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Topic: Angry Writer (Bill Lammers) picks on Projectionists
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 02-13-2003 02:49 PM
The research for that article was pretty woeful. He should have contacted his local cinema and asked to spend some time in their projection box seeing for himself what happens rather than write it up second hand – and, as many of the comments have pointed out, inaccurately – from an interview. I don’t mind leader articles which argue a position that I disagree with, but when the journalism behind them is sloppy to the point of factual inaccuracies they really are undermined.
And as for criticising bad presentation, I definitely feel it should be done, but in a constructive way which concentrates on issues as distinct from personalities. The post I made about the Odeon Wimbledon (‘cinemas on the verge of closure’) was done in the spirit of ‘I paid money for a cinema ticket and didn’t feel that I got my money’s worth. Surely the industry should address these problems, or else it risks losing customers.’ I wasn’t attacking any projectionists or suggesting that my less-than-perfect filmgoing experience was a valid reason for rejecting the idea of cinemas altogether, both of which Bill Lammers seems to be doing.
This bloke seems to be starting from the position that cinemas are bad news and that home entertainment technology is inherently ‘better’ (and pursuing a vendetta against projectionists along the way). That is a position I fundamentally disagree with. If it had character and going there was a social occasion, I’d prefer a run-down old fleapit with a tiny screen, a dim, flickery picture, mono valve-amp sound and no leg room to a DVD at home, because it’s a social occasion that gets you out of the flat, in which the technology is only one part. Even with less than perfect technology, seeing a film in the company of several hundred strangers is a different experience from doing so in a home. IMHO, Bill Lammers fails to understand this far more than any technical issue.
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