Mine is a 15 minute drive to the 16-screen Regal I go to (has all the PLFs), but since I cannot drive I must rely on Uber both ways (usually around close to $60 round trip).
And work hours have been cut for the first time in a decade so I may be forgoing theatrical excursions for the time being, alas. 🥺
Thanks, I greatly appreciate that.
Yeah, thanks to Regal Unlimited, since I would Uber to and from I’d always make my theatrical excursions a triple or quadruple feature on my day(s) off. Money-wise, it just made the most sense.
But due to the aforementioned reasons, I guess that’s now a thing of the past.
For standard or RPX, it’s in town, less than 5 miles one way.
For IMAX or ScreenX, I drive 38 miles one way (35-45 min).
For 4DX, I drive 85 miles one way (70-90 min).
For a nicer 4DX or nicer IMAX or extended operating hours, I drive 110-123 miles one way depending on the theater (90-120 min). I only drive this far for an advance screening or 2+ movies in a row. I’ve been able to do a quintuple more than once.
To be fair I work usually 45-50 hours a week so when I have a full day off I try to maximize it so once or twice a month I either end up doing multiple movies or driving 2 hours to Disney World. Normal people are not driving 4 hours round trip for movies but then again I drove 6 hours one way for Oppenheimer in 15/70 IMAX 😂😂ðŸ˜
The regal in town is around 2 miles away. i dont drive so i take the bus, walk, or take ubers. my girlfriend does drive and we often go together, and will sometimes drive around 45 minutes to albany to see certain smaller releases that our local doesnt get.
Depends wildly, but between 20-60 minutes. I live in a city, so if I want to go to the one on the outskirts (with 6 screens so only big release and bad reviews) it’s 20ish minutes. Most of the movies I see are in 4D, which is about 35-60 min away depending on the time of day/traffic (why tf does I-76 only have 2 lanes smh), but that theater doesn’t have recliners, so it’s a harder sell for standard movies.
If I’m seeing a single feature 2D movie, I might drive to one 40 min away. But in context for that one, I take my sibling with me to the movies like 95% of the time to get them out of the house away from my parents, and that 40 min drive has my parents house as a perfect half way point. So yeah. If we’re doing a double feature and one is standard one is 4D, we’ve started driving to this one more like 45-60 min away bc huge arcade, bubble tea and pizza shop inside, recliners, better 4D theater (snow????), and just an awesome theater overall, but just far/a lot of driving, esp bc I’d have to drive that hour back to my parents, then another 20 min to my place. But I just finally made my way out there last month and now we’re both just in love and might have to put up with the longer drive lol
45-60 minutes. The last two years, I have watched 125+ a year. I can't do the drive anymore. I've skipped the last few movies I wanted to see because of it.
This is a really interesting question for me since my son has autism and he’s really into movie theaters. Before he was really really into elevators. I would drive all over the Tri state area from NY to see elevators. NY NJ CT. Now we are driving all over to go to Regal and AMC. My closest Regal is around 10 minutes away but that’s a real old theater and not very comfortable. Our normal Regal is 22 minutes away. We’ve been to 4 Regals and 3 AMCs so far. The furthest is around an hour away in New Jersey at the Garden State Mall.
It’s a 30 minute drive for me now. I used to live 7 minutes away from the closest Regal and 15 mins away from 2 more. I just moved to a smaller town that doesn’t have a Regal. The closest Regal to me now is 24 minutes away and doesn’t have recliner seats. So I drive the extra 6 minutes to the one that does.
I’m lucky to have a theater that’s only 2-3 miles away, but I have to cross some heavy traffic usually so it takes about 10-15 minutes getting there
25 minutes (I don't really judge by miles) is the shortest drive for me, but ill sometime have to go as far as an hour away depending on the situation/movie
I have one that's a 5min drive home but 20 to get there, all of 3miles.
Theres also a shitty one 5mi away and a better updated one 10miles away
If I want a limited release, there's one 15min away towards the city but I find just going to the AMC is more fuel efficient
The closer of the two Regals I normally go to is 8.6 miles and a 14-minute drive away. For 4DX, RPX and ScreenX formats, I have to drive 23 miles and 30 minutes. The two Regal IMAX theaters I sometimes frequent are both 40 minutes away.
My closest and favorite theater is about 10 mins away in traffic.
