AMC is a nice sized, lovely looking theater - and that's where my praise for the place ends. While that means the theaters are nice and comfy, the scale of the place is impressive to behold, and there's room for a whole line of arcade-type games on one side of the theater, the prices here are a bit too much for my taste. Movie tickets for myself and a date or friends inevitably cost a large chunk (if not all) of my monthly entertainment budget. And considering the fact that so many movie screenings today require me to deal with jerks talking or texting on their phones right in the theater during the movie (which isn't the theater's fault but a problem with our culture in general), I often feel like I've wasted my hard-earned money and my evening when I'm leaving this place.\n\nI also never eat here, again because of the pricing. The last time I ate anything here, it was because my date insisted on spending the $20 that he blew on the single popcorn, two drinks and candy that he got. I figured, if he wants to, let him - it matters to him more than it does to me. But when there's so many fulfilling and/or cheap dining options in the area, spending that kind of money here just seems silly to me.\n\nBut the absolute the biggest problem I have with this place started in 2013. That was when I began to notice that if two action movies were in the same section of the movie theater, I could hear explosions happening in the other movie in my own theater. Around the same time, I noticed that the volume in my movies began to go up. So there I found myself, sitting in an uncomfortably loud theater, with fingers in my ears, able to hear explosions from another movie during quiet moments in mine. After the first time this happened I began bringing earplugs to this theater, and any time I go to a screening with them in I can still hear every note in a movie's score and every line of dialogue perfectly. I truly do not understand this need to blast the audience's ears to bits and while it's a common problem in other theaters, the Waterfront is by far the worst offender, and I'm sick of it.\n\nSorry, AMC - you may have a beautiful lobby and a bunch of arcade-style games that many of my friends absolutely love, but you're just not the movie theater for me.