The fact of the matter is…. the studios will NOT waste time on scripts that build and give you a good story with good CHARACTERS. Everything now is get into the story and get out. Characters are hardly ever developed so you care or know anything about them. If something is not moving the story forward, it is just OUT.
Maybe it is the ADD society we live in, but I think it is more the rack em stack em way of the studios today to get peopel talking about the movie so you see it week 1 or 2, and if not the DVD is right around the corner.
Even movies like ET and the Karate Kid DEVELOPED the charatcers. The 1st set of Star Wars (4-6) developed the characters (and those were ACTION movies!) In fact, if they didn’t would there REALLY be new Star Wars over 20 years later. No is the answer, because it would just go in and out of your memory lke most movies today.
And how about some good stories? Anyone see THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW? That is an insult to any moviegoer in America who has above a 5 IQ because of it’s story line and content.
And since this is a UA (Regal) Sheepshead Bay discussion, that theatre is STILl a dive, even though it is the best Brooklyn has to offer in that area.
They did the minimal amount to keep any other chair from getting the idea of opening a theatre in Brooklyn.
Regal does what is has to and not much more.
I’d like to see a great AMC pop up in Broklyn. They may be corporate in many ways, but at least they would do it with style.
The screen in this theatre was UP on the wall! Since it was so small and the rows of seats went right up close to the screen, the screen was put up higher on the wall.
You had to look up to see it, and had a pain in the neck by the end of the movie.
The screen also had a really bad curtain that came DOWN over it. You could see the bottom of the screen between the rounded parts of the bottom of the curtain.
I saw PHASE IV at this theatre.
There was a POPCORN machine for snacks.
The theatre doors were CHAINED from the outside when it went XXX. Do not know all the circumstances.
Ok Sorry I am wrong about thw twinning. I was about 7 back then, and just remembered the theatre was closed for renovations (said that on the marquee) and then it reopened, and all I remember is that SILENT MOVIE with Mel Brooks was the first feature to play upstairs in theatre 2.
I am too young to remember the triangle.. heard about it though.
I remember thinking how great it was when the theatre was twinned because I thought they would do the same to the Mayfair and Avalon. Avalon is a drugstore now. Mayfair was torn down to make a McDonalds.
I saw EARTHQUAKE IN SENSORROUND at the Mayfair.
Me and friends used to sneak into the Kingsway by saying we wanted to see the manager, so they’d show us to the manager’s door right next to the entrance, then we would dart up the stairs to a movie.
This theatre can be seen right before the “Trolley Car Accident” sequence in the movie “Avalon”. The kids with the mothr come out of the theatre, and you get a great big shot of thr marquee as a trolley car careens out of control from down the side street (which is where I usually park).
They set up a fake set accorss the street that posed as a gas station.
I really do not think Regal will re-open it.. in their eyes, people can go to the Sheepshead.
Also, there is no parking here… What are they going to do anout that?
Has anyone heard rumblings from years ago about a new theatre going next to the Belt Parkway behind Best Buy, before you get to Nelly Bly on the service road?
UA, as well as the west coast Edwards chain are now part of the Regal Cinemas Empire….
There is no more United Artists.. it is now just another part of REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP.
This company seems to do things on the cheap… Yes they make sure there are screens but they don’t do anything to make the theatres anything special or even classy at all… like AMC does for instance.
The renovated Sheepshead Bay theatre STILL havs some auditoriums without stadiunm seating… STILL has really nasty bathrooms.. the funniest is the one mens room that was newly added with ONE URINAL.. or the line outside the ladies room.
The theatres are OK but just OK.. nothing special about this place… It was just renovated and expanded to keep anyone else out of Brooklyn.. look how really run down they let it become before this renovation project.
I see the area all the time… I grew up there and am back through there once a month. it is a fine area.
And, YOU are the ignorant and uneducated person on here. People can type whatever they like here, and if you have a problem you should explore some professional help choices, and not attack people on a message board that you do not know.
You obviously have some sort of strange problem so please keep it to yourself.
Yes it was 4.. but it DID have The Rocky Horror Picture Show there… I remmeber leaving from a movie with a friend and all these weird people were running up the stairs.. so we went back and watched….
The Cine Capri was owned by Harkins… not Cineplex Odeon. Cinepex didn’t have any screens in the valley until they tried to come in with one in the basement of Scottsdale Galleria in the early 90s which failed.
How long will this place stay open?
The fact of the matter is…. the studios will NOT waste time on scripts that build and give you a good story with good CHARACTERS. Everything now is get into the story and get out. Characters are hardly ever developed so you care or know anything about them. If something is not moving the story forward, it is just OUT.
Maybe it is the ADD society we live in, but I think it is more the rack em stack em way of the studios today to get peopel talking about the movie so you see it week 1 or 2, and if not the DVD is right around the corner.
Even movies like ET and the Karate Kid DEVELOPED the charatcers. The 1st set of Star Wars (4-6) developed the characters (and those were ACTION movies!) In fact, if they didn’t would there REALLY be new Star Wars over 20 years later. No is the answer, because it would just go in and out of your memory lke most movies today.
And how about some good stories? Anyone see THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW? That is an insult to any moviegoer in America who has above a 5 IQ because of it’s story line and content.
And since this is a UA (Regal) Sheepshead Bay discussion, that theatre is STILl a dive, even though it is the best Brooklyn has to offer in that area.
They did the minimal amount to keep any other chair from getting the idea of opening a theatre in Brooklyn.
Regal does what is has to and not much more.
