AMC Rockaway 16
363 Mount Hope Avenue,
Rockaway,
NJ
07866
363 Mount Hope Avenue,
Rockaway,
NJ
07866
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Just went to see “Smokin' Aces” on President’s Day at this theater with my cousin and her husband (this is his first visit), and boy it was fun. My only complaint is that the bass level is too high and can cause popcorn or soda to fall on the ground. I hope AMC addresses this problem and improve the acoustics of this popular new theater so that I won’t hear rumbles or loud noises from another auditorium nearby. They should have THX check each auditorium (ala Clifton Commons) and that two of the biggest have DLP (the film prints are sometimes blurry and are not as sharp as those in CLearview’s Parisppany cinema).
Since the theater opened several months ago, has it been one of the profitable theaters for AMC? According to Wikipedia, only the Empire is the closest theater in my area that makes more money than the Rockaway location. Any word on when DLP comes to the theater? It would be nice to see a movie in HD, e.g. 300 or Grindhouse. The prints are a bit fuzzier than the Clearview screens in Parsippany, although the sound is really good and the seats are comfy!!!
Check this link out…
http://www.amctheatres.com/promos/showcase/
Too bad the Rockaway theater won’t be showing this festival.
just went to see happy feet( which has been playing for more than two months after it came out when the theater opened) and i was glad it was still playing while its opening weekend rival, casino royale, lived and let die at the theater. just wait until summer rolls around and there will be more movies that will have a long exhibition life. just like happy feet which was awesome on a decent screen with rumbling surround sound.
I agree with you, John. The only theater in Morris County that plays this kind of stuff is East Hanover, where The Queen played for a long time. BTW, East Hanover is also owned by AMC. I can’t believe NIght @ the Museum is still the top movie at the theater. It’s worth watching on a big, giant screen. Hopefully when summer comes around, I would love to see the movies in digital projection in the two big auditoriums. That would be nice. The other two theaters that have captions for the disabled are a godsend, since the other local theatres have only one RWC-equipped auditorium.
Or because there is no market for them in Rockaway. I saw Fast Food Nation at the theater opening night and was one of about ten people in the theater. I don’t know how the other “AMC Select” movie playing that night did (the Dixie Chicks doc Shut Up and Sing). Art movies generally do better in an area with a highly educated audience or in an area with a college and arts culture: Rockaway is as mainstream as areas come, family movies probably do very well here. Bigger art movies probably would hold their own at this theater and if Pan’s Labryinth crosses over and expands out to 1,000 or more screens you’ll likely see it at AMC Rockaway. In general the only muliplex that really plays art movies on a consistance basis in Northern NJ is Edgewater.
I was looking up showtimes for Pan’s Labryinth and found out that it’s not playing in Rockaway, but in Clifton which is about 20 or so miles away from where I live. Why doesn’t AMC put out more AMC Select movies in its theaters? Probably it’s because of the way things work between the theater company and the movie studio.
Just came back from a screening of “Children of Men”, and here are some issues that I had with the show:
1-During the last few minutes of the preshow, the screen went blank. My dad went over to see the general manager and the guy who runs the place says that it will take a while before everything’s up and ready. Has anyone experienced this kind of thing before? It doesn’t matter because it’s only the preshow. Soon after, the show went on.
2-The projection is a bit soft. Yeah, the sound is great, but the picture was not as sharp as the one I saw while I sneaked into a screening of “Primeval”, which was shot in the 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The smaller the screen , the sharper the image. I hope AMC has digital projection soon.
When I call the number, their line is busy. I already took a survey a few days after the movie opened based on my experience with the film at the theater. It’s too bad a small film like Pan’s Labyrinth isn’t playing at this theater, which has the AMC Select program. It’s only playing around the big apple.
You keep asking this question. Why don’t you call them up? There’s an idea.
