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Author Topic: Aliens (1986) John B. Keathley Film Handler Posts: 29 From: Fort Worth TX Registered: Mar 2009 posted 04-12-2009 04:03 AM                     CINEMA: Landmark's Inwood Theatre, Dallas TX AUDITORIUM: Downstairs, Number One PRESENTATION: 35MM/Stereo PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: Old Print, Scratched Throughout RATING: Three Stars Midnight show, the print was probably an original print. All types of scratched throughout. I went to the movie with my Lead Projectionist, and we had a kick out of the scratches. Found it kind of fascinating to see how a print looks after being passed around from theatre to theatre. A/C must be on a timer, because the last hour of the film was like screening in a sauna.  |  IP: Logged Ed Alvarado Film Handler Posts: 60 From: Fort Worth, TX,usa Registered: Oct 2004 posted 04-17-2009 04:06 PM                        yeah it was pretty hot and humid in that place  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-19-2009 02:35 AM                     You guys didn't read the tagline on the poster then, did you?  |  IP: Logged John B. Keathley Film Handler Posts: 29 From: Fort Worth TX Registered: Mar 2009 posted 04-28-2009 05:51 PM                     Good stuff there Sir. Good stuff.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-28-2009 09:43 PM                     ..and the only one out of the four that was in flat...  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 04-29-2009 11:28 AM                     Cameron wanted to shoot it in Super 35, but the studio wouldn't let him.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-29-2009 01:48 PM                     That's kinda odd. Why did FOX put that restriction on him of his choice of filming? Was Super35 not perfected yet, or something else?  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 04-29-2009 03:45 PM                  Actually a Fox execs wife probably complained while watching a letterboxed VHS copy of the first Alien film and told her hubby that next time she wants to "see the whole picture!"  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 04-29-2009 04:16 PM                    quote: Mike Schindler Cameron wanted to shoot it in Super 35, but the studio wouldn't let him Actually, it was because he only used 6 alien suits and wanted to keep the width of the image smaller as to make it appear that there were more aliens in the scenes and keep the close quarters of certain scenes to appear close and cramped. Cameron's first scope film was The Abyss. Piranah 2 and Terminator were flat.  |  IP: Logged Julio Roberto Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 938 From: Madrid, Madrid, Spain Registered: Oct 2008 posted 04-29-2009 04:17 PM                    Are you implying Fox execs have small penises? Speaking of widescreen, looks like this may be the year of the beggining of the death of true-anamorphic. Someone listed in the web the first 31 widescreen movies released (in France, I believe) this year so far. Only 7 out of 31 originated in Scope. The rest in squeezed cropped Super35 or digital. 12 Rounds* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) 17 Again* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Assassination of a High School President* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Confessions of a Shopaholic* United States 2.40:1 (Anamorphic) Duplicity* United States 2.40:1 (Anamorphic) Explicit Ills* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Fast & Furious* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Fifty Dead Men Walking* Canada 2.40:1 (Super 35) Fired Up* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Friday the 13th* United States 2.40:1 (Anamorphic) Gomorrah* Italy 2.40:1 (Super 35) He's Just Not That Into You* United States 2.40:1 (Anamorphic) Hunger* United Kingdom 2.40:1 (Anamorphic) Il Divo* Italy 2.40:1 (Super 35) Knowing* United States 2.40:1 (4K Redcode) London to Brighton* United Kingdom 2.40:1 (Super 16) Monsters vs. Aliens* United States 2.40:1 (Digital 3D) Notorious* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Push* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Race to Witch Mountain* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Shuttle* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) State of Play* United States 2.40:1 (Anamorphic) Sunshine Cleaning* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Taken* France 2.40:1 (Super 35) The Class*(Entre les murs)* France 2.40:1 (HDV) The Good the Bad the Weird*(Joh-un Nom, Nappun Nom, Isanghan Nom)* South Korea 2.40:1 (Super 35) The Haunting in Connecticut* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) The International* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Three Monkeys*(Uc Maymun)* Turkey 2.40:1 (HDV) Watchmen* United States 2.40:1 (Super 35) Welcome to the Sticks*(Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis)* France 2.40:1 (Anamorphic)  |  IP: Logged Greg Anderson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 766 From: Ogden Valley, Utah Registered: Nov 1999 posted 04-29-2009 06:18 PM                        Apparently, Cameron has never liked the optical artifacts of anamorphic. Even The Abyss was Super 35. And, when DVD was a new format, Cameron didn't want 16x9 enhanced versions of his movies because he decided that most people would be watching on 4x3 monitors and he didn't like the way DVD players were converting 16x9 video for 4x3 output. Total control freak.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-29-2009 06:39 PM                        I saw the original "Alien" in 1979 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. It was my first and only experience seeing a film in 70mm, and the first time I heard a really good theatre sound system.  |  IP: Logged Julio Roberto Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 938 From: Madrid, Madrid, Spain Registered: Oct 2008 posted 04-29-2009 06:59 PM                    I think my first 70mm movie was Barabba (1961). Technically it was shot in Technirama, sort-of a Vistavision, but I saw a 70mm screening at a since burnt-down Todd-AO equipped house. Don't remember much about the quality of the picture (sound was always good in that house), but I remember some scenes from the movie. Last time I saw a 70mm "regular movie" (i.e. not a theme park, etc), I think it was a blow up from Super 35mm of Apollo 13.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 04-29-2009 11:28 PM                     Nope, there was no 70mm prints of Apollo 13...but this needs to be taken to a new thread if the James Cameron discussion is going to continue.  |  IP: Logged Julio Roberto Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 938 From: Madrid, Madrid, Spain Registered: Oct 2008 posted 04-30-2009 04:36 AM                    We get side-tracked easily I must have seen Apollo in Imax then and it was the right stuff in the 70mm blow-up? Hmmm. I know it was around the same time as Apollo 13 came out I saw something space-related on a nice theater with a curved screen in 70mm ... It wasn't 2001. There must be something good for the memory, but I just can't remember ...  |  IP: Logged

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