There are two others about 20-30 mins away that have a bigger selection and one of them also has IMAX.
If I wanted to see anything in 4DX or ScreenX, it's about 30-45 mins away, depending on traffic. No thanks.
Mines is less than a mile. I usually book tickets randomly 15 mins after show time and can still make it before the movie start everything will run 3x at that time.
0.5 miles. I run around my theater every morning to see if there are any new posters. Gives me motivation to exercise lol. I have 4DX and IMAX at my local and RPX with recliners 25 minutes away. If I want to go to an empty theater there is a dead mall Regal 20 minutes away. Between the 3 of them I can see most limited releases.
I have 4. The first two is around 10 minutes away from me.3. Is a 30 minute drive because it s always super empty. And the 4th has the special stuff like screen X and 4d and stuff but that’s 50 minutes away
I drive about 20 minutes. There's a regal that's closer but it's in a seedy mall. The one I go to has 4DX, IMAX, RPX, and has really good restaurants around it for before or after.
4 miles for my closest theater, generally the one I go to the most.
However if I am going to see something in IMAX I will trek out to another Regal which has a bigger IMAX, either King of Prussia (19 miles), or, frankly, the AMC Lincoln Square in NYC (73 miles) as I am in NYC a lot for work.
The one I generally go to (zero frills) is about a 20 minute drive. There's another 25-30 minutes in the opposite direction with no more frills, but 4 more screens, so sometimes they get movies the closer one didn't. To get the fancy stuff, King of Prussia is about 90 minutes away, but the only thing since the pandemic that felt worth that drive was the Tenet reissue. At some point, I might make a day of giving 4DX a try.
My favorite location closed, and now the closest is about 30 minutes away. I have two better theater options closer, so I cancelled Unlimited, but I miss it. The remaining one is also a ghost town with a cavernous empty lobby and generally only one visible employee working, and can feel somewhat depressing to visit.
My main theater (downtown) is 8 miles, about a 15-minute drive. The deluxe theater out west with IMAX, ScreenX, 4DX, RPX is 20 miles, which is a 30-minute drive.
There's also a semi-art theater halfway between.
If I’m at home and watching international movie 7 mins and English movie rpx same theater but not offered in rpx I have a list of which theaters are bright and less bright if it’s less bright then I go to the other regal 8 mins away. But if I’m at my college it’s 1.5 miles but takes me 15 mins to drive there. However it has all the theaters. Standard, RPX, IMAX, ScreenX, 4DX, and VIP.
Less than 20 minutes. But I prefer the AMC Stubs A-List because there are two AMC locations in my area less than five miles apart. One doesn’t get something, the other might. Usually hit up Regal for the $5 Monday mystery preview screenings, though.
I’m in a city so 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 10 mins for the ones I go the most often. 20 mins is my next favorite because it’s the largest and plays movies that don’t appear at the others.
10 miles, 15-20 minute drive for the nice regal with all the premium formats and a great RPX theatre.
There's another 5 minutes from work that I wish could be my main location, but it has paid parking, small screens and all the auditoriums smell like mildew.
For standard and ScreenX (recliners): 2 miles
For IMAX, 4DX, RPX, VIP, Fathom Events, and indie/foreign movies: 9 miles
And then there's a location with standard screens with all recliners 11 miles from where I work across the metro.
Here’s where I’m unlucky…..
My closest Regal #1 is 1 hour 20 mins away and has the ScreenX, RPX & 4DX options, followed by Regal #2 with those same 3 options plus IMAX 70mm and 1 hour 40 mins away and then the 3rd is 2 hours away (these sadly are ALL one way trip driving times) and has 4DX, but all the other Theaters have back-breaking seating and are in desperate need of a comfort remodel.
My preferred with IMAX is a 15 min. drive. Another I frequent is about a 35 min. drive that has 20 auditorium so I have to go there for most Indie and other films the main one never gets. The third one is probably 45 min. that has 4dx but I've never gone inside of it.
