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Author Topic: Theatre chain slogans. Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-11-2005 12:51 AM                        What are some of your favorite theatre slogans? My favorite has to be AMC's "There is a Difference". Mainly because I can use it as an inside joke with my friends who work in the biz. Whenever a comparison needs to be made, I can say, "You knoow, just like AMC, there is a difference [between product a and product b]." I know of UA's "Experience the Magic" and there was Pacific's "People Pleasing People..." and I know Century has "The best seat for the 21st Century." What else is there?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-11-2005 01:15 AM                     People around these parts, thanks mostly to the evil AMC Glen Lakes, would use the slogan "there is a difference" in a bad light, meaning "there is a difference when you go to the Glen Lakes...it's REALLY bad!" Then AMC came along with "changing the way people see movies", which if you think about it really didn't help that situation because of the way it was interpreted too. "Changing the way you see movies, with suck screens and speakers in the ceiling and etc, etc, etc." At least AMC no longer does any of those evil things anymore.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-11-2005 01:23 AM                        I like the following: Colorado Cinemas - "The Kings of Mediocrity" Regal Cinemas - "Striving for Plainness" AMC - "Silence is Golden, so we keep the volume at '4' or less with no subwoofer." Regency Theaters - "We're cheap. But we'll charge YOU a lot!" Century Theaters - "Hey we're even cheaper than Regency! Just look at the employees in our theaters! We got them in the bargain box at a garage sale. We do not believe in qualified individuals." That's all we have here in Denver, I think.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 01-11-2005 03:21 AM                     Once awhile back, I was crammed into a small, sold out theatre watching Rob Schneider's The Animal on opening weekend at our place. When the Cinemark logo came up and it said, "The Best Seat in Town" a guy behind me (crammed like a sardine amongst all of us) said somethig to the extent of "best seat my ass!" AJG  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-11-2005 11:24 AM                     Regal's slogan back in the day was "It's more than just a movie." I never saw it anywhere except on corporate memos or on their old website. I always thought AMC was, "Picture Perfect Presentation" or something like that. Not that it would help them in that department, either! What was GCC's slogan? Plitt? Litchfield? Maybe the lack of a good slogan forced them into bankruptcy. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-11-2005 11:39 AM                        I always liked Cinemarks "the best seat in town", and always wanted a slogan for my theater, but never had one... Here are some of the ones I suggested but never got approval for.. "just enough room to kick the seat in front of you" "hot fresh popcorn covered in butter and emt's in every theater for your resussitation enjoyment" "if you don't pipe down you get hit with a mop" "soda doesn't just stick to floors" "we no longer put up with your crap so don't even ask if we take checks" "we are here to please you, so don't hesitate to ask us to rewind the film when you are 30 minutes late and looking for a beating" "yes, all movies are made with video cameras moron" none of them ever got through.. ciao mon dave  |  IP: Logged Paul Howard Film Handler Posts: 26 From: Huyton, Liverpool, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 01-11-2005 12:14 PM                     My favourite UK slogan is for ODEON = "Fanatical About Film" Kind of hard to believe when your watching an out of focus picture with a missing left surround channel wondering why your feet have stuck to the theater floor?  |  IP: Logged Barry Martin Expert Film Handler Posts: 203 From: Newington, CT USA Registered: Jul 2002 posted 01-11-2005 12:34 PM                        One I saw for Loews was on employee t-shirts and painted on the outside walls of the mall it was in was "The best view of Hollywood is from here", that and the old stand-by on their corporate trailer "enjoy the show".  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-11-2005 01:15 PM                        GKC's is "Tonight I feel like GKC" personally, I dont want to 'feel' any part of GKC, but that's just me.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-11-2005 01:45 PM                     UA= UnderAchieving  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 01-11-2005 01:50 PM                     LANDMARK- "The Language Of Film Is Universal"  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-11-2005 03:11 PM                     Fox West Coast Theatres "The Place to Go"  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-11-2005 03:13 PM                        Landmark isn't using the "We Speak Your Language" slogan any more--I don't know the details, but there was apparently some sort of trademark dispute involving that phrase which led to the Landmark Logo trailers being pulled. I don't know if anything has replaced it.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-11-2005 05:06 PM                        Edwards used "Where The Best Pictures Play" (or something close to that).  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-11-2005 05:14 PM                        One of my favorite UA slogans was "Escape to the Movies! UA!" only because of the picture below of UA's neon creation that was most likely in the lobby of many of their theatres from that era. The words "escape" and "UA" were in neon, but "to the movies" was not, resulting in what I'm sure was on everybody's mind at the time.  |  IP: Logged

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