I am not saying that the screen isn’t 90 feet wide. I believe you. There’s a truckload of side masking hiding all that extra screen space. All I’m saying is that the screen was not displaying it’s full 90 feet wideness on the Saturday 12/18 showing of The Hobbit. If they’ve since changed that since my visit, perhaps I should make a return visit to see this super wide presentation.
As everybody knows, the Cinerama Dome is 82 feet wide. The Hobbit at Grauman’s Chinese was nowhere close to that. I don’t need a tape measure to figure that out. :p
Don’t knock it till you try it, Brad. And it’s really not as intrusive as you think. The only “interuption” I had was the waitress (SILENTLY) placing the bill on the edge of my table midway through the screening.
Theater is now called “AMC Dine-In Theatres Marina 6.” They conducted their soft opening starting the Saturday after Thanksgiving 2012. I attended said soft opening on Sunday 11/25. AWESOME AWESOME THEATRE! Great food, awesome power reclining seats, film and sound presentation top notch!
I think that if AMC builds more of these around LA, ArcLight will have it’s first real, legitimate competion in town!
On cinematic quality alone: Life of PI: DOME WORTHY Twilight: NOT EVEN CLOSE!
Let the teenyboppers ramshackle and text their way through Auditoriums 1-14 where they belong. Heh…they probably complained that the Dome screen is too big!
AND…they ran the same double feature on 2 screens at the 4 Screen instead of running 4 different double features. They missed out on some SERIOUS cash with that flawed strategy!
The big Cinerama extravaganza is now on sale at www.arclightcinemas.com – go to the Dome +21 section for titles and showtimes. I’ve got my ticket for “THIS IS CINERAMA” – and will happily cross off 1 item in my Top Ten Movies To See In A Theatre list.
Anyway, the FB site has been stripped of its content because the owner did not want to switch to the new “Timeline” format. In the 2 ½ years since your previous comment, the folks on this forum both visited the former page and verified its content before the page was stripped.
This drive-in is slated to convert to digital projection in 2013.
The 4 newer screens were built in 1989 – LONG after AMC took it over and the Mid-America name faded into memory.
If they do their stadium seating like the Village in Westwood did (installing rizers that will maintain the slope), it’ll work.
I am not saying that the screen isn’t 90 feet wide. I believe you. There’s a truckload of side masking hiding all that extra screen space. All I’m saying is that the screen was not displaying it’s full 90 feet wideness on the Saturday 12/18 showing of The Hobbit. If they’ve since changed that since my visit, perhaps I should make a return visit to see this super wide presentation.
As everybody knows, the Cinerama Dome is 82 feet wide. The Hobbit at Grauman’s Chinese was nowhere close to that. I don’t need a tape measure to figure that out. :p
I saw The Hobbit there. No way that was 90 feet wide (at least not on opening weekend). 65 feet sounds more reasonable.
In other news…TCL CHINESE THEATRE??? According to The Hollywood Reporter, that will be this theatre’s new name. Barf.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywoods-chinese-theater-naming-rights-411270
Did they repave the fields? Too much debris & potholes in it’s current config.
You’re welcome (for the photo)
Don’t knock it till you try it, Brad. And it’s really not as intrusive as you think. The only “interuption” I had was the waitress (SILENTLY) placing the bill on the edge of my table midway through the screening.
Those are weekday prices, Danny. Don’t know the weekend matinee price, but weekend evenings jump up to $17.50.
The theatre’s official opening is today (December 3, 2012).
The room I was in (Auditorium 1) was happily side masking. :)
Theater is now called “AMC Dine-In Theatres Marina 6.” They conducted their soft opening starting the Saturday after Thanksgiving 2012. I attended said soft opening on Sunday 11/25. AWESOME AWESOME THEATRE! Great food, awesome power reclining seats, film and sound presentation top notch!
I think that if AMC builds more of these around LA, ArcLight will have it’s first real, legitimate competion in town!
I can confirm. It is indeed closed. UA signage gone and inside looks gutted and stripped.
On cinematic quality alone:
Life of PI: DOME WORTHY
Twilight: NOT EVEN CLOSE!
Let the teenyboppers ramshackle and text their way through Auditoriums 1-14 where they belong. Heh…they probably complained that the Dome screen is too big!
I’ve been here a couple of times. The last time was to see “Real Steel” in one of their nicely sized auditoriums.
True…but the 4 Screen did eek out 7 more years after the Arthur shutdown. Last time I went there was to see “Blue Thunder” in early summer 1983.
Wow. That is the very first concession booth I ever remember visiting. Amazing find!
Well…the owner of the aforementioned FB page had a change of heart. Here’s the new link: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/204180702979678/
I DARE anybody to find 2001 ads in the Thunderbird section!
Oh my…in that Boxoffice article is the pre-split auditorium where I first saw Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Fantasia. My my my!!!
AND…they ran the same double feature on 2 screens at the 4 Screen instead of running 4 different double features. They missed out on some SERIOUS cash with that flawed strategy!
I echo the above sentiment. Best wishes, Mr. Sittig.
I also attended the Sunday night showing of “This Is Cinerama” and stayed for the 3 strip short film In The Picture. Epic epic night!
Yep…masking is movable indeed.
Post split. Ugh!
The big Cinerama extravaganza is now on sale at www.arclightcinemas.com – go to the Dome +21 section for titles and showtimes. I’ve got my ticket for “THIS IS CINERAMA” – and will happily cross off 1 item in my Top Ten Movies To See In A Theatre list.
Just say no…
Anyway, the FB site has been stripped of its content because the owner did not want to switch to the new “Timeline” format. In the 2 ½ years since your previous comment, the folks on this forum both visited the former page and verified its content before the page was stripped.