The Pavilion’s Lastest Effort to Get an Audience: Booze

The Pavilion Theater wants you back, baby. It's really sorry for this, this, this, this, this and this, and just wants to regain your trust and rebuild the passionate relationship that the two of you once had.

The South Slope theater's latest attempt to get moviegoers back into their styrofoam-padded purple seats involves the application of a liquor license so that they may serve beer and cocktails. Surely the owners hope that if their customers are wasted, they'll be less likely to balk at the disgusting theaters. 

Fat chance. For starters, who hasn’t already boozed it up while watching a movie in the Pavilion? I've smuggled and guzzled many 40s in that shithole while sitting through masterpieces like Bulletproof Monk and still have never had a good experience. Sure, I was drunk, which was nice, but once the movie was over it felt like an empty victory because deep down I knew I'd likely spent the last 90 minutes sitting on a family of bedbugs.

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