AMC Lincoln Square 13
1998 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
1998 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
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If Nolan wins best director much like Heath Ledger won a posthumous award for TDK, he’s gonna be a legend.
In its 1st weekend- last weekend, Dunkirk earned a nice fifth of its box office revenues at Imaxes. When I looked online, I saw that many seats were already selling for this weekend at this particular Imax- which makes this comment relevant to this page. In general, war movies just don’t do so well, not anymore. I also saw the movie at a 70mm Imax, as I commented at the appropriate page (Franklin Institute in Imax) and hope Nolan at the very least finally gets nominated for Best Director.
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I saw Dunkirk this past Sat. in the IMAX auditorium and the experience was !!!WOW!!!. it was like I was on the beach with the soldiers. to which my question- Christopher Nolan is one of those directors that many people think should have won an Oscar by now. so I have always assumed he had a big fan base. in fact Dunkirk got great reviews many critics calling it Nolan’s best yet, so why such a low $50 mil opening?
BTW, any update on AMC at Dolby Cinema at Lincoln Square?
The curent IMAX auditorium is design for IMAX Laser 12 chanels. Christopher Nolan still believe in film (Film is analog projection), unfornately the sound systems playing film are not equipped well for the new laser projection.
In the late days of theatres still playing film, I notice the Surround sound would not pass since it went to digital. When another theatre that was last to coverte to digital, their Dolby Surround system works well.
I was originally was going to see Dunkirk at Lincoln Square in IMAX, but saw it in Baby IMAX at REGAL. I’ll wait for Geostorm or the The Last Jedi to see in Laser.
The fact that IMDb did that still bothers me. It was such a great board with so many people to discuss movies with! Now it’s gone. We should storm IMDb headquarters and demand our discussion board back!
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to Howard B.– since the administrators at IMDB
made the dumb decision to get rid of the message
boards where is there a similar site to IMDB
to discuss films?
This is not a blog about movies or who owns what sound equipment. This page is about this one particular movie theater. Feel free to address your movie experiences in this theater. If there’s more comments that stray away from this theater, as many do above, they will be deleted.
This movie may be great but audiences aren’t in the serious, sad war movie mode right now. With “Girls Trip"s $30 million opening I think it just shows people are craving laughs. Sure, the die hard fans and film lovers saw Dunkirk but it won’t have any legs in a few weeks imo. Heck, I’d prefer to see Valarian right now as it’s just not as depressing imo
I play stuff at home theater with a nice loud volume, sub, top speakers everything but not the point you go deaf or wince.
I have a $1500 headphone amp.
I know about good sound quality.
“The volume levels are carefully tested to meet imax standards.”
Which are louder than most rock concerts where they warn people to wear earplugs or lose their hearing.
And those low volume baby days are a horror, accidentally got tickets for one and quickly walked out and got a refund. It’s just wailing babies and breast feeding moms glaring at you as soon as you round the bend into the theater.
I like it loud but there is reasonably loud like theaters used to be for ages and then their is insanely loud.
Some guys have been bringing in sound meters and finding loud parts over 120dB and a few have found movies where it averaged over 100dB over two hours!
In some theaters even just dialogue can make you wince with pain.
It’s not the ultimate in sound quality if you have to wear earplugs or hold your ears or have them ringing. I’ve walked out of some showings and could barely hear anyone talking for the next hour and ears ringing. That simply can’t be good for your ears.
It looks like it did not do well anywhere. War pictures have no legs. Even “SAVING PRIVATE RYAN” dropped badly after the first few weeks while adding more screens.
I think Dunkirk will have legs if it holds up in the next few weeks kinda like Saving Private Ryan did years ago. That film was nominated for an Oscar for best picture yet lost out to Shakespeare in Love. Hopefully Nolan’s latest movie wins an Oscar for best picture if it gets any nominations. Dunkirk is doing great in Europe especially Dunkirk, France where the movie takes place. I wonder how Asian audiences, especially China, will react to this movie when it opens overseas in the next few months. The imax figures are huge and should provide some much needed cash to Imax stock as stocks of that nature in general have fallen as opposed to the overall stock market. I think Dunkirk will sell well on Bluray, where hopefully they keep the imax ratio intact much like how they treated Nolan’s other Imax filmed movies including Interstellar, The Dark Knight, and its sequel which was the last good Batman movie.
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to Darth Vader444. the more I think about it the more $50 mil seems like a really low amount. I mean if just Nolan devotees went to see the film it ‘ should have made more. also the film’s trailer has been online for like a year. also the film’s trailer has been in theaters fro weeks. what baffles me the reviews I read were uniformly A+ so I expected a bigger opening weekend. the odd part is some big summer comic book type movie comes out gets mixed to negative reviews and everyone agrees it doesn’t work yet the film makes a truck load of cash anyway. I don’t get it.
I was dissapointed with the opening as well @bigjoe59. Maybe that is just the US numbers and this will do better in European markets. At least I hope so.
I disagree completely @alpinedweller. The volume levels are carefully tested to meet imax standards. IMAX is designed to give the ultimate audio/video experience. Keep the volume where it is! Looking at decibel levels you hear more damaging sound by having a firetruck drive by or have to listen to busses drive by at close distances. If IMAX is too loud there are plenty of theatres that have “Mom and baby day” where they squelch the dynamic range and lower the volume so baby can sleep. Someone who wants the ultimate audio/video experience couldn’t tolerate “Mom and Baby day.” however if IMAX is too loud that might be a good option. ;)
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the opening weekend gross of Dunkirk was only $50 million? isn’t that rather low. it was not a long film so they could get in more screenings per day. again a rather low amount.
I still think the volume at most theaters these days, especially IMAX, is too loud. Hearing damage causing loud. Uncomfortably loud.
Believe it or not they invited some who at actually been at Dunkirk to one of the IMAX premieres (different theater) and they said it looked pretty accurate but it was too loud! They said in the IMAX theater it was louder than it had been in real life (at least unless you were so close to a bomb that you didn’t survive)! That just shows how nuts the volume levels have gotten in the the theaters.
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I saw Dunkirk at the 1p.m. screening in the IMAX auditorium. !!!!! WOW!!!!! is my reaction. with the combination of the image and the sound you felt you were on the beach with the 400,000 soldiers.
one question. toward the end of the film when a
number of the young soldiers are in the bottom of
the landlocked boat Harry Styles' character gets
really angry at another soldier. for the life of
me I can’t remember why Styles. character got
angry. why did he?
I went to the 2pm 5/70 showing of Dunkirk today and 10 minutes in the projector stopped. We had to wait 5-10 minutes for it to come back. Smooth sailing from there, though the focus wasn’t perfect, and you can notice it at the end credits.
Wow! Dunkirk was amazing at LS!!! Totally blown away!!! :)
Thanks for the heads up Moviebuff. I’m going to the 4pm show today (row F). I decided not to watch any trailers for the SW movies. I will have to close my eyes. Lol
a 70mm trailer for The Last Jedi is being shown before the imax version of Dunkirk and seats are filling up fast!!!
the digital imax version had trailers for said movies when i saw it in rockaway.
I remember the 5/70 print of Interstellar had a trailer attached for Inherent Vice. The 35mm version had trailers for Inherent Vice, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.