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Originally Posted by macgolfnut
We are blessed with a lot of wonderful entertainment opportunities here in The Villages. This includes the movie theaters in Lake Sumter Landing and Spanish Springs. I am sure that Brownwood will have a wonderful theater as well. While I understand that when the Rialto Theater was built nobody could foresee the future growth in The Villages population and the switch to stadium seating in theaters around the country, I still enjoy the theater because of the comfort of the seats. The only problem I have is the size of the individual theaters and what movies are selected to be in each movie complex. I would love to know how movies are delegated to the theaters. There have been so many times when I have read the paper to see the new movie times and have been disappointed to find that a really popular movie is at the Rialto theater instead of Old Mill. The theaters are so small at the Rialto theater that we have often found that the only seats left are in the first few rows or against the wall. We have sometimes arrived 30-40 minutes early so that we can get a decent seat. The most recent examples were "The Help," where we had to wait in line for 40 minutes and "J. Edgar," which looks to be a popular, Oscar possibilities film. I wish more of these popular movies would be shown at Old Mill, where there is so much more seating.
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I totally agree that they should either show the newer movies at Old Mill or show them at both theatres at the same time. We live near 466A and don't enjoy driving all the way to SP when we are only 2 or 3 miles from both Old Mill and Brownwood. I really with they would make a few changes there. I did ask the ticket taker why SP got more of the new movies, but he had no idea......and I forgot to ask for the mgr. on the way out.