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Toronto-Age |OT4| Molested by a Burger Priest
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
Fuck, Hateful 8 is actually playing in 70mm at Varsity. Really didn't want to come into town during Christmas. I might avoid it and hope it's still there in January.
added_time
Member
Thanks for the tip. That movie is what I'm watching instead of Star Wars.
edit: my wife just informed me she wants to see Star Wars with me so I guess I'll be seeing both
criesofthepast
Member
Didn't even know we had VIP cinemas here. Since when? Now gotta get 4D cinemas. Furious 7 in 4D was the best.
Yes that's right. You can smell the burning tire rubber in a Furious 7 4D cinema.
N° 2048
Member
Holy shit that is hilarious. I actually want to try this.
I'm not even a sneaker head but still trying to cop the Air Max the 6.
Have a feeling I missed out on them though as it seems to be a very limited release.
VIP theatres are great, but I wouldn't bother with one for the majority of movies.
Same here. I'd save trips to the VIP theatre for big movies. I wanted to do it for Age of Ultron, but I couldn't get some of my friends on board with it.
Star Wars was the perfect movie for it, IMO.
Maybe Civil War or Batman v. Superman next year.
I saw Age of Ultron at a VIP theatre. I wanted to do it for Star Wars but it was not playing at the VIP theatre near me.
Civil War would be good at the VIP.
KnightHart
Member
So how does VIP work anyway? They just opened VIP at Yonge and Eglinton and its a blessed 5 minute walk away from my apartment. Do I pay 2000 scene points just for the seat or does it come with some other stuff?
You're paying for a seat. You pay for food separately.
KnightHart
Member
Hm maybe I'll go see Star Wars a second time alone in VIP sometime this week then and just use my scene points (I think I have 5000-6000 left).
They have a menu and you can order food (and alcohol). They bring it to your seat.
Dr Campino
Member
To add to the VIP talk, it's 19+ only, the seats are wide with a middle armrest thing you can move if you're there with someone, tons of legroom, smallish capacity.
It's pretty great.
It's pretty great.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
If only really go for big big films. Other stuff I'm fine with the regular experience though I'm finding the regular experience is getting annoying with people kicking chairs, using their phones, and generally being a pain in the neck.
Sit at the top/back row.
I always sit in the back row, ever since I was a kid.
Watch it at home then.
I generally go for either that, or a seat close to the aisle if the middle isn't available.
They don't ban you from using cellphones.
I don't think banning cellphones would go over well. They just have the same reminder to turn them off before the movie starts and I had no problems during my viewing.
Not really a fan of the 72-10s. The leather throws me off, I like the mesh of the regular 11s better. Same thing with the iridescent patent leather, it looks so weird to me.
you're not allowed, or you just won't?
majority of the time people aren't douchebags and won't touch their phones in the theatre
Thanks for the responses, all.
Let's just say if it was up to me, I'd get cheap seats and wouldn't give a shit if in the middle of the movie a fistfight broke out between a fan who saw the movie 4 times and another fan who believed Mara Jade shouldn't have been sacrificed by JJ Abrams, and leave it there.
Let's just say if it was up to me, I'd get cheap seats and wouldn't give a shit if in the middle of the movie a fistfight broke out between a fan who saw the movie 4 times and another fan who believed Mara Jade shouldn't have been sacrificed by JJ Abrams, and leave it there.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I don't really think VIP is worth it because you're paying more for a smaller screen and a worse sound system. Oh and to have someone bring beer to you I guess.
I remember hearing about a place in Toronto that was ripping off the Alamo Drafthouse experience, but I'm surprised no one has just outright done the first run Drafthouse experience.
The only reason to watch it now is for the 70mm print, considering what happened today.
I remember hearing about a place in Toronto that was ripping off the Alamo Drafthouse experience, but I'm surprised no one has just outright done the first run Drafthouse experience.
We've had the rumble seat things in Toronto for a few years at Paramount/Scotiabank and at the one in Scarborough. It's really dumb and maybe worth experiencing once you have enough points to get a free movie (it costs like 25 bucks for a D-Box+3D ticket). The actual spray/smell gimmick is pretty dumb, at least based on what people told me though.
It's a pain that it's coming out on Christmas. lol
The only reason to watch it now is for the 70mm print, considering what happened today.
Cripplegate
Member
Yeah, I saw one of the Hobbit movies in the D-Box. Would not do that again.
Junior Mint
Member
sooooo, i bought some soylent for fun lol
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
If eating people made it warmer outside, you'd eat an family twice per day.
Face it Tiger..
Banned
I wish I was his brother :>
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Probably taste better than Hero Burger...
Sigh...boss says we gotta come in for a few days this week instead of working from home. Great. I show up and my other coworkers for whatever reason decide to work from home too.
I should so totally have an office chair race...
Are you saying that it's actually going to get close to freezing this year?!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Have you started farting yet?
Might as well just buy the BD when it comes out though. lol
I think I only go VIP when it's some foreign/indie movie and Varsity VIP is the only place that has it.
I think only Gravity was worth it... and just barely.
If we have a massive power outage again I'm blaming Kuro.
"and asks residents to make informed decisions before they ride"
I did make an informed decision. i made sure never to take a taxi because they're fucking reckless and don't obey the laws of the road
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I keep reading about bad cab experiences, but I've never had one... even when the fair was like three minute, 8 buck ride.
I have three gripes with cabs:
1. How they either don't take credit cards or mysteriously all their machines are broken. I don't want nor need to carry tons of cash on me just because of a cab ride.
2. Refusing to take me somewhere because it's "out of their way".
3. Agreeing to one price and then trying to change it midway through the ride.
1. How they either don't take credit cards or mysteriously all their machines are broken. I don't want nor need to carry tons of cash on me just because of a cab ride.
2. Refusing to take me somewhere because it's "out of their way".
3. Agreeing to one price and then trying to change it midway through the ride.
Word? As a season seat holder I have a very slim opportunity to buy tickets for everything at face value...I doubt I'll be able to though as from what I understand they broke all the season seat holders into having specific days they can try to purchase them so I'll be going against other season seat holders on the same day.
Much better than going against tens of thousands but still going against hundreds of people.
BigJonsson
Member
I thought it was based on how long you've been a season ticket holder?
Anyway, I laugh whenever someone says they are going to get tickets and I tell them they better make friends with an NBA sponsor or pay an obscene amount on stubhub.....and then they think they'll be able to get tickets off stubhub for a couple hundred dollars haha