My complaint is how these mega complexes have only two or three large theaters that seat a large crowd with gigantic screens and how the rest of them are about the size of a shoe box.
When I recently went to see Troy on opening day, we purchased our tickets and the theater which it was playing, for our show time, was like theater #22 all the way in the very back of the building with a screen that didn't seem much larger than the one I have at home, and maybe sat 100 people, with about 10 rows of 10 seats. Since the movie was supposed to be an epic type film I wanted to see it on the large screen, so I dragged my hubby back to the box office and we traded our tickets for a show thirty minutes later in the much much larger theater and it was awesome.
Maybe I'm being petty and it probably doesn't matter much to most people and I'm sure there are those who actually prefer smaller screens, but not me. When I go the movies I want to feel as though I've gone out to a theater to see a movie. So I felt a bit ripped off especially for a movie such as that on opening day. We're all paying the same amount for movie tickets but yet the viewing experience and quality varies drastically depending upon which theater you see it in. AMC seems to be the worst, but I have finally found a movie theater in which even it's smallest theater is a decent size and every movie is in digital surround, but I have to drive 30 minutes to get to it.
Oh how I do miss the days when going to the movies was like a major event but on the same hand I don't miss standing in line two hours before hand to see a movie like we did back in the day to see ET and Star Wars. I gues we can't have it both ways. So anyway that's my complaint. Rant over. Thanx for listening.
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