sjcarolan wrote:
JC people crack me up. I lived in Manhattan for 10 yrs before moving here. I learned some simple rules: If you want to avoid crowds and teens, avoid the first couple of weeks and weekend evening showings. Manhattan is no better at 8pm on Fri night of an opening weekend. And yes I detest teens, cell phones and babies as much as everyone (in a movie theatre), I just know how to avoid them. JCList cracks me up.

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ErinMaiden wrote:
has anyone been in the past year? has it gotten any better?

I tried it again after a couple of years to see if it was a better experience, it wasn?t. I am not concerned about missing armrests and the aesthetics. My ojida comes from the plethora of hoodlums talking throughout the entire movie, answering their phones, etc.

A couple years ago I first swore off Newport theaters when people were talking on the cell phones, screaming educative comments like ?wha he be thinkin...he crazy?, and a guy near me was translating the entire movie from English to Arabic for the guy next to him.

I will continue going to Edgewater, Secaucus or Battery Park City for another couple of years.

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ErinMaiden wrote:
has anyone been in the past year? has it gotten any better?

I tried it again after a couple of years to see if it was a better experience, it wasn?t. I am not concerned about missing armrests and the aesthetics. My ojida comes from the plethora of hoodlums talking throughout the entire movie, answering their phones, etc.

A couple years ago I first swore off Newport theaters when people were talking on the cell phones, screaming educative comments like ?wha he be thinkin...he crazy?, and a guy near me was translating the entire movie from English to Arabic for the guy next to him.

I will continue going to Edgewater, Secaucus or Battery Park City for another couple of years.

ErinMaiden wrote:
has anyone been in the past year? has it gotten any better?

Do they (The Loew's in Journal Square) have a website? That sounds right up my alley. I adore "Niagara" and "Night And The City". I'm kind of (ok, totally) a film nerd so this would give me a nerdgasm.

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ansky wrote:
I don't care what movie theater it is, I'm not going to pay 9 or 10 bucks to see a movie. I'll wait the three months to rent the DVD for a dollar.

Well I have to say I had a great experience movie-going experience this weekend by going to the Loew's theater in Journal Square. They were having a Film Noir weekend and showed classic films of the genre (Polanski's Chinatown, Kubric's The Killing, Hathaway's Niagra, and Dassain's Night and the City).
A magnificent vintage movie theater where you can see the films as they were originally intended to be shown. Foster Hirsch a professor of film and film noir expert was on hand to introduce each film with interesting comments and conducted a Q&A session afterwards.
They even have an organ that elevates and goes back into the floor with some excellent house organists providing entertainment before the films and in the interval between double bills. I recommend people try this experience the next time they have a program.

As for Newport, well I try not to go there but once in a while they have a film that I want to see and it is cheaper than going into NYC so I try to go during a quiet period which means not Friday or Saturday evening. However, the experience is often ruined by other patrons that don't have a clue how to behave.
I can't believe that they don't fix the hand-dryers in the men's bathroom. Only one is working; the others have been broken for over a year

troysmith wrote:
Slumdog was released 17 weeks ago! And you went on a random Wednesday... The movie was by no means "intelligent," great flick that won best Picture, but that award isn't necessarily reserved for the most "intelligent" movie of the season.

I wonder what movies you normally watch.

Xerxes wrote:
I have no problem with the physical plant of the Newport cinemas... never seen a mouse or vermin.

BUT their choice of movies is beyond execrable.
Perhaps they are getting a LITTLE better with SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and THE READER. But maybe they were flukes and they'll go back to their normal junk (like all the movies with a II, III, IV or V after the title of what was a bad movie in its FIRST incarnation.

Don't they realize that there IS an audience down here for decent films?

creativeconquests wrote:
Thought I'd go to a movie by myself there and two teenagers sat directly in front of me (empty theater) and the young kid proceeded to try and get to second base with his girlfriend. They obviously were amused that I was trying to watch the movie. It was my second time attempting to watch a movie there where the local kids are just there to hang out, not watch the movie. I'll never go there again, but something tells me they don't care - their friends are the ones working at the theater...

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ianmac47 wrote:
What do you expect, its newport mall.

+1

if i really want to catch a movie on the big screen (rare these days), i'll go to lowes in secaucus

Big LOL. Those theaters are in even worse physical shape than Newport. That's why they're building a new stadium seating theater in the parking lot across from the loew's six.

There are FAR better places to see a movie on the big screen than either Secaucus or Newport.