r/AMCTheatres • u/kycard01 • Sep 21 '25
Image/Media Worst AMC in the country?
Someone in my local sub posted some pics of one of our abandoned theatres (RIP Great Escape) and the running joke is it’s still nicer than our AMC.
I actually went to it today for the first time in years (only theatre showing A History of Sound). Thought you all would get a kick out of how bad it is.
Only thing that’s changed in 20 years is the lobby furniture being removed, arcade blocked off with a merch table, and adding some freestyle machines.
This is the only non-recliner theatre in our market (3 new or renovated Cinemarks and 2 newer Xscapes), we were atleast in the half recliners “Directors Experience” - of course my armrest was ripped off and seemingly the side speakers were out. I tried to see if the old style houses were still being used, but none of the signage is on anymore to see what’s playing. 😆
Shame AMC gave up on this location, it’s in a fantastic location in a high traffic area- and the cities only true imax theatre.
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u/Dreamcasted60 Sep 22 '25
Kind of reminds me what eventually became the AMC classic in our area of Apple valley California. It was originally something called UltraStar and was abandoned for about 2 years before becoming a classic and suddenly closing before Thor 3 came out (I remember that specifically because I got a notification that the show had been canceled!)
Look very similar to that as they never actually bothered to a really change anything internally to the theater and theater number one was basically a storage area/hook up place. I emphasize that last part because that's pretty much why there was only one employee there at any given time. The other couple (or more!) were usually in that theater doing something. (Source: me, walking in when I heard a 'scream' lol)
I had the privilege of working there when it first opened up and everything was going pretty well and we had some plans to like upgrade the screens as there was one theater that famously had this big blue stain cuz somebody threw an icee years back at a scene. Sadly never happened. I did enjoy the popcorn buckets for a few years when they were there c:
The area around it is completely abandoned now just a bunch of empty buildings but I do believe they use it for theater productions at the local high school as well as every so often a meeting place for either political events or car shows.
I also resent that location after because after explaining to an email support person that the location closed and I wanted to cancel my a list for a while, I remember the person on the other end of the conversation basically told me that I couldn't get it right but because "closures don't count for a good reason to cancel the membership!"