Best cinema in town (AMC Great Northern)

Member Name: amnoangel

Product:	AMC Great Northern
Date:	20/02/02 (2592 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap prices, free ticket to go back (limited time), free refreshments refills, very few people, very clean, brand new

Disadvantages: None really!

I recently wrote a review of the main cinemas in Manchester, the Filmworks, and promised that I would write an opinion on this cinema, much better in my opinion, as soon as dooyoo added it. Well, here it is.

For those who don't know where it is, it's at the corner of Peter Street and Deansgate, in the Great Northern Warehouse. That's the big warehouse behing Bar 38 and the amphitheatre. It's supposed to be a huge shopping development, although there are no shops there yet, except the restaurant Persia. Perhaps this is why these cinemas are not promoting themselves, but I only discovered it becasue I pass by every day. They don't seem to advertise anywhere and only publish their showing times on their hard to find website. Not even on yell.co.uk, where most cinemas are listed.

Anyway, to get in, there is a tiny yellow billboard pointing to the entrance outside - you enter into a beautiful mall, with blue cardboard walls where the shops will be. Up an escalator, along another sparkling, ultra-modern shopless corridor to the ticket booth. There's two members of staff there, despite the fact that I have been twice and there has'nt ever been more than two other people in the queue. It's a fiver to get in and they have been running an offer all month where you buy a ticket and they give you a free ticket to use anytime until the end of the month (which I went back to use today).

There's another escalator to go up after that, leading from a shining marble lobby filled with the latest film cardboard cutout promotions to cinema legends painted on the walls. At the top, you enter another circular area that I can desribe simply as classy. It's all carpeted in oranges, reds and beiges, there are thick wooden doors leading into each of the 16 screens, with shining chrome handles that all make it seem as if you're the first people to ever visit there.

Of course, what is a cinema visit without a trip t
o the... toilet. Yes, even the toilets are great. Sparkling, clean and the whole place feels incredibly safe. Other necessary things to do include refreshments. There's as wide a range as anywhere else and when we went into watch our film they informed us that we could get popcorn or drinks refilled anytime throughout the film.

The screens themselves are brilliant - huge screens and most importantly, stadium seating. Brilliant padding chairs and a lot of leg room. First film I went to see, Shallow Hal, there was nobody else in the cinema except my three friends. Today, there were no more than ten others, and that's on half term.

It's almost like a secret place that nobody knows about and it's great that way - who knows how long it will be till it's spoiled like the Filmworks? Perhaps it's not advertising becasue there's no shops there and it's waiting. But right now, it's brilliant and I can't recommend it enough.

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