AMC Garden State 16
One Garden State Plaza,
Paramus,
NJ
07652
One Garden State Plaza,
Paramus,
NJ
07652
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This 16-screen megaplex opened Memorial Day weekend 2007. The theater has DLP projection in at least one auditorium and two auditoria with rear window captioning.
The theater is the successor to the old Route 4 tenplex. Unlike that now closed theater, the new AMC Garden State 16 is attached to Garden State Plaza, the busiest mall in New Jersey.
This theater was originally supposed to be a Loews, but that changed (just like the Rockaway location) when AMC bought LCE.
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ETX is almost as pointless as digital IMAX, I saw Fredrick Wiseman’s Boxing Gym on the ETX in Toronto (granted not a highly visual action picture that requires thumping base) but it is just that: a large screen with a good sound system. For the most part AMC Garden State offers that without paying an upgrade fee. Of coarse the worst thing is that AMC now charges $12 and soon Clearview will think they can for their crappy discount house quality Bergen County theaters – Tenafly which is downright awful in terms of comfort and projection is now $11.50! (two new stadium seating theaters in Northern New Jersey do a better job for an adult price of $10)
I can’t wait for this weekend when I get to experience the high quality clarity that IMAX was made for with Paranormal Activity 2: An IMAX Experience. If there was ever a movie requiring a high definition image it’s Paranormal Activity 2.
I agree. Paranormal Activity 2 was shot on HD cameras and will be blown-up IMAX-style on the big screen using IMAX’s infamous DMR process, which I saw with Inception at the AMC in Rockaway and thought was a bit blurrier than a normal digital presentation.
yeah but ETX’s sound system is really good. 50000Watss compare to IMax’s 12000Watt. Though image might not be good but that sound system will shake you up
I checked AMC’s ETX website (http://www.amctheatres.com/etx) and there’s no mention of ETX in Paramus. The closest theater is in Times Square. What’s holding back on the ETX, Slimshady?
ETX has a 50,000 watt sound system, compared to the 12,000 watt system of IMAX? Here’s the thing about that: the 12,000 watt system is already ear-splitting loud. The presentation of *TRON: Legacy * in the AMC Garden State IMAX theater #2 is deafening as it is, the auditorium sound bleed is severe and the structural rumble and vibration is intrusive and annoying. Why on earth do you need another 38,000 watts of sound?
For those who have sensitive ears, that could be a problem, MarkNYLA. I might as well see Tron Legacy in the cheaper RealD 3D format, which has normal surround sound.
I really enjoy this theater. This is my choice theater. But I will ever only go during the week, on matinees. I hate the mall, and the traffic. Got to see quite a few films, on opening day, at 9:30Am with just about 30 people in the auditorium.
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.
Wimbledon Women’s Finals will be playing in 3D at this theater, the only one in NJ, on July 2 at 9 a.m.
This year in May marks 5 years since the theater opened as part of the mall’s 50th anniversary expansion project. As of this year, nothing is planned. Look at how 5 years have passed. This theater was the second in Paramus to have digital projection for full use early in its cycle, then one of its screens became a Liemax. Its predecessor has become a large fitness gym. This is one of the better AMCs in NJ, better than Rockaway.