Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>The VIP seating at the El Capitan is $25, but you get a reserved seat of your choice, popcorn and a soda. I'd pay that much just to have my choice of seat<< I'm with you, JB! The El Capitan is a great experience, and the reserved seat is really nice - the cinema I mentioned earlier has reserved seating too, and it's so great for popular movies.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo >>Threeundertwo, where do you live that the "cheapie" theater is "only" $10?!?!>> I live on the San Francisco peninsula, near Silicon Valley.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd Our theater prices change by the time of day. The first show of the day is $5 it increases throughout the day from there. By about mid-day on it's $9.75. We see a lot of movies at 10am.
Originally Posted By DlandJB Wow, that's a LOT of money just to have your seat of choice Dug. I guess that's one of the better things about movie theaters in other parts of the world, most places I been to, you ALWAYS have selected seats and don't have to spend an hour in line trying to find a good one . Everytime I watch a movie in America now, it sucks to know that I have to wait just to get a decent seat.>> I'm not Dug, I'm JB...but when we are driving up to Hollywood from OC, we never know what the traffic will bring so it is especially worth it to me to know that I won't have to fight for a seat or be split apart from my family or (my least favorite) end up in the first row. We paid close to $100 per person to see "Wicked" on stage recently and while I know there are reasons for the high cost of live theater, this doesn't feel that different to me when it is a special movie.
Originally Posted By DlandJB With the El Cap you also get a stage show with many of the features and always a chance to see and hear the Mighty Wurlitzer organ. That is extra special too.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<so we're going the recliner armchairs all the way >> The Metrolux has those. So do the other local, comparably priced metroplexes.
Originally Posted By disneylandw Expeat for the cave scene{at both Disneyland and Magic Kingdom WDW}i don't remeber there being any fantasy elements in the ride,another thing is that they had there own ideas about famous sea legends but Davy Jones hasn't NOTHING to do with the Flying Dutchman or the fact that Calpsyso{who is a character in the Odyssey}is the goddess of sound!?and is on a lone island,Jones's Locker is said to be at the very bottom of the sea(not a desert near the greek river of the dead the sintx),and the Dutchman is make port for every seven years NOT ten,the captain of the Dutchman is named(from what ever version you have heard}Van Decker or Van Striggson but i can see why they for movies at least changed these legends anything else i missed?savvy
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x <<And then a year later, all three films will be released again with special enhanced film and will show a never-before-seen scene featuring Pirate Bill getting the cats drunk.>> I thought this was Jerry Bruckheimer, not George Lucas. The first time I saw the "original" 3 Star Wars movies was when they were rereleased in theaters. I was in high school...10 years ago LOL
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I've never been to the El Capri Sun, but CuriosWolfSo is always going there and tells me that he and Dug are always sharing sundaes that named after Disney films. I suppose I'll go there one of these days where Dug can treat me to a movie and a sundae. Maybe a few pins as well. Perhaps a slice of pizza if they sell it too.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Speaking of Sundaes.. If you watch Pirates AWE at the theater at my mall, and then take your ticket to the local Carrow's (Denny's like restaurant for those not in the know), they will give you a free sundae. I was going to go see it on wednesday morning for Parent Movie Morning. The movie starts at 11. My DD gets out of school that day at 12:45. I'm so bummed.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle <<so we're going the recliner armchairs all the way >> The Metrolux has those. So do the other local, comparably priced metroplexes.<< Maybe local to you ... Anyway, I saw the movie again tonight and really did enjoy it more the second time (not that I didn't enjoy it the first time!) Regarding the comment about 4 of them trying to kill him, I wonder if he meant Barbossa, Will, Ragetti and Pintel (unsure of the last two names)? 4 of you have TRIED to kill me and one of you (Elizabeth) succeeded. I first took it to mean Will, Barbossa, Elizabeth and one other person, but actually he couldn't really say she "tried" to kill him and then say she succeeded.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I think Tia Dalma tried to kill him at some point in a past meeting. Is it the second or the third one where Jack Sparrow says something to her about trying to kill him, and she says, "Don't say you didn't enjoy it at the time." And he gets this look on his face that kind of says - fair enough!
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Yep, Jack does say something along that line to Tia Dalma in the second movie.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Maybe local to you ... >> Just pointing out that in some places, ordinary multiplexes have the oversized, reclining seats, with plenty of leg room. For well under $10.
