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Move over movie theater popcorn. At Gold Class Cinemas, going to the movies has taken on a whole new dimension, if you're willing to shell out $29 a ticket for the luxury cinema experience.

Customers sit in gigantic recliners with small tables and each has its own dedicated server on hand to bring $49 bottles of sparkling wine, $14 platters of fried calamari with ginger and lemon or a $19 New York strip-steak sandwich, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The Pasadena, Calif., theater is the fourth in the U.S. for Aussie cinema chain Village Roadshow, which has two Gold Class theaters in suburban Chicago and one in Redmond, Wash., home of Microsoft.

"We've never experienced anything like this," theater customer Tina Galloway told the paper.