Oh, I will be the one sitting behind you, gently wringing your neck for practically pestering me to meet you at SwankChristmas ... and then not showing up yourself.


It will start as a pleasant massage ... but at some appropriate point in the film ..... (perhaps a point involving a straight razor, hmmmmmm)

Steve, I'm not seriously trying to discourage you or anything but didn't you say you'd never go to a movie at the Arclight again?

It's the dome. It's different!

OK, not really. But kind of.

If a film I like is playing in the Dome, that's where I will always see it. I will put up with the inconveniences of Arclight parking and reserved seating for that superior theater ... but never for the plain black box experience of the Arclight proper.

I actually really love the regular Arclight theaters - it's the Dome that bothers me! Heh.

Is there something special about this dome?

I've been in a couple dome theaters (CineArts in Pleasant Hill and some place down in the Mountain View area) and they are both pretty unpleasant moving watching environments (but CineArts is my closest arthouse so I suffer through every once in a while).

mmm, meet-pie...

I know some people who hate the Dome. Can't imagine why. It's the complete opposite of an unpleasant movie-watching experience to me.

Retro-60's design and Buckminster-Fuller-inspired vast open space. Digital projection on one of the last remaining HUGE MOVIE SCREENS in Los Angeles.

Nowadays, there's only one other screen this big (at the Chinese), and only 2 other venues with fairly large screens (both in Westwood - the Village and the National).


The Dome has the only screen with the 70's-era wraparound effect of a beautiful curve. A lot of cinema purists and people subject to motion sickness hate this curve ... but I LOVE it! It's groovy.

I think it is pre-1970's iSm. I say this because I remember seeing Doctor Doolittle and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Century 20 or 21 theatres in San Jose (Century 21)
I loved the big screen there and Posiden Adventure was awesome, heck even Paint Your Wagon was great on that screen. Sad to see they've replaced it with a flat screen. I know some of the other theatres were split and I think torn down. It's been forever since I was down there (right by Winchester Mystery House).

Technically, it was installed in the late 60's ... but the curved screen-era of panavision display is generally-speaking a 70's-feeling phenomena. (imo)