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| - I think that this is one of those cases where I really wish that enjoyed the place more than I actually did. I went to see the latest Hobbit movie (it could have been a decent 90 minute movie, but I digress) here in January because we had put off seeing it for too long and this was the only place showing it in non-3D (my fiancée gets motion sickness from it).
Immediately upon pulling in to the parking lot we wondered "is this the right address" but sure enough, there's a movie theatre there. Not one of those big Coliseum / Silvercity super mega, multiplex things but rather an old fashioned (read circa 1980s) movie theatre. Seriously I thought I had been thrust back to the time when I was a kid, which is probably the last time Encore Oakville Mews received a lick of paint. But still, it was pretty neat, this vestige of days gone by. The façade is neon and garish (I wish I had taken a better photo) and you actually buy your tickets OUTSIDE the theatre in this little alcove where the poor employee was largely exposed to the sub-zero January weather with only a space heater to keep her warm. So strange...was this how it used to be? I must be repressing my childhood theatergoing memories.
So you walk inside and it's about what you'd expect having seen it from the outside. It's all carpeted, the concession counter looks as old as the theatre itself and even the little video game section they have looks as though it's stocked with games from the early 90s. Okay, I didn't actually check too closely but that's my guess. The actual theatre rooms are also unlike most of today's modern ones: no stadium seating, so everyone is at the same level. Woe is the shorty who is stuck behind the 6'8" dude. The screen is above your eyelevel so you have to tilt your head up a bit and the sound is okay, but not quite Dolby Digital super 5.whatever surround.
So yeah, the place is certainly a bit of relic. Good old days? I guess. I've always been a traditionalist in most ways and am a huge classic cinema buff. But after seeing a recent blockbuster type movie at Encore, maybe there are some things that change for the better. Go if you want to support a nice local, independent cinema...I'm certainly in favour of that and if you want to, more power to you. It may not be super fancy but the prices are more reasonable both for tickets and snacks and the folks working there were really nice, especially the poor frozen girl in the ticket area.
Me? I like the improved screen and sound and the comfy chairs with stadium seating and I don't think I mind that much having to pay twelve bucks versus eight to get that. Maybe I've just gotten soft and become spoiled over all these years. Even though I may not necessarily come back, I do hope other, more hardened folks do.
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