Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] those of you waiting for a Fry's or BestBuyin Columbia...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Jonathan King wrote:

> > And they are both AMC theaters!  So if something isn't carried by AMC,
> > you won't get it in Columbia unless...
>
> OK, so I'm confused.  I thought the Forum 8 was owned by Goodrich and
> the Stadium 14 was Hollywood, and that neither of these was AMC.
> (AMC's website does not suggest they own either one of them.) Did
> massive merger happen when I wasn't looking?

Well, I can tell you a few things that I remember.  I used to go to a lot
of movies in Columbia in both of the places you just named.  Both of them
started with the AMC screens and -- this is the weird thing -- previews
for movies running in one theater would be shown at the other theater!
(and they weren't playing at both).  The theaters were definitely working
together very closely.  It might not look like it, but they had to have
been one large business.  Maybe that has changed, but when I was living in
Columbia, that's what was going on.


> > > Ragtag's success (such as it is) rests precisely on the fact that
> > > they offer something completely different, flout the fact that
> > > they're completely different, and have enough audience to fill their
> > > tiny venue.
> >
> > They are great.  I miss them.  You can see movies in Columbia that I
> > can't see here in Minneapolis and it's only because of Ragtag.
>
> Now that completely shocks me.  There really isn't a single "art house"
> in the whole Twin Cities?  Yikes...

Not quite.  We have Oak Street Cinema, Uptown Cinema and Lagoon Cinema...

http://www.minneapolis.com/movies/

But, it can still happen that a great movie will run at Ragtag and it
won't play in Minneapolis at all.  It isn't quite as good here film-wise
as I thought it would be.  Most of the theaters run same films as all the
other theaters.  For example, Sweet Home Alabama is playing at 25 theaters
in the metro area:

http://www.citypages.com/movieclock/showtimes.asp?MID=4110&CID=.

Mike

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