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| - My boyfriend had bought the groupon deal for $5 tickets and yesterday was the last day to use them so we came uptown for dinner and a movie. They still haven't streamlined their process yet, it took quite a bit to get our tickets because they were trying out a new scanner. We had never seen a movie at the Epicentre Theater before it changed hands because it was so crazy expensive but I think Studio Movie Grill has the right idea, everything is mid-range in price. $10 is average for a movie & the food and drinks are pretty average priced too and if you remember to get your ticket validated parking is free.
Tuesdays are also half price tickets for ladies ($5) but when every single movie is either a war movie, sports movie or a dumb spoof scary movie, you won't be getting many ladies to attend. That is my biggest complaint, the lack of diversity in the movies. It seems they're catering more to the single 20 something bank worker. We settled on 42 because it looked interesting, otherwise I would have let the groupon expire.
Be careful of where you put your elbows on your arm rest/food tray, as Tim and quite a few people around us kept accidentally hitting it with their elbows. Service was pretty quick although you could tell there were some trainees, food was getting delivered to the wrong chair pretty consistently, but it has to be hard to deliver food in the dark!
The food was average, a step above fast food. The chicken tenders looked nothing like what they kept showing on the screen and despite the fries being listed as seasoned, there was no seasoning or salt on them and since we were all the way at the top of the theater I didn't want to make one of the servers walk all the way up there just for salt. I also would have liked more variety of candy.
I definitely want to come back when they do one off movies, they have quite a few $1 movie nights and they're showing some more artsy independent films too but I think I'll eat somewhere else beforehand.
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