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Topic: THE FINAL CUT at AMC
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Eric Hooper
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Registered: May 2003
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posted 10-25-2004 12:55 PM
This AMC (1000 Van Ness) has side masking in all auditoriums that I know of. They could have easily drawn the masking curtains in to at least not have blank screen showing. Unfortunately though, then it would look like a square TV set showing a DVD with the black bars at the top and bottom. Which is what it looked like anyway... just with additional blank screen on the sides all the way to the walls. Pathetic.
Regardless, movies should not be presented this way in a movie theatre! It looked as though we were watching a DVD at home on our big screen, in letterbox with black bars at the top and bottom. And the whole image wasn't even on the whole screen. It was a picture, within a picture, within a small portion of the screen! I paid $10 for this?
Another nail in the coffin for movie theatres! People aren't gonna pay for that again. I for one won't. I'll just stay home with my DLP In Focus projector and screen and rent DVD's. I never thought I would be pushed away from going to the movies... And like I said, how many other customers at the theatre feel the same way after this....? AMC is not only disgracing themselves, they're disgracing all movie theatres, and turning the public away from going back to ANY movie theatre, ever!!!
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Eric Hooper
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From: Fort Worth, TX, USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 10-25-2004 09:42 PM
quote: Mike Blakesley So why didn't you go to the management, demand a refund, and express your dissatisfaction with the presentation?
Umm, I did, but only after the movie. (Besides, that's not the reason I posted on here. I posted my experience because I wanted Film-Tech'ers opinion on this.) I wanted to walk out and get a refund right away when it started, but #1, the person I was with wouldn't have liked that, since they really wanted to see the movie, and #2, I really wanted to see the movie too.
The 16 year old girl at the "guest services" advised "I know, my dad watched it the other day and he didn't like the picture either". I didn't feel right getting all escalated further on her because #1, I stayed and watched the movie and #2, what good will yelling at her do in the big picture? Instead, I did write to AMC and I've also sent an editorial to The Chronicle about this. We currently have a hot political measure on our ballot next week about our single screen theatres.
quote: Mike Olpin As far as I remember, the theatre on the second floor, off the hallway before you hit the mini-concession-lobby has top masking. Also, they have a full Cinema DLP set-up on one of the auditoriums there. I don't understand why AMC wouldn't play Final Cut on that?
I don't go to this theatre much, but yes, Mike, I believe you are right. It is theatre #9, which they were showing Ladder 49 in. It's a very tiny theatre. But still, I knew they had a theatre with a flat wall to wall screen and that was one of the thoughts that ran through my head when the movie started. Why weren't they using that auditorium. However, we were around the corner in auditorium #8, which I beleve is a larger auditorium, and it was quite a full showing.
I have never seen any of their other digital projection. But I did wonder if the other digital projection presentations they hype up so much in the newspaper listings looked like what we were being treated to...
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