My Gold Class Experience

Last night I went out with Rose and her uni friends to have dinner and watch Sherlock Holmes all the way at Bondi Junction.
While waiting for everyone to arrive I noticed on the cinema's electronic board that Sherlock Holmes was full, so I was worried we weren't able to watch it and my first thought was to check if Avatar was full yet.
But it turns out that we had booked tickets to watch Sherlock Holmes, so a sigh of relief was breathed by Rose and I, moreso Rose, as she isn't too interested in watching Avatar based on the non-fact that it sounds like Abattoir despite those two words having nothing in common with each other. (I doubt she'll be happy with me posting this but I found it too cute and amusing not to...we're still going to watch Avatar Rose)

During dinner when we talked about how the session for Sherlock Holmes was full our friend revealed to us that he booked Gold Class tickets for us all (all 5 of us), to which we all (all 4 of us) gasped in a pleasant suprise and proceeded to wonder what it was like before deciding to go see what it was like.

To those who have seen the commercial shown in the cinema with that dorky looking guy who books Gold Class and gets all cocky walking through the special doors, sitting in his comfy seat getting food and drink delivered to him, the experience was like that, without the cocky and signing of a napkin.

We walked through the automatic class doors and entered a fancy bar room where we could sit down, order drinks and talk, all the while listening to mellow jazz music. After sitting down for a while a man came up to us asking if we were watching Sherlock Holmes to which we replied,
"Yes"
"The cinema is now ready for you to enter"
We enter and see a giant lounge room with 40 sofa seats. A man is reclined in his seat, moving around to find his most comfortable spot, another person has a camera out, taking pictures of this grand experience and we're soon ushered to our seats and sit down. We're told where the recliner button is and wait for the movie to start. Rose goes to buy popcorn and drinks, which are to be brought out to us later, sometime during the movie, which was interesting and made it so I couldn't eat all the popcorn in the first part of the movie.

I sit down and play with the recliner, too far down and I'm in sleeping position, a bit further up and I'm in a relaxed position. I take my shoes off and soon enough I forget I'm in the cinema and think I'm at home, my legs are raised, resting along the wall (I was on the right side of the cinema against a wall), and I soon realise that I'm probably blocking the view of the guy behind me, and lower my legs out of courtesy.

Our drink and popcorn arrive, both in a glass cup and glass bowl. The popcorn wasn't that great (to airy) and the coke seemed a bit watered down, either from the machine or the ice (or both). Never to miss an opportunity to embarrass myself, while returning the glass to the table that we are provided I banged it against the popcorn bowl, creating the sound that is emitted when two glass objects hit each other....clang? No, thats more metal....clink? No..thats a coin, we'll go with Chk-ting~.

The movie itself was good, Robert Downey Jr. is on a roll with his movies and I'm a huge detective fan, Sherlock Holmes was an old school Batman so you can't go wrong with that. I liked Sherlock Holmes train of thought, with his logical approach to everything. I look forward to the sequel. I'm not good with talking about movies so I'll just say it was enjoyable and the Gold Class experience made it all the more better.

Will I go again? When the right movie for it comes out, and if you're willing to shout me.