Theater Quality (No Spoilers)
POSTED BY: DonCoat
UPDATED: Sunday, October 9, 2005 13:04
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I also went to the 4th viewing in a smaller theater after it was moved from the large one. The small size made the moive sharper in picture and sound closer not louder. I come from the TV generation and like a smaller screen not the IMAX.
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I used to love to go the see films/movies in the Theaters as a kid, but I can't say the same anymore for various reasons.
I've noticed that after Stadium-style and revamped cinemas came about, there was a huge drop in quality in numerous areas,
The film has an insane amount of markings on it
The SCREEN IS TOO WIDE AND SHORT( sure it's meant to be 16:9 ratio, but when the screen is too large, the ratio means nothing, especially if the characters either look too squished on screen or all you see is part of a giant torso and head...wtf?
the SCREEN IS TOO DIM and makes me want to fall asleep (was bad for Serenity and extremely noticeable, but was the worst for The butterfly effect, which made me really sleepy during scenes of harsh light on film shown in extremely dim light on the screen)
THE SCREEN SHOWS THE COLORS AS TOO DULL with about a 40-50% color range.....wtf? why not just show the film in black and white
TONS OF BLURRINESS in certain areas of the film in countless scenes wtf?
and it's not that it was a problem that the projector was out of focus, but some bizarre issue w/ the film itself
THE SOUND surround sound and big booming bass is one thing, and I even like to feel like I'm right there while watching a film like Serenity, but there were times(mainly the surprise huge action sequence towards the end)I nearly wanted to crawl out of my skin from the insane bass and volume
and they wonder why, other than the prices and the movies being total crap, that people don't like to go to the theaters anymore.
How about the geniuses that run the theaters actually test the visual quality for each movie on each screen before they run it? Is that too much to ask of them after paying 9 dollars a ticket?
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