Showcase Cinemas de Lux Randolph

dickneeds111 on March 18, 2012 at 12:07 am

I have been to the Randolph many times over the years and it is about 25 miles from me. The so called IMAX stinks. It is too small. Parking is brutal and getting out especially if you are headig east is impossible. My wife and I will never go there again. For IMAX we will go to Natick for the real thing not the imitation. For regular movies we will go to our closest theatres in Hingham, Scituate or Hanover. Cheaper any way especially on Tuesdays. Neither one of us likes 3D because most theatres don’t know how to show it properly. I was a projectionist for many years. .

danpetitpas on September 14, 2009 at 12:19 am

There’s a good review thread of the Showcase Randolph on Yelp.

MrDJDude on August 4, 2009 at 5:40 am

I know this theater well – I grew up about a 5 minute drive from it, and remember the area before it was built(I was a teenager at the time).

The land the cinema is on was empty(as opposed to the strip mall next door(that used to be Russo’s House Of Sunshine(a greenhouse/nursery), which is now is West Bridgewater. All redeveloped when the theater went in. There also used to be business across the street – all victims of “Showcase Cinemas Randolph and The Quest for More Parking”. These businesses were:

Levine-Briss Funeral Home(as noted in the description)
CRC?? (My memory is a bit fuzzy here, but there was a business inbetween the funeral home and Middle Atlantic).

At any rate, the cinema and strip mall completely chamged the area. Traffic was, and still is, a nightmare. It’s probably the biggest knock against this theater – parking and getting in and out is a NIGHTMARE when it’s busy. Other than that, it’s a pretty nice theater, albeit spread out over three levels and several escalators.

There’s was a rear entry/exit ramp from the main parking lot, but it was blocked with a metal gate pretty early on. Why? Because having traffic spill out onto West Street(behind the cinema, parallel to Mazzeo Drive) became a epic traffic nightmare, and the town woudn’t tolerate it.

The last film I saw here was THE DAVINCI CODE. I moved from the area a scant two months later.

Personal anecdote: I remember bicycling down here during construction(I was 15 at the time) to apply for a job. They didn’t hire me. My brother applied a couple of years later; they did hire him. And he hated it! ;)

rsalters (Ron Salters) on November 8, 2008 at 2:35 pm

What has happened to all of our CT posters in eastern Massachusetts? This page was created weeks ago and so far there have been no posts to it. If Dan Petitpas had set up this page in, say, 2004 or 2005, there would have been a dozen posts here by now.