Century 25

Unfortunately, they’re just showing DVD’s, not 35 mm film. Just not worth the $ 10 price of admission for me.

i don’t know how this place has managed to stay open for so many years. granted, it goes out of business once in a while, but it always pops back open. maybe the rent is really low. cause i’ve never been in here when there were any customers really. so if you like nearly empty theaters, it might be up your alley.
i think its last incarnation was a bollywood theater; now it is known as the «retrodome», they are showing old movies. i saw two listed on the marquee the other day, with 2 others listed as «coming next». 80s flicks, i think.

One word: Closed.
I was in the area last week and noticed nothing was on the marquee facing Prospect Avenue.
Since I was going to Target next door, I took a look in the place and noticed a sign that they were closed. All the fixtures of any value were removed from the lobby. So, it’s gone.
The last movie I saw there was the Watchman, in April, on a weeknight. It was the last place showing the film and I wanted to catch it before it left the theatres. There must have been only six people watching the film.
I talked to the staff after seeing the film. Nice folks, but it seemed the ticket taker was doing everything including the food, that’s how short handed the place was. She and her husband asked us if we were coming back the following week to see Return to Witch Mountain. She was helping her child with some school work. I didn’t think too much about the conversation, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that might have been the last week the place was open.
Anyway, this place has been around for awhile, late sixties at least. Cinemark/​Century/​Syufy companies never put a dime into the upkeep of the place probably because it’s a two screen standalone theatre, competing with a newer theatre multiplex, (AMC Saratoga), across the street– that’s my conclusion. It never was some grand old historical theatre– it’s just what it was– the dome theatre near Westgate. I hope they do something interesting in the location, not just demo it for the sake of delivering us another generic architectural strip mall wonder replete with a Starbucks and nail parlor.

Century 25 has definitely seen better days, but it holds wonderful memories for me going back to watching «Indiana Jones» when it first came out with my parents to later chuckling over its run of «Night Shift» with Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton when someone snuck up on the marquis and removed the «F» in shift… :)
I found this review when I looked up movie times for the latest James Bond film that I intend to see this weekend.
I’m not sure how it stays open with a bazillion screen multi-​plex across the street, but I’m glad that it does.

I have no idea how this movie theater stays open. We watched a movie there last night (I won’t say which one, but the storyline involved the third installation of a series of movie about a high school, and it was a musical) and, while I appreciate the «coolness» of the domed theater, it needs a serious remodel. The seats weren’t comfortable as other theaters, with, gasp, no cup holders for the soda I brought in from Target.
The theater was practically empty. I think that there were about 10 – 15 other people to see the movie, and the lobby was totally empty when the movie was finished. Not sure how they stay afloat, but, seriously, if this weren’t the last theater in the area to be showing the third installation of a series about a high school, that happened to be a musical, I would have gone elsewhere.

This place smells like a petting zoo. The first time I noticed it I thought it was a fluke. Maybe one of the workers rode in on a mule and parked it in the break room. But then, after a handful of months and a couple visits thereafter, it STILL smells like a goat trampled through and littered their poo pellets in every crack and crevice… and believe you me, there are plenty of cracks and crevices in this rundown joint.
The seats are wonky and dirty, the screen is small, and the auditorium isn’t centered. AND, there are NO cup holders. Talk about old!
What a depressing little theater.

I don’t care that they get all the artsy-​fartsy films I want to see just before they stop running on the big screen all together. I’d much rather wait for Netflix than watch a movie here. I can’t believe they charge full ticket prices at this location. They couldn’t pay me $ 10 to sit in one of their broken chairs and watch a movie on half of a screen in this theater.

Normally when friends and I go to the movies nowadays we sit in the back, because the screen is just so darn big that you have to move your head to watch the characters move across the screen. So naturally when we came here we did the same thing. Sat pretty high up. But that experience is like watching a 52″ wide screen tv at home. So while the chairs were cushy and not squeaky higher up, we moved to the bottom where it was crazy squeaky and not a stealthy move at all to do when the movie already started. But like the last reviewer said they do play good movies here. But also BAH for it being attached to Westgate, which is so crazy to get parking during the holidays. It’s like only bad drivers exist here.

The theater facilities themselves get one star, and I’m adding a second star for the fact that they play cool indie movies.
Sadly, that is also the reason they’ll never get enough money to update the theater.
The screens are tiny, and the chairs, while not the worst movie theater chairs I’ve ever suffered, are really creaky, and lean forward so you feel like you’re going to fall out of them. You can lean back in them, but not much, and doing so causes creaking and then the amazingly resilient springs inside the chair push you back to a sitting forward position.
So yeah. I guess you could come here to watch a movie if it’s not playing anywhere else at the time you want.