Planning early...

[xanxan]

I plan on buying tickets early, and arriving early with my Trek friends. Hopefully, it will be playing at our movie tavern...full service restaurant/bar cinema. They take your order and serve you in the theatre itself. Need a refill? Push a button and a server comes to your seat! Love it! Very reasonable prices too (entrees between 8.99-14.99).

Can't wait!

-Xan

 

[Blip]

Matt said:
"Star Trek" is going to be a big mainstream flick. If you're going to a regular theater and you haven't rented out a row of seats or the whole thing, you really should get there several hours in advance if you live in a big city.

Not for Star Trek. Certainly not in the UK...

 

[Matt]

Here's another question:

What's the best seat in the theatre? (Average inclined American theatre.)

I'm thinking like 5 rows up the incline, dead center...

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Dane_Whitman said:
I'm planning on killing everyone who attends the Star Trek movie on the same night as me. The night will be remembered as the 'Star Trek Killings'. The result will be an unprecedented interest in Trek XI, as people try to figure out what is it about that movie that triggered this violent tragedy. Trek XI will make more profit than all of the previous Trek films combined and we will be guaranteed a couple of more films and a new series starting somewhere in 2009, featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman as a serial-killing Starfleet Captain.

Mass murder = Not funny.

Please don't post this sort of thing anymore.

Thanks.

 

[Opus]

6th day of XMe$$ said:

OphaClyde said:

6th day of XMe$$ said:
Yeah.. we have a couple of theatres that have pretty kick ass food. Gotta smuggle your own Sno-Caps into the AMC theatre in Danvers, though!!

You're in Danvers, MA?

The Liberty Tree Mall theatres don't have Sno-Caps?

Sadly No!! They got bought out by AMC and stopped carrying them. In fact the whole place has gone downhill. I used to go across the way and get my Sno-Caps fix at Suncoast, but they went out of business.

I may just go to Showcase in Revere.

Shows how long it's been since I've seen a movie there. I used to live in Gloucester, then Peabody. Now I live in the Merrimack Valley, but still work in that area.

I prefer Showcase Cinemas as well. I go to the one in Lawrence now...

 

[Amaris]

Matt said:
Here's another question:

What's the best seat in the theatre? (Average inclined American theatre.)

I'm thinking like 5 rows up the incline, dead center...

When I saw Nemesis, the best seat was in the back. Waaaay in the back. OK, I kid.

The best seat for me is near the center, about 10 rows up. That way you're above hallway and floor traffic, and (at least in our theater) near the 2nd tier subs, so you get great sound output.


J.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I like to sit about 2/3 of the way back, myself...as close to center as possible.

In the theatre I go to, there is arena seating and a walkway dividing the front half from the back half. I like to sit on the third or fourth row of the back half. Great sound and not too close so I don't get a headache.

 

[Kegek]

Third row. Pretty close, but not too close.

First row when I'm in a smaller theatre, like, say, a pretentious arthouse place. They don't have as many rows.

 

[Plum]

... no, no... nearer the back, like five or six rows down, right aisle. Aisle seat of course. 'Course, I'm referring to an old theatre as opposed to the current regimented design. Really, when I go to a theatre these days I feel like the front will drop and I'll have to storm the beach.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Depends how big the screen is, and how close to the front row.

I usually sit about a third of the way back, as close to the center as possible.

 

[ancient]

Obviously, sitting in the center is the best. I sit far enough back so that the sides of the screen are out of my side vision. I want to see the whole thing without moving my eyes, yet have the image as large as possible. Depending on the theater, it's usually 1/3 of the way to 1/2 of the way back.

As for snacks, I don't eat or drink at the theater. I don't like to distract myself in any way, really. I don't eat watching TV either.

 

[Amaris]

I've already planned ahead and downloaded a countdown timer for my desktop, as pictured here (top right hand corner):

J.

 

[Tamek]

J. Allen said:

Lumen said:
Movie theatres out here have full service fa(s)t food. Walk in the door and you're surrounded by every imaginable combination of grease and fat, at prices 50% more than what it costs to clog your arteries outside those doors.

50%!? That's a deal! What theater do you go to? My theater charges $3.00 for a small (read 16 oz) container of popcorn, a hot dog is $3.50, and a small coke is $3.50 (12 oz). Nachos (as in, they throw some stale chips in a plastic container and give you a Fritos can of cheese, a very small Fritos can of cheese) are $5. This of course, was my last trip there, when I saw Rush Hour 3.


J.

when my bf and i went to see sweeney todd, i got 2 medium sodas and some french fries and paid 15.50 for it

i had to wait 15 minutes for the french fries and walked into the theater feeling like id just been mugged

 

[Tamek]

CindyLouWho said:
I like to sit about 2/3 of the way back, myself...as close to center as possible.

In the theatre I go to, there is arena seating and a walkway dividing the front half from the back half. I like to sit on the third or fourth row of the back half. Great sound and not too close so I don't get a headache.

i hate that cramp you get in your neck when you sit too close

 

[Superman]

If Shatner's in the film:

I will purchase my ticket well in advance (weeks or months if possible)

I will go to a showing on the 26th (CHRISTmas family time trumps movie) and will wait a few hours to be first in line and get a good seat

No food or drink for at least three hours prior to the film and certainly none during the film. I always have a "fast" of sorts during "event" movies, since I don't want to be uncomfortable or go to the restroom.

No Shatner: I'll read everyone's reactions here and maybe "take a look" at the film on the Internet.

\S/

 

[Tralah]

I don't see the Pine's resemblance to Christopher Pike at all honestly. I'm keeping an open mind. None of the casting decisions so far jump out at me as wrong, but my opinion could easily change when I see the acting.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Our local theater is one of those modern "arena-style" theaters (each seat is on its own step-riser). I remember years ago my wife and I took my young daughter to see Ice Age (the first one). We got in late and sat IN THE FIRST ROW. What a mistake...watching the film was like watching a tennis match - constantly looking left then right to see what was going on - and my neck hurt the next day from looking up at the screen.

For that particular theater the best seat is bout 2/3 of the way up in the center. I don't need an aisle seat since I never get up in a thearter until the film ends. I even watch most of the credits while the other patrons fight there wait out of the theater.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Tralah said:
I don't see the Pine's resemblance to Christopher Pike at all honestly. I'm keeping an open mind. None of the casting decisions so far jump out at me as wrong, but my opinion could easily change when I see the acting.

Do you mean Pine's resemblance to Kirk/Shatner??

Chris Pine is playing Kirk. Bruce Greenwood is playing Christopher Pike. Pine looks a little like a young Shatner. Greenwood doesn't really look that much like Jeffrey Hunter (the original Capatin Pike), but resemblance is not terriblyimportant, in my opinion.

By the way (and a little off topic) I just saw 'National Treasure 2' and thought Bruce Greenwood did a fine job as the President of the United States. The film itself won't win any awards, but it was a fun 'popcorn film'.