AMC Rockaway 16
363 Mount Hope Avenue,
Rockaway,
NJ
07866
363 Mount Hope Avenue,
Rockaway,
NJ
07866
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Saw the Beale Street movie yesterday. During the preview for The Aftermath, the subtitle was a bit cut off. As for the movie itself, projection was sharp and the sound very good despite someone texting on their cell but not very loud. Movie wasn’t very good so i’ll read the book instead. I upgraded to Premiere but couldn’t upgrade to A List since that requires a debit card instead of gift cards.
Mary Poppins is still playing in dolby until the 17th, when Glass comes out in that format as well as Liemax. Advance tickets for Captain Marvel go on sale on Monday in both dolby and imax for the first weekend in march, with the fourth avengers movie to follow soon after. Tickets are already on sale for “Us” since Christmas of last month.
Among new releases this weekend The Escape Room debuts while If Beale Street Could Talk opens wide here. After what they did with reserved seating at Paramus, it’s likely that this theater will soon have that feature along with Clifton while raising prices while audiences watch Bird Box on their netflix accounts on their phones and whatnot. It’s been nearly 10 years since Rockaway first got those 4k projectors, first for the 3d in august followed by the fall launch of the digital IMAX, which will soon be replaced by a mini laser projector which will be on par with Dolby and hopefully they install better seats and keep the volume to normal levels as i can’t stand the vibration from the adjoining screen.
went to see Bumblebee in theater #7 and ordered tickets in advance. The picture was kinda windowboxed as there was no masking. The picture was bright and sharp and the 3d was pretty good. Was this movie shot in 3d or converted into 3d? I know a few transformers movies were shot in 3d, including the last few especially Dark of the Moon which was the last transformers movie i saw in 3d. The sound mix was very good despite hearing rumbles from the next auditorium showing Aquaman in IMAX. Popcorn was good although there were a few kernels left in the bag and the coke zero orange was good enough for me to sit through the movie. This movie will have legs and i saw a few kids in the seats who behaved well. Some of the seats still squeak.
saw vice in theater #14. preshow was sharp and audio was great. The film was enjoyable and food was good. No masking on the very upper point of the screen.
i went to see aquaman in imax after reserving my seat online using my gift card; i saved a lot of money after buying two tickets for C15 and C16 as the back seats were full. The preshow started a few minutes later while it was going on without any audio for awhile but it was back on. Coke Zero Sugar tasted good and the popcorn wasn’t that bad at all. As for the movie, it was worth seeing in IMAX and for the avengers trailer in imax. Some scenes in the film, especially when it’s underwater, fill up the screen, this is about 90 percent of the film, the other ten percent are scenes that take place in the real world. Make sure you stay after the main credits for a bonus scene. This movie will last long into the spring once its said and done. The sound mix was pretty good as the seats rumbled; it wasn’t dolby but are there subwoofers underneath those seats? I prefer IMAX since imax has more seats than dolby.
came back from seeing The Mule in theater #11. The picture wasn’t masked properly although the way the subtitles were shown in the movie were good enough. Sound mix was well done and crowd was good. They need to make the drinks taste better in those coke freestyle machines. And the popcorn is too salty!!! I will attempt to go see Aquaman in Imax or regular if the imax sells out.
kinda sucks that Aquaman won’t be in Dolby at this theater (Mary Poppins had its sneak peek two days ago in Dolby much like how AMC did with A Star Is Born) but in Liemax and Fake 3d. I’m going to see The Mule this weekend as it is one of the few movies that are rated R. Too many PG-13 films that are being aimed at younger people and families, including Bumblebee which is getting the best reviews of any live action Transformers movie and will have a long shelf life in the weeks to come.
While the rest of the mall is being renovated (mostly the mall building itself and not Rockaway Town Plaza where this theater is) this theater needs some renovation work besides the Dolby theater and the soon to be laser digital imax theater. I enjoy sitting all the way in the back to get a good view even though sometimes people walk in front of the screen sometimes.
went to see both Green Book and Widows. For Widows, there was no masking resulting in some credits being cut off for several trailers, while for Green Book, which was shot in a 2.00 aspect ratio, there was masking and the picture was perfect. Unlike watching movies on regular size HDTVS, the projectors at AMC have off color balance and can be a bit blurry at times yet the sound can be very loud sometimes, causing bleeding effects into other screens. I have yet to see a movie in Dolby as I’ve seen a movie in IMAX digital 2k, Imax 70mm, imax digital 3d, reald 3d, 2k, and 4k. Today was the last day I was on the AMC Premiere list as I went back to regular. The tickets were 6.49 so it went up a bit.
If you own a Tesla car and drive it to the theater, there are tesla charging lots near the theater that were built awhile ago so u can recharge your car!!! Now only if they add reserved seating to all screens and replace the 12 year old seats with recliners for the imax and 14 screens that have the Loews seats. There’s also a Predator poster from back in October that should be replaced. Bathrooms need to be cleaned more often.
Speaking of trailers, some trailers are shown usually exclusively in theatres before making their online debut as was the case with Beale Street which i saw with Creed II before it debuted online a few days later.
