Comments on: Cinema Revolution to close? http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close Minneapolis + St. Paul Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:23:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jane http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-218309 jane Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:15:56 +0000 #comment-218309 "...pointy idle eggheads..." I'm totally going to use that term. “…pointy idle eggheads…”

I’m totally going to use that term.

]]> By: Oso R. http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-218306 Oso R. Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:00:45 +0000 #comment-218306 I know it's cool to poo-poo the putative suburbanites, but location has been a problem for CR. I live in the Wedge and used to go there all the time when they were located at Franklin and Lyndale, but then they moved over to 26th and Nicollet. That neighborhood is not cool: parking was a horror; if you were coming from the Wedge in a car it was difficult to access, due to the westbound flow of 26th; the side streets were dark and unsafe; and walking there was definitely a bad idea. Maybe the true urban hipsters would go anyhow, but the bourgeois cineastes (like myself) found other places to go. I did talk to the owner once in passing about the difficulties of the new location near Nicollet, and he was defensive and dismissive of my concerns. So, I stopped going. By the time they moved back to Lyndale, not only was the thrill gone, but again you had a situation where arriving and departing easily in a car was impossible, and who is gonna schlepp six blocks in the winter? I think this is an example of poor planning, and maybe the veneer of odd lefty politics. They needed to move into a high traffic bougie area with a customer base of pointy idle eggheads and ready parking, like along Hennepin between 26th and Franklin. In any event, I hope they can get it together to reopen. I may not have gone there much anymore, but I liked the idea that CR was around. I know it’s cool to poo-poo the putative suburbanites, but location has been a problem for CR. I live in the Wedge and used to go there all the time when they were located at Franklin and Lyndale, but then they moved over to 26th and Nicollet. That neighborhood is not cool: parking was a horror; if you were coming from the Wedge in a car it was difficult to access, due to the westbound flow of 26th; the side streets were dark and unsafe; and walking there was definitely a bad idea. Maybe the true urban hipsters would go anyhow, but the bourgeois cineastes (like myself) found other places to go. I did talk to the owner once in passing about the difficulties of the new location near Nicollet, and he was defensive and dismissive of my concerns. So, I stopped going. By the time they moved back to Lyndale, not only was the thrill gone, but again you had a situation where arriving and departing easily in a car was impossible, and who is gonna schlepp six blocks in the winter? I think this is an example of poor planning, and maybe the veneer of odd lefty politics. They needed to move into a high traffic bougie area with a customer base of pointy idle eggheads and ready parking, like along Hennepin between 26th and Franklin. In any event, I hope they can get it together to reopen. I may not have gone there much anymore, but I liked the idea that CR was around.

]]> By: kurtis http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-217608 kurtis Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:30:51 +0000 #comment-217608 People who use Netflix. People who use Netflix.

]]> By: Rat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-217607 Rat Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:25:45 +0000 #comment-217607 I read that post and I think what have we, as a people, become? I read that post and I think what have we, as a people, become?

]]> By: Shad http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-217606 Shad Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:18:03 +0000 #comment-217606 I dig Video Universe in Robbinsdale but have about $45 in late fees on their books so I haven't been back for a while. I love going to a video store like Video Universe over VOD..and hate mailing things...but when a last minute business trip or getting busy at work means that the three new releases I got spend four days in my basement and rack up a $50 fee...I HAVE to go with something like Netflix. My wife gets pretty mad at those $200 movie months..and there are a lot of them. I dig Video Universe in Robbinsdale but have about $45 in late fees on their books so I haven’t been back for a while. I love going to a video store like Video Universe over VOD..and hate mailing things…but when a last minute business trip or getting busy at work means that the three new releases I got spend four days in my basement and rack up a $50 fee…I HAVE to go with something like Netflix. My wife gets pretty mad at those $200 movie months..and there are a lot of them.

]]> By: aliecat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-217419 aliecat Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:10:36 +0000 #comment-217419 what the...? sorry about that! what the…? sorry about that!

]]> By: baker http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-217418 baker Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:03:17 +0000 #comment-217418 oh and the economy oh and the economy

]]> By: baker http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-217417 baker Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:02:09 +0000 #comment-217417 Probably a casualty of Netflix and Redbox. times change, too bad for the owners but a fact of life I guess. Probably a casualty of Netflix and Redbox. times change, too bad for the owners but a fact of life I guess.

]]> By: noodleman http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-217414 noodleman Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:53:55 +0000 #comment-217414 But even 26th & Nicollet still wasn't what I would call "crack alley." Go a couple of miles east of there, though, or a few blocks southeast ... But even 26th & Nicollet still wasn’t what I would call “crack alley.” Go a couple of miles east of there, though, or a few blocks southeast …

]]> By: aliecat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/cinema-revolution-to-close#comment-217411 aliecat Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:44:06 +0000 #comment-217411 Also, isn't this the same area that has th CC Club, red dragon, leaning tower, Mortimer's, and the Herk? pretty cool and hip area as far as i remember. Also, isn’t this the same area that has th CC Club, red dragon, leaning tower, Mortimer’s, and the Herk? pretty cool and hip area as far as i remember.

]]>