What Would Your Perfect Movie Theater Look Like?

Spokane film fans tend to get a bit excited when watching movies in other towns. Seattle, perhaps, or San Francisco. Maybe Vancouver, British Columbia.

Oh, the theaters these cities have. They sell lattes and cookies and candy by the pound. They boast stadium seating and screens that seem to stretch forever. They screen movies that you’ve never heard of in languages you could never begin to pronounce.

Yeah, sometimes movie-watching in Spokane seems a bit … well, mundane by comparison.

Let’s see what we can do about it. As developers work on plans to build new movie complexes in such places as River Park Square, the Spokane Valley Mall and Post Falls, we need to tell them what we’d like to see.

So you tell us: What would you want in your fantasy movie house? Cushy seating with no view problems? A steady diet of foreign films? A McDonald’s Express in the lobby? Movies beginning every 90 seconds? Acres of free parking? No Steven Seagal movies ever?

Send a list of what you most would want in a fantasy movie house to: Dream Theater, c/o Dan Webster, The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210-1615.

Or e-mail us at danw@spokesman.com.

Or call our Cityline service and leave a message. A touch-tone phone is required. In Eastern Washington, call (509) 458-8800 and enter category 9899. In North Idaho call (208) 765-8811, category 9899. (Cityline is free, but normal charges apply to long-distance calls.)

As soon as we have enough responses, we’ll include the more imaginative ones in a feature story.

And remember: Your only limitation is your own imagination.

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