{"id":70,"date":"2004-10-10T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T13:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=70"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:17","slug":"ugc-cinema-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2004\/10\/10\/ugc-cinema-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"UGC Cinema Pass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering yet again about the UGC Cinema pass. It&#8217;s a 12 month minimum subscription pass that gives apparently unlimited cinema screenings. Pay \u00c2\u00a310 a month and see every film if you so desire.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been wondering about this for a while now. As I see it there are advantages and disadvantages:<br \/>\nAdvantages<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a310\/month is less than twice the evening ticket price<\/li>\n<li>I would see more films if there is no additional cost per film<\/li>\n<li>The UGC is a good cinema with nice screens and plenty of showings<\/li>\n<li>It would be really good if people I know also get one which some already have and several are talking about<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disadvantages<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would have to see everything at the UGC unless I want to pay again<\/li>\n<li>UGC showing times can be a bit odd sometimes<\/li>\n<li>I have to get to the UGC which does cost money and take time. Fountainbridge is some distance from me<\/li>\n<li>12 month minimum term direct debit (or presumably \u00c2\u00a3120 payment). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the moment I&#8217;m a bit undecided. I think I&#8217;ll probably go for it if enough of my friends also do, because that would make a lot of sense if we all had passes and went to the same cinema. I might also cancel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videoisland.com\">VideoIsland<\/a> (dvd rentals) because I think I&#8217;m not watching enough DVDs (I keep missing the post).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering yet again about the UGC Cinema pass. It&#8217;s a 12 month minimum subscription pass that gives apparently unlimited cinema screenings. Pay \u00c2\u00a310 a month and see every film if you so desire. I&#8217;ve been wondering about this for a while now. As I see it there are advantages and disadvantages: Advantages \u00c2\u00a310\/month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}