AMC Adventures

This blog post will cover the cost difference in the normal AMC movie ticket and the discounted movie ticket offered by the Comet Center to students as well as the overall experience of visiting AMC.

Cost

Picture of AMC's concession area.
© 2013 Macy Sheehan

Visiting AMC is advertised to cost $10 by buying a ticket with a student discount (UTD Office of Student Affairs, n.d.) but AMC advertises a normal ticket for $9 and doesn’t list student discount
prices (AMC Theatres, 2013). Normal movie snacks are around $5. Participating AMC theatres with the AMC Dine-In option prices most meals at $10 with the most expensive coming in at $16 (AMC Theatres, 2013).

Traveling to AMC by car from the University of Texas at Dallas’s campus takes 17 minutes. AMC is also accessible by bus, with the travel time increasing to 1 hour and 21 minutes. (Google, 2013.)

Experience

Picture of AMC's ticket stand.
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AMC’s exterior is misleading, given AMC appears to sit separate from the mall, but is actually inside the Valley View mall on the third floor. The large ticket stand with giant lettering as well as several registers makes the entrance hard to miss. Past AMC’s entrance is the concessions stand, and an arcade; beyond that is where the theaters are located. AMC displays current and upcoming movie posters between the theater doors.

AMC appeared to be less popular, given the lack of people. AMC would be a good theater to visit when avoiding crowds or wanting good seats for a midnight showing. The theaters were spacious regardless, and staff checked in once to make sure nothing was wrong.

Picture of AMC's theater screen.
© 2013 Macy Sheehan

Programs offered by AMC include “AMC independent,” “Sensory Friendly Films,” and “AMC Dine-In Theatres,” with 20% of the AMC theaters participating in AMC independent, which brings lesser-known movies to the screen (AMC Theatres, 2013). AMC’s programs allow for more opportunities to visit the theater given they offer more than just seeing what movies are currently playing everywhere.

Bibliography

AMC Theatres. (2013). Retrieved from https://www.amctheatres.com/ 

Google. (2013). Retrieved from https://maps.google.com/ 

The University of Texas at Dallas Office of Student Affairs. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.utdallas.edu/cometcenter/tickets/