Regal Cinemas FunScape - Jarmin Road, Chesapeake, VA (1990s)
"Walking into the Toy Box transforms the ordinary child and parent into a participant. The Crayon Storage Unit, Supersize Scribble Pad Memo Board, Thematic Artist Palette Table, and Paint Jar Seats, Coral Reef Decor for Interactive Seas are products designed to create interactive opportunities for children and parents. The "Interactive Seas Bubble Column" archway and "Gamemania" archway define key attractions in the play area. These archways, with their vibrant colors and miniature game parts, initiate visitors to find new adventures within the FunScape complex."
Designed by Interior Systems, Inc. (ISI)
Scanned from 'Great Store Design 2' (1996)
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Either Regal Cinemas does not know bread is actually bad for ducks or this is the most passive aggressive corporate Letterboxd review of all time
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Regal Greece Ridge's Last Picture Show
The cinema scene in my home county has been remarkably stable for most of my moviegoing life. Five multiplexes with 10+ screens went up from 1996 to 2000 and a wave of smaller theater closings ended in 2002. Then, for 18 years, the status quo basically held鈥攕ome temporary shutdowns for renovations or ownership changes, but that was it.
COVID-19, of course, changed all that. Regal Culver Ridge 16 closed with all the rest on March 15, 2020, but never reopened. The Cinema, last of the Rochester neighborhood theaters, went dark for over a year before reopening with new management and a new dine-in model. Pittsford Cinema 9 is following in their footsteps.
Now, with Regal's parent company facing bankruptcy, another one of their theaters is shuttering. Regal Greece Ridge (est. 1998) was, in my memory at least, the only local theater built into a shopping mall. Because it was on the other side of town, I never visited until 2014 (for viewing #5 of Godzilla with a friend who lived nearby). Then I moved nearby in 2017 and started going there semi-regularly... until AMC hired me at the end of 2018 and I got to watch most everything there for free. Since 2017 was the same year I started obsessively tracking my movie outings, I can list everything I saw at Greece Ridge: Dunkirk, Battle of the Sexes, Coco, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Every Day, Blockers, Rampage, A Quiet Place, Deadpool 2, Spider-Man: Far from Home, and M3GAN. Note the gap. I didn't have much reason to come back after I got jabbed and pledged allegiance to Cinemark, but I had to see it off.
It wasn't some hidden gem. Stadium seating, middling number of screens, no premium formats besides 3D, and not much to look at visually. But 25 years is time enough to make a lot of memories, and movie theaters are what's known as "anchor tenants"鈥攖hey draw in a lot of people who can then be enticed to patronize nearby shops afterwards. So if no one swoops in to switch the projectors back on and keep the soda flowing, it'll damage every store in the mall. And it'll always be the place where I first saw the movie that broke the Internet (which I, for the record, still adore).
For posterity鈥攊t's not like newspapers print these things anymore鈥攈ere are the showtimes for the theater's final day. No Scream VI, which feels a little defiant. Maybe the staff just wanted a quiet night. Hopefully they've all had time to line up better things.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (PG-13): 11:55 AM | 1:40 PM | 3:05 PM | 4:50 PM | 5:45 PM | 6:15 PM | 8:00 PM
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-13) [3D]: 1:30 PM | 6:30 PM
Cocaine Bear (R): 12:55 PM | 1:55 PM | 3:45 PM | 4:45 PM | 6:45 PM | 7:45 PM
Creed III (PG-13): 11:50 AM | 12:50 PM | 2:55 PM | 3:55 PM | 6:00 PM | 7:00 PM
80 for Brady (PG-13): 3:20 PM | 6:40 PM
Knock at the Cabin (R): 4:20 PM
The Land Before Time (G): 1:00 PM
Living (PG-13): 12:00 PM | 2:45 PM
Magic Mike's Last Dance (R): 1:15 PM | 7:30 PM
65 (PG-13): 7:10 PM
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I can tell that the new Indiana Jones film isn鈥檛 doing well at the presale box office. Regal sent me an email about a free IMAX upgrade if I bought a ticket.
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I鈥檓 trying to make a weekly movie in the theater a thing again. I did years ago and I enjoyed it. Nice solo time, though if others request to join I won鈥檛 stop them. So far have seen Barbie with my mom and Haunted Mansion solo. I go on Tuesday where the ticket is $5.75 and snacks are also discounted.
I did enjoy Barbie, but honestly I don鈥檛 have much to add to the conversation about it that hasn鈥檛 been said.
However鈥aunted Mansion? I will admit I was only semi interested and only selected it because I simply wanted to see a movie and nothing else peaked my interest. HM is the type of movie maybe I鈥檇 select on Disney + after scrolling for 30 minutes.
However I ended up loving it. Good mix of humor, serious moments, good plot, good twists, good casting, etc. I throughly enjoyed it the whole time.
I have a feeling people might be sleeping on it. If anyone wants to see a movie I would a thousand percent recommend the Haunted Mansion. You will not be disappointed.
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I won a Black Panther Prize Pack from Regal Cinemas!! It comes with a journal, some patches, a hat, totebag, t-shirt, hoodie, and backpack! 馃榿馃枻馃挏
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Whoever made "World Cinema Day" a thing during a fucking inventory and employee shortage, fuck you 馃枙馃従.
Movie tickets were three dollars today and people definitely took advantage of that shit, let me tell you.
I've never seen the count go to two thousand before, even with movies like Spiderman (which was also an awful time to work at the movies).
Our oven broke last month so we have no oven food (pizza, pretzels, etc), we ran out of hotdogs, and at one point our popcorn machine broke. And people were still assholes despite clearly seeing how crazy it was today.
I worked 2-10 today, I'm dead inside 馃拃
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On the bright side, I did find 10 dollars while cleaning a theater (I split it with the other person was cleaning with) so that was nice. And we also got to wear normal shirts as long as they had movies on them and our manager bought us pizza, so it was at least somewhat enjoyable for us.
But goddamm I hope this isn't gonna be an annual thing 馃拃.
(ID in alt text!)
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