One star is generous.
Uncomfortable, terribly distracting sound every 15 minutes or so from the subway underneath. Last I was there was for a weekday matinee so luckily the theater was almost empty, no problem with seat. Just a few people behind me and a GIANT RAT next to me. Seriously. I know, I know, it's manhattan, there are rats but you shouldn't have to share your popcorn with one at the movies. It was dark so I couldn't see it but it must have had someone's old candy box or something because you could hear it gnawing on the cardboard. It's rough little tongue scraping whatever was once in there out. I turned around when I first heard it thinking it was someone in the seat behind me but, it wasn't. I then realized what it was and so did a woman who was sitting two rows behind me as I saw her eyes grow wide and a look of disgust come over her. Thinking the critter was in my aisle, between me and the exit, I didn't want to get up to leave because this thing sounded HUGE and I didn't want to risk stepping on it in the darkness. After the movie ended, which luckily was shortly after the RAT joined us, I checked under the seats next to me but he must have run off as soon as the lights came up because he was no where to be found. The woman who had been sitting behind me came up to me and said ""that was disgusting!"" and we told the attendant as we were leaving that there was a HUGE RAT in the theater but he just shrugged and went on being a waste of space. Now this was quite a while ago but judging by other reviews and by friends accounts nothing much has changed. It's a shame that so many establishments who treat their clientele so poorly manage to stay in business when there are tons of other smaller places who truly appreciate their customers going out of business every day.
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