UGC Ciné Cité les Halles

On se croirait dans les années 80, pas de place et pas d'air. Aucun respect des barrières sanitaires, et aucun port de masque. J'ai demandé deux fois qu'on baisse la température. On vous promet mais rien est fait.
15 € pour 2 bonbons chimiques et boissons. L'arnaque. Autant regarder le film chez soi.

Seats are nice though the seating is quite tight.

They also don't really seem to care if you bring in food or beverage. There were several people with bags from the mcdonalds next door that they did not even try to hide.
There was no staff present at the door so everyone just let themselves in. Seating was a bit chaotic because there are no seat tickets and mcdonalds-bags apparently need their own seats. Again, there was no staff present to sort this out.

So on the service front this was far from good, but the basics (seats, screen, sound) are there ...

Small theatres, comfy seats, but it was HOT after a while! Buying a coke at the counter took forever... the help does not know how to get out of second gear.

Why give my favorite cinema in Paris only three stars? Because the US has gotten so far ahead on things like reserved seats and comfy seats that to have to show up early just to line up and then get into a so-so seat seems downright uncivilized. So why not an even lower rating, you ask. Well, three reasons: 1. Frequent premieres with the film team on hand for Q&A. 2. Great projection and sound quality and 3. One-stop shopping with a bajillion screens. Also, central location. So I love and hate it--which is appropriate since that describes the plot of most French movies.

This is the big one - the one that is closest to my house and also one of the largest in Paris. Showings all the time, and with over 25 screens, they have a huge variety. It is underground and a bit to find if you don't know the area well, but once you know it, it's easy.

VO...Version Original. Meaning, Americans can watch American films in English with pesky french sub titles on the bottom. Admittedly good for those of us learning french, but even better for those of us missing home and not having enough language skills to watch a film in full french yet. There are several theaters and they range in size form small to large. They serve beer. The "club" of sorts is great for a frequent movie watcher, i think its like 20 bucks for a month of unlimited movies, but be advised that they movies get super crowded on the weekend afternoon and evening. Best to plan ahead. The location is great for a quick bit or drink inside or out of the theater. convenient Metro attached to the bottom floor of the center. Last show i saw was a Premier of a film wit the director present for Q&A. a movie lovers dream come true,

I really like this movie theatre as it hosts premieres everywhere! Also the movies selection is very good despite the fact that it can be very busy most of the time, I always make a point to book my places there.

writing my first review in a while to warn people about this theater.

showed up about 30 minutes early for a movie to make sure we got seats together. even though we bought tickets online, there were long lines at all of the kiosks to print your tickets (which you have to do and can't do at home or electronically) because 2 of the machines were broken. headed to the theater and got on the short line that had already formed. as more and more people showed up, they didn't line up and instead just stood around the doors - none of the staff bothered to help or correct them and it ended up just becoming a mass of people outside of the doors. they then cut the line off as the area was getting too crowded in front of concessions and gave my friends trouble when they tried to meet me since i was holding our place. the doors didn't end up opening until about 5 minutes AFTER the movie was supposed to start. at this point it was super crowded and everyone bum-rushed the doors and people were basically pushing each other to get seats. when we finally got inside we had to grab the first seats we could that would fit the three of us. the theater was hot and humid - really gross.

not worth it.

This is an ok cinema located in the underground shopping center in Les Halles. There is nothing special to the place. It has kiosks to purchase tickets which is convenient. I believe the tickets were around 10€ a person. My friend and I watched Super 8 in one of the smaller theaters and it was ok. There was no air conditioning in the place although it was around 30 degrees outside. I was warm, but not sweating. I would go back to the place with no real hesitations.