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| - AMC... so expensive, sometimes worth it. The theatres are nice, and usually clean. The reason I choose them sometimes over Harkins is really quite silly: I love their little butter bar they have. Hey, why should someone else be in charge of my popcorn butter dispensement? Also, they put jalepenos out at the butter bar, and I really love to add them to my popcorn.
So I took away one star for being so over priced. And I took away another star for this experience from the other day. I went to see the opening night release of Spiderman 3 (DON'T waste your money: it ended up being terrible), for which there was a long line. I was with a group of friends, and I knew about a little secret: there is a mezzanine on the second floor from which there is an entrance/exit to all of the large theatres. So we all went up to the mezzanine to wait until they began to let people into the theatre, at which point we, too, would enter, without having to wait in line.
Now, I know what we were doing wasn't exACTly legit. But still, more than a few employees saw us and said nothing. And a cop came along to check our tickets and make sure we weren't trying to do the ole theatre switcheroo. So it seemed like it was going to be fine. THEN, right when they were going to open up the theatre this manager-type, who totally takes her supervisory movie theatre role a little too seriously, came up and told us we had to go downstairs and get in the end of the line!! How unfair is that??!? I mean, if they had told us right when we got up there, we might have had a decent slot. But there was no way I was going to pay $9.50 for a ticket to sit in the very first row.
So what did I do? I threw a fit. Well, not a crazy-person screaming fit, but the 'i'm not going to leave until you agree that i'm right' kind of fit. I pointed out that there is no posted policy that says we can't enter from the top, and no employees had yet stated that, so really she was being unreasonable. She consented, but told us to wait right there, she'd be right back. Well, by this time people had begun to enter the theatre. So do you think we waited right there? Absolutely not. We entered, got killer seats, and watched one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time.
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