Cinerama Hollywood
6360 Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
6360 Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles,
CA
90028
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I do not think they expect Conan to do very well overall. They are probably obligated to offer some 2D showings and usually offer a non Dome showing of each film. I just checked, as of 11am Friday opening day they have only pre-sold about 90 tickets for the 8pm DOME Show. We are not talking about a blockbuster title. The Summer movie season is pretty much over.
Wow, so now Arclight is withholding 2D showtimes in favor of forcing more 3D. Conan is opening this weekend and is getting 5 Dome showtimes in 3D, but they’re only offering 3 2D showtimes (at 1, 7, and midnight) on the weekends and only 2 (TWO) 2D shows during the week. Arclight Pasadena gets 6 3D showtimes of Fright Night everyday and 0 (zero, ZERO) 2D showtimes.
As people have, more and more, started choosing 2D showtimes over mediocre and overpriced 3D options Arclight has answered back… “If you won’t choose the overpriced, mediocre presentation on your own, we’ll just remove any other options.” Bravo Arclight. Do you actually care AT ALL about your customers anymore or is it just about how many extra dollars you can squeeze out per seat now?
I go to Arclight at least once a week and have no issues with projection, sound or anything. Next to the Village Westwood it is still the best moviegoing experience in L.A.
I said it before and I’ll say it again… the day they opened Sherman Oaks they pushed aside what had made the Hollywood location so great and became more focused on creating a “chain” rather than maintaining a respectable brand. They took something that was unique and worth the additional surcharge and dumbed it down to go into the neighborhood multiplex business. Just take a look at their Facebook page and you’ll see they’re so busy creating dumb polls, doing trivia, and giving away T-shirts that they don’t have time to actually attend to someone with a grievance or see that their presentations are up to the standards that they, themselves, originally employed.
There used to be nothing to complain about when you saw an Arclight show and now they’re almost as bad as going to an AMC or Regal theater with texting audiences or poor projection or sound. I complained about the awful Transformers shows back in June and after ignoring my complaints on several occasions, I told them I wouldn’t be back for at least the rest of the summer to see anything else there and I held my ground. I’ve not been back there since June. It’s nothing they’ll feel, but I’m not going to reward someone who blatantly screws over paying customers (word was that they didn’t fix the Dome projectors showing Transformers 3 for AT LEAST a week). Arclight used to be something special, now it’s more or less the same as any other chain and that’s sad.
This theater has gone to the pits, like everything. Every time i see something here the screen is WAY too dark, poorly matted or even out of focus at times. About half the amount of light needed is being thrown onto that screen, it’s like a laptop monitor in power save mode. What the hell are they doing there and WHY are they charging large amounts of money for a DIM screen you can barely see?
I went to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes yesterday at the Dome and loved it. The presentation was quite nice; I have not been in the Dome itself for many years even though I go to Arclight almost every weekend. It is great that it remains open and even with the refurbishing has not strayed far from what it originally was.
Captain America 3D in The Dome was a decent presentation…although for some reason the left middle section of the screen was slightly blurred when the 3D was turned on. It wasn’t horrendous enough to buzzkill the screening but there definitely needs to be some tweaking of the projector.
One other thing I noticed: They made an attempt to fix the keystoning issues by raising up the bottom masking on the bottom left & bottom right corners of the screen. Truth be told, it looked to me like they brought in some of the side masking. Screen was definitely not as gargantuanly wide as it normally is for this presentation.
Sorry for the lack of pictures to show y'all what I’m talkin bout.
It’s a no-brainer: the Vista.
I have to research where I will see Harry Potter. Since the first film I have been going back and forth between the Village and Grauman’s Chinese. It looks like I will have to go to one of the Chinese 6 theatres to see it, because I refuse to see 3D. Harry Potter does not need it.
BRADE48, I agree, except the theaters and studios aren’t giving us the choice. If you want to see Harry Potter 7.2, great news… It’s showing at Grauman’s and The Village in Westwood, except BOTH theaters are showing it in 3D. So if you want to see it in the best theater possible, you’re forced into seeing it 3D; dark, gimmicky, extra surcharge 3D. Same with Transformers. If you want to see it in The Dome, you’re forced into 3D. I asked why they can’t designate a late showtime for 2D presentation and the manager said the studios wouldn’t allow it. I don’t buy that for a second, except to say the studio and theater knows they’d almost certainly sell out a 2D showtime in the Dome faster than 3D and they don’t want to have to acknowledge that they’ve been extorting movie-goers. 3D is a form of extortion… You want to see it in IMAX- only in 3D. You want to go to The Dome, The Chinese, The Village- only in 3D and only if you pay extra.
