What activities do you do in Dallas? (Arlington, Plano: crimes, movie theater)

[aceplace]

Looks like the anti--Dallas trolls have run for cover. Or have found some pressing business that diverts them elsewhere...

[TrueDat]

Originally Posted by aceplace

So what is the point? The Seattle theatres are showing mainstream Hollywood movies and the Dallas Landmark theatres are showing Hollywood movies? Exactly what is that intended to prove?

I guess yopu are trying to elevate Seattle to the list of a-list movie towns.

In addition to the Inwood at the Landmark chain, Landmark, Dallas also has the Magnolia, Plano Angelika and the Dallas Angelia theatres. The total movie lineup in Dallas is better than second-rate towns such as Seattle.

I'm not a troll, I'm a human being. If you discount the Landmarks in both cities, then the Dallas area probably does come out ahead with the 13 Angelika (8 in Dallas, 5 in Plano) screens -- though even Angelika shows Hollywood stuff like "Twilight."

[aceplace]

Since we're trying to "prove" that Dallas is no better than a mid-size city, then compare the Dallas cinema opportunities to these:

Jacksonville, Florida
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Salt Lake City, Utah
Norfolk, Virginia
Rochester, New York
Omaha, Nebraska

go for it, trolls.

[CGGirl]

Norfolk VA has about 200K people. Umm, you can't compare Norfolk to Dallas. Unfair comparison.

And BTW, weren't you the one saying it wasn't fair to compare the DC area to Dallas when the Dallas area has about 5 million people and the DC area has about 6 million? And then if you compare the actual city of Dallas to the actual city of DC, you're talking about a difference of only a couple hundred thousand people probably.

[CGGirl]

And if we are talking about movies (and I'm not a huge moviegoer), here are some of the names of theaters that generally show non-mainstream, i.e. indie movies in DC:

AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

Bethesda Row Cinema (8 screens)

Landmark E Street Cinema

The IMAX theater at the History Museum and at the Air and Space

The Avalon

Cinema Arts

Here in the extended Dallas area:

Cinemark IMAX
Angelika - Plano and Dallas
Inwood
The Magnolia

Also, when I looked at what was showing at some of the Landmark theaters in D.C. and then tried to find where they were playing in Dallas, I got zero results for Dallas. Just sayin..

[zatires]

Maybe some people live in Dallas just for the cinemas. That is kinda well... I dunno. Wouldn't wanna be them
All they can talk about is the cinemas of Dallas.
Is that all Dallas has to offer? Even though most other cities smaller than Dallas also offer indy movie cinemas.
If so, well then it is even worse than many many other cities in the US.

[TrueDat]

For DFW, you also can include The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth which shows indie/art/foreign movies on weekends (some of which have shown at the Angelika or Magnolia) as part of its Magnolia at the Modern program Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

[CGGirl]

Quite a few of the museums in DC show artsy films and documentaries as well. I first heard of Frida Kahlo many years ago when I went to see a movie/documentary about her at one of the museums with a friend one Saturday afternoon.

[aceplace]

CGGirl, the problem is that the AFI Silver just duplicates the titles that are playing at the E street in the district.

I was in DC a couple of weeks ago and made a point of looking at the theatre listings in the Washington Post. Dallas has a better selection of indie/specialty films.

But you are correct about the Smithsonian museums... they do contribute quite a lot to Washington's cultural life.

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by CGGirl

Norfolk VA has about 200K people. Umm, you can't compare Norfolk to Dallas. Unfair comparison.

We've already established that you can. The original argument was that Dallas only has things you can get anywhere. Well, Norfolk is part of that "anywhere", so let's see if we can find the things that Dallas has by looking in Norfolk.

BTW, the Dallas metro, or Dallas-Ft_Worth-Arlington, if you will, passed the 6 million mark back in 2006. and may be closer to 6.5 million now. It has surpassed Phioladelphia to be the 4th largest US metro.