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Inspired by the NYC ASVS/SDN meet, I hereby propose, the Florida Return of the King get-together. Any Floridians - and perhaps others in the Southeast - feel like getting something together?

Sounds like fun, but the only time I'll be in Florida is in November, and I'll be in Jacksonville.

Well, I'm in Lakeland most of the year, though I'm traveling to Atlanta for part of October and back to Orlando in December. I'd like to try to get together, but I don't have a car, so transportation might be an issue.

Sounds good to me.

I know I'm here in TB, and so is IP. Mitth is around, and I think at least one other is in Florida.

Not sure about ASVS or SB though, someone else will have to cover that.

I, naturally, think of Tampa Bay as a good place to go. Orlando's alright, but a drive and is usually pretty damned packed on weekends (about the only time most of us could reasonably go). Anyone else have any thoughts/ideas?

So many letters...@_@

Inspired by Aron's page... I have one too!
http://helios.acomp.usf.edu/~pnguyen7/meet/

Weekends will be a bitch to get into Orlando, though, we'll have to see.

phongn wrote:Inspired by Aron's page... I have one too!
http://helios.acomp.usf.edu/~pnguyen7/meet/

Weekends will be a bitch to get into Orlando, though, we'll have to see.

Teehee... You're number 7 in the pnguyens... Mine is all nice and solitary.

Orlando's a better place for an overall meet mainly because of its central location. I do prefer the Tampa Bay Area, but that's harder to reach and our traffic patterns will confuse everyone

There apparently is only one DLP theatre in Orlando, and that's the one in Downtown Disney ... ugh. Prices will be higher there.

Sure.

Another Tampa Bay resident here. Though I've really already got plans for ROTK (every LOTR movie has had me up there early afternoon getting the tickets then attending with my dad, and friends..

phongn wrote:Orlando's a better place for an overall meet mainly because of its central location. I do prefer the Tampa Bay Area, but that's harder to reach and our traffic patterns will confuse everyone [/quotes]

Pansies.

phongn wrote:There apparently is only one DLP theatre in Orlando, and that's the one in Downtown Disney ... ugh. Prices will be higher there.

Hm, no doubt about that...

How're those theaters over in CityWalk? I haven't been to those ones yet...

I'd have to agree Orlando is more a central location, or at least more well known, but generally speaking, it's gonna be crowded like a crazy bitch on a Friday night.

But hey, no classes then, right? Go in the middle of the afternoon and hope for the best!

Go out to Ft. Meyers/Naples

CityWalk? Hrm, not sure, but I love my DLP

Friday night might be bad ... perhaps later on the weekend, like Sunday?

phongn wrote:CityWalk? Hrm, not sure, but I love my DLP

Friday night might be bad ... perhaps later on the weekend, like Sunday?

That could do well. I won't have anything to do on the 22nd. Or, at least, nothing I know about now.

And otter: I used to live down there (that's actually where I was born!), but moved out around 94. Do you have anything good down there yet, theater-wise?

RogueIce wrote:

phongn wrote:CityWalk? Hrm, not sure, but I love my DLP

Friday night might be bad ... perhaps later on the weekend, like Sunday?

That could do well. I won't have anything to do on the 22nd. Or, at least, nothing I know about now.

And otter: I used to live down there (that's actually where I was born!), but moved out around 94. Do you have anything good down there yet, theater-wise?

Actually I live west of Ft. lauderdale in Pembroke Pines. I just said Ft. Meyers/Naples cause its a helluva lot closer for me than Orlando/Tampa

Last time I was in that area was '98 so I have know idea what its like now other than the beaches are real nice and traffic isn't too bad

Hmph...I thought the Regal Cinema 22 in Oviedo was full digital, but it's just digital sound. The AMC 24 at Downtown Disney does have DLP, but I can't find any others in Orlando...yeah, next closest is in Melbourne, which is a haul.

Closest to me is Downtown Disney, with Pinellas Park second and Melbourne third, according to www .dlp.com/dlp_cinema/default.asp

Pinellas Park isn't that great of a theatre - it's rather small, actually. A bunch of screens, but not much seating.

If you're interested in this, email me your username, real name if you want, and probable location in December. Use the header [FL-ROTK] in the subject line so I can autosort this.

My address: pnguyen7 - at - mail.usf.edu

phongn wrote:Pinellas Park isn't that great of a theatre - it's rather small, actually. A bunch of screens, but not much seating.

How about that Pinellas Park is a shithole to be in, much less drive through.

Uh.... no. Wrong state.

Illuminatus Primus wrote:

phongn wrote:Pinellas Park isn't that great of a theatre - it's rather small, actually. A bunch of screens, but not much seating.

How about that Pinellas Park is a shithole to be in, much less drive through.

The whole county sucks. Long live Hillsborough!

Anyway, our prospects here: Brandon, aka Regency 20...stadium, for the most part, but kinda old, and usually crowded, and it's starting to suck now. University 16, probably the closest one to me, but NO stadium, and it's in the middle of a mall (which may or may not be a good thing, depending on prefrences and if this "gathering" is restricted to solely movies). Starlite Can'tRememberTheFrigginNumber in New Tampa, it's new, and pretty good, and hasn't been two badly crowded, at least when I went in early afternoon slots.

There's also Westshore, Citrus Park, Veterans, and some others I believe, but I haven't really been to them too much. Went to Veterans once, it was decent, and so was Westshore and Citrus Park on my single visits to each (Citrus Park is also in a mall).

That's my two cents on the Tampa Bay area.

University 16 is a shitty theatre unless you get into the one big screen they have. The rest suck: the seats are old, the floors sticky and the picture and sound subpar. OTOH, seeing Tomorrow Never Dies in the good screen with exactly two other people in there simply rocks.

The new one near Gameworks is good, but as I noted earlier: the only digital one in the Bay is that theatre in Pinellas Park.

phongn wrote:University 16 is a shitty theatre unless you get into the one big screen they have. The rest suck: the seats are old, the floors sticky and the picture and sound subpar. OTOH, seeing Tomorrow Never Dies in the good screen with exactly two other people in there simply rocks.

Gah, I keep getting stuck in that place with people who want to fucking talk to me. Complete strangers. Of all the empty seats, they picked the one next to me.

*sigh*

phongn wrote:The new one near Gameworks is good, but as I noted earlier: the only digital one in the Bay is that theatre in Pinellas Park.

You and your damn digital... There's one by Gameworks? Sweet...that may give me a chance to see if that Gameworks card I got so long ago still works for however much money I didn't use.

DLP is superior in every way to film as far as the audience is concerned. Theatres don't really like it because it is rather expensive to implement and the technology may become dated relatively quickly.

I saw Attack of the Clones and Finding Nemo on DLP and it was far superior to the film cuts I also saw.

Phong, you already know my answer.