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Author Topic: Warehouse pics, and hideous lobby colors Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-21-2006 05:05 PM                     Ok, I can't stand it any longer. After looking over the latest batch of theatre complex pictures over the past month or so, I must ask, what brain dead goof ball picks out the colors in some of these hideous lobby's. My there sure are some butt ugly ones in the group.  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-21-2006 10:02 PM                     Brad A.-- I tend to agree.  |  IP: Logged Daniel Wright Expert Film Handler Posts: 163 From: Okmulgee, Ok , USA Registered: Oct 2003 posted 01-21-2006 10:18 PM                     The recently posted Cinema 6 I think takes the cake. What a lovely shade of burnt orange.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-21-2006 10:44 PM                        Welcome to Cinemark builds in the 90's.  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-22-2006 12:49 AM                     Actually, the audtoriums in Cinema 6 look pretty nice. What really hurts my eyes is all the purple/green/orange, and the insane black and white checkerboard ceilings and floors! Ouch, my eyes!  |  IP: Logged Paul Trimboli Master Film Handler Posts: 274 From: Perth Western Australia Registered: Dec 2002 posted 01-22-2006 02:45 AM                     I have had the exact same thoughts, what did people think of these cinemas when they were built and 'in fashion'? The black and white tiles look like crap! I wonder how modern cinemas will hold up in the future!? There is a cinema complex here that was done up in about 94/95 and at the time I thought it was really great but now if I go there I can't belive how crappy it looks.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-22-2006 02:57 AM                     They do this crappy color scheme to keep the people from mingling around in the lobby - just get their concession items and into their theatres. Then, when they get out of their theatres, they want to get the crap out of that gaudy looking lobby and out the door... ..keeps the traffic moving... .. - the same with the restrooms: paint them a horrible color and the mingling will cease immensly...and play Barry Manilow in there on top of it..(LOL) -Monte  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-22-2006 08:22 AM                     Often the wife of a bigwig at a theater chain gets to pick the colors, because they want something to do. Since they don't have any experience, (it does take some artistic skill to select a pleasing color scheme) it will usually look like crap.  |  IP: Logged Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-22-2006 01:47 PM                     But Monte, some of those color "schemes" would make it hard not to loose your lunch before you make it to the snack counter. So no one would be interested in the snack bar.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 01-22-2006 03:07 PM                       One way or the other most multiplexes looks the same. They totally lack the charm of the old singles, no matter what color they´re painted in. They all look like over-sized McDonalds-restaurants with theaters attached to them. With some good exceptions, ofcourse. Thomas  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-22-2006 05:19 PM                     quote: Brad Allen So no one would be interested in the snack bar. nah....the smell of the fresh popped popcorn, the bubbly sodas, fresh nachos, and scrumptious candy will stop hungry people in their tracks no matter how gaudy the paintjobs look. It's amazing how the stomach can influence man no matter what the atmosphere he's in. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 01-22-2006 10:08 PM                        I, for the record, like Cinemark's colorful lobbys of the nineties. I like their current design better, sure, but...  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-23-2006 02:10 AM                     Brad, I'm in your area for awhile, can I come by and take pics of your theater?  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-23-2006 06:37 AM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer They do this crappy color scheme to keep the people from mingling around in the lobby I think you hit the nail on the head. Orange/blue is a contrasting color scheme and will tend to keep people unsettled.  |  IP: Logged Jamie Glossop Expert Film Handler Posts: 100 From: Nottingham Uk Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-23-2006 06:53 AM                        We have 2 muliplexes near me, Ones pure red and the others pure blue  |  IP: Logged

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