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Worst theater evar! Save yourself the trouble (and your money) and never…ever…go to this theater. My wife and I had boycotted this theater for about 9 years. Not because of any moral restraint, but because the theater itself sucked so bad you couldn’t enjoy the movie. This theater is extremely overpriced and only has a couple of stadium seating theaters. So, you pay the same price as the stadium theater even if your film is playing in the crappy theater. Nice.
Let me set the scene: My wife and I decide to go on a very rare date. We just celebrated the birth of our 2nd child and were getting out of the house for the first time in a long time. So we decided to grab some dinner. Halfway through dinner, we decide to see a movie. We don’t have time to drive all the way to Little Rock to go to a good theater, so we decide to settle for Searcy Cinema 8. I mean, c’mon, it can’t be that bad.
Well, it was. I guess being sleep deprived and locked away for 2 months compromises the decision making portions of the brain. We decided to see Couple’s Retreat. All in all, it was a pretty good movie…I think. I’m not really sure because I missed a bit of it because of the teenagers in front of us who evidently didn’t know that when you are on a double date, you should still sit by your date. It’s not 4th grade where the guys sit with the guys and the girls sit with the girls. Oh, and here’s another thing. Guys out there, you don’t look cool when you talk loud during the movie and make some lame joke at the wrong time. You look like an ass. The reason the girls are laughing is because they are laughing AT you…not WITH you.
Even if the little exploits of Dumb and Dumber didn’t distract me from my movie going experience, I still had to try and drown out the repeated inquiries from the drunk girl trying to find her “sis-ser.” Seriously. Drunk? At a movie? Who gets drunk and thinks it’s a good idea to go to a movie? Apparently she figured out she was in the wrong movie theater when someone asked her what movie she was looking for, to which she loudly replied, “Is this the movie that starts with ‘P!’” Yeah, she was looking for Paranormal Activity, which I found extremely ironic.
And if that weren’t enough, the film looked as if someone took a steel wool pad and decided to “clean” the film with it. So, portions of the film looked like one of those old silent films that flicker and have the lines in them. Classy….real classy.
We left the theater that night and renewed our boycott. There is another theater in town. It’s called the Rialto and I’ll be writing a post on it. It is a very old theater. Built in the 50’s, I think. It is also the town’s $1 theater. As we left, we commented that we would have had a better movie going experience going to it. And it’s true. So, anyone out there looking to see a film in a good theater, stay away from the Searcy Cinema 8 theater.
Admission Price: $8.50 (plus a “3D Dolby Digital Surcharge of $2.50 if you see a 3D film.)
Concessions: usual fare and highly over priced (even for a movie theater).
Film Selection: Good. They usually have the major titles, but there’s only 8 screens, so if it comes out in the summer, you better go see it opening weekend.
Theater Conditions: Horrid
Overall Movie Going Experience: Abysmal