I’d like to see a great AMC pop up in Broklyn. They may be corporate in many ways, but at least they would do it with style.
The screen in this theatre was UP on the wall! Since it was so small and the rows of seats went right up close to the screen, the screen was put up higher on the wall.
You had to look up to see it, and had a pain in the neck by the end of the movie.
The screen also had a really bad curtain that came DOWN over it. You could see the bottom of the screen between the rounded parts of the bottom of the curtain.
I saw PHASE IV at this theatre.
There was a POPCORN machine for snacks.
The theatre doors were CHAINED from the outside when it went XXX. Do not know all the circumstances.
Ok Sorry I am wrong about thw twinning. I was about 7 back then, and just remembered the theatre was closed for renovations (said that on the marquee) and then it reopened, and all I remember is that SILENT MOVIE with Mel Brooks was the first feature to play upstairs in theatre 2.
I am too young to remember the triangle.. heard about it though.
I remember thinking how great it was when the theatre was twinned because I thought they would do the same to the Mayfair and Avalon. Avalon is a drugstore now. Mayfair was torn down to make a McDonalds.
I saw EARTHQUAKE IN SENSORROUND at the Mayfair.
Me and friends used to sneak into the Kingsway by saying we wanted to see the manager, so they’d show us to the manager’s door right next to the entrance, then we would dart up the stairs to a movie.
bad kids.
I think those people were making home movies in there.
It would be nicer if they showed regular movies again.
Seats and carpeting?
How about that funnell sound system.
You can not even hear the diologue~!
These people bought the GCC cinema that AMC did not pick up in th Atlanta area, in Silver Spring.
Losing proposition.. the theater is near a main street but a block away facing the wrong way!!
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This theatre can be seen right before the “Trolley Car Accident” sequence in the movie “Avalon”. The kids with the mothr come out of the theatre, and you get a great big shot of thr marquee as a trolley car careens out of control from down the side street (which is where I usually park).
They set up a fake set accorss the street that posed as a gas station.
Again.. ANy wor don WHEN the Astor Plaza will be closing and if it is definite or speculation or rumor?
Any new news on this theatre?
I really do not think Regal will re-open it.. in their eyes, people can go to the Sheepshead.
Also, there is no parking here… What are they going to do anout that?
Has anyone heard rumblings from years ago about a new theatre going next to the Belt Parkway behind Best Buy, before you get to Nelly Bly on the service road?
UA, as well as the west coast Edwards chain are now part of the Regal Cinemas Empire….
There is no more United Artists.. it is now just another part of REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP.
This company seems to do things on the cheap… Yes they make sure there are screens but they don’t do anything to make the theatres anything special or even classy at all… like AMC does for instance.
The renovated Sheepshead Bay theatre STILL havs some auditoriums without stadiunm seating… STILL has really nasty bathrooms.. the funniest is the one mens room that was newly added with ONE URINAL.. or the line outside the ladies room.
The theatres are OK but just OK.. nothing special about this place… It was just renovated and expanded to keep anyone else out of Brooklyn.. look how really run down they let it become before this renovation project.
Nevertheless, the sign in faded paint always said VAUDEVILLE SHOWS
What you cabnt see is that on the lefthand side under the painted LOEWS ORIENTAL there wasa VERY faded painting of the words
VAUDVILLE
SHOWS
How incredible is that!!
What you cabnt see is that on the lefthand side under the painted LOEWS ORIENTAL there wasa VERY faded painting of the words
VAUDVILLE
SHOWS
How incredible is that!!
Wow… Warren you are a wealth of knowledge….
Can I ask you.. what is the history of the Goldens chain? I worked at the Oceana for awhile… (I know we are on the Knigsway site)
Mike
Does anyone remember the old brand in Ny “Red Carpet Theatres” and also “Blue Ribbon Theatres”?
If so, which theatres carried those names.. I only vaguley remember comemrcials ending with “Now playing at a Red Carpet Theatre near you.”
What other brands were there back then…. and is Loews not owned by Sony any more?
Warren,
I will always remember it as the CENTURY Kingsway….
I also rem,ember the CENTURY Avalon, and Mayfair…. which others were DCentury theatres in Brooklyn at that time???
Ron,
I see the area all the time… I grew up there and am back through there once a month. it is a fine area.
And, YOU are the ignorant and uneducated person on here. People can type whatever they like here, and if you have a problem you should explore some professional help choices, and not attack people on a message board that you do not know.
You obviously have some sort of strange problem so please keep it to yourself.
In the later years, most seats were broken or missing.
There was also a ladder present in the downstairs auditorium.
Mike
Yes it was 4.. but it DID have The Rocky Horror Picture Show there… I remmeber leaving from a movie with a friend and all these weird people were running up the stairs.. so we went back and watched….
Any word on further renovations to the theatre?
The upstairs consession standf was rarely used… Only on weekends years ago when they had very full house…
The please was a dump at the end, but mos tplaces that are not kept up become that…. It would have been a great theatre to save and keep.
Brooklyn’s first “twinned” theatre!
The Cine Capri was owned by Harkins… not Cineplex Odeon. Cinepex didn’t have any screens in the valley until they tried to come in with one in the basement of Scottsdale Galleria in the early 90s which failed.
The Ciema Kings Highway…. Is that the one that was off Ocean Prkway and was an adult movie house (as long as I could remember)?
Mike
I was there!!
It is just a big stadium seating theatre with a curtain….
Nice to see Lord of the Rings there.
It is NO Cine Capri however….