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Congratulations, Century City AMC movie theater! You are the inaugural winner of the official Beyond Therapy Dog Raping Shit Eater award for non-excellence!

Here’s how you won:

Yes, you are a great theater. You have large, new accommodations that really make the 7:50 I spend on a showing feel different from watching it on my laptop or friend’s TV. Your parking is usually free and you constantly have showings for stuff I’m into.

All of this stuff you can be lauded for ends up highlighting the bad stuff, worst of all is the smell.

THE HALLWAYS LEADING TO THE DOWNSTAIRS THEATERS 1 AND 2 SMELL LIKE THE MOST DISGUSTING FOOT SWEAT EVER.

The short hallways actually feel three times as long because your eyes start to water about three seconds onto the carpet. We’ve tried to explain to friends how bad it smells, and how deeply it permeates your being as you walk through it, but the scent is hideously ineffable.

Let’s see what your press release had to say about it:

The new AMC Century City 15 is designed to celebrate the entertainment experience by providing guests with a fun, exciting and comfortable entertainment environment. Moviegoers at the theatre will feel the quality and attention to detail from the four-story glass Pilkington System, to the undulating second-story balcony, to the terrazzo-flooring inlaid with movie quotes.

To ensure that we get primo seats we often have to get to the theater around 45 minutes before show time . . .which often gets us seated along a wall facing the setting sun that blasts your iris into interior back of your skull when coming through your four story glass windows (mentioned above)

Please, please do something to remedy the disgusting smell of the hallway, for the sake of anyone you want to actually eat something in your theater while watching your movies. I know there’s nothing to be done about the windows (maybe don’t line us up in front of them?) But the hallways could be fixed by some carpet maintenance. I can only imagine that you’ve built the hallways on some sort of ancient monster-shit burial ground, and now the shit ghosts are coming back to haunt the fuckers.

Also: focus, for fuck’s sake. There never seems to be a problem with the focus on the pre-ad ads you run.

More from their press release:

“AMC Century City 15 is our crown jewel; there is no other theatre like it in the market. Every aspect of this spectacular theatre has been designed to create the ambiance for moviegoing magic,” said Phil Singleton, president and chief operating officer, AMC Theatres. “We believe our partners at Westfield have masterfully orchestrated a combination of entertainment amenities that will make AMC Century City 15 the entertainment destination in Los Angeles as well as the place to be for movie premieres.”

Just to avoid any confusion, I’m referring specifically to:

AMC Century City 15
10250 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90067
(310) 289-4AMC