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Author Topic: IMAX at the Palisades Mall, West Nyack, NY Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 12-13-2005 10:10 AM                     On Friday evening 12/2/2005, I took my girlfriend to see Polar Express in 3D at the IMAX theatre in the Palisades Mall in West Nyack, NY. The experience does not make me want to go back. We arrived at the boxoffice around 6:30pm to buy the tickets for the 7:50pm showing, and were sold 2 pre-printed tickets that were several days old. Is that normal procedure at IMAX, or were they reselling unclaimed internet advanced sales and pocketing the profit? We then wandered around the mall and had supper, arriving back at the theatre 10 minutes before show time. I don’t know what is wrong, but the theatre looked seedy. It wasn’t dirty, maybe it was the lighting, or all the old standees leaning haphazardly against the walls, but the lobby looked kind of shabby and cold. The ticket taker took our out of date tickets without question, as the person who sold them to me promised they would. The women giving out the 3D glasses gave us 3 pairs, and then came running to the auditorium to get the extra pair back. Good thing it was not crowded, she was doing that all night. The 3D glasses were filthy, with smudges and finger prints all over the lenses. Ok, it’s show time. The sound was great, unfortunately I can not say the same about the picture. There was horrible ghosting of the left eye picture in the right eye. It became headache inducing by the end of the film. I originally thought something was wrong with my glasses, but my girlfriend and some other friends who were there that night had the same problem. Could someone tell me if this was a problem with Polar Express, or with the theatre? At the moment, I don’t ever plan on going back. I went home and hugged my BenQ DLP projector.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 12-13-2005 10:16 AM                     Perhaps the left projector filter was misaligned? I saw it at Universal Citywalk this weekend and the presentation was just about perfect.  |  IP: Logged Joseph L. Kleiman Master Film Handler Posts: 380 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 12-13-2005 12:09 PM                     The Palisades theater is owned and operated by IMAX. It's been a few years since I was last there, but it used to be one of the better run operations - clean and efficiently operated.  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-13-2005 02:47 PM                        One possible cause for the ghosting is deteriation of one of the polarisers in the projector not necessarily mis alignment.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 12-14-2005 08:32 AM                     Whatever the cause, they took my money for a show they could not deliver properly. It is unlikely that I will ever go back there.  |  IP: Logged

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