AMC Loews Metreon 16

This is from the Metreon website:
"Located on the third floor of Metreon, the 15-screen Loews Theatres Metreon is San Francisco’s largest movie theatre complex, a gorgeous movie palace with a panoramic view of the Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade and the San Francisco skyline.
Loews Theatres Metreon accommodates 3,900 guests and features fully upholstered, high-backed rocking chair seats for a perfect view and exceptional comfort, plus huge screens with nearly double the visual impact found in conventional movie theatres. Every auditorium is equipped with state-of-the-art projection technology, THX® certification and Sony Dynamic Digital Sound®(SDDS®) -the most advanced digital cinema sound system in the marketplace today".

According to their website, this theater has 15 screens and 3,900 seats.

According to the October 2004 Loews Directory, seating capacities of the Loews Metreon are: 106, 125, 125, 122, 134, 156, 282, 253, 266, 259, 300, 301, 589, 369, 415, and the IMAX seats 614 for a total of 4416 seats.

The name of the theatre is Loews Metreon, the name Metreon alone is the name of the Sony facility of which it is part.

Was just there this weekend to see "Assault on Precinct 13" - it's a huge place but the chairs were comfortable, the sound was good and the audience was involved in the film yet well-behaved.

I kinda miss the place.......
Auditoriums #11 # 12 is BIIIIIG!!!!!
I groaned if a movie I went to see was at #1's - #4 seems teeny tiny
Went there almost every weekend but since I live down the Peninsula and theres already a 12 plex just up the street from where I live.

I really hate this place.

It put many of the other older movie palaces in San Fancisco out of business!

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A nice decorative touch is the terrazzo pavement leading up to the long ticket counter. The pavement looks very much like that in the entrance of the Wiltern, Los Angeles.

It's going to be interesting to see how this theatre fares when the Century theatres open in 2006 at the addtion being built to the San Francisco Shopping Centre.

The Meteron is to some extend a souless multiplex, but as far as it goes, it's probably the best souless multiplex in the world. The theater features DLP projectors on some screens, and every screen is THX certified. Even among THX auditoriums The Metreon has outstanding sound.

The Metreon draws strong crowds on opening days, leading to a pleasant movie going experience of enthusiastic fans.

Here are some photos and background on the Metreon complex.

"300" is currently playing here in IMAX.

http://www.fromscripttodvd.com/300_imax_dmr.htm

Photos of this theater:
http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/2920.html