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Topic: Ingolorious Basterds on film?
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 09-13-2009 01:23 AM
I'm not making this up. The Carmike 8 here in Lawton has all 8 of its screens D-cinema equipped. Yet the theater received only a 35mm print of Inglorius Basterds.
Only 2 of the Carmike 8's houses (number 5 and number 7) have 35mm projection left in operation. The projectors from the other six auditoriums are still up there in the booth "in moth balls."
The GM there has been a good friend of mine for more than 15 years. He doesn't bullshit me on stuff like this. It would have been better for him to get a D-cinema JPEG2000 virtual print, particularly because more people on his staff would have been able to play it. But with the theater playing it only on film, and with the ever changing turnover in employees noted, only he and perhaps one other person is still able to thread 35mm. This friend of mine, the GM, doesn't trust anyone else to do it. When I saw the movie, he was repairing a projector bearing beforehand. Out of all the people I know personally, I don't know anyone who works longer hours than this guy. Carmike Cinemas is VERY LUCKY to have someone like this working for them.
Anyway, the film projection looked pretty darned good as it usually does. The audio just wasn't 5.1 digital.
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