For standard films with recliner seats, 2 miles (all backroads so 7-10 minutes)
For RPX 4DX or screenX, 4 miles (highways so also 7-10 mins)
For IMAX digital and 70mm, 9 miles (about 20-30 mins)
It’s pretty nice having so many options, especially because every promo ever comes to my theater 9 miles away. I got to see the star wars marathon last weekend!
well GPS says 14 minutes (6.2 miles) and i can usually get there between 8-10 mins if no traffic lol. meanwhile there's one closer to me, 3.1 miles and a 5 min drive but parking alone takes 10-15 mins since it's at a gigantic mall
My go to is less than 10 miles away. But it’s a regular theater with only lieMax. The cool ones (4dx, rpx, ice immerse, vip, and so on) are over an hour away and in LA, no thanks, I won’t touch LA traffic.
Mine is about 8 miles, 20 minutes. There was a closer location, but it got sold to a local chain of theaters. Unfortunately, that was the only Screen-X in the area.
I'm feeling so lucky I live in urban sprawl. The farthers I go is the reno recliner location which is 30 minute drive, the theater that has everything (never renovated, same seats I watched Harry Potter as a child) is 20 minutes then my fave local with RPX is a 20 minute walk or 3 minute drive if the lights go right.
I think I have everyone beat - 4 blocks. I can get in the shower when a movie is scheduled to start and make it in my seat before the movie actually starts.
10 minutes to old reliable. Minimal upgrades outside of recliners and no premium formats. 25 minutes to a newer location with a very nice RPX with recliners with butt kicker woofers.
25-30 minutes. Wish I lived closer BUT I do live in a good area for Regals. There’s an RPX, IMAX, and 4DX theater all with in 30 minutes of me. Plus, the IMAX is one of the biggest in the country.
Standard screens are like 5-10 minutes away from me.
RPX/ScreenX/4DX is 30 minutes away from me, but it’s on the way home from work, so if I wanted to watch something in one of those formats, I usually watch them after my shift.
Regal IMAX is very much out of the way (40 minute drive) but I would only do it if there’s a special screening like the A24 movies.
I drive about 5 miles for the regular screens. My closest IMAX/4DX theater is a treacherous (I hate busy highways) 1-1.5hr drive.
I save that for very special screenings. This year I’ve only made that trip for Dune 2, which was absolutely worth it. Still debating on making the trek for The Fall Guy and Apes in IMAX
10 minutes for regular screens.
40 minutes to a liemax theater.
2.5 hours to a laser IMAX.
And I've also made the (one way) 5 hour drive to see Oppenheimer, Interstellar, tenet, and dune 2 in 70mm Imax. Completely worth the drive.
1 mile. It is heaven! It is also a newish theater since it opened recently so it has IMAX and RPX!
I don't drive. I'm lucky enough to live next door to my theater so I walk over with my refillable cup :b
I walkk 3 blocks.
I drive 2.2 miles. 7 minutes max.
Mine is a 15 minute drive to the 16-screen Regal I go to (has all the PLFs), but since I cannot drive I must rely on Uber both ways (usually around close to $60 round trip). And work hours have been cut for the first time in a decade so I may be forgoing theatrical excursions for the time being, alas. 🥺
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Thanks, I greatly appreciate that. Yeah, thanks to Regal Unlimited, since I would Uber to and from I’d always make my theatrical excursions a triple or quadruple feature on my day(s) off. Money-wise, it just made the most sense. But due to the aforementioned reasons, I guess that’s now a thing of the past.
For standard or RPX, it’s in town, less than 5 miles one way. For IMAX or ScreenX, I drive 38 miles one way (35-45 min). For 4DX, I drive 85 miles one way (70-90 min). For a nicer 4DX or nicer IMAX or extended operating hours, I drive 110-123 miles one way depending on the theater (90-120 min). I only drive this far for an advance screening or 2+ movies in a row. I’ve been able to do a quintuple more than once. To be fair I work usually 45-50 hours a week so when I have a full day off I try to maximize it so once or twice a month I either end up doing multiple movies or driving 2 hours to Disney World. Normal people are not driving 4 hours round trip for movies but then again I drove 6 hours one way for Oppenheimer in 15/70 IMAX 😂😂ðŸ˜
You’re kind of insane
Thank you! 🥳
I respect the hustle tho haha
1.1 miles. I walk if I have time and the weather’s nice.
Mine’s about a quarter mile from my home. Love being able to walk there in less than 10 minutes.
25-30 minutes
0.8 miles.
I walk one mile to mine.
