Somewhere, in a galaxy far far away...
is a land where people appreciate single-screen theaters and don't go to stupid multiplexes showing the same crappy movie on ten screens preceded by an endless loop of bad-movie trivia attached to coke ads. Yes, the Coronet is finally closing.
The Coronet, where you used to have to pay a dollar extra to sit in the loge. Where the loge used to be a smoking section. The Coronet isn't pretty, but it is big and has a big screen and big sound and is an exciting place to see a movie.
The Sound of Music...Singin' in the Rain...Star Wars... I saw all of these for the first time at the Coronet. The Coronet is where I saw my first movie without any parental supervision: 9 to 5. I remember thinking the whole experience was really racy. Why? Because someone says "shit" once in the movie. Ooooo they said a bad word. How can they close the theater where I first heard "shit" on screen without a parent around?
R.I.P. Coronet, you will be missed.
posted by Miss Quizzy @ 6:56 PM
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I can't believe they are closing the Coronet. I think I saw The Cable Guy there, my first and last Jim Carrey movie. Portland, as we have discovered, is the land of 3-dollar movie theaters, complete with full menu and bar. The only catch is that the movies have been out long enough that they are in that pergatory between big screen and video, and that the movies they show are totally up to the theater owner's discretion. Which currently means, in my neighborhood, The Incredibles and Closer. I can't complain. After a whole pizza (half of which we happily take home), a pitcher of beer and a movie date with David, we're only 20 dollars in the hole.
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