FLICKS: FILM AND VIDEO NOTES : Not So Hot Dog : Forget the food, except for the popcorn with carefully measured butter, at the Camarillo Cinemas.

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No. 2 in a series of reviews of Ventura County movie theaters. This time we take a look inside the Camarillo Cinemas at the Paseo Camarillo Shopping Center on Daily Drive.

Food: The bad news about the hot dog is that it was rather bland. The good news is that it was so small that it hardly mattered how it tasted.

The popcorn was good, with the butter carefully measured.

Restroom: Interestingly, the men’s room is painted white and brown, to match the look of the shopping center. The brown looks new, the white old and peeling, with scattered flecks of yellow gunk. It looked like a mid-quality gas station facility. One light fixture was broken, one toilet was out of order and the metal towel dispenser was bent as if someone, for some bizarre reason, had tried to break into it.

Pre-movie entertainment: No music or Muzak, but there is a chorus of beeping from the four video games in the lobby.

Pre-movie ads: Two.

Previews: Two.

Movie screen: In theater No. 3, at least, the screen isn’t deep enough. In the opening credits, the letters making up the stars’ names dropped off the bottom.

Jack Nicholson’s film “The Two Jakes,” the delayed sequel to “Chinatown,” hasn’t been that successful, but its presence has made the original a highly sought-after commodity in the local video market. “Everyone’s coming in for it,” said Ted Merrill of Video Adventures in Ojai, a store with only one copy of “Chinatown.” “It’s on reserve every night.”

New this week on the video shelves of Salzer’s in Ventura: a four-set collection of tapes from the TV series “Outer Limits.” That’s right, no need to adjust your eyeglasses.

The titles are “Controlled Experiment,” starring Carroll O’Connor; “The Human Factor,” with Sally Kellerman; “Behold Eck!” and “ZZZZZZ.”

Salzer’s, by the way, is undergoing changes in management.

Don’t forget the Ojai Film Society’s science fiction night Aug. 26. This “Evening With the Incredible Shrinking Man” is being supported financially by the Diet Center. Talk about a sure-fire weight loss technique.