What's the deal with the Pavilion Movie Theater? I heard it might be closing, anyone else here that? Also, its so dirty in there. [/b]
armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Tue May 30, 06 6:30 pm EST
i hope not. they only reopen it like many years back. and yeah it has gotten dirtier over the years. but when it first reopen it was great. chairs was nice and place was clean etc...
plus there isnt another theater around for miles! _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 4389 Location: In the Groove
Tue May 30, 06 6:35 pm EST
Strange, as they were bought out not that long ago... I've been there a couple times in the last month (they have matinees!) and it's noticeably cleaner than before the change in ownership. _________________ ...not that there's anything wrong with that.
armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Tue May 30, 06 6:36 pm EST
didnt know they got sold. hmm and i just saw xmen there like other day. seems cleaner :p didnt pay attention hehe. _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 2028 Location: taintalicious!
Tue May 30, 06 7:54 pm EST
a couple of those theaters on the ground floor are small as my living room.
teeny tiny.
i always feel like asking for part of my money back after seeing a movie on that teeny screen
and their snack counter choices bites. i always try and sneak in a treat from connecticut muffin. or sometimes eat at their 2nd floor restaurant.
it's not a bad place
it's aight..
otherwise BAM is my favorite theater
WhyFi Staid and Dull
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 4389 Location: In the Groove
Tue May 30, 06 9:42 pm EST
But the big dorky question in my life (as it pertains to this subject) is, where can I see A Prairie Home Companion, and who's comin' along?!
Yes, I'm from MN... _________________ ...not that there's anything wrong with that.
seven24 Park Slope Native.
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 141 Location: fourteen-7/8
Tue May 30, 06 10:07 pm EST
In 1996 the day the pavilion opened I began working the concession stand. Thru my time there I was grossed out on multiple occasions. The manager at the time demanded the popcorn left over at night be re-used by mixing it with fresh popcorn in the morning. For some reason unknown to me their were pigeons living in the stock room. Ask yourself this: If you were the manager and you found small holes bitten in to a sack of popcorn seeds, would you throw out the whole sack? The first time I met the exterminator I was glad when he left the theatre empty handed, until the next time he showed up and removed a garbage bag filled with dead rodents. Believe me their are worse things to worry about than small screens at the pavilion.
5th&DeGraw Guest
Wed May 31, 06 3:33 am EST
where is this Pavillion that you speak of? Is it that shithole on Flatbush Ave?
WhyFi Staid and Dull
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 4389 Location: In the Groove
Wed May 31, 06 7:50 am EST
5th&DeGraw wrote:
where is this Pavillion that you speak of? Is it that shithole on Flatbush Ave?
The shit hole that you refer to is now an American Apparel, we're talking about the place on PPW. _________________ ...not that there's anything wrong with that.
ic96 Regular
Joined: 01 Nov 2005 Posts: 130 Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn
Wed May 31, 06 8:54 am EST
I took in a movie on the ground floor a few months ago, and never went back. Instead, I take the F to Court Street and go to the movies there.
kosherdave The Kosherist
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 988
Wed May 31, 06 12:54 pm EST
wow, is it really that bad? I saw Xmen there this weekend (which sucked, but not the movie theatre's fault) and I agree, some of the screens are small, but it did not seem dirtier than any other feet-sticking-to-floor theatre I've been to.
As for the candy selection, it does suck, but you're a sucker if you buy it anyway, just go to the bodega near CT Muffin and get your candy and pay 1/4 the price.
As for the popcorn, most theatres I know of mix old and fresh together. The Pavilian's pop corn does suck. I actually know people who pop their own and bring it in, but that's too much planning ahead for me. I grab a soda, some twizlers, sweedish fish and m&ms at the bodega and sneak them in. They pop corn is WAY bad for you anyway.
Oh and MI:3 also sucked. Why do I go to these movies!?!
armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Wed May 31, 06 1:16 pm EST
kosherdave wrote:
wow, is it really that bad? I saw Xmen there this weekend (which sucked, but not the movie theatre's fault) and I agree, some of the screens are small, but it did not seem dirtier than any other feet-sticking-to-floor theatre I've been to.
As for the candy selection, it does suck, but you're a sucker if you buy it anyway, just go to the bodega near CT Muffin and get your candy and pay 1/4 the price.
As for the popcorn, most theatres I know of mix old and fresh together. The Pavilian's pop corn does suck. I actually know people who pop their own and bring it in, but that's too much planning ahead for me. I grab a soda, some twizlers, sweedish fish and m&ms at the bodega and sneak them in. They pop corn is WAY bad for you anyway.
Oh and MI:3 also sucked. Why do I go to these movies!?!
cause you and the rest of the public like to throw money at crappy movies and make the hollywood folks rich :p. _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
cause you and the rest of the public like to throw money at crappy movies and make the hollywood folks rich :p.
You're right. Bottom line.
Guest
Thu Jun 01, 06 4:03 pm EST
kosherdave wrote:
I grab a soda, some twizlers, sweedish fish and m&ms at the bodega and sneak them in. They pop corn is WAY bad for you anyway.
The popcorn is worse from you than soda, twizlers, swedish fish and m&ms?
kosherdave The Kosherist
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 988
Thu Jun 01, 06 4:19 pm EST
Anonymous wrote:
kosherdave wrote:
I grab a soda, some twizlers, sweedish fish and m&ms at the bodega and sneak them in. They pop corn is WAY bad for you anyway.
The popcorn is worse from you than soda, twizlers, swedish fish and m&ms?
Haha I thought someone might poin that out, but actually (not saying the candy is good for you, cause it's not) a small bag of popcorn has as much fat as a Big Mac extra value meal, not to metion the calories. The candy is bad for you, but the pop corn is way bad. lesser of two evils? Maybe I'm just trying to justify my sweet tooth.
