This may have been a great theater back in the 70s, but by the late 80s and 90s this place was a dive. Unless you saw a movie on opening day, and it was the first screening, then the print would quickly deteriorate. Yes, the two main Domes were nice, but the majority of the other screens at this theater cropped the projected image to 2:1, regardless if it was 2.35:1 or 1.85:1.
This is a great theater (screen #1) to see a big event movie on opening weekend, and a good theater overall. Avoid seeing a movie on screen #2 (the one to the right of the main auditorium), as this screen crops images to a 2:1 fixed ratio. Screen #3 (left of screen #1) was originally THX. Screns 4-6 are more modern stadium-style auditoriums, with little to no cropping and good digital sound.
I used to hate this theater, and was more than happy to evaluate it on many occassions for Lucasfilm’s Theater Alignment Program (TAP). The floors were always sticky, the prints trashed within a matter of days (they even incinerated a 70mm print of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on opening day). Although the domes were nice, most of the other auditoriums that were added over the years severely cropped the projected image to 2:1.
I visited the Woodbridge a few months back, and was not impressed. The screens are still a fixed 2:1 aspect ratio, cropping every movie that is shown. One of the auditoriums is still mono, even!
“Captain Blood” is not listed as a “chain,” if that is what WASSUP is referring to.
One of the few theaters that rarely uses “film” – it is almost exclusively Digital (DLP) Projection.
This may have been a great theater back in the 70s, but by the late 80s and 90s this place was a dive. Unless you saw a movie on opening day, and it was the first screening, then the print would quickly deteriorate. Yes, the two main Domes were nice, but the majority of the other screens at this theater cropped the projected image to 2:1, regardless if it was 2.35:1 or 1.85:1.
This is a great theater (screen #1) to see a big event movie on opening weekend, and a good theater overall. Avoid seeing a movie on screen #2 (the one to the right of the main auditorium), as this screen crops images to a 2:1 fixed ratio. Screen #3 (left of screen #1) was originally THX. Screns 4-6 are more modern stadium-style auditoriums, with little to no cropping and good digital sound.
I used to hate this theater, and was more than happy to evaluate it on many occassions for Lucasfilm’s Theater Alignment Program (TAP). The floors were always sticky, the prints trashed within a matter of days (they even incinerated a 70mm print of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on opening day). Although the domes were nice, most of the other auditoriums that were added over the years severely cropped the projected image to 2:1.
I visited the Woodbridge a few months back, and was not impressed. The screens are still a fixed 2:1 aspect ratio, cropping every movie that is shown. One of the auditoriums is still mono, even!