Why does Rick even care about the current state of theaters in the first place? Is he just sowing the seeds of smack talking now so that Uncle George and his digital projection system can ride in as the Savior Of Modern Cinema? Paul Allen saved Seattle's Cinerama, so stranger things have happened...
On the "theaters suck!" topic, I already know of a solution for this. In Portland (Oregon) we call it McMenamin's (brothers that own brewpubs all over Portland, a couple of hotel/lodge places, and 4 theatres). They recently upped their rates by one third, though. ONE THIRD! It's three bucks now. And you can have beer or pizza or regular movie candy (junior mints, etc) if that's what you want. It rocks because the seats are comfy, you can drink beer, and they show second run or older movies (willy wonka, MP/Holy Grail, Wizard of Oz, etc) on the weekends, so either nobody wants to see a second run movie (I think Spiderman is playing this week) which makes the crowds nice, or you know that the 2:30 pm showing of Lilo & Stitch this saturday is where all the kids are going to be so you can be sure to avoid it. They're pretty good about the cell phone reminders too, the crowds there seem pretty on top of things. They aren't going broke or they wouldn't keep opening new ones, so they must be doing something right.
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Personally I want to see "JEFF Cohen Superstar!"
But that's just me.
I bet it'd be awesome though...think of the production number the Truffle Shuffle would be!
Why does Rick even care about the current state of theaters in the first place? Is he just sowing the seeds of smack talking now so that Uncle George and his digital projection system can ride in as the Savior Of Modern Cinema? Paul Allen saved Seattle's Cinerama, so stranger things have happened...
On the "theaters suck!" topic, I already know of a solution for this. In Portland (Oregon) we call it McMenamin's (brothers that own brewpubs all over Portland, a couple of hotel/lodge places, and 4 theatres). They recently upped their rates by one third, though. ONE THIRD! It's three bucks now. And you can have beer or pizza or regular movie candy (junior mints, etc) if that's what you want. It rocks because the seats are comfy, you can drink beer, and they show second run or older movies (willy wonka, MP/Holy Grail, Wizard of Oz, etc) on the weekends, so either nobody wants to see a second run movie (I think Spiderman is playing this week) which makes the crowds nice, or you know that the 2:30 pm showing of Lilo & Stitch this saturday is where all the kids are going to be so you can be sure to avoid it. They're pretty good about the cell phone reminders too, the crowds there seem pretty on top of things. They aren't going broke or they wouldn't keep opening new ones, so they must be doing something right.