FILM lovers have been getting nostalgic over memories of the Buttermarket Street Odeon which closed in August 1994.

Favourite cinema experiences from the era – when a curtain used to draw back on the screen and choc ices were served during intermission – have been flooding in after we shared pictures to mark 25 years on from Warrington's last town centre picture house.

Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Terminator 2 and Cool Runnings are some of the movies that have been mentioned the most on our social media pages and who can forget the velociraptor scene kitchen scene in Jurassic Park?

Michelle Ewen said: "We had to leave after the velociraptor scene in Jurassic Park because my little sister was terrified!"

Suzanne Caley was one of Odeon's regulars having seen ET, Close Encounters, Dick Tracy, Roger Rabbit, Return Of The Jedi, Never Ending Story, Big, Terminator 2, Scrooged, Short Circuit and Sneakers there.

And many of our readers enjoyed that cinema felt like more of an 'event' back then.

Dean Hardy said on Instagram: "I remember watching Rocky 2 with the whole audience chanting: 'Rocky, Rocky'. It was like a real boxing match almost."

Keith Foxall added: "It was an amazing place. That was when going to the cinema meant something. Having a date at the cinema and queuing up half way through the movie to get them a snack. This is what we forgot. A time we have left behind."

Those were the days when art deco cinemas had more in common with theatres than today's multiplexes – and the Buttermarket Street Odeon was no different.

Suzanne Exley said: "I loved this cinema, the foyer was beautiful. I loved how the curtains drew back to open the film."

Wendy Norman added: "I remember the smell of hot dogs as you walked in, and the big sweeping staircase."

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Snacks were different too.

Leigh-Anne Trimble said: "I remember going to watch Honey I Shrunk the Kids here with my auntie Helen and I remember the ice cream interval with the woman selling them at the front.

Caroline Richardson added: "Gremlins and Living Daylights, first ever date at the Odeon. Boxes of fruit gums. Best memories ever."

With Cineworld set to open at Time Square on December 11, people are also looking forward to the convenience of a town centre cinema again.

Kate Morgan said: "I loved the fact that you could be in town with your friends and just decide to go to see a film."

And finally – admit it – who else did this?

Kate added: Naughty, but how much fun was it to sit at the back and throw popcorn across the projector so that silhouetted popcorn briefly danced across the film?"

Top box office films from the 1980s - how many can you remember?

 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Batman (1989)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Ghostbusters (1984)

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Back to the Future (1985)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Top Gun (1986) 

Tootsie (1982)

Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Rain Man (1988)

Three Men and a Baby (1987)

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Gremlins (1984)

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Top films in the 1990s before the town centre Odeon closed in 1994

1990: Home Alone

1990: Ghost

1990: Dances with Wolves

1991: Beauty and the Beast 

1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day 

1992: Aladdin 

1993: Jurassic Park

1993: Mrs Doubtfire