NC/SC Represent!

I was born in Charlotte! So I guess that makes me a Carolinian.

reppin Durham since 2001 but I hate Duke (so that makes me cool!)

I'm a transplant to Durham from the frigid north, and full of nothing but love for North Carolina. Six years here, and I'm never going back. Never!

I haven't picked a side in the Duke/UNC rivalry yet, neaux. The wife works at Duke, but we're probably going to move to CH for the schools shortly...so I'm conflicted and the tiniest bit apathetic. The Duke people I know are lovely, although I have almost no contact with the university side of things. I only know medical people.

Since we're on a movie board, where do you guys catch your movies? For blockbustering and general major releases I like the Regal at Brier Creek. It's never all that busy, and the picture and sound are pretty good. When I'm feeling indie, I usually trek to the Galaxy in Cary. Although for old-school, bare-bones theaters showing interesting movies, you can't go wrong with the Chelsea in Chapel Hill either. Let me know if I'm missing out on someplace good.

And I'm always looking for good Indian food. Sitar on 15/501 rules my lunch rotation right now.

I've been a carolinian since 1995. I'm in Cary, and I'd have to agree with Lurker Monkey about theaters but I'll add The Carolina in Durham. I've seen several movies there and it's a great place to catch an older movie.

Have lived in the Palmetto State all my life. In Greenwood, SC these days.

Brier Creek is closest to me so we go there (whenever we actually get a babysitter.. which is never) and I went to the movie theater at Northgate Mall once and swore I would never go back for fear of death.

If you like Vietnamese, there is a great little place in RTP called Pho 9 that rules the RTP lunch crowd. Its on the corner of TW Alexander and Miami Blvd.

Went to school at Chapel Hill, lived in Raleighwood for awhile. Is the Rialto still showing fine films (plus Rocky Horror every weekend) in Five Points?

I hear you with the babysitting. We just had our third, so we're stuck with Netflix and Time Warner Cable for the time being. Thankfully, I've got a wife who knows that I need the occasional theater visit to maintain my sanity, and she sends me out every once in while when she knows there's a movie I want to see.

And thanks for the heads up on Northgate. It's very near where I work, and I've been toying with the idea of taking a long lunch once in a while to catch a matinee...maybe during the day it's less deadly.

Thugs and gangs always look to the malls for excitement. Northgate Mall is a wasteland. All the good stores moved out do to the thug problem. THEN they put a movie theater in there to help bring business back. SMART MOVE. Add nighttime activities to Thuglife and watch your mall-land deteriorate.

After the thugs got tired of having no one to stab, they moved to the swanky land of Southpoint Mall. I hear they like to congregate on Friday and Saturday nights around the movie theater. Who would have thought??

Gangs are bad in Durham and Raleigh.. its a fact. Basically don't go to the mall after 7 pm on the weekend, or holidays and it shouldn't ever be a problem.

It's hard to disagree with you based on what I hear of the gangs in Durham, and the fact that I served on a jury for a gang related attempted murder...but I've never really seen the gang problem personally. Just lucky, I guess.

We live close to the Southpoint Mall, and I've been there many times on Friday and Saturday night...although not in the past couple of months. And while I see many groups of surly-looking teenagers, I've been attributing that to the fact that I'm almost 40, getting more cantankerous and curmudgeonly by the day, and caught myself on more than one occasion starting conversations with, "These kids today...". It's still nice to get a heads up, and I like Brier Creek better anyway.

I sincerely hope reports of gang activity at Southpoint are not as bad as you heard. That's a little too close to home for me, and I prefer to live in a blissfully ignorant bubble...especially now that I have kids.

I'd heard about Northgate, and that place is a wasteland...which is too bad, really, as they have some fun stuff to do for kids around Christmas. We try to avoid competing with lots of people, and tend to visit the train and bouncy house there on Sunday mornings when the shoppers are in church, and the gang-bangers are sleeping.

I travel for work, and I often visit movie theaters in whatever city I'm visiting. There's only one theater where I've to walk past an armed guard, at a regular weeknight showing. (Screenings often have security, but this wasn't a screening.) Just a normal night at Northgate. I haven't been back.

Rialto is awesome, and if you guys don't know about it, check out Cinema, Inc. It's a non-profit that shows a movie there every month. An annual pass is something like $20. I don't go to all of them, but last year I saw Memento, Delicatessan, and Battle of Algiers. This year, I saw Godzilla and Failsafe. They have Eternal Sunshine on the docket and The 39 Steps.

I'm a little late jumping in on this, but I'm a transplant to NC too. I've been living in Chapel Hill for about 7 years now. Here in town, I usually go to the Chelsea and I do my renting at Visart. The Galaxy in Cary is unbelievably cool too. I try to get to the Rialto when they have something good and to the series over at the Carolina in Durham. In fact, I'm looking forward to Nevermore 2009--hopefully they'll be announcing something soon.

Campus screenings at UNC don't seem to be that good, although once in a while something worthwhile turns up. Duke is much better--they've had some excellent series over the last few years. They've been especially good with Asian cinema.

Thanks for the tip about Cinema Inc. I go to movies at the Rialto every now and then, but I never heard of this. I'd love to see Elevator to the Gallows and 39 Steps screened.

Most of the crowd are old folks, but it's nice to see cool movies surrounded my movie people.

Columbia, SC by way of the ATL.

I just found out we have an indie theatre here. Followed my soon to be ex here seven years ago and never knew. I am ashamed.

Lucky for me I found out just in time to see Let the Right One In and SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK. Boo-ya!

I live in Greensboro, NC. We're actually pretty spoiled for screens/screenings, with several multiplexes, colleges and indie-friendly theaters. Can't say the same about the quality of our audiences, but they do come out in force and often enough to keep so many screens in business. Go at an "off" time, and it's cell phone, hoodlum and (maybe) gunshot free.

We've got a restored theatre/auditorium that runs a pretty vanilla monthly assortment of rep movies, and a couple other fledgling monthlies, but the real draw for genre fun is the Carolina Theatre in (sort-of) nearby Durham. It's been mentioned already in this forum, but their programmers run a great couple horror/fantasy/action festivals in October and February, along with their regular monthly Retrofantasma double-feature (The Thing in 35mm on 1/17/09!). The prints are always fantastic, and tickets are cheap.

Anyone in Durham going to the midnight show of Scott Pilgrim tonight? I'm planning on staying up way past my bedtime to see it with a crowd. I don't know if I trust my bleary-eyed 2:00AM self to drive to Raleigh to do it, but Southpoint is a stone's throw from my house, so I'm going to pretend that I'm 20 years younger than I am and suck it up.

I'd go but I have a 4 year old... so that means not going out after 10 pm. I hope it's great!

Oh and I hope you don't get shot! Southpoint at midnight is when the gremlins come out.

You're a better dad than me, then! I'm leaving my wife in the lurch with the 8, 6, and 1 year old...she's awesome, and very understanding about my geek needs. But at midnight one can hope that they'll be sleeping.

I'll keep my guard up and won't feed the Mogwai. Still never seen the gangland side of Southpoint. I'm very curious as to the appearance and behavior of the Triangle Crip (or Blood?) but hopefully they'll all be doing other things on a Thursday night.

I'm a native South Carolinian. Border Belt represent!