Originally Posted By smeeeko ^^We saw the film at the 1140pm showing at the El Capitan Saturday the 2nd as it was the only showing that had GA tickets not pre-sold out. We parked at the Hollywood & Highland and brought a book to read and were like #10 in the General Admit line.. wasn't that big of a deal to wait as we had something to keep us busy (a couple books) and the CMs were super nice offering suggestions where to get some coffee and the like to anyone that asked. There weren't that many families in the line at that hour but there always seems to be at least one. In our case there was a couple with 2 little ones.. a baby and maybe a 4yr old. SeanYoda took some pix of the display windows on the outside of the theatre as well went by Starbuck$ to pick up some coffee and a couple creampuffs from Beard Papas (omigosh I love the cream puffs from Beard Papas!) Disney is really getting their money's worth though with the Reserve seating. Part of the issue we had getting tickets is that we didn't necessarily want any popcorn and so to pay an extra $10 for a mini popcorn bucket and soda seemed off.. Although when Sean looked for seats orginally, when he found a couple seats in the upper balcony that were available they were already taken by the time he tried to reserve them.. so the GA section was fine! We still got to sit where we wanted and the movie was fantastic! I liked the 3rd film, keeping in mind that it's a great "popcorn flick" and it really delivers for the most part. I was happy with the endings myself and don't mind losing Norrington, or any of the other officers. I think that Elizabeth's father was a plot turner so he had to go eventually. I think his death fueled Elizabeth's desire to see some pirate justice. I knew the movie was going to be long but hadn't realized just how long.. we stayed through the credits and got the pay-off. -I love that those 2brit officer characters got to join the pirate crew.. at one point I thought I saw one of them get stabbed but I guess it was my imagination. They're some good comic relief! (sorry I don't know what their characters names are). -I loved that the dog came back although not sure if it was explained how he got away from being the cannibal king in the 2nd film. -the Florida map was wrong.. St Augustine isn't in the Everglades.. It's the NE coastline of Florida, SE of Jacksonville & North of Daytona Beach. Then again, maps 'back in the day' weren't really too accurate I guess. wouldn't mind seeing the film again as I didn't really notice the braces so much at the beginning but that wouldn't be the only reason to see it again.. it was a FUN movie!
Originally Posted By smeeeko ^oh and not sure but if you go to the El Cap website.. there was ONLY a very tiny section of the entire theatre that was GA. I'd say 80-90% of all the El Cap's seats were reserved seating for Pirates 3. So yeah $12 vs. $25. We still got some diet pepsi and some candy though.. *grin*
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Good old Minnesota. We’re not in the fast lane, but it is darned comfortable. We saw AWE at the 5:00 PM show on the first Saturday it was out. It was one of our favorite theaters. Stadium seating, rocking/reclining chairs, fantastic sound system, the whole deal. We showed up 25 minutes before show time and had our pick of seats. $5 per ticket. Life is good.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>Just pointing out that in some places, ordinary multiplexes have the oversized, reclining seats, with plenty of leg room. For well under $10.<< Not a problem - I was just saying there's none around here (even ordinary movies run for $9.50 with a discount card here) so I would rather spend the extra for the better experience. If I was in LA I'd definitely go to the El Capitan, I'm happy to treat myself for movies I've been waiting a while for! >>I didn't really notice the braces so much at the beginning<< I was so mad at myself, I went for the second time having read about the braces here and completely forgot to look. I remembered about halfway through the movie and was really annoyed! Am I just unobservant?
Originally Posted By DyGDisney <<<I love that those 2brit officer characters got to join the pirate crew.. at one point I thought I saw one of them get stabbed but I guess it was my imagination.>>> smeeko -- I noticed the same thing. The first time I saw it I didn't notice the guy get stabbed, but then they both joined the crew. So the second time I saw it, when I saw the guy get stabbed, I was thinking, "What the heck! I thought he joined the crew at the end." I wonder if that was a mistake, or two different people.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Apparently those two British officers were the "classy" versions of Pintel and Ragetti in the first and third films. Ironically, both pairs switched sides in both films. CuriosWolfSo told me that Dug told him that there were three different dogs used for all three films. The one in the first film was actually retired, and they tried to make its successors look like it. I read somewhere in the many POTC threads that Captain Teague mentions that the dog escaped via sea turtles. Apparently that dog is the Keymaker of the trilogy.
