Last year, we asked you what your favorite movie theater in the county was.

We did have a winner: the Muvico Parisian 20 at CityPlace. Unfortunately, we also only had 65 votes.

(Understandable — we had just started Taking Your Pulse, so it wasn’t all that well publicized.)

So we decided to try again this year, and behind a much more respectable 333 votes, we have a new winner.

Your 2011 favorite movie theater is Cobb Downtown 16, in the Downtown at the Gardens center in Palm Beach Gardens.

The Downtown 16 came away with 30 percent of the vote, edging out the Cobb Jupiter 18, which had 27 percent.

Last year’s winner, the Parisian 20, was still a respectable third with 18.9 percent of the vote.

Rounding out the top five were the Cinemark Boynton at 5.7 percent and Boca Raton’s Cinemark Palace 20 at 5.3 percent.

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Carl Spackler (Bill Murray) takes on The Gopher in 'Caddyshack.'

All these years later, people still love the “snobs vs. slobs” comedy, Caddyshack.

The film, which starred Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight, topped our Taking Your Pulse poll for favorite locally filmed movie.

Some of Caddyshack‘s scenes were filmed at the Boca Raton Resort & Club (including the dinner and dancing scene), although a great deal was shot at Davie’s Rolling Hills Country Club.

Caddyshack ended up with 44 percent of the vote, followed by Bad Boys II (filmed in Delray Beach) at 16 percent, Marley & Me (mostly in Fort Lauderdale) at 12 percent, and Body Heat (Lake Worth) and Donnie Brasco (Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, among other locations) at 8 percent.

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Jennifer Lopez smiles during the filming of 'Parker' in Palm Beach. (J. Gwendolynne Berry / Palm Beach Post)

With Parker, an action-thriller with Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, filming around here (and shutting down bridges — click here for more on that), we were curious about the county’s film lore.

What movie, filmed around our area, is your favorite?

Lopez, Statham film in Palm Beach

Is it the steamy Body Heat, which was shot in Lake Worth? The comic romp Heartbreakers, which like Parker was filmed in Palm Beach? Or Bad Boys II, which saw the demolition of a home in Delray Beach?

If you have a favorite that we haven’t mentioned, write in your answer in the spot marked “other”.
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Lake Park’s Mos’Art Theatre was picked by Taking Your Pulse voters as the favorite for arthouse movies.

Mos’Art finished with 28.6 percent of the vote, just ahead of Lake Worth’s Emerging Cinemas at the Stonzek Theater (22.9 percent).

The PGA Cinamax Theater in Palm Beach Gardens finished third at 17.1 percent, while FAU’s Living Room Theatres and the Cobb Jupiter 16 ended up in a tie for fourth at 8.6 percent.

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Not every movie needs CGI. (striatic / flickr)

Many of us movie-goers like to head down to the cineplex and check out a blockbuster, basically allowing us to turn off the outside world and get completely lost.

But there are other styles of movies floating around out there — movies that tell more subtle stories, that don’t have explosions or CGI and that may or may not have dialogue in a different language.

Generally, the place you can see such movies is the art house cinema. In some cases, the theaters themselves are a little different — they may be remodeled old buildings, or have different kinds of seats. Or sometimes they’re just regular theaters who happen to have management which likes saving at least a screen or two for such movies.

We’d like to know which of these theaters is your favorite. And if you don’t see your favorite on this list, there’s a spot for a write-in vote as well.

We’ll let you know what the results are on Monday.
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The front entrance for the Muvico Parisian 20 at CityPlace. (Post file photo)

Two floors of theaters, IMAX screens, a bar and extended concessions were enough for Taking Your Pulse readers to pick the Muvico Parisian 20, CityPlace’s multiplex, as Palm Beach County’s top movie theater.

The Parisian outdistanced two other recently built theaters — the Cobb Downtown 16 in Palm Beach Gardens and the Cinemark Boynton 14.

Some readers did salute the smaller theaters, as Mos’ Art Theaters in Lake Park tied for fifth with the Cobb Jupiter Stadium 18.

Don’t agree? You can always vote — the poll for Taking Your Pulse’s county choices never closes.

In our other poll, we asked what you thought would win the Academy Award for Best Picture. With 37 percent of the vote, you correctly chose The King’s Speech as Best Picture. Black Swan, The Fighter and The Social Network all finished at 17 percent in a tie for second.

More: See more Pulse checks and polls | Showtimes, theater locations

In spite of all of the options — DVDs, blu-ray, streaming — people love going to the movies as much as they ever did.

And Palm Beach County has some cool choices: We have art houses. We have a drive-in. We have IMAX. We have 3-D. Big screens. Small screens. Multiplexes. Single-screen places.

Well, tell Taking Your Pulse which place really does it for you. Where is the popcorn always fresh, the air always cool (but not TOO cool) and the experience always first-rate?

More: Past Pulse checks and more polls

Our special Oscar edition of Taking Your Pulse lets you try to pick the winner of Sunday night’s biggest award!

Everyone’s got an opinion this time of year and 2011 is no different. Will it be the uplifting story of The King’s Speech? The Social Network, emerging as a tale for the modern age? The harrowing true-life story of 127 Hours?

Let us know what you think! We’ll give you the results on Sunday during the live-blogging of the Academy Awards with Leslie Streeter and me.

What is your choice for Best Picture?: