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Topic: The Soloist - what happened??
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Joe Redifer
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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99
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posted 09-26-2009 03:13 PM
Anyway, as I was saying (or not), it just goes to show how little importance most exhibitors in the US place on quality presentations. They just do not care, especially at the sub-run level.
We hired a projectionist from the sub-run theater across the street from where I was working once and I started to re-train him. He walked out and quit after only threading 7 projectors, telling the manager that he "just couldn't do it" in reference to putting up with my method of training, saying that I was too much of a hard-ass or some such thing (those whom I train from scratch never have issues like that). I had told him that he'd have to step up his game if he wanted to work with me, but apparently he couldn't. It kind of made me proud that he quit like that. What's even more interesting is that after I left that theater, they immediately hired THAT SAME GUY as my replacement. I guess he had 4 out of frame splices that week, two of which wouldn't even make it through the projector. Oh, all of this was on the same print. I also heard that he stopped movies during the show to change cues. They fired him after a week or two. Anyway this guy is probably a good representation of the average US projectionist, maybe a touch worse.
If you had gotten one of my prints of The Soloist, it would have been in perfect shape. Too bad.
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Karl Borowski
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posted 09-26-2009 05:42 PM
Joe: That is hardly my experience with second run theatres.
There's only one 2nd-run multiplex around here, but I have seen prints, literally last showing, last night on the 2ND RUN, without any scratches, or very minimal scratching.
So there are some real top-notch theatres, even chains out there.
At the same time, I have seen abysmal, abysmal, abysmal looking prints the first week in a big multiplex.
I've seen films with five scratches running down the entirety. I'd have to TRY to accomplish a feat like that.
There is no reason or rhyme to it. Quality on the whole is terrible, but it ultimately comes down to individuals and how much they care. Even with the best training, many multiplexes just have one person upstairs running things, and it is ultimately up to that person how much training they want to ignore or follow.
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