VoiceofReality
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Watch that change when AMC opens.
I agree...
Watch that change when AMC opens.
No, the Paramount Theatre...sorry, Scotia Bank Theatre (which has to be one of the best performing theatres in Toronto). Looks like ticketing and those automated ticket booths.
I think the contrast between AMC and The Theatre Formerly Known as Paramount is worth paying attention to. I was completely astounded the first time I saw the "atrium" at The Development Formerly Known as Metropolis. It's so tight up against the top ring, it's downright claustrophobic. Moreover, it's, uh, corrugated metal covered with what appears to be asbestos spray. It's like the inside of a little-league ice rink in there.
Now, step right up and tell me that design doesn't matter. When you're going up, up, up into a theatre, it matters what you put on the roof. Ascending the long escalator into the cube gives an evening at the Paramount a fantastic kick-off. (Even if the lobby that follows is a stomach-turning, overpriced crap fiesta.) But right now, the prospect of staring at that tin roof for 5 minutes of circling that atrium would be enough to make me head to John and Richmond.
Sorry, the last 2 movies I watched at the Paramount were bombs... as I descended the world's longest escalator (not a fact) I don't remember anything other than wondering why I just wasted hard earned money on 2 hrs or crap...
How is it Paramount's fault that you chose to watch crappy movies?
Of all the movie theater's I have been to, not just in Toronto. Paramount ranks right up there in terms of ambiance.
Right. But, being gigantic mega-plexes, we can probably assume that both AMC and Paramount will be playing the same things, never mind Varsity three stops up the Yonge line, and Silver City another few stops after that.
The crazy thing is that it was largely AMC's reluctance that stalled Metropolis for all those years. It amazes me that they'd wait for so long, only to go ahead with a project that puts them at a competitive disadvantage.
I know that the escalator ride up to the theatre alone doesn't make or break the evening. But if two corporate-chain theatres are showing the same movie (probably shitty) at the same price (probably too much) and the same times (every twenty minutes for the shitty ones, and at 6:15 and 11:45 for the good ones) - which theatre are you more likely to go to? The one that's lively, airy, and a pleasure to enter, or the shithole?
How is it Paramount's fault that you chose to watch crappy movies?
Of all the movie theater's I have been to, not just in Toronto. Paramount ranks right up there in terms of ambiance.
not to mention that cinplex/odeon has a points program which i use to watch free movies. it's a small thing, but it keeps me coming back.Right. But, being gigantic mega-plexes, we can probably assume that both AMC and Paramount will be playing the same things, never mind Varsity three stops up the Yonge line, and Silver City another few stops after that.
The crazy thing is that it was largely AMC's reluctance that stalled Metropolis for all those years. It amazes me that they'd wait for so long, only to go ahead with a project that puts them at a competitive disadvantage.
I know that the escalator ride up to the theatre alone doesn't make or break the evening. But if two corporate-chain theatres are showing the same movie (probably shitty) at the same price (probably too much) and the same times (every twenty minutes for the shitty ones, and at 6:15 and 11:45 for the good ones) - which theatre are you more likely to go to? The one that's lively, airy, and a pleasure to enter, or the shithole?
not to mention that cinplex/odeon has a points program which i use to watch free movies. it's a small thing, but it keeps me coming back.