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| - Theaters are kinda tough for me to review. I think we as a society have become so numb as to what a great theater is, that we just kind of accept mediocrity as the standard. While I don't think this is a good thing, it is what it is and I try to make do with what I have availability to.
The service at Loews 22 isn't that bad. It isn't great but it's not off putting either. How much can you really expect from a bunch of high school and college kids who are getting a part time job for the first time? No wows here, but not sub-standard for the industry either.
The concessions aren't winning any awards either. They are standard run of the mill movie snacks. Except they sell the off brand Raisinets, which is sacrilegious to me. I have not had the opportunity of eating at the in house restaurant but I have seen the dishes and they look like processed frozen items.Again, it this were a dedicated restaurant I might be upset but again it looks like something I would expect a movie theater restaurant to produce.
The bar is a slightly different story. I went once, and once only for a very good reason. It is over priced and the bartenders are horrible. That particular evening I was drinking bourbon and water and they still managed to screw it up. I was then told that I could not have a second drink because they couldn't figure out how to open the bottle. That is just a level of incompetence I find unacceptable. The icing on the turd cake that was the bar experience was the fact that they used plastic glassware. OK i get plastic for guests carrying drinks to the theater in order to minimize the possibility of broken glass, but for those guest sitting at the bar proper glassware should be used. Plastic is just straight lazy.
The cleanliness of the theater is also an issue with me. If I hadn't been conditioned to think that floors similar to those of a taxi were acceptable, I might be pissed. Sticky floors, popcorn and trash strewn about, the same stuff you see in every theater you will ever go to. No better, but no worse either.
To finish up, I find Loews Waterfront to be perfect. Perfectly mediocre at least. they do a lot of things wrong, things that should piss people off, but every other theater I have ever been to falls into the same pitfalls. Don't go expecting anything industry shattering one way or another.
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