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| - My love of the Chinook theatre can be directly attributed to the giant egyptian theme it still has going on. I thought it was cool when I was like ten and it first opened, and I think it is super cool now, too. I mean, the head shoots lasers from its EYES!! Heck yeah!
You can also drink inside the theatre - there is a place where you can booze it up. They have a mini food court, but like all movie theatre food, it is marked up by a lot. The popcorn "deals" advertise $0.50 to a $1.25 in savings OMG except that it is like twenty bucks for a popcorn, two pops and a snack which they fail to cost out.
The place isn't bad when it isn't busy, but when it is busy it is super scary. And have you ever been motion sick during a movie?! A couple of times I have failed to anticipate the crowd and the only seats for a group have been at the very front. Jerky action movies with crappy camera angles up close are pretty nauseating - I once spent the majority of "Hitch" with my eyes closed so I didn't puke. I didn't even feel screwed over because it was such a crappy movie.
And that really is my biggest problem with Scotiabank theatre chinook: unless guaranteed a large audience, you will not see a single independent movie within this theatre. If a movie catches on (see: Napolean Dynamite, Lost in Translation, etc.) then you can see it, but otherwise it is brainless blockbusters and chick flicks and kid movies. That's not always bad, but variety and quality would go a long way to getting me back into the movie theatre.
Giant lasers and egyptain themes, no matter how awesome, do not a good movie make.
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