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Author Topic: Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-16-2009 10:43 PM                        Today at Regal 15 in Eugene, #8. Unsteady image. I was all prepared to spend $10 at the snack bar, but there were only 2 stations open and about 15 people in line at each one. Sorry. I wanted to like this. Honest. But it's just not very good. In fact it's pretty bad. There were a few laughs for me but not nearly enough. The movie is kid-friendly though and kids in the audience seemed to find it highly amusing. 2 out of 5 if I'm being generous.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-17-2009 05:54 AM                     quote: David Stambaugh Unsteady image. Think they're using Apogees - why of the unsteadiness...  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-17-2009 10:33 AM                        quote: Monte L Fullmer Think they're using Apogees Actually Millenniums. This particular screen is usually very steady but not this show.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-17-2009 12:12 PM                     Donno about the movie and I don't intend to see it but fomr what I've seen of the trailer the Paul Blart character reminds me of a person in my High School Class! Mark  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-17-2009 01:04 PM                        The whole time I was watching "Paul Blart" I was thinking the late John Candy would have been perfect in it. Also, Seth Green would have been great as the "trainee cop". Regal has changed their matinee pricing on weekends so shows are full-price now after 4PM instead of 6PM. Bah.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-17-2009 01:28 PM                     quote: David Stambaugh very steady but not this show. Prob don't know how to adjust band tension on certain prints, or just didn't close the slider gate completely ...  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-19-2009 10:53 PM                       Saw this show Saturday at Carmike Allentown, PA, house 6. Digital picture from Christie CP-2000 projector was dim and incorrectly cropped on the screen, chopping off a good deal of the image. Auditorium also badly in need of a B-chain alignment. Front channel levels were way off. Christie is servicing this theatre. Regarding the picture, I had fun with it. I quickly warmed up to the character and laughed a lot. My 13 year-old son liked it, too. I thought the SWAT guy character was totally unnecessary, though, and could've been dropped without changing the satisfaction of the resolution.  |  IP: Logged Todd Shelskt Film Handler Posts: 26 From: Manchester, CT Registered: Feb 2008 posted 01-26-2009 09:04 PM                     I haven't watched "Paul Blart" yet, but after seeing the title I immediately felt the name alone was a forced attempt at humor. Paul BLART. Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho. A critic said the main character was trying too hard to be John Candy. That's EXACTLY what I expected after seeing the lame name. It's not fair to comment too much on a film I HAVEN'T SEEN, but comedy isn't what it used to be. There's not much talent out there these days (or so it seems to me).  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-26-2009 09:51 PM                     Who is Paul Blart anyway? Is he a TV character?  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 01-28-2009 11:33 AM                     quote: Todd Shelskt A critic said the main character was trying too hard to be John Candy. What an insightful critic! How did he or she come up with it? You could say every fat actor is trying to be Candy or Belushi. Farley even admitted it. The fat-guy-falls-down-goes-boom bit is timeless and there will always be fact actors willing to do it. And it stays funny.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-02-2009 10:14 PM                       quote: John Wilson Who is Paul Blart anyway? Is he a TV character? No, it's nobody. Just a made-up, non-descript name.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-03-2009 08:40 AM                     I made it through about 10 minutes of this... the use of the Segways was funny but nothing else really was. All this silly stuff has been done a thousand times before by people who could do it alot better. If you want to expose your kids to this sort of stuff take them to see Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, WC Fields, or the Marx Brothers. They're all available on DVD too. These guys were geniuses, truely the ones that knew how to carry this sort of comedy and really make it work well. Otherwise the film critics were dead right about this movie. Minus Three Stars on my Scale!! Mark [ 02-03-2009, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Mark Gulbrandsen ]  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-03-2009 05:02 PM                     quote: Mark Gulbrandsen Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, WC Fields, or the Marx Brothers Course, that was back when most of these actors were self employed before the studios "owned" them - to put them under salary. ..and they were totally in charge of what they could and want to do.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-03-2009 07:40 PM                     In fact, didn't a couple of those fellows own the studios they worked for.....?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-04-2009 03:56 PM                       Chaplin did. Keaton became indentured to MGM, against the advice of his friends like Chaplin, and there his career was stifled. Btw, I'm thankful my son appreciates silent comedy. We watched Keaton in "The Cameraman" a couple of weeks ago, and were ROTFL!  |  IP: Logged

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