I have seen two movies in the past two days. Bohemian Rhapsody which played in the smaller screen with soso projection but excellent sound, and Creed II which played in one of the big screens, also with soso projection but awesome sound. The trailers keep getting longer, since AMC put in the A-List thing in the policy trailers before the movie. I like sitting all the way in the back since i get the whole picture. I can still hear the vibrations and sound bleeding from the Dolby and Imax screens, which are the loudest and brightest of all the screens. Tried out the Coke Freestyle machine with a free drink coupon from Coke and used a free coupon for a ticket and the coke zero lime is tasty but sugary near the end. They need to take care of the parking lot near the theater as snow melt can make driving through it dangerous!!
This weekend Bohemian Rhapsody shares the dolby cinema with Disney’s version of the Nutcracker while the Imax has the Queen movie. Suspiria is not playing here but is playing in East Hanover and in Paramus as it is a limited release movie and will expand soon based on great word of mouth. Meanwhile ticket prices continue to go up and up as well as concessions….
The seat count of this theater should be reduced on this page since Imax was installed and later dolby cut down the number of seats. I can’t wait until the imax gets renovated with new seats and laser and audio upgrades…
Advance tickets are on sale for venom in 3d regular and imax while a star is born gets the dolby treatment along with the regular version. Venom was mixed in dolby atmos as well as mastered in dolby vision so I think it’s a bit disappointing.
I know. Remember when showmanship was great years ago?
Well with managers having to take care of booth duties these days, I guess they just don’t have time to take care of old xenon bulbs and other projection issues.
whoa it made part of my text huge and red again, sorry, must be something about using the “#” symbol?
anyway, if they wanted it on one of the smaller screens, why on Earth not put it on #13 as they did for Grease and the better of the two sets West Side Story showings (including the Wed ones last time; the Sun ones were on #5 had the dim, if also very crisp and sharp, projection that faded out a lot towards the edge of the screen). Same size screen too as #14,#5, again barely any seating difference between #13 and #5, just a few seats. That one has speakers set perfectly for this (#5 is pretty good in this regard though too) and top level projection. So why stick something so hugely visual as this one in #5 which has been bungled for months in some ways?
13 has crisp, bright, saturated, sharp amazing projection unlike #5 which has been having very crisp and sharp but dark projection that for some reason has been washing out towards the sides of the screen. Both have the audio set perfectly for something like this (unlike certain other screens which would be too loud and piercing or too loud and boomy and unbalanced, granted #14 has had a few odd issues, something the audio great if a trace loud other times something weird where for all or part of the movie it’s sounded a bit boomy and something odd with the treble not sure if one speaker, maybe a center or some equalizer has a loose connection?? Last two times I was there though the audio was fine though, but it has varied in #14 in recent times).
And really it would’ve been cool for them to just use #16 for two showings of this like they do for a lot of Fathom stuff, huge screen, audio great for this sort of thing. I guess the one worry on #16 is whether they show it correctly like for ET last Sept. and South Pacific this August or whether they go back to deciding for some reason to apparently stream it even though for Fathom Classics you both don’t need to and should not stream it, extra so when you have the color range set wrong for that and it looks all faded out. Did South Pacific looking perfect and amazing there again mean they finally got that straightened out again for good? Or was it the just a rare time like with E.T. they got it right?
who not sure why some of the text became gigantic and red in my last post
Shit. Why the heck did they suddenly pull The Sound Of Music from #14 and swap it to #5? This is the sort of movie that is so visual and demands a fresh projection bulb and a good screen.
5 has something wrong with it, the projection bulb is worn out and the edges of the screen totally fade out in brightness, contrast and saturation in a weird way now
14 has perfect projection
both the same size screen and the seating total difference is so small, I mean what does it even matter one vs. the other that they had to switch it?
why move TSOM from the screen with the premiere projection and put Christopher Robin which has been out for weeks and weeks already and doesn’t need top projection as critically?
this is the second time they have ever showed TSOM here and now both times they have stuck on a shitty messed up screen that they have let run to pot, last time they had it on a bigger #7 but the projector was totally out of sorts and had huge color fringes around everything and this time they put on a screen with an all but burned out bulb and somethign wrong with the projection where if you sit on the left, then the whole right edge looked totally faded out or if you sit on the right then the whole left edge looks totally faded out and if oyu sit in the middle both sides look a bit faded out and just overall the bulb is almost burned out
so why swap the movie that screams for the best projection and rarely plays for a movie that doesn’t require top projection, they had even better choices than even CR to move to #5 films that are not very visual at all, and move it to one with dingier projection? I mean what because of like 100 vs 120 seats or something? It won’t make a difference either way.
and why let the projection quality keep running to the ground on certain screens here? once upon a time, maybe before the Chinese buy out of AMC, all the screens used to pretty much always have good projection
Dolby cinema now has closed caption and audio description for those who are deaf or blind.
The thing is you can’t use the A-List on fathom events. This weekend every marvel movie will be shown in the imax auditorium including for the first time iron man and incredible hulk. Mission impossible is back in dolby for a few weeks until the nun comes out before the predator comes out in both dolby and imax. Pretty soon amc a list and Sinemia will be the only choices as movie pass will go extinct.
The Fathom classics mostly don’t use satellite feed (other than maybe they were accidentally using that option for some show in #16 when they;d have been bettr off using the regular method which is available for the Fathom Classics). Anyway, so far, I’ve never had a Fathom Classics, no matter what they used to show it, not run. Also aren’t they like only $1-2 more than a regular show at most? And actually less than some regular shows.