Just went to the theater a few days ago to see “Night @ the Museum”..the theater was packed and the lobby was a bit messy!!! Yet the film ran on time and it was a good presentation nonetheless. Any word yet on when digital projection will hit the theaters? I can’t wait to see Transformers in HD!!!
Any word on when digital projection comes to this theater? Since it’s a new theater, I think it will take some time before I see some good summer movies on a big HD-like screen. Also, how is business at the Rockaway compared to their competition?
According to a guy who posted on the NJ.com website’s Sparta forum, the biggest theaters in the building are 8 and 9. This is one reason traffic has been getting heavy to the area via Route 80 on weekends.
It’s a pre-show that usually shows commercials, ads for tv shows and videogames, as well as AMC First Look, which is an exclusive sneak peek at upcoming movies, in this case, the new “Reno 911” movie which looks funny!!! The digital preshow is shown using a video projector on the giant screen, resulting in a grid-like image which looks like the Jumbotron in New York’s Times Square. The sound quality is pretty good, but it’s not in widescreen. The presentation lasts around 20 minutes, and then the film reels roll with the typical movie and policy trailers (all in 35mm film). I hope AMC in the future gets its two largest theatres installed with digital projectors (DLP)!!!
Justin, please tell us more about the digital pre-show. What exactly was it? Was there any mention of installing digital projectors? When I contacted AMC some weeks ago they told me the theatre would not “open” with digital projectors but that they were committed to the technology, or something like that. As a 3D enthusiast, I found that disappointing. Digital 3D is doing well and will only get better. Let us know. I strolled through several of the theatres while waiting for “Happy Feet” to start (great movie!). All had stadium seating and large screens (slightly curved). Capacity is posted with the theatre number at the entrance. All in all, I’m very impressed with complex but we need those digital projectors!!!
Just went to the theater today to see Borat, and boy, this is the best movie theater around town! A big, almost IMAX-like screen in theater #15, surround sound, plus a digital pre-show…although the tickets are more pricey than Clearview, the seats are more comfortable and the parking is convenient.
How many seats are in each theater, and which ones are the largest?
I saw Fast Food Nation in one of the smaller theaters – the screen was pretty big, the seats weren’t AMC style, but they were comfortable and had the love seats (the backs weren’t as high as they are at the Empire 25). The theater itself was well done – important to this site, Jordarmoviefan, because it could serve as a model for rebranding Loews sites, the Loews Cinemplex’s searchlight logo is shadowed in the art work and building design, while everything else is AMC. I don’t know if they ever will rebrand the Loews sites (I guess if they can get out of the Fandango/Screenvision deal, perhaps), but this is a good new theater, and one of several new complexes slated for Northern NJ (SOPAC is currenly open and is nice but its disapointing that Clearview is the only chain not building new theaters with stadium seating, the others on the way are the Muvico at Xanadu and a new theater at Garden State Plaza)
Went to the 4:15 showing of Casino Royale (a gigantic borefest) at the new Rockaway 16 yesterday. Screen was nice and large, digital sound was pretty good (bass was a little too boomy and one-note for my taste, they just need to calibrate it better), crowd was well-behaved. Other than the endless video commercials and then film trailers, the presentation was top-notch. Only technical issue was that there’s a light in the projection booth that, when it was turned on, cast a rectangular shadow image on the left side of the screen. They need to find that light and move it and/or mask off the window it’s shining through.
Good job – I’ll be back.
I agree with you. What sound formats do the new screens offer? And are they THX-certified, like the Clifton Commons theater?
From what the picture of their concession stand look like, it has the old Loews Theatres “Lights” logo on the stand’s front. The seats are definitely AMC “Stadium Seating” style seats
Check this link out; If any one went to the premiere of the theater, comment back.
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I agree with you, it will open this week and it might become a Cinema Treasure if people treat the theater like a great movie theater.
this should be on this site as all new theaters are!
You never know. Maybe someday this place will hold great memories for today’s group of kids who love to go to the movies. Time will tell.