AMC Clifton Commons 16
405 Route 3 East,
Clifton,
NJ
07013
405 Route 3 East,
Clifton,
NJ
07013
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It’s a descent theater complex…I too saw “Entrapment” there as an opening…(well actually “Go” the day before) The prints are usually very good with descent sound…but I see the writing on the wall as this theater since opening is taking a downhill road as far as theater quality…the problems as the many that face multi-plexes is the highschool employees who are rude, clueless and slow. I can’t tell you how many times I’m waiting in line forever while the boxoffice person takes six years to sell a ticket….the problem isn’t always the employees, but also dumb patrons who act as if they never been to a theater before….the one that grates me is the idiots who go down the list of films asking the boxoffice person what they’re about and the employee explaining instead of moving the line….BTW….management is also a problem as at times I approached a manager about a problem I was rudely brushed off or given stupid info..(my first job was at a theater, I work in the business and I’ve forgotten more about this stuff than most of the managers know….
…another major problem….the windows to the projection booth are usually open enabling the sound of the projector to bleed through…you think they’d have the sense to close it…
…once you’re in your seat, to get up, go down the hall, find an employee, explain the problem…you miss minutes of the picture…a patron shouldn’t have to do this…the theater should constantly make sure the film goes off Ok….but once again, highschoolers and managers who know management but not movies..
….matinees, not enough box-office people
…and for god’s sake, these films cost a bundle (considering most of them suck) even the matinees are expensive $7.50 (I’m sure that’ll go up soon, I frequent Loews more now) so, train the employees on courtesy please.
Good for George Lucas, bad for the cinema companies. BTW, with the Loews/AMC merger, it will install more THX-certified auditoriums in all of its theatre. THey should do it at the Wayne and the new Rockaway theatre that will open in 2006.
General Cinemas loved THX (which is sort of a scam, a theatre can techincally be up to THX standards but the owner may not pay for certification, in which it cannot claim THX). This one has two, so does the new (as well as the old) GC/AMC at Essex Green in West Orange.
This theatre is one of two multiplexes that has THX auditoriums. Clifton Commons has two of them (theatres 8 and 9). I have been to them (among the movies I saw were good ones such as Mission Impossible 2, Dinosaur, and the Hurricane). They’re the biggest of all the 16 theatres (i think) with terrific surround sound. I saw Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as one of those art house movies and it was a full house!!! Could someone post a photo of the clifton commons outside (a current photo, not older pictures of it).
Has a wide, open lobby that serves the multiplex. During peak times can be noisy, crowded and confusing as patrons are trying to locate their theatres. The parking lot is a nightmare. Spaces are narrow, and hit movies make it necessary to ride around the lot.
The first new movie I saw at Clifton Commons (after a bunch of older movies before the theatre opened such as You Got Mail and Star Trek Insurrection) was Entrapment, which was a good movie. The last movie I saw there before moving was Monsters, Inc., which was a great movie. Have there been any changes to the theatre since it was a General Cinema (now an AMC theatre)?
Opened as a General Cinema location the theatre features a symetrical design; six screens have 291 seats, two 250, two 225, two 190, and four with 90. The cinema opened with a self serve stand, Pizzeria Uno Pizzas, and a full serve coffee shop. Opening night (April 30, 1999) attractions were Entrapment, Matrix, Shakespear In Love, Life is Beatiful, Pushing Tin, Analyze This, Idle Hands, Never Been Kissed, Life, The Out of Towners, Doug’s First Movie, Forces of Nature, Cookie’s Fortune, and Go.