If this place were only showing old-timey movies or movies with an old-timey theme, like the Great…read moreGatsby, I would definitely choose to come here to watch them. It has that very old-timey feel. The main crowd here is well over 50 and hence, the theatre tends to be quite quiet, unless one of the elderly forgets to turn off their phone and it rings during the movie and they either can't find it or can't figure out how to make it stop ringing. But aside from that and the hacking cough that old smokers seem to contract and do at the most innappropriate times, as well as the occasional person snoring, it is quiet. Either way, the noises they make are a lot less annoying than the immature teenager who is screaming to their friend 13 rows back or the stuck up little girls who watch every single person walk in and have something rude to say about them.
However, I would still choose Ringen over this place anyday, even though you can drink wine at Gimle. Drinking is not fun unless you are in a setting where it would be acceptable to get drunk. I would choose Gimle over Colosseum however, because Gimle, at least, has little tables to put stuff on. The geniuses that built Colosseum and every other theatre in Norway, it seems, (except Ringen) just figured that people would want to put their consumables on the ground. The seats here are not as raised as the more modern theatres so for the first time in a long time, I had to fold my legs under my butt to get a little boost so that the main attraction was not some giant head.
Also, to only have two stalls in the bathroom is ridiculous. A woman never has to use the bathroom as bad as when she is at a movie. To top it off, one of the toilets would not flush so when I was there, there was only one woman's toilet working.
I will return though once some other 1920-1940 based book turned movie is on the screen here.
