These Christmas moviegoers are rocking.
Metropolis moviegoers awoke on Christmas morning to the equal of a lump of coal: the favored Kips Bay AMC theater was partially closed and their film tickets canceled on account of an “unexpected” flooding drawback at Manhattan’s Second Avenue multiplex.
The theater suffered a burst pipe Monday throughout a displaying of the Bob Dylan biopic “Completely Unknown,” which led to just about 3 ft of flooding and a subsequent evacuation, an AMC official informed The Publish on Wednesday.
“Sadly, on account of a burst pipe, we is not going to be enjoying any performances of ‘A Full Unknown’ as we speak apart from Imax,” the official mentioned, including that he needed to flip away “lots of people” who did not. i do not even have pre-paid tickets for that as a result of the cinema’s laptop servers are nonetheless down.
“It’s very annoying, I do know. Numerous theaters are down,” the official added. “Some theaters can solely play the primary and final performances. It actually relies upon.”
The official mentioned that for the previous three days, AMC officers have been borrowing tools from neighboring theaters “as a result of now we have to be open on Christmas Day, the busiest day of the 12 months.
“You do not know the half of it, belief me,” he mentioned. “All people needs to see Bob Dylan for some motive.”
A consultant for AMC Theaters didn’t return a request for remark.
The theater is seemingly nonetheless promoting film tickets on-line for its theaters affected by the closure, leaving movie-going hopes in the dead of night till hours and even minutes earlier than a present begins, a number of AMC prospects informed The Publish or warned on social media.
“Christmas is RUINED,” X’s theater put up round 12:30 p.m., shortly after their present was pulled. “AMC Kips Bay simply canceled all our tickets.”
Sigi Nagar, 45, who got here to the Kips Bay cinema on Wednesday afternoon together with her mum, mentioned: “I am very dissatisfied – it is such a good time of 12 months for movies and we e book cinema tickets weeks upfront and apparently they’ve had a hiccup within the theater – however they do not contact you.
“I am completely dissatisfied as a result of I am an enormous Dylan fan and I actually needed to see the film,” the Gramercy resident mentioned. “We’ll most likely be strolling round feeling sorry for ourselves and listening to Dylan on the radio now.”
“I am Jewish and that is why we go to the flicks and eat and that is what we do,” she added. “It was our first selection.”
Paula Naftali and her husband, Danny, got here all the way in which from Manhasset on Lengthy Island to take pleasure in lunch and a film within the Large Apple and made it to Theater 7 on Wednesday afternoon.
However Naftaly was in for a impolite awakening when a theater worker knowledgeable them that their screening had been canceled on account of a burst tube and that they must await the later IMAX screening.
“What are we going to do for an hour?” Paula informed The Publish. “We got here from Lengthy Island and had a beautiful lunch on the town and had deliberate to see the three:45 [p.m. screening]however nobody informed us. There was no notification.
“I used to be shocked, shocked and dissatisfied and clearly aggravated that we weren’t notified,” she added. “Each Christmas now we have a practice of entering into and going to a restaurant and watching the film that simply got here out. We all the time come to this theater.”
Burt Kimmel, 91, of the Higher East Aspect, got here to the Kipps Bay Multiplex Wednesday afternoon along with his daughter, Melissa Saperstein, 57, each of whom had obtained the identical dangerous information.
“We had purchased the tickets upfront, we even had tickets for wheelchair accessible seats,” Kimmel mentioned, including that his daughter was reimbursed with free passes to a different efficiency sooner or later.
Saperstein mentioned, “As lifelong Jews from New York, we’re used to going to the flicks on Christmas and guess the place we go to dinner—the Chinese language.
“So now we’re simply ready for our Chinese language dinner, [but] we’re not but hungry for it. We have been hungry for our movie.
