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| - After having a great dinner nearby, we walked to Filmbar for our movie. We arrived about 10min before the showing time and the place had a ridiculous glob of people in a disorganized line for the bar and there was no way of telling where to go for tickets other than to get in line.. turns out the tickets are sold at the bar.. also turns out we may have just walked in to the Theater as there was no ticket-taker guy. OK, so I guess that's trusting and good.
I still felt like it was very poorly organized because the bar line (which was also the ticket line) was really long and seemed to take forever for 2 people behind the bar to get through all these folks (understandable, esp since they're servine wines and beers - you need that time to do a proper pour). I think the manager should have or indicate separate lines for tickets and drinks that way those that already watched the movie and want to get their drink on can get in a separate line from people wanting to watch the movie that's about to begin (while still getting their drink on). When we got our popcorn, it was super salty and burnt... and highly overpriced! Yes, more than AMC!
Alright, done mentioning the 'bad'.
The theater is modest and simple; has tall bar-table seating with comfortable backed chairs and also has the standard movie seating towards the forward end; the sound was good, no issues; the picture quality was very good for this setup; the Movie was a true Independent selection - very enjoyable. Also, we had a full bottle of Cab with us for the entire movie and it was very enjoyable to mix a good movies with a good glass(es) of wine.
After the movie, we both hung out in the main area and enjoyed the atmosphere - nice crowd, young, yet some old, downtown-hip, loungy, alternative... good DJ spinning more swanky electronica grooves.... quite alive.
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