AMC Lincoln Square 13
1998 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
1998 Broadway,
New York,
NY
10023
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@leowtyx:
To my knowledge (and I’ve been in that IMAX a number of times), the Lincoln Square IMAX has no masking at all. I don’t see how you would mask the bars above and below with a screen so huge. Even the lie-max’s I’ve seen don’t mask.
This video of the IMAX shows it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iip2zUuJIzc (Though it was taken before the laser renovation, but nothing changed in regards to the screen as far as I know. At least no masking.)
Before laser it was really annoying as the image didn’t even fill up the sides right and left on the IMAX. With laser it is thankfully able to do so again.
If murmuring and confusing audiences is a trend, then it’s a stupid trend. I don’t see it as realistic when I don’t know what Bruce Wayne just told Barry Allen (see https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/79ypaj/discussion_did_bruce_say_great_or_agreed_to_barry/), just annoying.
@bigjoe59
It’s possible they forgot to take off the 3D filter from the projector so it’s dark. Or bad bulb.
As for Inaudible Dialogue:
Murmuring is the trend, more “realistic”. You don’t see that in TV shows where dialogue is everything.
Question:
I’ve never seen 2.35:1 movies on the square-ish True IMAX screen before, do they mask the top & bottom or just Letterboxing?
The inaudible dialogue issue is not a theatre adjustment problem. They problems continue on the Blu-Ray versions. It is a sound mixing poor production value issue. Most theatres have experienced technicians who visit and check for presentation quality. Perhaps this standard level of checks and balances has been cut down.
Watching a flat movie downstairs is awful. The film doesn’t fit the whole screen. That in the basement theatres 10 11 and 12
I can confirm the keystoning issue at the Loews screen (the balcony one) The movie feels almost like a triangle there.
Also I think that and another screen (1 at least) have footage cut away by masking when watching a widescreen movie. The left and right sides have that tiny bit cut off because of the masking beginning over the screen. But that issue I saw at other theaters as well.
People well trained and experienced in projection are expensive. Based on what I read on reddit AMA’s, the theaters just train regular folks (18 and over employees only) to operate the projector if needed. I think replacing bulbs or setting the sound correctly are things those newly trained employees aren’t trained in. Though I think they should be.
I recently made a post about inaudible dialogue and one person responded that the speakers with the dialogue weren’t adjusted to make up for the score. (Not this theater). If modern-day multiplexs can’t adjust sound, I doubt they are thinking of replacing bulbs.
hELLO-
I thank markp for his reply. I thought at the least there was 1 person maintaining all the digital equipment for an entire multiplex. if there’s no “projectionist at all what if something goes wrong?
also I would appreciate an answer to my central question about projection being too frigging dark. when I saw Wonderstruck I could not read what the kids were writing on the pads.
Progress & its problems.
Meanwhile, I only need IMAX Laser.
@poland626 – that is not one I’ve been too in ages and ages. Didn’t they split the big screen a long while back?
@leowtyx – Yeah it’s not on digital (other than in the indirect way in that it let some theaters get away with dumping long time experienced projectionists, well sort of let them get away with it, although as it seems, maybe not quite so much).
@alpinedownhiller what’s your opinion of West Orange, if you’ve been there, if you don’t mind me asking? The bulbs there seem to be bright and new since the renovation. This theater should totally have a dolby screen. I think they should take 2 of the 3 in the basement out and put the dolby there
Don’t blame digital, blame individual cinema.
I have to say digital projection has seemed to have become more random these days. Not so sure about at this Lincoln location since I’ve only been to the IMAX (which had a serious issue with the laser 3D glasses, at least last year, never did receive an update as to what they found and whether they truly fixed that or not, the AMC manager seemed to take it seriously, the IMAX techs only sort of) and the huge balcony screen (although even speaking of that screen there was some sort of bit of odd keystoning at the corners), but for instance at AMC Rockaway some screens are bright and sharp, others bright and 2k when they could be 4k, others now so dark they must be using a way, way underspec Xenon bulb or one months beyond the date it should have been tossed. At Jersey Gardens the IMAX and a couple big screens look great, but I saw something at a tiny, high numbered screen and despite the minute screen size it was still soooooo dark, Xenon bulb must’ve been months to years over used. They did fix the problem where two screens had had huge degrees of color fringing around every pixel, but they had it messed up like that for months, even a couple years on one screen until written complaints were sent to management by some.
