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  4 0 Cinerama for commercial releases. Grand Illusion for the esoteric. Gabriel August Neeb answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 1 What do you usually like in a theater? What elements are important to you? The seats? The screen size? The viewing angles? The sound system? The projection system? Free/easy parking? Does the make-up of the crowd matter (i.e. mostly teens, many tweens, etc.)? Someone else here mentioned the Egyptian. Can be a decent theater but I've always thought the sound was a bit echo-y. In any case, I doubt Where the Wild Things Are will open there. Most theaters have flaws of some sort, it just depends on your preferences. Cinerama has great screen and sound. Their newer seats are a bit better than the ones they replaced, but some people still hate them. If someone is in front of you then it can be annoying. Pacific Place has those two big theaters upstairs, so the screen is large and nice. But the space lacks intimacy. Plus, a lot of rabble rousers tend to go here (which I guess is true for all multiplexes, but I just get annoyed when I see dozens and dozens of people leave their trash on the floor afterwards). You might want to investigate Thorton Place Cinema. They'll likely be showing the film and recently opened with their fancy seats and all that. If Landmark plays it, I'm guessing it will play at Neptune or the pink Guild 45th theater. Like the Egyptian, I think the sound is a bit off, bass heavy in their case (but very good otherwise). And the screen is a bit high if you're in the first few rows. But it's a good place to see a film with a packed house. The left Guild theater could use newer seats. And when I saw Basterds there about eight flies were crawling all over the screen throughout the entire movie, which was really distracting. I don't know. There are many theaters out there. Regal downtown or Meridian or whatever it's called nowadays I suppose has some decent theaters, but that place gives me a creepy feeling. stinkbug answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report 2 comments by james and Certainly!… 0 0 Wow, you sure can type. james commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 I really appreciate your detailed answer. The most important factor for this movie is I want to be in an audience of people who are nerding-out on it (like me!) From your description, it sounds like the Landmark theaters are going to be a good fit (good place to see a film with a packed house.) Certainly! commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 1. Big Picture 2. Cinerama 3. All the rest Eric Arrr answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by Collin… 0 0 The Big Picture rocks. I'm hoping at some point they'll screen a James Bond movie so I can watch while drinking a martini. Collin commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 Is the Apple still open? james answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 Cinerama is the best screen if it's not in IMAX. After that Lincoln Square in Bellevue and Thorton Place at Northgate are the best in terms of screen/sound. If you go to the IMAX make sure it's at the Science Center. All the other screens are real IMAX... They are LIEMAX. Andrew Beck answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 The new theaters out at Northgate (Thornton Place) are my new favorite. They're super clean and nice with huge comfy seats, the floors aren't sticky and nasty, there's no gum stuck to the backs of seats, and every show I've been to there has been FAR from full. RM answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by Brian Pitts… 0 0 The auditoriums are nice (which is ultimately what counts), but everything else in that theater is a train wreck. It looks like it was designed by someone who specializes in budget motels (but who really, truly dreams of someday building a mammoth hunting lodge). Brian Pitts commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 For small scale pics (which WTWTA will be), I personally like the humble Landmark theaters. My faves are Harvard Exit, the smaller of the two Guild 45th theaters (the one that's further west on 45th), and Seven Gables. Columbia City has a great little cinema as well. For me, IMAX is strictly for 3-D, big sci-fi extraganzas and knock-out animation. Cinerama is overrated in my view, but if the above types of movies aren't at IMAX (and I'm talking the actual IMAX theater at Seattle Center, not the phony ones that are now in every movieplex), it works pretty well. If you want to follow the herd and go the usual movieplex route (and deal with the 15 minutes of fucking ads they now run in front of every movie), try Thornton Place up near Northgate or Lincoln Square in Bellevue...both new, clean and with great stadium seating. Stuck in downtown Seattle? Go with Pacific Place, marginally better than the hated, dirty, uncouth Meridian. Matthew Cooke answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 1. Big Picture 2. Cinerama 3. Pacific Science Center IMAX Jodi answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Anything but the Meridian downtown. If playing at Cinerama, go there. If you like to eat and drink (booze/beer) and watch movies with no children, try Big Picture or Cinebarre (Central Cinema is good for that too, they just don't have first run movies). defman23 answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Best screen is probably Cinerama (the biggest after IMAX) but my favorite theatres are Harvard Exit (or any Landmark movie house), Central Cinema, and Big Picture (although BP never shows anything I want to see it is a cool theatre and you can have a mojito). seattle firefly answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 If they have it, the lower theater at Harvard Exit or the Egyptian are my two favs. Of course they are also the two closest to me, so I guess my bias is fairly obvious. Horrible Person answered in Entertainment & Film over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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