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Old 01-26-2022, 09:07 AM
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Well, you'll be happy to learn that they are closing the theaters in the Villages. You can take the MMP out to Leesburg and see all the movies you want!
How do you know this? News to me.
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Old 01-26-2022, 09:08 AM
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Not everything is better in The villages, please don't come to Leesburg for the movies and start crowding us out, sorry you can't get to here with the golf carts. Ha ha
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I could never get past the scene where the guy is standing in the middle of Spanish Harlem, and calls out "Maria!"...

Only one girl comes to her window...
Agree that anything done by Spielberg has to be brilliant! Agree too that this scene is a hoot.

However, for the sake of accuracy, Spanish Harlem is further uptown and on the East Side.

West Side Story takes place, well, on the West Side, from the 30s up to 59th Street, and from Eighth Avenue west to the Hudson River, in an area known as 'Hell's Kitchen.'
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Old 01-26-2022, 10:35 AM
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Not everything is better in The villages, please don't come to Leesburg for the movies and start crowding us out, sorry you can't get to here with the golf carts. Ha ha
Pennbrookites can't either (get to the movie theater by golf cart).
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Agree that anything done by Spielberg has to be brilliant! Agree too that this scene is a hoot.

However, for the sake of accuracy, Spanish Harlem is further uptown and on the East Side.

West Side Story takes place, well, on the West Side, from the 30s up to 59th Street, and from Eighth Avenue west to the Hudson River, in an area known as 'Hell's Kitchen.'
However, they filmed much of the original in East Harlem, which is also known as Spanish Harlem.
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Old 01-26-2022, 12:00 PM
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I've seen the movie at our theater in LSL. The next day, I saw the movie in Leesburg. No comparison in the experience as the Leesburg theater is so immersive with their huge screen.

The movie? OMG........so absolutely FANTASTIC!!! Spielberg is the master.
They're still showing this in movie theaters? Maybe in areas where there is a "target audience". You must have a lot of free time on your hands to go see the same movie in two different locations on consecutive days!
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Old 01-26-2022, 12:23 PM
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Well, you'll be happy to learn that they are closing the theaters in the Villages. You can take the MMP out to Leesburg and see all the movies you want!
Can you elaborate on closing the movie theaters in TV.
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The original was fabulous. I am not going to see this since I have heard it is "woke". Done supporting all this stupid Hollywood woke culture. BTW, I speak Spanish.
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No English means no go
There was maybe 10 minutes of Spanish in the movie but wished they would have included subtitles.

Excellent movie
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Old 01-26-2022, 07:09 PM
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Two years ago the theaters in The Villages were selling out. The crowds were enormous, especially on weekends and rainy days. Now the developer uses covid as an excuse to close one theater, not reopen another theater, and under service the last remaining theater. The developer also used covid as an excuse to close Katie Belles. And whatever happened to the annual golf show on the polo grounds? It's no wonder the developer is considered by many to be an adversary and a greedy one at that!
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Two years ago the theaters in The Villages were selling out. The crowds were enormous, especially on weekends and rainy days. Now the developer uses covid as an excuse to close one theater, not reopen another theater, and under service the last remaining theater. The developer also used covid as an excuse to close Katie Belles. And whatever happened to the annual golf show on the polo grounds? It's no wonder the developer is considered by many to be an adversary and a greedy one at that!
Covid was never an excuse to close Katie Belles. Covid did cause theaters to close, nationwide. Our (once very busy) theater near our home in MD has permanently closed.

The golf show was cancelled due to covid for one year. The next year (again, due to covid) they did a scaled down version, over several weeks.They are doing the same (but bigger version) this year, which is probably costing them MORE money to put on...
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Curious. (I've never seen any movie...twice)
I’m planning to go back to Leesburg to see it a third time.
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Old 01-26-2022, 08:14 PM
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No English means no go
Where did you get the impression the movie is not in English?
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Which theatre in Leesburg?
Lake Square Mall on 441.
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Old 01-26-2022, 08:23 PM
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Well, you'll be happy to learn that they are closing the theaters in the Villages. You can take the MMP out to Leesburg and see all the movies you want!
I haven't heard that. I sincerely doubt that though.
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