AMC Empire 25
234 W. 42nd Street,
New York,
NY
10036
234 W. 42nd Street,
New York,
NY
10036
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vindanpar – the reality is Cinema Treasures is a preservation site of movie theaters. Grant you the number of treasures are in the minority but all hold treasured memories for someone.
vindanpar, the historic lobby of this theatre alone is worth the listing.
How are these megaplexes Cinema Treasures?
The whole thing is a joke discussing these places.
Tearing them down will be like tearing down a supermarket.
How is this theater compared to amc in Rockaway?
The auditoriums in the E-Walk might appear smaller on Fandango because of the lower amount of seats. That’s not due to the screens being smaller but due to the leather recliner seats, which take up more space than the regular seats in the AMC Empire 25.
Both theaters have reserved seating though so just get your ticket early.
Looks like I found the answer to my own question.
http://investor.regmovies.com/news-and-events/press-releases/archive/05-18-2009
How would you say they compare from a technology perspective? The E-Walk seems to have smaller screen sizes in the regular auditoriums. And what about their projection technology, do you know if they use 4K projectors for regular 2D movies? I believe AMC uses Sony digital 4k.
The Regal E-Walk is MUCH superior to the AMC Empire 25
They just got new leather recliner seats a few months ago. It’s newly renovated.
It has less screens (13 instead of 25) meaning less other movies playing meaning less crowds. Though some people like a bigger selection.
It does not have any bed bug reports.
Now that doesn’t mean that it has to remain that way. Empire 25 can renovate and upgrade and get on level with E-Walk by getting new seats and renovate. But so far they didn’t and do not seem to be planning that.
I’d chose Regal E-Walk any day over Empire 25.
BTW I have nothing against AMC. They have nice theaters like Kips Bay 15 and others. But the Empire 25 is just gross. The seats and floors are old, poorly maintained plus the bed buf reports. E-Walk just renovated a bunch of their theaters. I don’t see how it’s not superior.
Some decents seats for 5:15 2D showing but it seems it will be in one of their smaller auditoriums.
Would you say Regal is a better venue than AMC Empire? Lots of showtimes there.
Word is that Regal across the street is going to have Last Jedi on all 13 screens the first week.
Don’t worry you’ll be fine.
Just got tickets to see The Last Jedi here Fri 12/15. I imagine this place is going to be a total madhouse? It could be fun to see the movie with a raucous crowd I just worry the audience might be a bunch of rowdy kids. Thoughts?
ridethectrain. Try. Punctuation. Please.
Theatre 18 371 and theatre 13 369, at one time theatre 6 was the largest followed by theatre 1. Theatre 8 is now 218 seats, one time over 600 and theatre 1 is now 310, one time about 500
Its similar to watching a letterbox movie in standard definition aspect ratio.
Mark – “pillarboxing” is when they put a flat image inside the ‘scope digital container on a DCP. Or it can refer to a theatre that has a scope screen and shows a flat film without bringing in side masking. Basically, the reverse of “letterboxing”.
I have a question. As an old time (41 years) projectionist, all I ever had to worry about was Flat (1.85) or Scope (2.25). What the heck is Pillarboxing? Must be a digital thing. Oh and btw, I hate these theatres with no masking.
He is saying that the Empire 25 should replace their old seats with new recliner seats. Which they should. E-Walk and Kips Bay and a bunch of other theaters have done so already.
Regarding lack of masking: It’s not just an AMC issue. I’ve had the same issue with Regal and local theaters. I’m not sure if there is any theater out there which always masks. AMC 84th Street seems to mask and they have recliner seats. But their admission is also more expensive and I’m not sure if they always mask.
Even fancy theaters like AMC Lincoln Square sometimes don’t mask. It’s an issue which theaters don’t seem to really care about but should. Pillarboxing can take you fully out of a movie.
I’d recommend checking out which auditorium a movie is playing in online and making sure that you catch a scope movie on a scope screen and a flat movie on a flat screen. If you’re not sure try their (AMCs) facebook messaging service as it’s been pretty responsive.
ridethectrain, can you please try English. I have no idea what you are trying to say in your last four posts.
The Empire needs recliners in all auditoriums. Just at E-Walk see are more comfortable than the early 2000 AMC seats. If they playdate, E-Walk wins except Dolby Cinema or IMAX.
AMC hasn’t yet replace the seats since 2000.
Not sure that really relates to this theater, as aside from the IMAX and Dolby Cinema (formats which never use masking), all the screens I’ve seen here use masking for at least flat and scope.
Aside from some technical issues for certain showings, the one AMC nearby I’m aware of that has abandoned masking is Kips Bay, which did so when they upgraded their seating to recliners (obviously you would prefer they use masking for all, but I can tolerate letterboxing, but when they use pillarboxing on their scope screens it definitely looks kinda ugly to me)
http://www.slashfilm.com/movie-theater-masking/
It was raining on our last night in NYC, and my wife and I didn’t want to spend it in our hotel room, so we braved the rain and headed to Times Square to catch a movie. We had reserved seats, so there was no rush. When we got to the AMC Empire 25, someone was in our seats. They said they had bought the same seats, but moved because the theatre was empty. A few minutes later, someone came in and told them they had purchased the seats they were sitting in, they gave the same excuse and moved. When it happened a third time, they up and left. Who is preventing people from paying to see one movie, then spending the rest of the day hopping from cinema to cinema? No security here.
During the film, the man next to me insisted on checking through his Facebook posts every ten minutes or so, and the people behind me kept having to update one another on the plot of the movie.
I honestly feel that the convenience of being able to stream virtually anything one wishes to watch has killed the respect people once had for the cinema.
How about the imax does that have bed bugs?