Local movie theater to close

[TheMightyFavog]

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MARINETTE - Thursday will likely be the last chance anyone can see Woody Harrelson killing zombies, or guinea pigs thwarting a world takeover, on the big screen in Marinette.

Long story short, this downtown two screen theater is going to die. Cause of death: the perfect storm of the Economy, the local multiplex over by the mall on the outskirts of town, the advent of digital ptrojection technology and the fact that most studios are no longer distributing 35mm prints plus the fact that this theater was barely making money and thus unable to purchase digital projectors. (The owner was the only paid employee, the other people who worked there were volunteering.)

I remember going there as a kid. Good times. IIRC, the last movie I went to see there was Farenheit 9/11.

RIP Mariner Theater. May you not suffer the same fate as the small two-screen theater in the town across the river, which is now an antique store.

[rcrush]

1. Multiplexes can barely keep themselves running

These companies decided to build 25-30 to 40 screen theatres and then realize they are too expensive to run. So they pay their employees lower than shit and provide crappy service. And still manage to kill the local competition.

[TheMightyFavog]

2. Yeah.

I mean, it's no old school movie palace, but I always liked it better than the 10-screen multiplex.

[rurallib]

5. Plus it doesn't help that they have to compete against

cable, dishes, DVRs, DVDs, internet, youtube, yada, yada, yada.

[fizzgig]

3. our last local theater closed three or four years ago

now it's close to a 20 minute drive for me to get to the nearest theater

[elocs]

4. One of the movie theaters that I went to as a kid is still open.

It is currently runs second showing films that have already made their way through the main theaters first.

Here is the outside: (as a kid it was fascinating and looked like a castle inside with it super high ceiling that once had stars on it). I went to my first movie there by myself when I was 5--"Tom Thumb".