Paramus AMC, from what I’ve seen, seems to be using decent Xenon bulbs, although I saw one screen where the projector was mis-aimed by over 5' so at least 5' or more at top had no image and at least 5' or more was projected onto the bare wall below the screen.
OTOH at the non-AMC theater near the football stadium in NJ, crisp, well focused 4k and bright, same at the few screens I peaked at the renovated Hanover AMC.
bigjoe59, there are no projectionists in the booth anymore. Everything is run by a computer. If a manager turns the sound up for one show, they probably don’t remember to go back and turn it down. Welcome to the age of digital.
Hello-
this is a question about projection that I have noticed lately. is it possible the projectionist doesn’t use the right lite on the projector? this is a problem I have noticed at virtually all theaters. case in point. this past weekend I saw Wonderstruck and I thought a few scenes were wayyyyy to dark. for instance the scene with the two boys in the 1977 section communicating by notepad while crouching in a corner of the Museum of Natural History. I could hardly see what was written on the pad.
I hope Rockaway gets the seats that this theater has.
@Al Alvarez – the least people were at Jersey Gardens, more at Rockaway and Lincoln so it doesn’t fit audience size sound pattern at all.
I guess Rockaway must just have some of HS people who run the show going all Back To The Future and turning every dial to 10, calibration be damned. I mean it was crazy that it actually pumped out way more deep bass than even Lincoln and just overall was so much louder than at any other theater. Literally felt like I was getting turned inside out at some points the deep sound pressure was so intense. Even Interstellar at Palisades IMAX didn’t hit those levels. Even at the music at the end, even screaming at top of our lungs we could not even hear a word we were saying even part way down the exit.
If it seems loud than it probably was calibrated poorly. I saw it at TCL Chinese and it was perfetto.
Alpine, how many people were in the audience at each showing? Larger crowds absorb sound.
Did anyone by any chance see Blade Runner 2049 at the same IMAX theater more than once, once near the beginning of the release and once near the end?
I was wondering if they redid the audio and set some things lower after complaints or whether theaters turned the volume down a bit or whether my local IMAX simply has set their volume way too high.
I saw that movie at the Rockaway IMAX and it was insanely loud and the deep bass was crazy, never experienced anything like it before, my legs were literally vibrating from the inside out for 30 seconds after some scenes. But then when I saw it at both Jersey Gardens IMAX and even here with the advanced system in neither of those places was it nearly as loud as at Rockaway (although still pretty loud) and the deep bass wasn’t nearly as insane at Jersey Gardens nor even here at this premier site (although you could certainly feel the bass here at Lincoln a good bit).
So I was wondering whether at some point they tuned the volume or re-balanced things or something for Blade Runner 2049 or whether all IMAX theaters went to a new volume standard sometime recently or whether the Rockaway IMAX simply has some people there going in and resetting things to max volume even if that is louder than IMAX spec or whether their auto-calibrate system has been broken. It was simply way louder there across all frequencies even ultra deep bass, in particular, and sub ultra deep bass than even here at Lincoln. Way louder.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is intended especially for IMAX Laser 3D. Thank god Lincoln Square has it. The 70MM prints are for cities that dont have IMAX Laser. 70MM dosen’t produce 12 chanels of sound.
It sucks that last jedi won’t be showing in 70mm Imax around here .
AMC Empire and Kips Bay are also still playing 2049. Only the Brave actually isn’t playing at any NYC IMAX (despite being specially formatted for IMAX)
cool, looks like it is the only one in the whole Tri-State area that still has Blade Runner 2049, really the only big screen of any sort that showing it (kinda of a shame, such an awesome movie)
Blade Runner 2049 is still playing there this weekend (though some of the other IMAXes are going over to Geostorm).
I don’t think anything was planned, just sometimes they wait till as late as Wednesday to finalize the schedule on a weekend without a big title playing.
Anyone know whats going on with the IMAX after October 18th? Fandango shows no IMAX showings of anything until Pre-sales of Thor on November 2nd. Are they doing work on the IMAX again?