Cliff Cultural Community Center

"WARNING THIS IS LONG. This movie theater has gone downhill since I was a kid. I lived in Wray for fourteen years. At first this theater was owned privately. It was run with care and dignity. Then it was passed to a non profit. This was not a bad thing because it meant it was getting upgrades through donations. I worked my way up from volunteer to manager and it was running smooth and making money (when the board wasn’t shooting down new releases). Eventually the theater went to volunteer status only which was fine and understandable. Now, however, the theater is crashing. Not only are movies being digitized faster but the theater itself is not a great experience now. When entering they have repainted to a grey blue which makes it lackluster, the concessions has changed dramatically. Due to them not wanting to raise funds to bring the soda machine up to standards they now only sell high priced bottled soda. The popcorn was burned and they have downgraded their ingredients from coconut oil and a really good butter salt to lesser value. Then the bathrooms, there are three bathrooms but currently you can only use one because the other two are blocked and the cry room for mothers with infants has been blocked as well. This could be due to some sort of need to fix or renovate but who knows. The giant chalk drawing a famous person did is still there which is great to see and the quilt that was auctioned and donated is still there. These are the highlights. Now the seats are massively uncomfortable and from what I have gathered are newer. These seats do not recline into a comfortable position unless you are pushing your feet on the ground to recline the entire time or have your feet on the arm rest in front of you. This makes your legs cramp and your butt is sore as hell before the end of the movie. The sound did not work for half of the ads, the lights were kept on and when I asked the lady, yes I know her name but will not call her out, why they were still on during the movie she responded by saying oh honey they have to be on so no one trips during the movie. This really was not an appropriate response because you don’t just call someone honey and leaving the lights on ruins some of the effect of the movie theater experience. I was highly disappointed in my visit tonight to say the least. I will not be returning to this theater. I would rather pay the high prices in big cities or wait and just buy the movie when it hits iTunes or watch it on a streaming device with my home projector. I am so disappointed and I know many of Wray will go here and enjoy themselves but to those that are visiting from a bigger town and think wow this is only $5 you would be more comfortable sitting on the floor sadly. The suggestions I have for the CCCC is to invest good money in proper seats and light runners for the floors so you can at least get a proper movie experience."

"The theater is nice. They have new seats but for some reason they are not very comfortable by the time movie gets over."

"This is a really nice small town theater that has been saved by the town and all the volunteers who work without out any pay to show first run movies Fri., Sat. and Sunday. The prices are very reasonable. I remember going to see movies there all my life and even spent sometime upstsirs in the little room for babysitters and moms going to.a movie with a noisy child! Time machine feel."