AMC Rockaway 16
363 Mount Hope Avenue,
Rockaway,
NJ
07866
363 Mount Hope Avenue,
Rockaway,
NJ
07866
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Thanks Justin.Prices will keep edging up.We all know it.I am happy i can go to our $2.00 Theatre and catch a movie.nothing to yell about,just a movie to watch.Most of the time a good print.
$17 is a ripoff for digital imax. Going to a real IMAX with that same price will be of good value and you’ll be able to see a sharper, vivid film-like image compared with the digital crap of today. Unless if its shot and shown in 4k.
Justin you seem to like Horror and Sci-fi,have you ever thought of a top ten favorite Sci-fi and Horror movies to play here.I did it at National Hills Theatre.Sorry,JJD about the increases.I still grin when I think how folks griped when we went to 2.75 a seat for first run in the middle seventies.The madness has not stopped,guys.
more price increases:
$17 for an evening IMAX…$17!
$10 for a morning RealD…cheapest!
stop the madness!
Happy Halloween!!! Among the scary movies playing at this theater, Paranormal Activity 2 (both in digital and digital IMAX), Legend of the Guardians 3D (with owls), Hereafter (about death), and Saw 3D: The Final Chapter, which will hit number one at the box office this weekend.
In 15 minutes…moviegoers who got free tickets will get their glimpse at the upcoming Tron Legacy movie in a 20 minute IMAX preview. I can’t wait for this movie.
You are right Giles.But we all love MOVIE THEATRES and i am getting an education on modern theatres from Justin and the Gang,I managed in the 70’s and early 80’s.
looks like the two late showings for “Funny Story” are grayed out every day…must be due to technical difficulties.
^ HAH! that never happens for this theaters postings.
Just as long as we all stay on topic.LOL.
welcome back hdtv267…
Well,doggone it I had TOO.
lol.
Yes,larry1 and movie534 we were in a different and much better moviegoing time.Pictures were better.I hear a REMAKE of “TRUE GRIT” what else is next “DIRTY HARRY”.I am listing the AMC 16 as a Favorite.For Justin.
Does anyone remember:
STANLEY (So. Orange Ave., Newark)
(now Newark Gospel Tabernacle)
MAYFAIR (just up the street from Stanley)
(became bowling alley, then torn down)
PALACE (Main St., E. Orange)
HOLLYWOOD (Central Ave., E. Orange)
EMBASSY (Main St., Orange)
and, occasionally
BRANFORD, LOEWS, RKO PROCTORS, PARAMOUNT (Downtown Newark)
Those were my hangouts.
JJD, I didn’t know they charged extra for analog 3D. I think they also charged extra for other enhancements, such as Smell-O-Vision, Odorama, vibrating seats for “The Tingler”, 70mm roadshow movies, and probably Sensurround, the precursor to D-Box. It would be cool if D-Box was installed in a few of Rockaway’s big theaters so that moviegoers can feel the movie. This is the case at many IMAX digital and analog theaters, where seats are configured to vibrate along with the subwoofer. Does ETX also do this sort of thing?
Curtains, single screens, double features, now your talkin my kind of language. Not this digital crap, multiplexes, etc. This is what I try to impress on these youngsters like Mr. Justin, but they grew up in a different time than us. All they know is what they have, not what they missed.
The reason they had ushers in the “good old days” is that there were double features and people would come done the aisles in the middle of one picture, watch the end of it, then the next picture and then the first half of the original picture. Neededthe ushers to help people find theseats in a the darkened theater.
I forgot about the curtains. That was a nice touch back then. I might add they charged a premium for 3D back then too…an extra 10 cents (60 cents for adults, 35 cents for children) to pay for the glasses.
JJd,I wish we could go back to the Single screens,Maybe a nice twin,but really no more.I managed some great single screens.A triple and Quad at GCC,but my first love was the 781 seat National Hills ,70mm large screen,curtains that opened when the movie started.real showmanship sadly missing in these multiplexs.But if you have never caught a big movie on a large screen you really don’t know what you have missed.Yes,they changed for selling more screens in one location.How UA ruined NAtional Hills,making it a triple was a crime!Money,Money,Money, just need Joel Grey to sing it.lol.
I don’t know about that, JJD.
When you say “old theaters”, I assume you’re referring to the “local movie houses” I grew up with. They had one screen, a main feature, and a co-feature (usually a b-movie). You could easily spend three hours at the movies…all for 50 cents (adults) and 25 cents (children). Films ran continuously with cartoons, newsreels and coming attractions (trailers) in between. Most of these double features lasted one week and were replaced every Wednesday. Some were “held over”. Ushers assisted you to your seat. The theaters had individual “personality”, unlike today’s multiplexes. Times have changed. Today, people want choice…something multiplexes provide. Plus, I’m sure cost was a big factor in the transition. To avoid closing altogether, those old movie houses divided up their space and became mini-multiplexes, usually with disastrous results. Or they showed months-old films for about a buck. I think today’s multiplexes stand a better chance of surviving longer than the older ones providing they keep ticket prices affordable. I noticed Rockaway charged $10 (vs. $9) for the morning showing of Jackass 3D. Are we back to that again?
Attendance at this theater has declined somewhat due to the price increases on both 3-D and regular movies during the summer, which will hurt AMC’s bottom line in the future according to its latest earnings report. This as the company is ready to return to the volatile stock market this year. JJD, between this theater and the old theaters, will this theater last as long? If fewer people come to the movies, then this theater might turn into another retail shop or a strip mall, which Rockaway doesn’t need.
I will check out NEWTON THEATRE ,Thanks for the Comment.
Sounds good…how many slimshady? Pretty soon all 15 screens will have 3D, in addition to the liemax 3D. I can’t wait for Paranormal Activity 2 in Liemax, since that was shot in digital camera and will be blown-up on the very giants screen lol!!!