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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 04-17-2000 11:57 PM
So what does everyone think of this summer's lineup of movies? Personally, I've seen all of these movies already and they're all pretty much lame. For that matter, everyone else on this site has seen them as well...because it's the same damn movies being made over and over every year!A few comments:
Dinosaur...looked great until the dinos opened their mouths and started talking like babies! I wonder if I cut the Disney logo off and spliced in a Fox Animation logo at the start of the movie if it would fail in my theater? I'm tellin' ya, I think it's that logo!!!  Gone in 60 seconds...repeat of every Bruckheimer flick ever made. I will be able to predict exactly what will happen next a good 15 minutes ahead of whatever point in the movie I am. The ending will of course be predictable within 10 minutes of the opening titles. Mission Impossible 2...John Woo is directing. Hmmmm. Perhaps his over the top style of action directing might make this one fun. Then again, he just might add another one of those stupid little continuing trademarks like in Face/Off when the family keeps brushing their hands over each other's faces. LAME! Frequency...I saw the sneak last week and it's not that great. The first 45 minutes is the trailer in long form. The second hour is pretty good, but they kill it in the end (of course). Flintstones 2...This just looks bad. Pokemon 2...Will make money sad as that is, even without a single attempt all summer to focus the lens. (Must stay away from that one.) Nutty professor 2...Ok so the first one was silly, but ya gotta admit, the family scenes were pretty damn funny. Since the family is featured in this one, I expect it to be one of the top 10 this summer. They're making another Godzilla movie! Yuk! Personally, I think this is the worst looking summer yet. The only film I'm looking forward to is Chicken Run!!! What about everyone else?
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Juan Mendez
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From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 04-18-2000 09:56 AM
I don't think the summer movie season looks that bleak. Gladiator, X-Men, The Klumps, and Gone in Sixty Seconds (just because of who is in it), and Mission Impossible 2 will be hits. Other movies I am looking forward to are Scary Movie (those Wayans are hilarious), Battlefield Earth (the book was great, lets hope they can make the transition), and Titan AE. As for the new Godzilla movie coming out, I hope my theater doesn't make the same mistake we did two years ago. We ordered 6 prints of Godzilla, within three weeks we were down to one, and in our smallest house (capacity: 96), and it was empty half the time.
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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-18-2000 06:04 PM
I'll just be glad to have something to play that:1. Will draw some crowds 2. Isn't rated R I'm looking forward to Titan A.E. just for the animation. The story will probably be incomprehensible. I hated Nutty Professor...I hate movies that are marketed at kids, but have so much bathroom humor in them (I realize this covers many Disney flicks), so I'm not looking forward to The Klumps. Dinosaur will be a hit. I think Brad is right about "that logo." M:I2 will probably open well depending on the campaign. The teaser trailer wasn't that impressive IMO. I'm looking forward to Me Myself & Irene. I'm not the biggest Carrey fan, but loved The Truman Show and Liar Liar (one of my all time favorite lines: "I'm KICKIN' MY ASS, do you MIND?") so this looks right down that alley. I agree with everybody -- Viva Rock Vegas looks like a waste of film. They've re-used some of the TV show's sound efx, but other than that it looks awful. I've been around for enough summers as a theatre owner that I know the drill: Majority of the movies are all hype, no substance; critics and "real" movie fans hate most of them; the public causes several $100 million-plus hits; repeat yearly.
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Ian Price
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Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-18-2000 08:46 PM
We just got back from the NATO California/Nevada manager's meeting. This was a meeting where the Distributors show the managers product reels so they can get an idea of what is coming up this summer. I don't want to post my idividual thought on what I saw at the meeting, that might piss the disributors off. I just thought I would tell you about the meeting.About 100 of us met at 9:00 AM at a Century 25-Plex outside of Oakland. They had orange juice and doughnuts. Most attendess were theatre managers in manager drag, ie coats and ties. We were underdressed in jeans and t-shirts, but secure in the knowlage that we are owners. We were ushered into auditorium 15 and the show began. There were 12 studios doing presentations. We were in a state of the art cinema. There was not one scrap of film. Every studio's "product reel" was on video. One person brought Beta SP. The rest brought their "reel" on VHS! The video projector was a Sharp 3000U1, projected on the large screen as to present a 10' X 10' image. Most of the tapes were letter-boxed. There were two sound systems, (not the theatres) one was for the mic and was good. The other one was for the tape decks and had a horrid 60 HZ hum in the system. The video tech didn't have a switcher and hopped up each time to press play. This ranks as one of the worst presentations I have ever seen. It would have been cheaper and easyer if the studios had just sent the trailers to the theatre and let them build them up. It would have looked and sounded ten times better as well. We were told that this was the material that was presented at ShoWest. I hope it was presented better there. Fox came out as the promotion king. They have many programs for promotion and peaked the interest of the managers the most. At one point when the tape was messing up, I shouted "Long live film!" That got a smattering of applause, but not enough to lift my heart.
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