4 posts tagged “movie”

The movie was awesome. It's the best Marvel Comics movie ever.

You must see this movie, seriously, go see it, now!

Well, it's been about two weeks since my panicked post about the Continental 6. Time for an update.

The Regency Stadium 10 Big Screen is undergoing the renovations that have been talked about for a long time. They put up a red "Regency Stadium 10 Big Screen" sign on the top half of the Marquis where it used to say "United Artists" a few days ago. It's ugly, boring and it suuuuucks! Still, it's good news that the Continental isn't going away, just changing again.

Then, yesterday I saw that they are putting a digital marquis up in the place of the old one that was removed, prompting my initial panic. I guess that's a good idea. When you think about it the fact that they have to get up on a lift to change the letters on a marquis 20+ feet in the air every week is a bit archaic.

I'm going to try to get a picture of the new marquis to show how ugly it is. Bonnie could have designed a much better sign.

Yesterday, while driving home from work I noticed the marquis at the United Artists Continental 6 at Hampden and I-25 was blank. It wasn't just missing letters, they had removed the part of the sign that the letters telling what movies were playing would hang. This seemed very odd since I drive past it twice a day and read the marquis to see what's playing.  The last time I remember looking it was Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. It said they were pre-selling tickets to 'Iron Man' for May 2nd.

I started to worry that they had closed up abruptly as it seems so many businesses are doing these days. Then, driving to work this morning I noticed that the marquis is still empty but worse, the 'United Artists' sign on the building was gone. It's the kind where each letter is an enclosed box with internal lighting. Every business has them. They only thing that's left is a dirty outline where the letters used to be.

This has me really bummed out, not just because I won't be able to go see 'Iron Man' there, but because it's a Denver landmark to me. The Continental is the last of the great big-screen movie theaters in Denver that date back to the '70s. I remember seeing 'Star Wars' there as a child and I saw episodes 1 and 3 there in recent years. Bonnie saw the re-release of the original 'Star Wars' trilogy there when she was in high school.

In the '80s and '90s when all the old, big-screen movie theaters were replaced with smaller-screen multiplex theaters the rest went out. You can read more of the history of the Continental Theater at Cinema Treasures. Now it looks like it may be gone too. I can't find any news about the Continental anywhere so I don't know what's going on for sure.

My wife Bonnie wants to take our son Victor to see Ratatouille Friday morning at the Kerasotes 20 Mile Village 10 theater down the street. It's only $4 for shows before noon on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So She looks up the show times and finds that the first showing of Ratatouille is 12:10.

What the hell?!? You offer a cheap morning show and don't offer the kids movie that parents would take their kids to see until after the cut off? That's like a restaurant saying kids eat free after 10pm!

I haven't been to the 20 Mile Village 10 since it was a Colorado Cinema but I remember we saw several kids movies that were 11:00am to 12:00pm showings.

Boo! Kerasotes, not a good way to attract customers.