This amazingly quirky spot shows great films that you can watch while lounging in a bean bag chair!! How great is that?!?!
Great idea to show films in a room filled with beanbags. If you are fit enough to sit almost on the floor then it's worth a visit. It shows a varied selection of eclectic films but things that generally most people would never see otherwise.
Ok place bean bags uncomfortable though
I attended the Beanbag cinema during October and saw the 1963 horror film - the Haunting. This was my first visit to the cinema. It was a lot smaller than I expected. The beanbags could certainly do with upgrading or at least thorough cleaning and given that there was so little space people literally walked all over the beanbags to get to the loo or to sit where they wished. That said there was a nice, cosy atmosphere in the room and very appropriate atmosphere for the horror film event. The organiser was a very affable and approachable person who made me feel very welcome and also introduced the film to the audience present. I enjoyed seeing the film again and for the first time from a TV to a much bigger screen. I had expected a bigger screen and a more state of the art one as well as sound reproduction. The film quality was good but the sound reproduction was what stood out as disappointing for me and given that the film relied as much as it did on sounds and noises to create tension, horror, fear and so on, this lessened the impact of an other wise good evening out. I wish the organisers well and congratulate them on their initiative in setting up the Beanbag cinema as an alternative centre of cinema experience for Belfast. I hope they plan to hold and showcase more films on a more frequent basis than they currently do.
I attended the Beanbag cinema during October and saw the 1963 horror film - the Haunting. This was my first visit to the cinema. It was a lot smaller than I expected. The beanbags could certainly do with upgrading or at least thorough cleaning and given that there was so little space people literally walked all over the beanbags to get to the loo or to sit where they wished. That said there was a nice, cosy atmosphere in the room and very appropriate atmosphere for the horror film event. The organiser was a very affable and approachable person who made me feel very welcome and also introduced the film to the audience present. I enjoyed seeing the film again and for the first time from a TV to a much bigger screen. I had expected a bigger screen and a more state of the art one as well as sound reproduction. The film quality was good but the sound reproduction was what stood out as disappointing for me and given that the film relied as much as it did on sounds and noises to create tension, horror, fear and so on, this lessened the impact of an other wise good evening out. I wish the organisers well and congratulate them on their initiative in setting up the Beanbag cinema as an alternative centre of cinema experience for Belfast. I hope they plan to hold and showcase more films on a more frequent basis than they currently do.
Beanbag Cinema is located at 5 Exchange Pl, Belfast BT1 2NA, UK
You can contact Beanbag Cinema at +44 28 9032 5913
You can find directions to Beanbag Cinema by following this map link