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Tickets here are $9 for student discount, $10-12.50 for adult shows. Batman Begins at local theater. Gets more and more expensive every year.

I've had my tickets for Trilogy Tuesday for a month now. If ROTK is good, I might consider seeing it again, though I doubt they'd give me back my $25 for the trilogy ticket and let me use a freebie. :)

I was so kindly informed that my first post with a link to a theater listing was incorrect. So... here is a link that is sure to help. Simply enter your zip code and it will show you the closest theater showing the trilogy.

FIND A THEATER

I was talking about the IMAX at the famous players paramount at ste-catherine and metcalfe, downtown montreal.

Got that price by looking at the online ticket prices and subtracting the 1 dollar online ticket fee.

Obligatory Internet Movie Database and MovieTickets links (although showtimes, if any, will undoubtedly only be posted closer to next Friday). The movie poster looks cool.

It seems cool, I'll try to see it if it ever plays anywhere in Colorado. From scanning the article, it seems cool, but the article has that fanboy edge to it that seems like it's going to give too much away if you actually *read* it.

I remember seeing an advertisement for movietickets.com when I saw the new Bond film and several times previous to that in the past year. It seems to have completely flopped here; my local theatre isn't even set up to accept the online tickets and lacks the barcode scanners which are necessary to admit a customer. I actually saw a family get turned away after having purchased tickets to a 'participating' theatre. Is this another dot-bomb, or does anyone have positive stories about this service to report?

To me the resturant situation is particularly frustrating. My general sub-urban area (a section of unincorporated county that would probably have become a township long ago if it were in a northern state) is home to around 100,000 people. It is for the most part a middle-to-upper-middle class area. There are no less than 20 different national chain resturants (Chilli's, Hops, Outback, Macaroni Grill, etc.) located in a 5 square mile area around two arterial highways. 18 of them feature service that is no better than average and only one (Macaroni Grill) has food that is consistantly better than average. In other words, with over 100,000 people in economic classes ranging from middle to upper-middle and a significant population of high income households (probably 5 to 10 thousand) there are still no premium (or high-quality) resturants, theaters, other entertainment venues, or convienence service companies. On top of that there isn't even a significant population of locally-owned resturants, retailers or groceries. Even the bars seem to be chain stores.

We all still have to drive into the city to eat anywhere that requires a jacket or to find an arts venue other than local "volunteer" theater or the mass-market AMC theaters. Some times it seems like my "home town" is just one gigantic truckstop. Bring on your mass-market sci-fi George Lucas. Appearantly, we all love Jar-jar and we aren't going to leave unless you sell us happy-meal action figures, plastic light-sabers, collector's edition plates, stamps, coins, jackets, books, legos, towels, and any other artifact that can be stamped out by an injection molding machine and painted red and shiney with a Lucasfilm trademark on the bottom.

I know that the AMC Mission Valley 20 Theater in San Diego has a Texas Instruments-based DLP projector. They've most recent shown Monsters, Inc. and Ocean's Eleven in digital format.