The Everyman Cinema Club, an eight theatre business serves wasbi peas, olives and Italian bread. We understand the wine list is quite up-market.

For those who loathe the smell of popcorn, at least they have the opportunity to watch movies without thinking about throwing up at vital moments.

Others will say it’s an institution that cannot end, like the monarchy; surely it’s treason to even consider it. No longer it appears.

We all know (or you will now having read this) that movie houses don’t make money from selling tickets and seats to you. They make it from the amount of junk food they can get you to consume. Where else would you pay that much for a Coke or a Pepsi and not want to call in the consumer protection office to get those people to explain how they can charge enough for just one drink that could buy you a crate full at your local supermarket? The boxes and bags cost more to produce than the popcorn in them.

Could it be the noise of rustling containers and the crunching of that imitation food that haunts cinema goers or is it still those challenged people who not only keep their cell phone on, but take the calls?

Oh for the days when there was a break between films and you had to queue at the front to buy the only item on offer; a nice quiet ice cream in a tub.

Perhaps it’s the cinemas that are to blame for culture’s current obesity? Where else can you be guaranteed more salt and sugar necessary for ten weeks, than in a ninety minute feast of popcorn and cola?

For the informed: Popcorn is a two billion dollar industry with most of it made/grown in Nebraska and Indiana. To save some comments, unflavoured popcorn is high in fibre, low in calories, salt-free and sugar-free.

Personally I like both Pepsi and Coca Cola, but I see the evidence sat on my stomach.

‘I didn’t know what was happening so I fell asleep.’ Well not me, but one of my companions on this fun filled visit to the local movie theatre. Actually two of them fell asleep, so that’s 50% of our team. They didn’t miss all of the film, but probably a third of it, so the ending might have rejuvenated them or perhaps it was just the thought of the film ending and home time being just around the corner. They may have been tired; it might have been the movie.

WALL-E has some interesting surprises; it’s probably not the film you expected it to be. When you see it listed as a child’s film you think it’s going to be full of tempo, fun, jokes and excitement. WALL-E is not that movie. WALL-E is a computer animated adventure and science fiction film.

Firstly, it’s a Walt Disney film so you know the standard must be high. It’s also a PIxar movie, so you now expect brilliance and you get it, but in the quality of the film making, not necessarily in the expected ways of entertainment and fun.

It takes us through a romance between two robots from the future. Instead of dialogue, we get the robot’s sounds and body language.

WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth-Class) meets EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator.) EVE is trying to find life on earth. WALL-E has found life on earth after 700 years. The humans in space have been waiting to go back to their earth, but are now all television watching cabbage potatoes losing bone structure, but having gained body mass from what looks like 30+ meals a week at their local greasy fast food eatery.

Sigourney Weaver is one of the voices used and I can’t help but wonder why these types of movies need such expensive (no offence Ms Weaver) big name stars to ‘talk’ for the animated characters when they don’t need to appear on the film, in person. I’m told because they are the world’s elite actors they give the world’s best performances required by the animators. I can’t help that think that many skilled actors could have done the task for many millions less, but that won’t make the theatre ticket price any less. I don’t believe we go to the cinema to hear our stars when we visit an animated feature.

The movie isn’t thrilling; it is enjoyable as it sends out two clear messages of love between two people (well here, it’s two robots) and the message that if we don’t take care of the planet we’ll lose what we have and need to live in a spaceship somewhere orbiting a long way, away waiting for the earth to restore itself without our help.

It’s the only film I’ve ever seen that features a loyal cockroach. This animal made it though the dirt and grime of the human race. That shouldn’t have been a surprise. Perhaps we all learn something. I’ve learnt that the message will have been lost on too many of its audience; it’s too clever at getting the message across. Most of the audience where I saw this movie was aged between five and ten years old. I hope the message was at least subliminal, but I’m not convinced. I’m looking forward to Ice Age 3.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall is just out; the trailer looks good, but I’m not sure if it will maintain my interest all the way through. Website rottentomatoes.com scores it 85%, but it only scored The Bucket List at 41%; however, I really enjoy the marvelous performances from both Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman and the way the script guided us through their fun last few months to the inevitable ending, although we didn’t know who would die first or how they’d choose to end the movie – great film making in my eyes.

Bank Job scores almost 80% and features the excellent Jason Statham. British gangster and bank job movies are often done very well so this has to go high up my list.

Vantage Point sounds an interesting script from eight different points of view and a president shot who wasn’t the president. A score of 36% tells me that I might be disappointed, but the way the genre has been played around with shows great interest for a writer to look over.

With a score of just 6%, 88 minutes sounds like I should give it a miss, but a friend who’s opinion I respect has just told me that he’s watched it and thought it a great concept and maintained attention all the way through the film.

Anything Jodie Foster is in is sure to be very good and occasionally goes into the ‘amazing’ zone. Nims Island is a kid’s movie which is also for adults. I’ll take my daughter to see this one. The trailer tells me I know I’ve love the film. Anything with Jodie Foster or Jack Nicholson deserves respect for two of the world’s greatest ever actors. Michael Caine is also in that elite group, but his Flawless (63%) film isn’t out yet at my local screens.

I read the book that 21 is based on. It scores 31% so it might suggest that the book is better than the movie, but I will still see it. The difficulty with reading the book first is that you’ve then made the movie in your head and anything the director then presents you with is going to be different. Good different or just plain indifferent is yet to be decided.

The brilliant Juno (93%) is still showing so I might watch that piece of brilliance again. The script deserved the Oscar award; it was excellent throughout. I must get a copy of the script just for pure reading pleasure.

I enjoyed the trailer for Fool’s Gold (10%) but everyone tells me to avoid it. What a shame because the trailer made it look so much fun. Maybe it’s one of those films that is fun to watch, but you don’t need to turn your brain on too often. That doesn’t make it any less enjoyable.

So, Vantage point has it for my Monday and if I can manage to get two films in one evening it’ll be Bank Job for spot two. Next week it must be Nims Island with said daughter.

It just goes to show you that some brilliant trailers can be made from poor films and average trailers can lead to great films. We’re all critics; I don’t need someone else to tell me what I’ll like or have an aversion to.

I also can’t help but see how the film was made; ask myself if the script is up to it and are the 3 acts, the 15 beats, the 22 point structure and the latest plots holes complete?

It’s all research mixed in with enjoyment, really.