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FIPS says otherwise:
http://www.fuckedinparkslope.com/home/in-fips-tigation-why-the-pavilion-movie-theatre-is-a-dump.htmlwhat would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r. -
Man, regardless of who says what that place has needed a serious facelift for a long time. Does anyone on this site actually go there? I refuse to.
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three times in the nine years i've lived here, and it's half a block away.
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I have been going occasionally over the last few years. It seems like it has been getting worse and worse. If they do plan to sell the place, what incentive do they have to spruce the place up?
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Get a better price for the sale?
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Bed bugs give it 2 antenna up.
your anger is delicious. - dieter -
Netflix gives it on demand, with no one talking through the movie.
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netflix is a good thing. but there is still something special about a theater that does it right. the pavilion is positioned such that it really could become a treature of the neighborhood if somebody with means gave it the proper treatment.
but i suspect it would have to be somebody willing to treat it more as a labor of love than an opportunity to generate insane profits. and that is a lot to ask.
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I know it's been only a month, but have there been any changes at Pavilion yet?
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I think the Pavilion could really be a success if they adopted the role of the area's "premium" theater. I'm thinking something more like the LA-style dinner and a movie theaters that serve food (and alcohol) together with a fairly hefty admission price. I'd pay some serious money to sit in a 2-person seat with my hubbs and eat some decent food while drinking and watching the latest digital 3-D flick. There's enough disposable money floating around this area to make this a successful venture.
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totally agree.
They wouldn't even need to go as far as LA for good examples.
Several years ago, I went to a dinner - movie place outside DC and was impressed.
...local parents could go there on "date night", and not have to trek to Manhattan, but they would likely need some serious capital to make it work.
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whynot_31 said:
Several years ago, I went to a dinner - movie place outside DC and was impressed.There used to be (or still are) a couple places in the DC area that serve food and beer and show second-run movies for a few bucks. A drinking crowd watching a movie is always fun. It would be great if they turned that place into a cinema and draft house. Then I might actually go (I've only been to the Pavilion twice in the past 11 years).
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Yes, I remember one of those on the corner of Columbia Pike and Fillmore in Arlington VA. (my old stomping grounds) ....google shows it as still being open (The Arlington Drafthouse and Cinema), but I can't say I have ever been inside.
The place I went to seems to currently provide dinner and entertainment for $45 per person.
http://www.mysterydinner.com/washington-dc/
....everything is more expensive in NY, and I bet the local economy could support $70 each.
A could would spend $70 x 2 = $140 plus an additional $40 on a bottle of wine.
Evening total: $180.
....which, although not cheap, is much cheaper than dinner and a show in Manhattan.
Park Slope patrons might be able to avoid cab far into Manhattan as well, which would save them $, and time. For parents, time translates into less that they have to pay the baby sitter or a baby sitting coop.
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I stamped on those grounds myself - used to live in Cleveland Park.
But you sound too rich for my blood. With the kind of place I have in mind, I expect to hand over a $20 and get change like at the C&D.
The mystery dinner concept sounds interesting, but I don't know about that name. Mystery dinner makes me think of mystery meat. Is there a mystery at dinner, or is the very dinner itself the mystery? I.e. Whoever guesses what we ate wins.
Or better yet combine the two: The guests eat the victim, then solve their murder.
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As a Wakefield HS grad, I was trained that the best way to get money was to get it from others.
But I fear I an proposed enterprise with beer and murder in its name will solicit scorn from the PPW people who are suing the city over a mere green bike lane. Surely they won't be able to get their head around the idea that their neighbors enjoy riding their bikes, beer and a show.
...I fear we will be dismissed as being from "out of town".
or "hipsters"
or something.
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South Lakes here - we didn't have windows, but we had Grant Hill.
Out of town hipsters: that would be the worst kind of human being to evolve out of the primordial ooze, wouldn't it?
Unfortunately I wear sweatpants way too often to ever be considered hip. But I always get a kick out of the people who bemoan that they have to live among hipsters or baby strollers. They obviously have never lived in a crappy neighborhood with gun crime, roving gangs and nasty hookers.
Besides, hispters make me feel tough (like Jerry among the opera crowd).
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Do you think we will have folks who want the current theater to remain the same? Will there be people who miss the torn seats?
Maybe we should save the seats for them. We could deliver them via red wagons to thier homes.
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Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse was awesome, as was Abi's around the corner!
someone opened a restaurant / indie movie theater in Williamsburg last year: indieScreen. never been there though
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looks like the restaurant didnt do very well though, that site says the restaurant is now only open for special events?
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Williamsburg does not strike me as having the established professional class that my venue would cater to.
I think in order for this to work, we'd need couples who were able to shell out about $80 total for the evening.
My new concept is a hybrid of the "Mystery Theater" and the "Cinema Drafthouse". It can sell tickets cheaper than the Mystery Theater because it doesn't have live actors.
It is more expensive that the Cinema Drafthouse model b/c it serves good food and wine.
BTW, consistent with "Date Night" kids won't be allowed to attend 95% of the events.
...now I just need investors.
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I think alcohol would deter me even more (if that is possible) The last time I went there was when Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had just come out. A fight broke out within the first 10 minutes and the whole thing had to shut down. Yes, a fist fight during Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
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