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Man sues over price of movie popcorn

Honestly? I don't really care how much snacks cost at the theater. I'll pay for it if I want the bad junk food while watching a movie.

What really bothers me is the rampant use of cell phones during the viewings. As most people now use touch-screen phones, it's gotten to be goddamn irritating as hell seeing little lit up rectangles all over the place (especially when I'm in the balcony) distracting me from the movie.
 
A while back a buddy and I saw a movie and he asked why they don't want you to text during a movie. He understood the talking part just not the texting part. So I said, well the screen lights up and stands out in the dark theater. He wasn't quite buying it thinking the screen isn't that bright.

Flash forward to a few minutes later when the theater is just slightly dimmed for the previews and someone opens their phone and the screen lights up and he says that now he sees how bright the screen would be in a dark room.
 
doubleohfive said:
Honestly? I don't really care how much snacks cost at the theater. I'll pay for it if I want the bad junk food while watching a movie.

What really bothers me is the rampant use of cell phones during the viewings. As most people now use touch-screen phones, it's gotten to be goddamn irritating as hell seeing little lit up rectangles all over the place (especially when I'm in the balcony) distracting me from the movie.
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Yeah it annoys the hell out of me. I'm on my phone texting or on Facebook a lot of the time but I don't see how difficult it is to seperate yourself from the collective for just a couple of hours.
 
doubleohfive said:
when I'm in the balcony
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The only theater in the area which had a balcony was the Indian Hills theater, which was bought out by a hospital and bulldozed to turn into a parking lot. It had the only Cinerama screen left in North America (and one of only two in the world) at the time.

At the time, the hospital board promised to save the screen for the preservation group. Instead, the night before it was to be handed over, they sent a wrecking crew in with saws (literally, saws!) to hack the screen to pieces, which they then handed over.

The projectors (there were three for Cinerama) were not removed ... nothing was. Everything was demolished. And the parking lot? Never used. The hospital claimed at the time it would be used for students. Two months after the demolition, they moved the school half a mile away, leaving the parking lot unused. Ten years later, it's still unused.
 
^^ That sucks.

I'm fortunate that the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood is so accessible, and also that it's the one theater I've been to where they take very seriously the scourge of the ever-present cell phones during showtimes.
 
doubleohfive said:
^^ That sucks.

I'm fortunate that the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood is so accessible, and also that it's the one theater I've been to where they take very seriously the scourge of the ever-present cell phones during showtimes.
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Oh, shiny ... Looks like it was restored in October 2002, with a Cinerama screen, and it's a true Cinerama, with the 3-strip.

If I'm ever out in LA, we're totally going to see something there, 005!
 
I saw plenty of movies at the Indian Hills (I distinctly remember standing around outside with my dad for over an hour, part of the massive crowd waiting to get in and see CET3K, and then we were told it was sold out :scream: ) but never an actual Cinerama one. The place was really cool, I liked it a lot. Never got to sit in the balcony - bloody thing was hardly ever OPEN - but a fine theater nonetheless. Damn shame what happened to it. :sigh:
 
The first time I saw King Kong on the big screen was at the Indian Hills, during one of Bruce Crawford's Omaha Film Events. I've gone to almost all of them since then, whether at the Joslyn, or Orpheum, but none can quite match the Indian Hills.

They showed a few true Cinerama movies there, including, if I remember right, How the West Was Won. The way it wrapped around was pretty amazing and awesome at the same time.
 
^ I would have totally loved to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Indian Hills. That is my favorite film of all time and I never got to see it in true Cinerama.
 
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