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Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
#25Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 11:56am
I wouldn't mind paying those prices if the staff at least pretended to do something about rowdy patrons. I'm not talking about one obnoxious guy -- I'm talking about groups of 10-20 teens who go from theater to theater all night and talk nonstop once inside. After a miserable experience seeing Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I swore off Times Square movies altogether unless there was absolutely no other alternative.
Nitehawk is my cinema of choice, now!
#26Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 12:02pm
Nitehawk is quickly becoming an addiction for me too. Love it there! 
#27Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 12:03pmI actually haven't had much trouble with the younger crowds at movies. It's the elderly that want to talk over the movie throughout the entire thing. I tend to go to early showings to beat the crowds, but I've started to abandon that since the retirees come out in full force and treat the place like they're in their own living rooms. And I feel absolutely no shame or remorse in telling senior citizens to shut the hell up. They have lived long enough to know better.
#28Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 12:09pm
The absolute worst (WORST WORST WORST) crowds are the ones at Sony Lincoln Plaza. Upper West Side people are really rather dreadful. A woman spilled her popcorn on a friend and laughed about it. She kinda looked like the woman who sprinkled Lithium on her ice cream in that Sex and the City episode.
The crowd on 42nd Street is like a Sunday School compared to those monsters!
Chelsea Clearview is still the best. Yes...the theatre is a little worn. But great, attentive crowds...AND you can pick somebody up on Grindr or Scruff before the movie!
#29Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 12:26pm
Robbie, are you talking about Lincoln Plaza (the art house on Broadway and 62nd) or Lincoln Square (the multiplex on 68th)? I used to go to the former all the time, especially when I lived on the UWS, but it got so intolerable that I stopped. And it was all old Upper West Siders. Talking, coughing, getting up and coming back at all times, never shutting their phones off (probably because they don't know how), etc. I finally just stopped going.
When I want to see a bigger budget movie at the multiplex I either go to AMC Empire 25 (I've never had a bad experience there--especially in the morning screenings) or the Loews Kips Bay Theatre on 2nd in the thirties, which is almost always empty.
#30Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 12:47pmSorry! Square! Not Plaza. Though Plaza wasn't THAT much better. I think the last film I saw there was Kolya.
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#31Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 12:49pmI loved the daddy in Kolya.
#32Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 12:54pm
Plaza's pretty bad now--and since they no longer have a corner on independent films (most of the movies that play there will be playing at at least two other theatres somewhere in the city), there's no reason to go.
Also, the staff there is pretty horrendous too, and they herd you like cattle before the movies into waiting lines. They schedule their showings too close together in order to get as many screenings as possible a day.
#33Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 1:54pm
Ugh, I've had the same frustrations with Plaza. You show up 20 minutes before showtime and have to stand behind a velvet rope until about 10 minutes before showtime. If you show up at the time they actually let you in the theater, you'll either be sitting up front or split up from your companion. I'd almost rather sit and watch the preshow Fanta/Car/Crappy-TV-Show-That'll-Be-Canceled-After-Five-Episodes commercial extravaganza at the multiplex.
The last time I was there, the people behind talked loudly throughout "A Separation." In French.
#34Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 2:02pmOh, I gave up on the Plaza a couple of years ago after a screening of EVERY LITTLE STEP. They didn't let the sold out line into the theater until right when the lights were going down and by that time the senior citizens (2/3+ of the audience) couldn't see a damn thing and complained for two hours straight. I really have no desire to ever return there. Not to mention their projectors and screens needed to be replaced twenty years ago and I'd rather see poor picture quality from a bootleg on my computer than spend $13 to see it there.
#35Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
Posted: 2/6/12 at 2:10pmMy experiences have pretty much been the same. I saw a sold out Friday night showing of THE SAVAGES a few years ago--ticket time: 8PM--they started seating the audience at 7:57. It was like a bloody stampede. Also, their staff are very rude and generally misinformed.
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