AMC Rockaway 16

And in December, Schindler’s List returns in 4k Dolby Cinema. I saw this movie on DVD as I was a bit too young to see it, i saw pieces of it when it was on NBC for its TV premiere and i fell asleep. This was a well shot and well paced movie that deserved to win the oscar for best picture. The little girl who is the only character to be in color would become the main star in Alice in Wonderland, Mia Wasawoka or what’s her name. I actually don’t go to the fathom events, as those are more expensive than a regular show and i hear reports of the satellite feed not working. The price for fathom is a bit higher than regular but not as much as Dolby and Imax and 3d. I think AMC needs to add reserved seating to its 14 theatres in the near future so that they can control the crowds better. The displays used for the reserved seating are kinda small but I always sit in the reserved seat next to my dad and stay there if he has to go to the bathroom or get a snack, and vice versa.

Saw South Pacific here on screen #16 and happy to say that they got the Fathom Classic events shown correctly on #16 again finally. First time since ET otherwise for the last two plus years they kept showing it oddly with the extreme edges of the screen blank and the black levels more like gray and saturation and contrast faded out. I wonder if since that theater can handle live streaming if they hadn’t been mostly streaming all the Fathom stuff in #16 even the Classic stuff where you can also get a much superior standard regularly, non-stream delivery and then had the live streaming set to maybe standard movie 0-255 levels when maybe they were sending out 16-235 video levels?

Anyway, whatever the case, they seemed to use a normal non-streamed one today and everything look amazing, good black levels, rich colors, very crisp and sharp, perfect audio. Fantastic presentation.

And this is one that really seems like you’ve never even seen the movie before it plays so differently on the big screen. It felt like it was the first time I had ever seen it.

Films of this sort just have to be seen on the big screen.

And it awesome it was on #16, one of the largest non-IMAX/Dolby screens around (heck, I think it is at least as large as the Clifton IMAX).

I heard that the digital HD imax version of 2001 was decent based on what others said. This release is the widest it has ever had since it was reissued in the 1970s. The running time of the movie is mostly composed of the feature film, plus the entracte intermission, and end music. I’ll probably wait until it hits 4k bluray and buy it for cheap…i own 2001 on itunes and the quality of the master is pretty good.

Last night heavy thunderstorms caused the power at this theater to go out until it reopened late at night.

The meg is not playing in dolby but mission impossible is still playing in dolby. closest theater is in paramus. Boo. I’d rather see that in dolby instead of liemax.

Is dolby louder than IMAX?

yeah it’s way too loud and the Dolby Cinemas tend to also be pretty treble hot which makes them real ear burners I have to wear earplugs for many screens, including this one (of course that reduces the audio quality a bit but better than adding ever more damage to hearing).

Went to see Fallout in Imax 2d today. Theater is kinda showing its age by the seats. I almost touched a bug which thankfully i scrubbed off the seat since it was hot outside. Presentation was pretty good. The sound was booming and the imax scenes were worth seeing. Another bonus was seeing the First Man trailer shown before the movie. Can’t wait to see a movie in imax again once they refurbish the seats and add laser projection to this screen to even it up with Dolby Cinema, which is like imax but with vibrating seats.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/stanley-kubrick-2001-a-space-odyssey-imax-1202892054/

Does anyone know why they seem to have totally stopped showing anything in IMAX 3D at this theater? Dolby 3D is way worse, but all the do for 3D now is Dolby (and on much smaller screens) now here.

What is weird is that this theater is not having any IMAX 3D showings of Solo at all! Kinda stinks since IMAX 3D is way better than Dolby 3D, brighter and less cross-talk. And since IMAX 2D is only 2K it’s kinda wasting what the IMAX screen does here much better than any other screen and that is 3D.

So they are showing the 3D showings on the inferior tech at 2K (on a much smaller screen) when that projector could be doing 2D at 4K and then showing it at 2D on the IMAX screen at 2K. They already have the Dolby screen giving it a large screen 2D 4K experience so it seems kinda weird.

I guess Jersey Gardens it is.

Next year will be ten years since Imax and digital 4k projection came to this theatre. When this theatre first opened, it used preshow digital projectors for live events like the met in HD and 35mm projectors for movies. Flash forward and there’s no 35mm projection anymore.

Dolby Cinema looked like it was working normally again today, so it seems they fixed it.

(not that this is the place for this sort of talk but since I’m already posting…. the theater was crazy packed tonight, lots of shows looked to be all but sold out or sold out for everything from Black Panther to Red Sparrow, maybe spring break college crowd being back helped or something)