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#26

Regal 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!
#27

Regal 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! Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#28

Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie

Posted: 2/6/12 at 12:03pm

I 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.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#29

Regal 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!
#30

Regal 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.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#33

Regal 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.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#34

Regal 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.
#35

Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie

Posted: 2/6/12 at 2:02pm

Oh, 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.
#36

Regal Times Square Raises Prices To $14 A Movie

Posted: 2/6/12 at 2:10pm

My 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.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

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