Death of the Beverly Connection

LAist reports on the demise of the Beverly Connection's AMC theater... the latest in a string of theater casualties. (Unfortunately, Los Angeles' worst movie theater, the Beverly Center's horrific multiplex, remains.)

As LAist laments, the BevCon's theaters were never fantastic, but they sure beat the alternative (waiting in line for hours at the Century City Shopping Center, or sitting behind a post at the horrid, aforementioned Beverly Center). My biggest gripe there was always the parking lot -- try to leave right after the movies let out, and you'd be stuck there for what felt like hours. (On the flip side, with validation the BevCen parking structure is still free -- a rarity in this day and age).

But with the explosion of new screens as of late, including the Grove, the Arclight and Hollywood and Highland, older theaters like the BevCon were starting to look and feel out of step. General Cinema already shut down its multiplex at the Hollywood Galaxy earlier this year (making that ghost town of a complex all the more empty, save the Knitting Factory -- which always seems to feel like it's on the verge of shutting down itself).

The Beverly Connection as a whole has become a ghost town, first with the disappearance of Bookstar, and now the AMC theaters. Perhaps it's time to put it out of its misery once and for all.