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| - Just like another review says: This is a theatre that reminds me of my childhood.
This theatre has the small screens, and lacks the big sound of modern cinemas. The seats are small, cramped, and your knees will find themselves resting against the seat in front of you.
While the staff is courteous and seems to care about where they work, the doesn't make up for the fact that you're paying the same price for a movie here as you would for a film at one of the big, comfortable, quality theatres.
I went in the cinema just to the left of the concession stand on the main level. Due to the lay out of the theatre, there is no centre seat. Aisles fill that area. And, the aisles are lit with "emergency lights" far brighter than those at main stream cinemas. They are noticeable throughout the feature and difficult to block out.
Even when you are looking at the screen, the distractions continue. There was a large tear, through the screen - or perhaps it was a lump from an flattened area - that rippled through the centre of the movie.
Now, if this movie theatre had reduced prices to match their reduced value, I could understand. A $7.00 ticket, or $5.00 on Tuesday (to match the memories from my childhood) would make this a four or five star review. However, why anyone would pay the same price, for so much less, is beyond me.
The only time I can see this cinema being returned to would be if I just wanted to walk down the street, and avoid the twenty five minute TTC trip downtown. Even then, though, I don't know that it would be worth it.
When you're waiting in a main stream theatre the preshow presents you with trivia, interviews, and games to keep you entertained. At the Humber, when I was there, they played the same Chinese Lounge Song (ON REPEAT) for thirty three minutes. I heard it eleven times. I counted.
Don't get me wrong, I started to jam to it - and I had a favourite part, and everything, but playing the same three minute song on repeat until the show starts? That's enough to drive some people crazy.
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