There’s a new theatre in Bellevue that has nice, wide, leather seats and is designed so that each tier has an unobstructed view. It’s worth an extra buck to go there.
We have a theater just down the street from us that has those big seats and they serve food and booze during the movie. It’s one of those things that seems good in theory, but in practice it’s not so great. They take your order/bring your food within the first 20 minutes of the movie, then they come and settle up your bill in the last 20 minutes. Yeah, that’s right, in the most important parts of the film. Not to mention they come back every so often to see if you want anything.
If you’re with a group of friends and it’s a movie you aren’t that interested in it’s really fun, but if you really want to see the show go to the regular theater.
The one thing that’s hard to beat is that the guy who owns it used to be a concert promoter and he’s great at PR. For GoF and now OotP he’s got the actors who play Fred and George signing autographs live and in the flesh.