Marcus Theaters, No Thanks
April 28, 2018
Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of the new Marcus Wehrenberg Theaters. Recently, the ‘regular, normal’ Wehrenberg movie theater has been renovated to Marcus Theater standards. There has been the DreamLounger installation, concessions price raise, and construction.
First, the construction clogs up the theater. When I recently went to see a movie, half of the lobby was taken up with construction. There was a path leading to the theaters on that side of the building, but there was only access to one half of the concession stand, which wasn’t ideal for a Saturday afternoon movie, with a crowd of people waiting in line to get food.
On the topic of concessions, there has been a quick, very noticeable increase in the price of food at the movie theater. I understand that movie theaters need to earn money, but it was annoying to go see a movie and, all of a sudden, a bucket of popcorn is noticeably more expensive than last time. Also, my favorite movie candy, Cookie Dough Bites are never there when I go to the movies. Some friends have told me that they still sell them, but then why can I never get them?
I have to admit, the DreamLoungers are great. The DreamLoungers are leather recliners instead of the typical chair seating. The loungers are organized by twos, in a couch style, with a cup holder that can be put up or pulled down in between. There are negative things behind the DreamLoungers too, there is limited seating in the theaters now, so if there is a highly anticipated movie, all seats may be taken.
Most of my attitude toward these new renovations is me being stubborn about change. Wehrenberg was the same for most of my life and as long as I can remember there was minimal change to the theater. It was normal and comforting, where I would go to see a movie with my family and friends on a bad day or to have a good time, but it was bought out and changed. Soon Marcus Theaters will be the new norm, so it will all be okay, but at the moment it feels like too much too fast.
Dave • Jul 11, 2019 at 4:02 pm
To Abby Throndson, yea we went to the Marcus Theatres’ while they were setting up too, and found it alittle off-putting. We have just went this last weekend to see Toy Story four and Spiderman 2/or 6 I don’t know, but it seems to be a great experience we were in the big 3d theatre for the spiderman and a small theater for the Toy Story 4, both were sold out and great experience(spiderman was great in 3d). I still have bad vibes about the wierd lobby/lounge weird area why wasn’t it made into an separated bar. drinks before you go in, so there isn’t a lot of people drinking in the Theater? Officially the Arcade sucks ass. like 3 good machines? really what a waste and the crappy skeeball Rip-off, not even real skeeballs’. The best thing about the arcade is the basketball hoops competition (I scored a 48 the last time I was there, challenge posed) but one of those are out of order after a couple of months of operation and the table hockey needs some love too thetes gooey stuff on the top of one like somebody put their soda on the top and it has been like that for Months now. I would have rather seen a Donkey Kong/jr. machine Pac man/mrs. pac table top or any of the classics, but lets’ be honest what a RIPOFF 1.00 to 2.00 for one play on ANY of the machines’ feels uninspired as a venue, like Greg Marcus just let one of his Underlings organize that chaos. As far as comparison to Wherenburg, I have been going for over ten years and The Marcus theater experience feels like the New Hyvee experience just a Ploy to squeeze more money out of you, and I give it an 3 out of 5 stars for the Theater Experience, if I were to include the Shoddy Stingy arcade, and the Doesn’t know what it wants’ to be bar, I guess I would rate it a 2.5 and would agree that it’s too little to Fast, for parts of the experience that Wherenburg Succeeded and had the formula down.