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More booze coming to Toronto movie theatres
Soon after we learned that the Bloor (Hot Docs) Cinema successfully applied for a liquor licence, there's news that Cineplex Odeon is looking to enrich your theatre-going experience. Coming to Toronto next year (and into 2014) are three new 19+ VIP theatres, the highlight of which will be a five-screen complex at the Shops at Don Mills. Other locations on the dockett right now include Yonge & Eglinton (already home to a Sliver City) and the Queensway Cineplex.
At present, Cineplex's only offering of this kind in Toronto is the Varsity VIP. Having watched my fair share of films there, I can assure you that this is most welcome news. While drinking isn't exactly a necessity at the movies, it sure does make it more fun — especially when the film is a total dud. Tickets for these VIP theatres will likely be a bit more expensive (as is the case at the Varsity), but when you factor in the more comfortable seats, the wonder of wine, and the in-seat food service, there's ample justification for the premium.
What do you think? Will the presence of booze woo you to the VIP movie-going experience?
Photo by sniderscion in the blogTO Flickr pool
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Had to click through to Flickr to see that it is Todmorden Mills theatre renovated back in 2010
I recommend:
Felix the Cat Woos Whoopee
The Thin Man (1 and 2)
Casablanca
Withnail and I
Bad Santa
The Living Wake
Young Adult
Some of us need a head start to get drunk before 2am.
Give me something like the Drafthouse in the states and I'm there.
I can already see that, eventually, the seats in the auditorium will be removed completely and replaced with several long bars replete with trendy reclaimed-wood stools, with bartenders serving draught beer and herb-encrusted mozza sticks and fish tacos and whatever. Who needed the seats anyway: they just kept kicking against peoples' feet. The film will play at a reduced volume in the background, so that drinkers are not disturbed while talking about sports with their friends, or distracted from concentrating on forming an appropriate 140-character tweet about how they are attending a really deep and engrossing independent film.
Cinemas are about films: leave it that way!