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April 23, 2006

Booze+food+respect

So the other day a friend was asking me if I was going to see Silent Hill when it came out friday, and if I wanted to do a double date thing with him+his girl and me+my wife. I figured that would be ok. Two days before he started picking theatres, and never hit upon the only one I would ever go to. Needless to say, we didn't double date (didn't even tell the wife about it, heh).

Why won't I go to a cineplex/stadium seating style theatre:

1) Respect from employees:

If I go to a resturant, it's for the experience. I can cook a lot of things better than a resturant can, and for a lot cheaper, but if the wife and I just don't want to stay in that night, we pick the resturant we liked. If the food is good and the service is horrid, we aren't coming back. The same thing happens at most theatres.

At a typical stadium seating theatre, the employees honestly just don't care. Most seem to have given up on their fellow human. And to be fair, they are right.

2) Cleanliness of the floors/seats:

If the floor is sticky, ugh.

3) No beer. No wine. No alcohol.

Seriously.

4) Precommercial commercials:

Ok, so some movie company wants to "preview" their movies to me. I can somewhat tolerate that, but then being shown in theatre commercials because the movie theatre chose to is excessive. Really, it's most of the reason why the wife and I stopped going to traditional theatres.

5) No good food:

Oh they have popcorn. And candies. But no pizza that has garlic on it, no burgers that taste decent, nothing.

Sometime during the beginning of last year the wife and I just stopped going to traditional movie theatres. It saved us on money when the experience was just kinda lame anyhow. Then a coworker talked to me about the Alamo Drafthouse.

Holy crap. Not only do they serve booze and food, but the staff there are superb. They're working on a sort of tip system somewhat, along with their hourly pay (at least that's my assumption), so they have somewhat of an incentive to actually be nice to you.

There's also a table in between each row. You don't have to worry about someone's big hair being in the way, and you don't have to worry about kicking your soda or it being on the chair arm the whole time.

They even play old favorites like the Godfather and they have a Anime night (looked like decent animes) and all sorts of other stuff.

If I had the funding I'd franchise this nation wide, and utterly destroy every other theatre chain. That's seriously how good this is.