also your comment hints that Fast Five used all the 1.78:1? When I saw it on the IMAX there it looked like it was shown at maybe 2.40:1 on the IMAX screen.
@Justin – you say you saw Fast Five on the IMAX screen. I’m curious about how sharp you thought it looked. I saw the Pirates trailer right before FF started and it looked quite sharp but then Fast Five never looked as sharp to me. Was it the same story when you saw it? FF didn’t look as sharp as the Pirates trailer?
I’m trying to figure out if the focusing got knocked off a trace once the feature started or if they maybe they shot FF with some new HD movie vid-cams that didn’t have top notch res or if hollywood is now starting to scrub away fine crispness by using DNR even on theatrical digital release ‘prints’ now like they all too often do on blu-rays in an irrational fear that the audience see any grain/noise at all.
(Oh and yeah I love vampire stuff (maybe not Twilight so much, for the most part) but Priest 3D just looks pretty bad to me too, no interest.)
(Top Gun was PACKED on Monday (and it looked they extened it to run all week as a special at this theater alone?). I bet it had 210 out of 250 seats or so filled.)
Well I was just at the mall and peeked in to set what was on the IMAX (they have nothing listed as IMAX past the 1PM showing of Born Wild 3D) and it sure looked like Water For Elephants on the IMAX screen to me. I’m sure WFE is not playing on any of the true IMAX screens but in the digital theaters they sometimes swap around as fit. They don’t feel Born Wild 3D does enough business for the evening shows now so they need to make use of one of the larger seating capacities and there are no other IMAX films out so they just put whatever they feel fills seats I think and it seems like they decided on WFE, at least for this Saturday evening.
Well I was just at the mall and peeked in to set what was on the IMAX (they have nothing listed as IMAX past the 1PM showing of Born Wild 3D) and it sure looked like Water For Elephants on the IMAX screen to me. I’m sure WFE is not playing on any of the true IMAX screens but in the digital theaters they sometimes swap around as fit. They don’t feel Born Wild 3D does enough business for the evening shows now so they need to make use of one of the larger seating capacities and there are no other IMAX films out so they just put whatever they feel fills seats I think and it seems like they decided on WFE, at least for this Saturday evening.
Unfortunately it looks like Water For Elephants takes over the IMAX screen and not African Cats once Born Wild 3D’s shows for the day are over. I think AFrican Cats would make much better use of the large IMAX screen since it probably has dumb Disney narration and the visuals are all where it is at.
Maybe African Cats?? It seems the showtimes for that start right after Born Wild 3D IMAX showings end? It’s weird that they have a second listing of african cats for two earlier shows but they are already all grayed out, maybe the early showings in the smallest theater they pre-sold out to school groups or something?? And then show it off on their largest screen for the later showings?
Cool. I’ll have to check it out. This theater is really doing a lot of this now, nice. Although I’m not sure if many people realize it. Had you not posted that, I’d have never known about it.
Yeah, I have to agree, who needs the 50000watts when the IMAX already pulverizes all the bones in your body and leaves your ears ringing for days. So many theaters are way to loud already as it is. And I hate the ones where the treble is way high and the loud parts basically make you wince in pain. Not a good experience. At home, with amazing, really expensive speakers without so many spectrum spikes it doesn’t hurt even when it’s set fairly loud. Most theaters it just kills your ears. Just too piercing and too loud. It actually makes me go less when they overdo it.
Yeah the problem with this theater is the hideous Rt4/R17 location.
I’m not sure schools had anything to do with it, just wanting to get parents to bring their kids in, those that had not already been.
Actually that reminds me, they showed Apocalypse Now, full R-rated cut, at the local high school here in a few classes back in the 80’s. Of course in today’s age I’m sure a few people would go nuts.
I’m not sure schools had anything to do with it, just wanting to get parents to bring their kids in, those that had not already been.
Actually that reminds me, they showed Apocalypse Now, full R-rated cut, at the local high school here in a few classes back in the 80’s. Of course in today’s age I’m sure a few people would go nuts.
Interesting, I like all the flashback stuff AMC has been doing and glad this theater has been one the AMC chains part of it.
Yeah, Battle LA should be cool in 4k.
Too bad Take Me Home Tonight tanked, I was surprised at how much I liked it and the audience seemed pretty pumped, definitely more than usual even for here. It’s almost like if had been able to get people to give it a look it would’ve done well, but I guess it didn’t generate the interest to draw people in to give it a shot. Oh well I guess that is it for any more new 80’s retros.
It’s been all flashbacks with Sixteen Candles and Take Me Home Tonight (of a sort) and next Taxi Driver (although this last one goes farther back than my time) hah.
It would be hard to imagine this theater failing. That would really suck. If everything is just done by online streaming or DVR or facebook I think something gets lost.
That is unfortunate, especially with how high tickets are now. And the IMAX prices are just insane there. Does make you miss the old Inner/Outer 6 AMC which generally had some of the lowest prices anywhere and all sorts of twilight show specials at half the price of anybody else.
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 wonder if they are doing a bad job at cleaning off the IMAX 3D glasses or soemthing now.
When I saw Avatar and Alice there everything was awesome but when I saw a recent flick I saw lots of weird smeared glare on the glasses (and I tried a few different pairs, all the same, and moved around to try sitting in different parts, no differnce either). It’s probably jsut my imagination but I thought the brightness was pretty intense for the former two but not as much for the recent ones.
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.
also your comment hints that Fast Five used all the 1.78:1? When I saw it on the IMAX there it looked like it was shown at maybe 2.40:1 on the IMAX screen.
