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THE FUCKING CINEMA 150 IS CLOSED
FUCK YOU ALL!!!! GOD, DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!
*weeps incessantly*
I LOVED THAT GD THEATER!!! ITS THE BEST
THEATER IN FRIGGIN LITTE ROCK... AND YOU
HAD TO GO AND CLOSE IT!!!
I DID MY PART!!! I ALWAYS WISHED TO SEE
MOVIES AT THE 150... AND I REFUSED TO SEE
KILLER MOVIES ANYWHERE ELSE!!! I POSTED
NUMEROUS TIMES ABOUT THE 150 AND ALL OF
ITS FRIGGIN GLORY!!!
AND NOW YOU'VE GONE AND DONE IT!!! YOU'VE
CLOSED!!!! AND WHY?!?!?!?
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T AFFORD THE UPKEEP?!?!?
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T AFFORD THE NEWER SYSTEMS
AND SHIT TO MATCH THE SIGN OF THE TIMES??
THE CINEMA 150 WAS A GOD AMONG THEATERS!!
THERE WAS NO PLACE LIKE IT!!!!
NOW I WILL NOT GET TO SEE THE FRIGGIN NEXT
LOTR MOVIE THERE!!! FUCKIN BASTARDS!!!!
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
FUCK! BASTARDS! SCREW YOU!
<font size=30>CURSES!!!
I HATE YOU ALL!!!!</font>
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And to think 'Daredevil' was the last movie we ever saw there.
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Curtain closes on LR?s Cinema 150
BY CHARLIE FRAGO ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Maybe Wolverine can save this movie theater.
The popular hero of X2: XMen United will best bad guys at the 10 p.m. show tonight at United Artists Cinema 150 on Asher and University avenues in Little Rock. But even superheroes won?t be able to keep the doors open after the final plush curtain closes in this faded beauty of a movie house.
Sunday afternoon about 25 people, mostly families, sat among several hundred empty seats to watch the 4 p.m. X-Men show on the theater?s huge curved screen. The half-dozen ushers, ticket-takers and other employees said they had heard the news of the theater?s closing last week.
Like their customers, some workers were sad, while others resigned. Their employers had forbidden them to speak publicly about the closing.
Amy Hill, Cinema 150?s general manager, said the theater?s closing was a "corporate decision" by Regal Entertainment Group Co. and United Artists.
Walking under rain-heavy clouds in the parking lot, David Rocker, 45, and David Allen, 46, both of Little Rock, said they have frequented the theater since it opened 35 years ago.
"We saw 2001: A Space Odyssey here, Patton, a lot of great movies, a lot of great memories," Rocker said.
Allen said he sees a film in the theater?s wide-open spaces and cool, dim light at least once a month.
"It was wonderful then, and it?s wonderful today," Rocker said. "I hate to see them close it."
"It?s a shame," Allen concurred.
Employees, local business owners and neighborhood residents said the opening of the 18-screen Rave Motion Pictures theater, on Colonel Glenn Road in west Little Rock, and other multiscreen theaters with stadium seating doomed Cinema 150.
Crowds have grown lighter over the years, and the domelike structure has grown a little worse for wear.
"They used to draw them in for a good movie," said Jason Graggs of Dallas, who worked at Cinema 150 three years ago. "But when I?m in Little Rock, I go to the Rave now."
Graggs spoke while taking a break from cleaning his car at an Asher Avenue carwash just up the street from the theater and the Coleman Dairy, Cinema 150?s neighbor, which has also announced it will close its Asher Avenue facility.
With the closing of Cinema 150, Little Rock joins a nationwide trend of shuttered single-screen theaters.
A 2000 book by photojournalist Michael Putnam, Silent Screens: The Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater cites a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court decision that removed first-run movie rights from major Hollywood studio theaters, as the reason for the growth of multiplexes and the slow death of singlescreen theaters.
Putnam lists about 65 singlescreen theaters left in the United States, including The Avon in West Memphis.
That theater was not listed in the phone book or in area movie listings.
