Coast Cinemas — Attraction in Fort Bragg

Coast Cinema is a family-run business whose business it is to serve families. Each and all! You want shoot-em-ups? Collect your guy friends and duck. You want romance? Grab your girl friend and sit in the back. Marvel Super Hero’s? Everybody come, except maybe grandma. She and grandpa will be in the small room watching Bride of Downton Abbey Returns or some such easy-on-the-nerves comfort food. And all happening at once! All come at the same time, buy popcorn, Milk Duds, red licorice, soda, etc…then go your separate ways and meet up afterwards for dinner at Lee’s Chinese, or Cucina Verona, or Mayan Fusion or on and on. Our family has for decades. If you are coming from the big cities, you might find Coast Cinema is an acquired taste. Kinda backwater. Kinda from some earlier time. Kinda eternal America movie magic....

I'm staying in town for a few days and I was very happy to see that Tron Legacy 3D was playing. Most of the smaller towns in the area only had it in 2D or weren't showing it at all so this was very impressive for Fort Bragg.

There are only 4 screens and it's not really stadium seating but the seats are comfortable, tickets are reasonably priced, the owners are friendly, but the concession stand is cash only but you can pay via credit card for your tickets which is odd but oh well.

Since it's an older arena, our movie blacked out in some areas but considering I wasn't really into Tron I didn't care much. I guess I would have if I liked the...

Support local cinema!! We came here for a 3D movie, and were impressed by the prices ($9 for seniors; $12 adult), while the concession stand was spendy, as usual.

Given the current tridemic (Covid, flu, RSV), there was enough space in the theater for everyone to spread out with at least 12-15’ feet for social distancing, and many patrons continued to wear masks 😷 (kudos for being responsible community members!).

Yet the theater had an aisle right down the center (poor design), and the colors weren’t as vibrant as they might have been with a more up-to-date projection system — still, it was fine for a small...