5th&DeGraw Guest
Thu Jun 01, 06 4:46 pm EST
kosherdave wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
kosherdave wrote:
I grab a soda, some twizlers, sweedish fish and m&ms at the bodega and sneak them in. They pop corn is WAY bad for you anyway.
The popcorn is worse from you than soda, twizlers, swedish fish and m&ms?
Haha I thought someone might poin that out, but actually (not saying the candy is good for you, cause it's not) a small bag of popcorn has as much fat as a Big Mac extra value meal, not to metion the calories. The candy is bad for you, but the pop corn is way bad. lesser of two evils? Maybe I'm just trying to justify my sweet tooth.
I consider having plenty of fat in the diet to be a good thing. And loads of refined sugar to be a bad thing. So I'm gonna go with the popcorn
wally Regular
Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 84
Sat Jun 03, 06 6:05 pm EST
the folks that used to own the flatbush theatre own (owned?) the PPW one. the whole rational for closing the flatbush one was that it was competing with this one....
i agree on the slight uptick in cleaniness..... but court st is a better deal (just as small but cleaner by a mile. the staff is super crabby but $5 movies on tuesday nights? awesome).
mc Local
Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 252 Location: sterling pl.
Sat Jun 03, 06 6:23 pm EST
Is that restaurant still in there? I waitressed there for about a week when it first opened and the woman running it was a complete coke head. If memory serves, she was the girlfriend of the owner. What a mess.
Guest
Sun Jun 04, 06 3:08 pm EST
wally wrote:
the folks that used to own the flatbush theatre own (owned?) the PPW one. the whole rational for closing the flatbush one was that it was competing with this one....
i agree on the slight uptick in cleaniness..... but court st is a better deal (just as small but cleaner by a mile. the staff is super crabby but $5 movies on tuesday nights? awesome).
I hate the court st cinema, the crowd there is awful, too many teenagers talking too much. Bah!
Rose Ninja
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 911 Location: South Slope
Sun Jun 04, 06 4:39 pm EST
mc wrote:
Is that restaurant still in there?
No, it's long gone. Too bad, it was kind of a nice space as I recall.
seven24 Park Slope Native.
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 141 Location: fourteen-7/8
Sun Jun 04, 06 6:38 pm EST
mc wrote:
Is that restaurant still in there? I waitressed there for about a week when it first opened and the woman running it was a complete coke head. If memory serves, she was the girlfriend of the owner. What a mess.
not only did the owners girlfriend manage the restaurant but his perv brother ran the projector .
quijibo Crooklyn Ninja
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 2028 Location: taintalicious!
Sun Jun 04, 06 7:48 pm EST
how was he a perv?
WhyFi Staid and Dull
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 4389 Location: In the Groove
Sun Jun 04, 06 9:10 pm EST
quijibo wrote:
how was he a perv?
He would splice single frames from pornos into the movies that they played... None of the moviegoers ever noticed, but they'd take it in subconsciously and a little disturbing feeling would nag at them for the rest of the night...
Oh wait... that was something different.
Nevermind. _________________ ...not that there's anything wrong with that.
seven24 Park Slope Native.
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 141 Location: fourteen-7/8
Mon Jun 05, 06 8:47 am EST
quijibo wrote:
how was he a perv?
when we conversed he usually ended up making some sexual comment.
he also knocked up the ticketbooth girl who just happened to be 10 years younger.
Drano Meow Wars Veteran
Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1559
Mon Jun 05, 06 12:57 pm EST
seven24 wrote:
quijibo wrote:
how was he a perv?
when we conversed he usually ended up making some sexual comment.
he also knocked up the ticketbooth girl who just happened to be 10 years younger.
Ha! Well in fairness, she may have had something to do with it...I mean I presume we're not talking rape, statutory or otherwise...[/quote]
seven24 Park Slope Native.
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 141 Location: fourteen-7/8
Tue Jun 06, 06 8:21 am EST
seven24 wrote:
quijibo wrote:
how was he a perv?
when we conversed he usually ended up making some sexual comment.
he also knocked up the ticketbooth girl who just happened to be 10 years younger.
did I mention she was 17.
armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Tue Jun 06, 06 9:42 am EST
seven24 wrote:
seven24 wrote:
quijibo wrote:
how was he a perv?
when we conversed he usually ended up making some sexual comment.
he also knocked up the ticketbooth girl who just happened to be 10 years younger.
did I mention she was 17.
guy should of been arrested and wow stupid kid too. _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
Wonderful situation all around, but yeah I guess I figured she was a few years older.
kosherdave The Kosherist
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 988
Wed Jun 28, 06 1:20 pm EST
seven24 wrote:
seven24 wrote:
quijibo wrote:
how was he a perv?
when we conversed he usually ended up making some sexual comment.
he also knocked up the ticketbooth girl who just happened to be 10 years younger.
did I mention she was 17.
Not that I am so lucky, but I thought 17 was legal consent age in NYC? Or is it 18? Some states its 16. Anyway, I see nothing wrong with sex at 17. If she was 15 that'd be a different story!
Drano Meow Wars Veteran
Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1559
Wed Jun 28, 06 2:35 pm EST
kosherdave wrote:
seven24 wrote:
seven24 wrote:
quijibo wrote:
how was he a perv?
when we conversed he usually ended up making some sexual comment.
he also knocked up the ticketbooth girl who just happened to be 10 years younger.
did I mention she was 17.
Not that I am so lucky, but I thought 17 was legal consent age in NYC? Or is it 18? Some states its 16. Anyway, I see nothing wrong with sex at 17. If she was 15 that'd be a different story!
Ah, well...legal and right ain't always the same thing. Plus he knocked her up, which if you ask me takes it to a whole other level.
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