Vancouver Paramount... A 'Hostel' environment...

Tonight yielded an outing to Vancouver's newest Theatre venue, Famous Players Paramount.
Location:
Paramount Vancouver
900 Burrard Street
Vancouver
604-630-1407
(SE corner of Burrard and Smithe)

The building looks all fancy shmancy cuz of all the funky blue lights but the architecture is pretty simple. It's like a box. One thing I noticed as we were walking by was that it's actually a housing unit as well. I'm afraid to find out how much each unit costs. With cost of housing skyrocketting as a result of 2010 olympics coupled with the fact that it's in the heart of DownTown AND has a theatre attached to it... well, ya, I'm sure you get the picture.

The actual theatre portion is in the northwest corner of the building. There wasn't any obvious parking that we found, mind you we didn't look very hard =p. Inside the structure there are 3 floors, the second and third both have concession stands and house the actual theatres themselves (8 I believe). As you can see, they offer only the best in healthy eating :D. It wasn't a hard choice for me: BK Whopper Jr. meal w/ cheese, Poutine instead of fries and an Iced tea... mmm.

The second floor also has an arcade and a nifty little fountain. AK was wondering why... "Is it to force you to go pee BEFORE you watch the movie? Great, I have to go pee now." Sorry, no piccy of AK peeing the fountain... personally, I didn't find it that impressive. Well, that about sums up the place. Ah.. right, the reason that we went was to watch HOSTEL :D If you haven't seen it yet, go see it NOW!

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