AMC Ridgefield Park 12
75 Challenger Road,
Ridgefield Park,
NJ
07660
75 Challenger Road,
Ridgefield Park,
NJ
07660
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Have you heard its closing or is this your speculation?
Here’s a photo of the front of the theater…
http://flickr.com/photos/webzotz/27425124/
With the closing of the Plaza 8 and soon the Meadow Six….this theater will close down once Xanadu opens.
later this week the theater will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Any special occasions? “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and “Delgo” are the noteworthy releases coming out. Since AMC took over, has the exterior been changed? I know several Loews theaters made pre-AMC and stadium seating still bear that name as Loews is still a division of AMC Entertainment. That theater is still larger and taller than East Hanover and Wayne!!! I first saw this building while on a commute to the schools in the Ridgefield School district, of which this theater was a favorite of students and staff to go to; nowadays, Edgewater is the place to go.
The tickets now are $9 for adult admission for the weekend nights and $7 matinee. On Saturday mornings they are $5. I like this theater because it is convenient for me and it’s a little bit cheaper than garden state. To get into what David said, there’s one theater that has visual and sound problems but was recently fixed. I found no problems with the screen brightness and it’s been always dark in the theaters. Now, I guess David hasn’t gone to the Westwood theaters. They have the worst entertainment experience I ever had. To start off, they charge $9 for tickets. When I get into the theater, the back of the seats have chewing tobacco stains smeared on it and there is a few alcoholic beverages spilt on the seats and floor. The seats by themselves are in need of repair and one time the film shut off during a movie. Overall, I go to the Ridgefield park theater and I go there for the movies only, I don’t go there to find the lobby depressing. It isn’t that bad and I find it fine to watch a movie on a Saturday night.
I find that this theater offers some of the worst movie-going experiences that I’ve ever encountered. I’ve been there about 6-7 times in the last few years, with my kids, to see kid movies. Typically the movies start out of focus and when I go out to complain I have actually been told (by the ticket taker) that there was no one around to complain to and that I’d have to wait!!!! Also, the lights don’t go dark fully so you never get a really bright screen, and I’ve also experienced sound problems there. The place is also filthy (and I’m pretty tolerant of these things at kids movies) and I find the entire lobby to be rather depressing.
Last spring of 2007, the theater was closed for awhile because of a methane gas leak. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Loews' second theater in Bergen County, several years after the opening of the Showboat Quad in nearby Edgewater, and I’ve read blogs online that say that this theater is not a true AMC theater, as it’s now called. Only a few Loews locations that have stadium seating, an IMAX theater attached to it, or huge crowds survive after AMC buys these locations. It was nearby the site of a fatal crash near the 80/95 interchange where some high school kids were killed trying to cross the road.
Good thing I never go to this theater in Bergen County, the Garden State 16 is the best theater in Bergen County, and mostly north jersey. I like AMC’s three 16plexers in Rockaway, Paramus, and Clifton, even though I haven’t been to AMC’s clifton location in awhile since I last visited it as a general cinema location. It’s a good thing AMC acquired that popular theater and kept it the way it is while adding digital projection to it, and pretty soon they’ll do it to theaters with stadium seating, not those without it (ex: Wayne, East Hanover, the two secacus theaters even though Phantom Menace played only for awhile in DLP). Plus the fact the theater is near a marsh area, and it will become a landfill soon.
Justin, I have'nt been to the Paramus theatre yet, but I will soon. I was at Ridgefield Park 2 weeks ago, and the theatre is slowly sliding downhill, sad to say. The upstairs consession stand is no longer in use and has a coat of dust on it; the coffee bar downstairs has been abandoned for more than a year and is now being used for storage with everything just laying around it for all to see. The film I saw started late, with no pre-show ads or music – just silence. The print of the movie had a green scratch through most of 1 reel. The parking lot and covered parking was less than ¼ full. All in all, a sad state of affairs for this theatre. Paramus must be loving it.
hey hotwaterbottle, the new theater in paramus is now the largest amc theater in bergen, with more seats, better projection and sound, and stadium seating. amc needs to improve the loews buildings that dont have stadium seating and upgrade it just like the loews in danbury. btw, janet seabold, who’s now the principal at nearby slocum skewes school in ridgefield, was one of the first employees when it opened nearly two decades ago..she worked behind the concession stand serving popcorn!
I saw Superman Returns here last Sunday at a matinee. Since the theatre is now under the AMC banner I wondered if anything was being done differently there. Commercials! Lotsa commercials! Ugh, no wonder theatres are not having a good year. Also the green “all audiences” footage was removed from the trailers that were shown; no big thing, but I just like to see them on the head of the trailers. The posters upstairs and down left something to be desired, especially downstairs, since they were all policy posters, with regular movie posters upstairs only. Otherwise, it was a good experience, far better than what you will get in Paramus. The theatre was clean and well staffed. Not a bad bargain for $6.50!
Yeah, it played in one of the smaller downstairs cinemas- the cupholders were replaced with a joystick like device with three color buttons on it that were lighted.
The film took a turn in its narative, asking you to select what happens next (it was projected off lazer disk with Sony Doublebright projectors), simular to that of interactive voting programs (like they have at LSC). There were two Interactive Films that showed in the mid 90’s: Ride for Your Life and Mr. Payback.
This cinema was also invovative in that they once housed a simulator (also built on Sony Technology if I’m not mistaken). This house used to be amazing, before Loews became Loews Cineplex…then it was all down hill (starting with that awful new popcorn they introduced about 4 years ago).
Have this Theater showed the movie “Ride for Your Life” in 1995? It is an interactive film. Do you have any information about it and about the way they were showing it?
This theatre went under the ‘Sony Theatres’ brand until 1998. The theatre still is a great place to see a movie – its always packed on weekends.
Due to lack of business, this theater had to drop their regular admission price to attract customers a year or two ago. Last time I checked it was only $6. It is also a great way to see first run films in a large theater without the major crowds.
Wow, now that’s a super multi-multiplex now if Loew’s can run that many theatres on the same stretch they can afford to operate the e-walk and the Astor plaza around the corner in Times Square go figure.
And across Route 3 from the Meadow 6 and Plaza 8, Loews also had the Harmon Cove Quad, which closed in the early 80’s. All 3 (4, 6, and 8 were open at the same time for a short while).
Yup. Loews continues to operate the Meadow 6 and Plaza 8, both located in “The Plaza at Harmon Meadow,” just off the Turnpike in Secaucus, NJ.
If I’m not mistaken this theatre is a couple of miles (maybe 5 miles or so) north of two other Loew’s megaplexes it’s a wonder that these theatres are still in operation. they are all on the same strip and sometimes show the same movies at the same time.