@Justin – you say you saw Fast Five on the IMAX screen. I’m curious about how sharp you thought it looked. I saw the Pirates trailer right before FF started and it looked quite sharp but then Fast Five never looked as sharp to me. Was it the same story when you saw it? FF didn’t look as sharp as the Pirates trailer?
I’m trying to figure out if the focusing got knocked off a trace once the feature started or if they maybe they shot FF with some new HD movie vid-cams that didn’t have top notch res or if hollywood is now starting to scrub away fine crispness by using DNR even on theatrical digital release ‘prints’ now like they all too often do on blu-rays in an irrational fear that the audience see any grain/noise at all.
(Oh and yeah I love vampire stuff (maybe not Twilight so much, for the most part) but Priest 3D just looks pretty bad to me too, no interest.)
(Top Gun was PACKED on Monday (and it looked they extened it to run all week as a special at this theater alone?). I bet it had 210 out of 250 seats or so filled.)
Well I was just at the mall and peeked in to set what was on the IMAX (they have nothing listed as IMAX past the 1PM showing of Born Wild 3D) and it sure looked like Water For Elephants on the IMAX screen to me. I’m sure WFE is not playing on any of the true IMAX screens but in the digital theaters they sometimes swap around as fit. They don’t feel Born Wild 3D does enough business for the evening shows now so they need to make use of one of the larger seating capacities and there are no other IMAX films out so they just put whatever they feel fills seats I think and it seems like they decided on WFE, at least for this Saturday evening.
Well I was just at the mall and peeked in to set what was on the IMAX (they have nothing listed as IMAX past the 1PM showing of Born Wild 3D) and it sure looked like Water For Elephants on the IMAX screen to me. I’m sure WFE is not playing on any of the true IMAX screens but in the digital theaters they sometimes swap around as fit. They don’t feel Born Wild 3D does enough business for the evening shows now so they need to make use of one of the larger seating capacities and there are no other IMAX films out so they just put whatever they feel fills seats I think and it seems like they decided on WFE, at least for this Saturday evening.
Unfortunately it looks like Water For Elephants takes over the IMAX screen and not African Cats once Born Wild 3D’s shows for the day are over. I think AFrican Cats would make much better use of the large IMAX screen since it probably has dumb Disney narration and the visuals are all where it is at.
Maybe African Cats?? It seems the showtimes for that start right after Born Wild 3D IMAX showings end? It’s weird that they have a second listing of african cats for two earlier shows but they are already all grayed out, maybe the early showings in the smallest theater they pre-sold out to school groups or something?? And then show it off on their largest screen for the later showings?
Wow, not many. You’d think they would try to make 4k for all. So far True Grit is the only 4k master I’ve seen then.
I’m not sure if Top Gun is going to be 4k. It’s not on the list. A couple people said it will be but I can find nothing to back that up.
How many movies have been mastered in 4k recently? All of them or only a few?
Which screens numbers support 4k?
Cool. I’ll have to check it out. This theater is really doing a lot of this now, nice. Although I’m not sure if many people realize it. Had you not posted that, I’d have never known about it.
Yeah, I have to agree, who needs the 50000watts when the IMAX already pulverizes all the bones in your body and leaves your ears ringing for days. So many theaters are way to loud already as it is. And I hate the ones where the treble is way high and the loud parts basically make you wince in pain. Not a good experience. At home, with amazing, really expensive speakers without so many spectrum spikes it doesn’t hurt even when it’s set fairly loud. Most theaters it just kills your ears. Just too piercing and too loud. It actually makes me go less when they overdo it.
Yeah the problem with this theater is the hideous Rt4/R17 location.
I’m not sure schools had anything to do with it, just wanting to get parents to bring their kids in, those that had not already been.
Actually that reminds me, they showed Apocalypse Now, full R-rated cut, at the local high school here in a few classes back in the 80’s. Of course in today’s age I’m sure a few people would go nuts.
I’m not sure schools had anything to do with it, just wanting to get parents to bring their kids in, those that had not already been.
Actually that reminds me, they showed Apocalypse Now, full R-rated cut, at the local high school here in a few classes back in the 80’s. Of course in today’s age I’m sure a few people would go nuts.
Interesting, I like all the flashback stuff AMC has been doing and glad this theater has been one the AMC chains part of it.
Yeah, Battle LA should be cool in 4k.
Too bad Take Me Home Tonight tanked, I was surprised at how much I liked it and the audience seemed pretty pumped, definitely more than usual even for here. It’s almost like if had been able to get people to give it a look it would’ve done well, but I guess it didn’t generate the interest to draw people in to give it a shot. Oh well I guess that is it for any more new 80’s retros.
It’s been all flashbacks with Sixteen Candles and Take Me Home Tonight (of a sort) and next Taxi Driver (although this last one goes farther back than my time) hah.
Is this theater really doing so badly though?? Is that known fact or just wild speculation?
It would be hard to imagine this theater failing. That would really suck. If everything is just done by online streaming or DVR or facebook I think something gets lost.
That is unfortunate, especially with how high tickets are now. And the IMAX prices are just insane there. Does make you miss the old Inner/Outer 6 AMC which generally had some of the lowest prices anywhere and all sorts of twilight show specials at half the price of anybody else.
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 wonder if they are doing a bad job at cleaning off the IMAX 3D glasses or soemthing now.
When I saw Avatar and Alice there everything was awesome but when I saw a recent flick I saw lots of weird smeared glare on the glasses (and I tried a few different pairs, all the same, and moved around to try sitting in different parts, no differnce either). It’s probably jsut my imagination but I thought the brightness was pretty intense for the former two but not as much for the recent ones.
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.