College 9 Theatre — Local services in Patton Township

This place is absolutely disgusting. I read previous reviews. I gave the 4 and 5 star reviews the benefit of the doubt. Don't make my mistake. There's dust and cobwebs in the women's bathroom. The sink is covered with puddles of pink soap (and none of the dispensers are leaking). And the theater is just gross. Usually, when you go to the movies (and especially if you get there before the previews), the ceiling lights are on, so you can see where you're going, find a good seat, and make sure you're not walking over people. These theaters are dark. No ceiling lights are turned on, and barely any wall lights available. So, I used the flashlight on my phone and quickly figured out why the theaters are dark: They don't clean anything. All of the seats were covered with crumbs, some of the cupholders still had wrappers in them, and the floor was littered with even more food and garbage. Considering the low reviews this place gets, you can't tell me they had a packed theater anytime recently. More likely, they just don't bother to clean. I had to get several paper towels from the bathroom to clean off one of the seats, and the entire time there I just felt sick to my stomach. (It should also be noted that the screen is small, and the rows are setup in a way that no matter where you sit, the row in front of you will be in your lower peripheral vision, which is distracting and ruins the experience even more so.) Do yourself a favor and stay away from this theater. It really is as horrible as other...

I would rather have my eyelids stapled to my forehead and be forced to watch schindlers list on repeat, until death, than visit this theatre again. The first time I went, the roof started leaking during Avatar 2. It was very immersive. That’s where the two stars came from.

The second time I was there, we went to see elemental. The staff somehow managed to scrape together their brain cells to figure out a way to be even less helpful than normal movie theatre staff. Minus two stars.

The third, and final time we saw Oppenheimer. It was so ungodly hot during the movie you would think we were at trinity. Not watching, but truly in the center of a fireball in the middle of a desert. It was, like avatar, immersive.

On a significantly more serious note, the emergency exit door was propped open on my last visit there, which is a large red flag to anyone that remembers when the dark knight rises premiered. The door was jammed in some way and the staff had a hard time closing the door, so there was a little sliver of light leaking in the whole time, aside from that also being a massive red flag.

All in all I think the facilities need an update, the 80s aren’t...

This theater was a little more dated than I expected, but it is probably one of the nicer ones in the greater Central Pennyslvania area, so I give them credit there.

The tickets are self-kiosked. You pick your seats before the show. The popcorn is self-buttered (I personally hate this, it means the butter is cheap and the popcorn is blegh). We got actual food (pizza) because we were starving, and it tasted freezer burnt- imagine a freezer burnt Lean Cuisine pizza, that's what it tasted like (not good).

The theater chairs are leather fold up chairs. The floors in the theater were pretty gross, and we were the first show of the day.

We were the only people in our showing so we had fun and danced and sang along to the movie. Definitely not what I expected from a theater in one of more wealthy cities in central Pennsylvania. (For larger city folks, this would be an experience more like a discount theater)

Me and a 4 year old costs: Tickets: $8.50 a piece (matinee) 2 small drinks, small popcorn, 2 pizzas: $33 2 boxes of...