[BIG News!] Serenity Locked Into *50th* Day Of Screening!
POSTED BY: TallAussieBrowncoat
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 23:26
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Originally posted by Khalor:
Hey, I'm new here too - 'cept I'm from New Zealand. Serenity was only released a few days ago here - November 10 - and I'm sorry to say I was one of only 5 people in the cinema.
Khalor - you weren't at Berkley Botany in Auckland on Thursday were you? I went to a screening there with only 5-8 people in the audience...
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I was also really peeved with the film quality 
- it was pretty much worn out and I suspect was a 3-4 week old reel set from Australia. Since NZ had an unnecessary delay in the release by over a month I suspect this was to allow recycling of film from Australia???? Needless to say the imagery was dreadful, lots of scratches, couple of times there were big brown vertical lines through the picture, and 3-4 times there were large 'splotches' (corrosion on the film) that obscured people's faces and stuff...
I'll have to make sure I go to a different cinema to watch it a second time this week... (typical that the newest, nicest, most comfortable cinema in my half of Auckland hows the crappiest film copy!!! 
P.S. Since typical life of a film reel is only about 3 weeks as I understand it, I suspect this means a whole lot of people are goign to see crap substandard screenigns of Serenity in NZ.
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Originally posted by Mycenius:
...I suspect was a 3-4 week old reel set from Australia
...Needless to say the imagery was dreadful, lots of scratches, couple of times there were big brown vertical lines through the picture, and 3-4 times there were large 'splotches' (corrosion on the film) that obscured people's faces and stuff...
I know what you mean, but somehow, the ones they're still using in the cinemas aren't THAT bad. Scratches and the like, yes, blotches, no.
And film recycling? Come on UIP, recycling is cool, EXCEPT with film.
Now that's just low!(/malism)
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Originally posted by Mycenius:
Khalor - you weren't at Berkley Botany in Auckland on Thursday were you? I went to a screening there with only 5-8 people in the audience...
No...it was a Wednesday screening at Village Cinemas on Broadway. Good to see another Aucklander though.
But another screening with only a few people? This is just...wrong.
Film quality was pretty poor as well, though. Blotches....grr...
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Originally posted by Khalor:
But another screening with only a few people? This is just...wrong.
Film quality was pretty poor as well, though. Blotches....grr...
Yes - I went to the 6.20pm screening on Thursday (release day) at Botany - was very disappointed to see so few, BUT the whole complex was very empty (hardly anyone going to any of the movies) - even though the shopping centre was fairly busy...
Considering I went to the 3rd (or 4th?) screening of the first day at that cinema, and that cinema had had no preview screenings prior the film should have been near immaculate!!
And people wonder why I'd sooner get the DVD and watch a movie on my high-end HT set-up and 42" Plasma than go to the cinema!
M.
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excellent work, you lot. good to see theres civilization out there.
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Looks like Serenity debuted at No.3 first week in New Zealand FWIW (behind "World's Fastest Indian" & "Flight Plan" - the former has been No.1 here for 4 weeks)...
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Serenity _still_ has not arrived in Bermuda. *grr* Should we give up hope at this point in time?
How do the distributors decide on when and where to "recycled" films into the lower-priority areas? Is it potentially possible to see a film arrive at the local theatre after the DVD has been released?
Cheers,
Ocelot Wreak
"I figure you're here 'cause you need some whacko who's willing to stick his finger in the fan. So who are we helping?" - Keith Szarabajka
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