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Author Topic: Sneak-Peak: AMC StoneBriar 24 Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-02-2003 04:36 AM                        That booth is insane! I think Joe would need a golf cart to get around in it.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-02-2003 04:53 AM                        I don't see why you couldn't just bring up your car. I wouldn't recommend playing football though, as the concrete turf would enable many bones to be broken!  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-02-2003 06:52 AM                        Looks like a good place for Ian to drive his "smart car." Or at least a golf cart or something. Alternatively, they could install Astroturf and stadium lighting. Seriously, though, that's the biggest booth I've ever seen. Most gigaplexes seem to have boring long hallways or U-shaped booths, which are still huge by comparison to most older booths.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-02-2003 02:34 PM                        Please tell us the "paint" story is not true! Who would ever put white paint on film cleaning media?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-02-2003 02:35 PM                     That was no joke John. The bottle was almost identically sized and the fellow just grabbed it (apparently without using his brain). I seem to recall they let that guy go.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-02-2003 02:39 PM                     Where was the film cleaner mounted? Wouldn't the operator have seen the gobs on the screen and known something was wrong? I hope nothing happened to the projector. Seems like that would be a huge mess to clean up. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-02-2003 02:40 PM                     Just think of the low-income housing that could be carved out of the extra room in that booth. If low-income housing were part of the benifit package that AMC offered their projectionist, then maybe one could survive nicely on an $8.50 per hour job.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-02-2003 03:04 PM                        Brad: Maybe he thought it was "WhiteWASH" for cleaning film. With the mess of putting paint on the media, and then pulling the film through it for threading, how could anyone NOT notice the mistake? Dare I ask why white paint was stored in a bottle similar to FilmGuard bottles? Or why white paint was even on the rewind bench? (Am I correct in suspecting that it was used to mark splices?)  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-02-2003 03:44 PM                     I have no idea what it was doing there, but I'll bet your assumption was correct. Bear in mind these pictures were taken right near the theater's opening...when they had fresh staff who were not experienced operators. Such a person might not know that film cleaner is not supposed to look like paint.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-02-2003 06:22 PM                     Considering how many theater screens AMC is able to pack into some small places (the Odyssey 30 at Grapevine Mills near Dallas and the AMC 24 plex in Tulsa are good examples), I'm surprised they didn't fit another 12 screens into that big booth area. Given this is one of the newest AMC builds, are they still sticking all the surround speakers up in the ceiling?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-02-2003 07:13 PM                     Hehehehehehehe......after all these years they still don't know how to build a theatre, do they???? The lobby and corridors have the feeling of the United Airlines terminal at Chicago O'Hare Airport! So are you guys going to film "Interlockling 24" at this place...... Mark  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 01-02-2003 08:55 PM                     Digital cinema is suppose to get rid of the second floor A client I have would have a heart attack if he saw that much doctor, lawyer, regional office space wasted...he would have partition that off and would run stairs and an elevator pronto  |  IP: Logged Bill Mantz Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Plano, TX Registered: Feb 2001 posted 01-03-2003 12:20 AM                     I opened that theater and in less than a month I left and went back to Cinemark legacy 24. $8.50 yeh right pay was like $6.50 and that the highest pay and that was because I had already had 2 years experience running a 24 screen booth. They had me come in an hour early to tread up all the projectors and then start and run them two rounds before I had a second person came in to help me. I not surprised about the white paint on the media cleaner when I left there was 3 people working the booth and they barly knew how to thread the projector and the booth manager didn't even know how to thread a projector at all. After that I have never watched a movie at AMC since this is a common occurrence in all the there booths.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-03-2003 12:40 AM                       And, just think... AMC gets prints made-up and projected on every one of those screens for about 60¢ an hour each! [edit] Oops, sorry, Bill. I see we were writing at the same time, ironically, about the same subject!  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-03-2003 05:48 AM                        But AMC always offers its customers a "picture-perfect presentation!" Their theatres are "comfortable, distraction-free, and picture-perfect." It says so in all their memos, so it must be true.  |  IP: Logged

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