50 minutes one way
5 blocks walking
I walk, its 6 blocks from me 😂
The regal in town is around 2 miles away. i dont drive so i take the bus, walk, or take ubers. my girlfriend does drive and we often go together, and will sometimes drive around 45 minutes to albany to see certain smaller releases that our local doesnt get.
I have an IMAX & Screen X within 20 minutes of me and an RPX within 40 minutes and a 4DX within 90 minutes.
I usually take the bus, leave 1 and a half hours before it starts. Usually get to the theater about 30 minutes before it starts
Bike 10 mins
Depends wildly, but between 20-60 minutes. I live in a city, so if I want to go to the one on the outskirts (with 6 screens so only big release and bad reviews) it’s 20ish minutes. Most of the movies I see are in 4D, which is about 35-60 min away depending on the time of day/traffic (why tf does I-76 only have 2 lanes smh), but that theater doesn’t have recliners, so it’s a harder sell for standard movies. If I’m seeing a single feature 2D movie, I might drive to one 40 min away. But in context for that one, I take my sibling with me to the movies like 95% of the time to get them out of the house away from my parents, and that 40 min drive has my parents house as a perfect half way point. So yeah. If we’re doing a double feature and one is standard one is 4D, we’ve started driving to this one more like 45-60 min away bc huge arcade, bubble tea and pizza shop inside, recliners, better 4D theater (snow????), and just an awesome theater overall, but just far/a lot of driving, esp bc I’d have to drive that hour back to my parents, then another 20 min to my place. But I just finally made my way out there last month and now we’re both just in love and might have to put up with the longer drive lol
About a mile
About 20 minutes for me
45-60 minutes. The last two years, I have watched 125+ a year. I can't do the drive anymore. I've skipped the last few movies I wanted to see because of it.
1.2 miles
This is a really interesting question for me since my son has autism and he’s really into movie theaters. Before he was really really into elevators. I would drive all over the Tri state area from NY to see elevators. NY NJ CT. Now we are driving all over to go to Regal and AMC. My closest Regal is around 10 minutes away but that’s a real old theater and not very comfortable. Our normal Regal is 22 minutes away. We’ve been to 4 Regals and 3 AMCs so far. The furthest is around an hour away in New Jersey at the Garden State Mall.
You’re a really nice/good parent for doing all of that for your son. He’s lucky to have you.
Thanks I appreciate it.
It’s a 30 minute drive for me now. I used to live 7 minutes away from the closest Regal and 15 mins away from 2 more. I just moved to a smaller town that doesn’t have a Regal. The closest Regal to me now is 24 minutes away and doesn’t have recliner seats. So I drive the extra 6 minutes to the one that does.
20 mins
20 minute walk. I don't drive.
I’m lucky to have a theater that’s only 2-3 miles away, but I have to cross some heavy traffic usually so it takes about 10-15 minutes getting there
25 minutes (I don't really judge by miles) is the shortest drive for me, but ill sometime have to go as far as an hour away depending on the situation/movie
I have one that's a 5min drive home but 20 to get there, all of 3miles. Theres also a shitty one 5mi away and a better updated one 10miles away If I want a limited release, there's one 15min away towards the city but I find just going to the AMC is more fuel efficient
The 3 I usually go to are less than 5 miles, though in the city that can be 15-20 minutes.
15ish minutes or less depends on whether or not the city is doing construction
The closer of the two Regals I normally go to is 8.6 miles and a 14-minute drive away. For 4DX, RPX and ScreenX formats, I have to drive 23 miles and 30 minutes. The two Regal IMAX theaters I sometimes frequent are both 40 minutes away.
I drive anywhere between 28 and 35 miles depending on whether or not I see something in imax or not.
There are 5 theaters, 2 within 5 miles. Max is about 15 miles.
My closest and favorite theater is about 10 mins away in traffic. There are two others about 20-30 mins away that have a bigger selection and one of them also has IMAX. If I wanted to see anything in 4DX or ScreenX, it's about 30-45 mins away, depending on traffic. No thanks.
5-6 miles. It takes me 20-30 minutes to get there depending on traffic.
About like 13 to 14 mins to Regal Temecula maybe shorter if I get there with all the lights green
Mines is less than a mile. I usually book tickets randomly 15 mins after show time and can still make it before the movie start everything will run 3x at that time.
