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Topic: Michael Bay Writes To Theater Projectionists
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Frank Angel
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From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-27-2011 10:37 AM
Ah, just like the MPAA and the studios have been insinuating for years that piracy is the fault of exhibition -- lax exhibitors allowing theives to make camcopies off their screens, or worse, exhibitors who actually are themselves the pirates, now they are insinuating that it's exhibition that 3D is dark and underlit -- those cheap exhibitors who go into newly installed digital/3D setups purposely turn amperage down in their lamphousses. Is there are rash of this going on? Do exhibitors have standing policies that tell their techs to go around and underpower xenons in the 3D lamphouse?
Doesn't every install set the specs to OPTIMUM brightness and then set all the other parameters around that light level so that color is at the correct saturation for 3D? Or is it the dastardly installers in cahoots with the chains purposely putting in undersized 3D installs to save money?
Hey, Mr. Bay, if you REALLY are so concerned, maybe your TRANSFORMERS DOTM should play only in IMAX dual projector 3D and in those "certified" screens (whatever THAT means) that can get that mythical 6FlLams and in nice bright 2D everywhere else. I say he should have thought about the fact that MOST 3D projection only gets 3-5 FtLams when he made the decision to do 3D, or just be content to play it only in 3D in theatres that somehow have been certified to get 6FL. And STOP WHINING about the rest.
Sorry, I am with Martin, it sounds to me like maybe Paramount and Mr. Bay are setting the stage so that if TRANSFORMES doesn't preform the way have been ballyhooing it will, they can save some face and blame it, yet once again, on exhibition.
And like Louis says, WHAT projectionists? Who is he writing this to...this "open letter" is going into the hard drive boxes?
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Scott Norwood
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Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-27-2011 02:09 PM
If he really cared, he would restrict bookings to theatres that meet the relevant specifications.
Am I the only one who thinks that most of these "letters to the projectionist" are completely pointless? Operators who have good equipment and care about presentation will put on a good show regardless of the presense or absense of these letters. Those who either do not care or do not have equipment that is capable of meeting the relevant specifications are not going to magically improve things overnight due to one of these letters.
I can understand and appreciate these letters when there is something unusual about a particular print (e.g. films that start with sound and no picture or vice-versa, have hard-to-see changeover cues, are shot in non-obvious aspect ratios, etc.), but they are a waste of time in cases where they say, essentially, "show the film properly." They might as well start saying things like "show the reels in the correct order" and "focus the picture." In any case, these letters usually make the director come across as a pompous ass, who expects his film to be treated differently from any other.
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