Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

[Yinster]

As all codes to the free films are now coming up as invalid.

if codes are coming up as invalid it usually means there is none available. If you refreshed it again the page sometimes shows all the locations but no tickets left. If in doubt about whether they be showing it those with tickets will start getting reminder emails a few days before the particular showings. It is unlikely they cancel but if they do they will email you saying so if you have tickets

[Jamie5785]

I've just had a reminder from ShowFilmFirst about my Sunday screening, so it doesn't look as though they're cancelling.

[scootermcc]

I've just had a reminder from ShowFilmFirst about my Sunday screening, so it doesn't look as though they're cancelling.

Could just be an automatic reminder email.Funny how every code that has been given out now shows code invalid.Never seen this before,if there are no more tickets available it normally says that.Just have to wait and see if the showings are on but the signs are not good and given the circumstances you can understand the showings being cancelled.

[Beate]

No, actually I can't understand. Why would his death invalidate any future showings of this film? It's a film about his life, people will want to see it.

[steve9872]

I just clicked on a couple of codes for this and they still had one location available. Nothing wrong with them that I saw, they were bookable.

[caitlinmorton]

No, actually I can't understand. Why would his death invalidate any future showings of this film? It's a film about his life, people will want to see it.

I'm with Beate on this one. I feel like the demand might actually go up, given the circumstances?

[The Sparrow]

The film will be released, the previews will go ahead and as I said earlier, demand will be high.

The message saying the code is invalid, is not new at all. There is nothing to worry about.

[winitfamily]

Went too Greenwich Odeon this morning too see Mandela Long Walk to Freedom film. I knew the basic background of Mandela. But it was interesting too find out more behind the Man. I thought it was quite a powerful film and done well. My Hubby enjoyed the film too.
I would say that Greenwich odeon was over 3 quarters filled. We arrived 10 minutes before the start and sat 3 rows back from the front.

[valda]

Went too Greenwich Odeon this morning too see Mandela Long Walk to Freedom film. I knew the basic background of Mandela. But it was interesting too find out more behind the Man. I thought it was quite a powerful film and done well. My Hubby enjoyed the film too.
I would say that Greenwich odeon was over 3 quarters filled. We arrived 10 minutes before the start and sat 3 rows back from the front.

What was the atmosphere like in the screening? I still can't get over his passing, when they were having the premiere

[raj101]

You could watch any half decent movie about Mandela and it becomes something special, and this screening was no exception. Simply the story is enough to set this film apart.

Elba was good though probably a little big and perhaps a little cheeky-looking for this role. Harris good as Mrs Mandela, though the actress playing his first wife looked much more like Winnie. Anyways the film is about character development of the two over the 27 years of incarceration. In particular the emphasis on how ordinary people act and change when placed in impenetrably difficult situations. Winnies fate was almost an image of what Nelson might have become had he remained an angry young man, or was not blessed with such foresight, whereas Mandelas fate is of course a more sublime apotheosis. The focus was on the pair of them being human and flawed, and the price of their sacrifices. Rather off putting that no one clapped at the end of the movie, given the time of NM's passing, but they seemed to busy wondering what McDonalds they were going to order or some other far more important stupid Surrey shite that they do. Anyway, 9/10, not a great movie but good raised to great by the ineffable but true story.