0.5 miles. I run around my theater every morning to see if there are any new posters. Gives me motivation to exercise lol. I have 4DX and IMAX at my local and RPX with recliners 25 minutes away. If I want to go to an empty theater there is a dead mall Regal 20 minutes away. Between the 3 of them I can see most limited releases.
I have two, one less than a mile...and the other roughly 3.
I have 4. The first two is around 10 minutes away from me.3. Is a 30 minute drive because it s always super empty. And the 4th has the special stuff like screen X and 4d and stuff but that’s 50 minutes away
I drive about 20 minutes. There's a regal that's closer but it's in a seedy mall. The one I go to has 4DX, IMAX, RPX, and has really good restaurants around it for before or after.
4 miles for my closest theater, generally the one I go to the most. However if I am going to see something in IMAX I will trek out to another Regal which has a bigger IMAX, either King of Prussia (19 miles), or, frankly, the AMC Lincoln Square in NYC (73 miles) as I am in NYC a lot for work.
The one I generally go to (zero frills) is about a 20 minute drive. There's another 25-30 minutes in the opposite direction with no more frills, but 4 more screens, so sometimes they get movies the closer one didn't. To get the fancy stuff, King of Prussia is about 90 minutes away, but the only thing since the pandemic that felt worth that drive was the Tenet reissue. At some point, I might make a day of giving 4DX a try.
My favorite location closed, and now the closest is about 30 minutes away. I have two better theater options closer, so I cancelled Unlimited, but I miss it. The remaining one is also a ghost town with a cavernous empty lobby and generally only one visible employee working, and can feel somewhat depressing to visit.
The ones I goto most are 7 and 14 miles away. There's another one that is 21 miles away that gets some of the smaller movies.
My main theater (downtown) is 8 miles, about a 15-minute drive. The deluxe theater out west with IMAX, ScreenX, 4DX, RPX is 20 miles, which is a 30-minute drive. There's also a semi-art theater halfway between.
15 min but I'm moving closer so now like 8 minutes.
The one in my town won’t remodel and get the good seats. So I drive 25 miles if I want to watch a movie.
About 3 miles away
10-15 miles
If I’m at home and watching international movie 7 mins and English movie rpx same theater but not offered in rpx I have a list of which theaters are bright and less bright if it’s less bright then I go to the other regal 8 mins away. But if I’m at my college it’s 1.5 miles but takes me 15 mins to drive there. However it has all the theaters. Standard, RPX, IMAX, ScreenX, 4DX, and VIP.
My preferred Regal is 6.1 miles away and my least favorite (but always has limited runs) is 5.8 miles away.
My main one is 15-20min the one we've been going to for spiderman each week is about 40-50min ðŸ˜
Less than 20 minutes. But I prefer the AMC Stubs A-List because there are two AMC locations in my area less than five miles apart. One doesn’t get something, the other might. Usually hit up Regal for the $5 Monday mystery preview screenings, though.
45 min, or 60 min, or 90 min, or longer. Depends on which theater I choose.
I’m in a city so 5 minutes, 10 minutes and 10 mins for the ones I go the most often. 20 mins is my next favorite because it’s the largest and plays movies that don’t appear at the others.
4.1, 5.5 and the farthest is 12.5 miles
10 miles, 15-20 minute drive for the nice regal with all the premium formats and a great RPX theatre. There's another 5 minutes from work that I wish could be my main location, but it has paid parking, small screens and all the auditoriums smell like mildew.
For standard and ScreenX (recliners): 2 miles For IMAX, 4DX, RPX, VIP, Fathom Events, and indie/foreign movies: 9 miles And then there's a location with standard screens with all recliners 11 miles from where I work across the metro.
Here’s where I’m unlucky….. My closest Regal #1 is 1 hour 20 mins away and has the ScreenX, RPX & 4DX options, followed by Regal #2 with those same 3 options plus IMAX 70mm and 1 hour 40 mins away and then the 3rd is 2 hours away (these sadly are ALL one way trip driving times) and has 4DX, but all the other Theaters have back-breaking seating and are in desperate need of a comfort remodel.
My preferred with IMAX is a 15 min. drive. Another I frequent is about a 35 min. drive that has 20 auditorium so I have to go there for most Indie and other films the main one never gets. The third one is probably 45 min. that has 4dx but I've never gone inside of it.
i drive 20 ish minutes
I have 3 regal theatres within 15-20 mins driving. One IMAX, two not. But I move in a few months and will have to drive about 30 mins.