I thought Super 8 looked good. Nice 35mm film print. The problem is that ever since Arclight took over Sherman Oaks and then added Pasadena and Beach Cities, their attention to detail and dedication to quality has radically diminished. They seem to be spreading themselves too thin. They’ve been showing 35mm in there for the last week and a half, so they’ve had plenty of time to get the room ready for T3 without other digital presentations getting in the way, but from what the manager said, they really only spent 3 hours to get the projectors set for 3D on Transformers. They certainly (and I told this directly to the manager last night) have NO BUSINESS charging a premium for a mediocre presentation. And in this case, they’re charging a DOUBLE premium for a poor presentation (Arclight charges topped with 3D charges). The fact that anyone who works to set up their projection in the Dome thought that what they showed last night was “good enough” is insulting. They should have been handing out refunds to everyone in that auditorium last night. The upside is that I know someone working with Michael Bay right now and I texted them to try and get word to Bay that the Dome really botched the 3D, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they got a very LOUD phone call today, which may actually force them to correct the problem.
AVATAR 3D got great reviews from Dome viewers… wonder if something has changed since then. I never thought it was a good place to put 3D. Then again, I heard a lot of complaints about the presentation SUPER 8 there, too, so perhaps there is just something up in the booth.
The studios just need to stop producing 3D films, It is an awful gimick that has never been good enough to last for long periods of time. Lately it is a ploy to get audiences to see lousy movies that need some kind of hook to entice people. I’m reading that films like Harry Potter, Pirates…, Green Lantern have seen declines with people favoring 2D instead. Pull the plug already!
OUCH!
Although I’m not surprised. As I said in my post “Thor” comments, 3D doesn’t quite work in there. I’m going to Transformers 3 at Rave 18 (The Bridge) IMAX.
Transformers 3 in The Dome was a disaster. That screen has no business showing 3D anything in there. Half the screen was out of focus/misaligned and it was terribly distracting. I told one of the managers that they better start getting reacquainted with quality presentation because they’ve really been dropping the ball a lot lately. Certainly not the Arclight that most people came to appreciate and depend on.
Best place to see a first run film in Los Angeles. The other is the theatre on the Paramount lot but that’s not open to the public.
speaking of “Darling Lili”. aside from the quality of the film
as a whole it does contain two of the best musical sequences ever-
“Whistling Away The Dark” and “I’ll Give You Three Guesses”.
RE: “Darling Lili” – that twenty weeks must be some kind of record. Perhaps Michael Coate might be able to add some detail. I know that in Cleveland, I doubt if it ran more than two weeks and I don’t think it ran as a roadshow ( I would be curious about how many cities had a roadshow run of it). Personally, I think the film is very underrated – it is certainly, IMHO, far better than “Star.” I think Paramount mishandled this film, and I am sure that many CT members know that the experience Blake Edwards had with this film later influenced his satirical film, “S.O.B.”. Unfortunately , this is probably one of a number of failed films of that that hastened the end of the roadshow era.
This site has a selection: http://www.greetingsfromhollywood.com/index.htm. In addition, they show up from time to time at Amazon. Regarding eBay, sometimes a souvenir program will be offered as “Buy Now” item, which can be lower or higher than what you might pay if you decide to offer a bid. They also occasionally show up occasionally on eBay’s sister site, Half.com. The one that are there are most often used.
Also, if you are ever in Hollywood, some of the memorabilia shops on or around Hollywood Boulevard often have some, in varying conditions.
do any of my fellow posters know of a say 2 maybe 3 websites that
sell movie souvenir programs? of course there’s EBay but
i don’t want to bid and wait i just find to buy them outright.
“Darling Lili”’s Roadshow engagement opened at the Dome on June 24, 1970 and played for 20 weeks in 70MM.
I sat on the floor level (back row to be exact). Sitting that close can make things distracting. For IMAX (I don’t do IMAX-Lite or LieMax – Citywalk & Rave are the only true IMAX houses in LA County), I sit exactly in the back row of the theatre itself. The “overkill” is not so bad. Maybe that’s because of the vertical depth of the screen. Sitting so close at The Dome coupled with its horizontal depth probably spaced me out.
I have a souvenir program of “Darling Lili” which I believe my parents purchased at the Dome.
How is it different than IMAX 3D in terms of “overkill”?
Saw “THOR 3D” at The Dome on Saturday (5/7). 3D may play well in standard issue multiplexes. Not so much at The Dome. That ginormous screen is enough to add scope and texture to any given blockbuster. The 3D was massive overkill to the entire experience!