The Avon would have been the only other single-screen theater in Arkansas, according to Putnam?s Web site.
News of the demise of the single-screen theater hadn?t reached Little Rock in August 1968 when Cinema 150 opened its doors.
That month, the city was abuzz with anticipation: The theater?s name came from its signature wide-angle 150-degree screen, which defined cutting edge.
White-jacketed dignitaries sipped pink champagne in plastic cups while watching The Odd Couple at a pre-opening private viewing.
Subsequent decades weren?t so kind.
Over the years, two interior renovations failed to revive the movie house?s sagging fortunes.
Rick Cunningham, the assistant general manager at Casa Viva, a Mexican restaurant and Cinema 150?s neighbor since 1969, said its closure won?t hurt his business much.
"We used to get a lot of theater traffic, but not in a long time," Cunningham said.
When Cinema 150 reopened after a 1992 renovation, United Artists? district manager David Chaffin called it "the best theater in the Southern region."
"There isn?t a theater in Dallas, Texas or Memphis, Tenn., or Atlanta, Ga., that can compare with the presentation you?ll see here," Chaffin said at the time.
At midnight today, moviegoers in Dallas, Memphis and Atlanta probably won?t notice that the lights went out for good on Asher Avenue. But David Allen will.
"Cinema 150 just has such a great atmosphere,?? Allen said as he walked one last time into the darkness.
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jason graggs of dallas is a faggoty wanker that
only goes to the rave theater because its cliche,
trendy, and new. the rave theater is clear out
in bum-fuck colonel glenn and there is NOTHING
hopeful about that gawd-damned area (er... wasn't
there a nissan dealership there???)
anyways...
i'm still highly pissed off at the 150 closing.
NO ONE... and i mean no-fucking-one theater in
little rock has ampitheater seating... which is
something i appreciated because you could sit
almost anywhere in that damned theater and see
perfectly well. (the only exception is IMAX...
but its not like you can watch LOTR at IMAX)
GD THIS PISSES ME OFF!
even hanny didn't get the chance to see ANYTHING
at the 150 to be someone from outside of LR to
witness the spendor of the 150.
why the fuuuuuuuck didn't they warn us better or
give us ample time to know of the closing prior
to a few days???
GOD! i can't post on this thread without damning
someone everytime i post.... just FYI.
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i agree about the 150, it was awesome, i was able to see armageddon and one other movie there (i don't watch many movies at all)
but the ones i did see were the best ever just because of the screen. it was great (i can't say that enough)
i wish someone would come along and purchase it and still use it as a movie theatre. i think that is a bunch of mess that rave is taking all the business, i don't know why people would rather go see something at rave than at the 150, there is no comparison. as for the area of rave, that is around where cristi lives, so yes, there is something worth while around there, and they are beginning to grow that area up, with businesses and such, but that isn't the poitn, the point is that the 150 is gone, and we can now only hope that someone will purchase it, and purchase it soon. i had all hopes that they would play matrix reloaded there so i could see it there on that huge screen.
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Matrix Reloaded should only be viewed on a home television screen.
...when it airs on network television.
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screw M2....
i wanted to finish LOTR!!!!
now i have to go to some lame theater to do it.
but yeah, i agree... someone needs to buy it.
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oh... and don't kid yourself about the colonel
glenn area...
they said the same thing over a decade ago when
the SAMs CLUB was there... and now its gone.
i've lived in that area for over 15 years...
including a year or two prior to college...
and in case you hadn't noticed... the only
'booming' its doing is near the interstate...
not really on/in colonel glenn area.
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like i said, there is still something worth while in that area, cristi lives there, i think that is worth more than any type of business that might pop up in the area. and as for the place booming, that was what like 10 years ago? there is now two large business centers, a nursing school, clear channel metroplex, a nissan dealership and the largest movie theatre in arkansas
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Why don't you all put in and buy the damned thing?
I'll donate $10 Australian...
Mwahaha...
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That's why I laughed......................
Doona.
