AMC Rockaway 16

I agree. Something must be done to bring people into this theater. The only movies that I know that are filling the theaters are kids movies. Family movies tend to stay longer at this theater, as well as blockbuster movies that get good word of mouth.

I agree. If you want to comment on the old Rockaway theater, head over to the AMC Inner/Outer 6 page, which has far fewer comments than this one. Don’t forget since attendance peaked during the 21st century in 2002 (when the outer 6 was open until May), competition from home and social media has transformed the way we watch and talk about movies. Not to mention advances in movie theater technology such as Digital 3D and Digital IMAX at a dangerous cost. The only stuff that is bringing people to this theater are the live events such as UFC, the Met Opera, a classic movie, that kind of stuff. THe next few years will tell what will happen to this theater in the next 10 years.

Just got an email from AMC saying that they will discontinue their Moviewatcher service at the end of March and introducing a new program called AMC Stubs, which requires new members to pay $12 a year to use the new service. Moviewatcher members can still get that one new year free and when it ends, there’s an option to pay $12 to renew the membership or cancel and use AMC giftcards and passes to go to the movies. This stinks. I always like Moviewatcher, as well as General Cinema Credits. This leaves the Regal Crown Club and other chains like Clearview as the only free loyalty programs left. AMC probably needs some money.

thanks, mikerogers.

I hope they continue with the blast from the past stuff. I caught Sixteen Candles there couple weeks ago and it was pretty wild to see it on the giant screen with an audience (last time AMC Rockaway showed it was like ‘84 in the inner theaters I think, pretty wild). Sadly only about 30 people there (Sunday evening). It was a totally mixed crowd though, all ages. Sounded like half the audience had never seen it before and half had every line memorized.

But they didn’t exactly advertise it much. I only spotted it by chance at the last second and didn’t even have time to get anyone to go with me. I never even knew they had shown Back to the Future last Fall as well (and apparently Airplane too a few weeks ago). I guess it’s tricky though- don’t make money since knowbody knows it’s happening but to let enough people know about it means huge advertising costs and maybe more than you can make in special couple day releases (although at least digital helps, with real film the cost of reels alone would really make this sort of thing tough to pull off), but they need a way to get word out better.

But it worked well. The digital transmission worked out and it looked good. It was also nice to have an old 80’s mix where you don’t leave the theater hard of hearing as you do with even non-action flicks these days. I like loud, I mean people say wow you pump up the speakers when you listen to TV, but theaters today, especially AMC Rockaway and some others, just way overdo it. It’s so loud it just becomes uncomfortable and speakers get strainged too much and start sounding shrill and your ears ring and don;t work right for a few hours after you leave half the time.

Anyway, I’ve said more than enough for a month already.

I agree.

Do they still charge the crazy, insane $17 for the 2D stuff shown in the IMAX theater?

I hope not. It would be nice to see stuff on the largest screen, but $17 is a bit much considering that they didn’t really manage to make the screen all that much larger than the next largest screen there, still, maybe worth a little premium even as is, but if it’s $17 or 19 or whatever that’s just a rip they just didn’t have enough room to make it enough larger to be worth that sort of premium.

I wish they had listened to my advice to make at least one auditorium really giant sized. They should’ve kept the same height as on their tallest screens but made them 2.40:1 instead of 1.85:1 then they would’ve had like 72' or so starting point for screen width and left a little room up top in one of the auditioriums for the coming digital IMAX, then with changing things to IMAX they coulda fit a monster 75-80' 1.78:1 in there perhaps.

Anyone know the specs for the IMAX screen in there now? 60-62' wide 1.78:1????? Not bad by any means but a bit small for a real imax even just in terms of width and I think Manville has two 70' 2.40:1 screens so it’s not even the widest screen in NJ. I guess it might be close to the size of the famous old paramus triplex giant screen (at least 65' wide) that got split over the years and recently torn down so again not too bad, but still with freedom to start from scratch they should finally given NJ a truly top tier giant screen, youd think NJ would have the population and money to support it if little mid-western states can these days.

“Another blown-up movie. Most of the movies that are listed on IMAX’s movie page are digital blown-up versions of the regular movies.”

It doesn’t make sense to use that distinction unless you are talking about a film IMAX theater though. It’s meaningless to say that if you are talking about the dIMAX at Rockaway.

This weekend the Justin Bieber movie will be shown as a Fan’s Director’s Cut for one week only in 3D.

Thanks Justin. These pop star movies makes one think of “A HARD DAYS NIGHT” and “HELP”.Of Course,I ain’t comparing the BEATLES TO BEAVER.

Finally went to a First run movie,“TRUE GRIT” I think the Duke would have approved. Only Three other folks in there,What dream way to enjoy a movie.“SANCTUM” got a horrible review in “USA TODAY” .

According to Movietickets.com, Sanctum is only playing in LieMax 3D and is being shown blown-up size. No Real D version is playing, so that means that it will look blurry but sound great. Three 3D movies still play, the fake 3D Green Hornet, the box office animated hit Tangled (still the second longest running movie at this theater that I know, behind Harry Potter), and fake 3D Narnia, which has shown legs unlike the last one. The folks at AMC made a bad mistake of putting a $30,000,000 cave rehash into the wrong format.

Advance tickets are now available for two 3D movies, Gnomeo and Juliet and Justin Bieber Never Say Never, and a 2D Comedy, Just Go With It, which looks terrible. As for this weekend’s 3D movie, which is playing in IMAX 3D, it will do so-so business.