What do you have against the Kabuki? The sell wine in the balcony! which means movie and wine (no popcorn) for two could set you back $70.
I find the patrons at the Kabuki are just a diff kind of annoying; instead of texting-teen meatheads it's upper-class-twit douchebags. I appreciate no-commercials but the surcharges just aren't worth it to me. And the "reserved saet" option is something I find useless -- at, say, Metreon, if some loudmouthed moron sits down behind me, I can move to the other side of the theater; at Kabuki, I'm stuck with my assigned seat.
heh, I completely agree with you. The entitled-bay-area-privileged- Berkeley-liberal-artsy- Prius-formerly-Volvo occasionally sanctimonious preachy attitude thing. ah yes, we are so fortunate to be who we are, aren't we?
I've only been to the Kabuki once to see a current release (
True Grit), although I see many movies there during the SF International Film Fest. some group behind me munched popcorn and periodically chatted (quietly) during the movie. Someone 'shushed' them and they stopped. That kind of selfish behavior isn't reserved for any class of people, aside from no-class.
I'm a finicky film-goer. If I can't have the theater to myself when I see a movie, I want others around me who:
- don't talk
- don't eat popcorn or anything noisy
- don't sit beside me, in front of me or behind me.
- don't laugh at things just to hear themselves laugh or b/c the movie cues them that THIS IS FUNNY.
Assigned seats can be good or bad. "yay! we don't have to rush!" or "Alas! we are stuck in crap seats."