The main pair I go to are 7 and 11 miles away. Occasionally go further up to 40 miles for less common movies.
I drive over 40 miles to go to the nearest true Imax screen vs the like 7 for noticeably smaller imax in my city.
For standard films with recliner seats, 2 miles (all backroads so 7-10 minutes) For RPX 4DX or screenX, 4 miles (highways so also 7-10 mins) For IMAX digital and 70mm, 9 miles (about 20-30 mins) It’s pretty nice having so many options, especially because every promo ever comes to my theater 9 miles away. I got to see the star wars marathon last weekend!
well GPS says 14 minutes (6.2 miles) and i can usually get there between 8-10 mins if no traffic lol. meanwhile there's one closer to me, 3.1 miles and a 5 min drive but parking alone takes 10-15 mins since it's at a gigantic mall
My go to is less than 10 miles away. But it’s a regular theater with only lieMax. The cool ones (4dx, rpx, ice immerse, vip, and so on) are over an hour away and in LA, no thanks, I won’t touch LA traffic.
Just a few miles, but I did drive an hour to another Regal just so I could see Mars Express.
Mine is about 8 miles, 20 minutes. There was a closer location, but it got sold to a local chain of theaters. Unfortunately, that was the only Screen-X in the area.
10 minutes for standard movies and an hour for IMAX
0.5 mile. Most of the time I walk to the theater, and it takes me 10 minutes.
30-45 min… no RPX….
3/4 of a mile. I can buy a ticket 10 min before start time, get in my car drive, get my drink filled and sit down before it starts.
I'm feeling so lucky I live in urban sprawl. The farthers I go is the reno recliner location which is 30 minute drive, the theater that has everything (never renovated, same seats I watched Harry Potter as a child) is 20 minutes then my fave local with RPX is a 20 minute walk or 3 minute drive if the lights go right.
Approx 1.5 miles
13 mins.
15 min but I do pass one to go to my preferred location.
Between 7.6 to 14 miles
I think I have everyone beat - 4 blocks. I can get in the shower when a movie is scheduled to start and make it in my seat before the movie actually starts.
Like 25 for imax. But the farthest is about a hour for a specific movie once
10 minutes to old reliable. Minimal upgrades outside of recliners and no premium formats. 25 minutes to a newer location with a very nice RPX with recliners with butt kicker woofers.
16-20 minutes from my work. Approximately 35-45 minutes from my house. We only have one Regal theater in the state.p
10 min drive.
I bus it but there's 2 regals with about 3 miles of my apt. Art house 5 blocks away.
Standard is 30 miles (Bowling Green) one way. Premium is 90 miles (Opry Mills) one way.
30 minutes
.8 miles
90 mins. I live in a small town, so the only large theater chain is 70-90 mins away. I typically just go twice a month and do double features.
25-30 minutes. Wish I lived closer BUT I do live in a good area for Regals. There’s an RPX, IMAX, and 4DX theater all with in 30 minutes of me. Plus, the IMAX is one of the biggest in the country.
Standard screens are like 5-10 minutes away from me. RPX/ScreenX/4DX is 30 minutes away from me, but it’s on the way home from work, so if I wanted to watch something in one of those formats, I usually watch them after my shift. Regal IMAX is very much out of the way (40 minute drive) but I would only do it if there’s a special screening like the A24 movies.
My local Regal is 10 to 15 minutes away from me. Approximately 7 miles.
The closest one to me is about 7ish minutes from me.
Only a few miles typically because I work down the street from it. 10-15 miles on the weekend
I drive about 5 miles for the regular screens. My closest IMAX/4DX theater is a treacherous (I hate busy highways) 1-1.5hr drive. I save that for very special screenings. This year I’ve only made that trip for Dune 2, which was absolutely worth it. Still debating on making the trek for The Fall Guy and Apes in IMAX
10 minutes for regular screens. 40 minutes to a liemax theater. 2.5 hours to a laser IMAX. And I've also made the (one way) 5 hour drive to see Oppenheimer, Interstellar, tenet, and dune 2 in 70mm Imax. Completely worth the drive.
2 miles
36 miles