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*giggles*
You liked that one, didn't ya??
*throws a doona at dj*
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LMMFAO....
ok, enough of that.... back to the 150.
it reminds me of the old closed-down drive in
'theater' that used to be just two blocks from
it. i dunno if anyone on this board would know
about the drive-in... but many many years ago
there used to be a drive-in over behind the
coleman factory (which is relatively close to
the 150). back in the day, you could still see
the big er.... thingy that the pictures were
shown on (screen???). i dunno if its still there....
but it makes me wonder about the fate of the 150.
i dunno that anyone would purchase the 150...
especially being in that location. but i think
it would be a kickass idea if someone purchased
it and then re-established it in some other
area of LR... like maybe over in the hillsborough/hwy 10 area...
maybe even in deep chenal... like over by that
kroger... or wildwood.
i'm sure someone could get some antiquity grant
or some shit like that to keep it established...
but i dunno if something like that has a loophole
stating it has to remain on university.
downtown LR (like quapaw/macarthur park) is
surging with new business of 'antique' fervor...
it could easily be done there as well.
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that would be funny if they reloacted it....i can see it now
*dream sequence*
i'm driving down the interestate on the way to see cristi when i look up and ahead all i can see is a large building that appears to be coming at me.
as i get close i realize that it is the cinema 150 on several very large trucks, driving down the freeway..
*end dream sequence*
hahahah, that would be funny
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i sure hope that when you were dreaming, the 150
was sawwed in half with the open side covered in
plastic like all the other mobile homes on the
freeway....
tee hee....
that WOULD rule
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i dind't even think about that, but that would be great, i will have to talk to someone about seeing what we can do about it.
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yea, but that's like 2 bucks american
MWAHAHAHAHA
and yes, i knwo that isn't close to the exchange rate
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'signs' was released on august 2nd of 2002...
weird... its almost been a year.
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I take it, this was not just a normal cinema...can you please tell me what the 150 is. Did you have a huge screen or was it old fashioned or what???
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CLICK
it was a single-screen theater with ampitheater seating
bah... let me quote some jackass i found on the
internet that described it *somewhat* perfectly:
"...So we're there, about in the middle of the theater. Now, the Cinema 150 is the cream of the Arkansas Cinema crop. It is named so because its main screen is about three stories high (or maybe four, or then again I think it's three, oh you know, it's BIG) and takes up One Hundred and Fifty degrees of the circular cinema wall. Above you you've got this big dome with beams and everything and the seats rise up, up, up to right below the projection booth, creating an acoustically perfect spot where the wailing of some teething baby can be heard with the same clarity and volume as if it were crying its lungs out directly into your tympanic membrane. It's big and well-lit and due to the rising nature of the seats you can see damn near everybody."
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DOUBLE POST!!! DOUBLE POST!!!
BAN HER TG, BAN HER BEFORE SHE GETS OUT OF CONTROL
(no wonder her post count is so high)
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:-? I wonder what they will do with the popcorn machines.
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SCREW THAT!!!!
what about the soda machine?!?!?!
and all those people that saved their huge popcorn
barrels just to get it free the next time...
LMMFAO!!!
i can invision so many things....
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oh yeah! the soda machines too!
seriously....what do they do with that shit?
remember when we saw 'Signs' there? It was opening night and it wasnt really that full.
It really was a sign.
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ANOTHER DOUBLE POST!!!!
TG GET IN HERE QUICK SHE IS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL!!!!!!!!
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no, dickhead....
something gay happens when i post. its been happening
since yesterday. everytime i click ADD REPLY,
i double-post. i have been checking my replies
to make sure i delete all double-posts... but
apparently this is one i missed.
i know HB has been changing a few things and
i'm wondering if this has to do with it... as
a by-product. i dunno.
if it continues, i'll notify the proper authorities.
and this board doesn't care about double-posting, FYI. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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also... its no pleasure for me to make a post,
wait for it to be processed, then check and see
if i double-posted and delete if necessary based
on the type of connection i have...
