What is wrong with you, stupid theatre? The Galaxy moved into town a few years ago and just blew everyone away. This was a city that still had flat seating, small screens and monorail sound in their theatres. Along comes this place with just the opposite, and cheap prices too. And for a time, it was good.
I'm not sure when things started going awry, but I really took notice this past December. The issue: the theatre has stopped bringing in GOOD movies! It seems all we really get now are your basic movies for the masses (e.g. Night at the Museum, The Hitcher, Epic Movie). Casino Royale was playing here for entirely way too long. Stop playing these movies, free up some space and bring in the good stuff!
Surely there must be room: we have seven screens, which isn't terrible. Is it the demographics? When the theatre first opened it boomed: everybody was going to the theatre. I knew people who weren't going to the show for years, and now that this modern complex had opened, they could finally go and enjoy a movie now. When you take a look at the movies that play here, you would think the theatre is just catering towards children (i.e. with family movies) and teenagers, with these weird comedies and dumb action vehicles.
There are a number of movies that will never see the projector in North Bay, it seems. Children of Men. Pan's Labyrinth. Babel. Apocalypto. Definitely more adult-oriented, and definitely not in North Bay. Some of them make it in Sudbury, in which case I have to make a road trip and go see it, which is a bit of a hassle. Yes, I enjoyed doing that in the past, when the Silver City was a novelty, but I shouldn't have to travel to see the latest movie when there's a perfectly good theatre here.
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They've raised prices, too. When the Galaxy first opened, adult tickets cost a couple bucks less than they do now (at least, it seems thay way).
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