A new low, even for AMC

[Geoff Jones]

Not going there isn't going to change anything

Are you sure? It sorta sounds like he goes there a lot.

[Martin McCaffery]

William. If you keep going there, they'll continue to give the same crappy presentations. Not going there isn't going to change anything, but it will be less frustrating and you won't be giving them your money.

And since I know which Art House Mark is referring to, yes, they are a great theatre of which I am truly envious.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

I can say similar things about the AMC that's a few miles from me as well, although the sound systems work ok, the EQ is no where near correct. I''ve pretty much quit going there any longer. I generally only visit the local Art House, and they have generally gotten the films I've wanted to see. It's about a 10 mile drive, but they do a top job at presentation...

[William Kucharski]

1. Purchased an advance ticket on Monday for Die Hard in their Dolby theater, Friday December 8 at 10:30 PM. Selected a seat and paid for the ticket.
2. Checked the listings for some reason today, saw there was no longer a 10:30 PM Dolby showing.
3. Contacted the theater, was told there was no 10:30 PM Dolby showing. They said my ticket was automatically refunded; it was not.
4. Refreshed the ticket, the ticket continued to say it was for the Friday, December 8 10:30 PM showing… which no longer existed.

I wonder how many people will be traveling through a minor snow storm here to arrive at the theater for the showing with their advance purchase tickets only to be told there is no such showing…

As a side note, I saw the 20th Anniversary Love Actually at the same theater last night, and the presentation was horrible - they left the 3D lenses in place so any text in the lower half of the screen was ghosted, and they apparently cranked the light output to make up for the fact the 3D lenses cut brightness so not only were whites washed out, anything black was about 9% grey, and I swear their fader was no louder than 4.5.

This shouldn't surprise me, this is the same AMC (Westminster, CO 24) that destroyed their 70mm print of Oppenheimer about a month into the run and continued to advertise it as 70mm despite the fact it was showing from DCP, and has had all channels off by one in one of their small side houses for about four years now (center channel comes out the left speaker so all dialog comes from the left side of the screen, the left channel comes out the left side surrounds, right channel comes out the center, etc.)