      Thanks, I needed that.
      
      Happy holidays, Neighbor.
    7. Clampers Outside! December 21, 2015 at 4:39 pm
      
      Funster has never been to a Bollywood movie by the sounds of it.
      
      It’s not a Hollywood / American thing. Celebrations around movies is far more of a thing in India than in the US.
    8. Funster Fionnanánn December 21, 2015 at 4:55 pm
      
      Good lad. Stand down. Have a holiday from the comments section for a few hours.
2. Funster Fionnanánn December 21, 2015 at 3:56 pm
  
  My point.
  
  You sound like one of those “Irish” people that use police instead of guards.
  1. notlucas December 22, 2015 at 8:12 am
    
    * Gardaí.
Clampers Outside! December 21, 2015 at 3:25 pm

We already had drive thru banks. It didn’t fly.
1. DubLoony December 21, 2015 at 3:27 pm
  
  In fairness, the JCB was supposed to leave the ATM in place but it didn’t work out that way.
  1. Clampers Outside! December 21, 2015 at 4:39 pm
    
    :o)
Saint Paul December 21, 2015 at 3:59 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydLcs4VrjZQ
1. Bertie Blenkinsop December 22, 2015 at 8:45 am
  
  With Luther Vandross on backing vocals.
  Quality.