Park Slope Pavilion a "Hot Box"

Moviegoers who tried to beat the heat by packing a matinee screening of The Dark Knight this weekend at the Park Slope Pavilion were sorely disappointed. Gowanus Lounge has some scuttlebutt from the Brooklynian message board, where a picture of oppressive, non-air conditioned hell has emerged: “It must have been 90 degrees in that hot box for the entire length of the movie. Everyone was sweating profusely and downing tons of water. Afterward a mob scene ensued with people loudly complaining – all to no avail. The best excuses from the ‘management’ – ‘I just work here’ and ‘there were too many people.’” Another person corroborates: "A staff member complained about not having any AC to ME — a customer."

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By John Del Signore in News on July 21, 2008 2:40 PM

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abcohen

I sat in the murry hill movie with 175 of my closest friends cause when you left theature 9 it was over 100... It was stupid!

babyhitler

sort of off topic but on topic at the same time. Why is there only 1 IMAX Theatre for the ENTIRE NYC area? It's fucking ridiculous! Tickets are sold out for the entire week! 10 am and 2 am showing too. You would think that they'd understand that NYers could afford more IMAX theatres.

schadenfreudian mensch

@famdoc

Angelica?? You've got to be kidding. You would rather go down to that hellhole? Those screen aren't any bigger than what was shown at my high school sex ed class yet they want the full $11.50 or whatever they're charging now. Probably what was shown at my sex ed class would be much more interesting than what's currently shown over there.

heywood

they're making it out to be way worse than it was. sure, it was stuffy but "everyone was sweating profusely" is total hyperbole.

it seems to only happen there for the midnight screenings so maybe their system is on a timer.

it was uncomfortable, but not worth blogging about - everyone had a good time watching the joker make the pencil disappear.

Rocknrope

#4, Mean, but hilarious.

#5, what a gentle, understanding soul you are. Unfortunately, A/C is not running in movie theaters 365 days a year. If the A/C is not working and the staff and management handled it as you described AMC Lowes did, I'm sure there would not have been as many complaints. It soulds like they didn't do as such.

relaxathon

I went there earlier in the summer for Indiana Jones and it was broken then--I'm just surprised they haven't fixed it yet. When I went then, they had a small sign up saying that it was broken--when we got to the window we asked the girl how bad it was--she responded with a frown and a shake of the head, "its really bad."

brooklyngeorge

It's a hardship, but it happens. Movie theaters are open 365 days a year. What do you expect? Last year, the AC was not working for a sold out screening of Borne Ultimatum at AMC Loews Village 7, on 3rd Avenue. The staff let everyone know before hand and distributed non-restricted passes to everyone in attendance, whether you were staying for the show or not. At least 3/4 of the audience decided to stay.

NYCSniper

I heard the midget that takes the tickets melted.

Politburo

IMDB lists it as 152 minutes.. so they sat there for 2.5 hours? It couldn't have been that bad, then.

However if the AC was non-functional, the theater should have been communicating to customers before they bought tickets.

famdoc

That place is a dump. Poorly managed. Filthy.

Poor projection quality, often receives damaged prints of films. You want to spend $11.50 there, you take your chances. Give me BAM, Cobble Hill, or the Angelica any day.