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Author Topic: ALIEN (1979) Geoff Jones Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 579 From: Broomfield, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 10-16-2019 08:28 AM                        I saw ALIEN at AMC Orchard 12 in Colorado on 10/15 in Auditorium 12. Something was wrong with the audio. I'm 95% sure the right and center channels were swapped. Most dialog came from the right side of the screen. Red light from the aisle lights lit up the bottom corners of the screen. Are there any AMC theaters out there that don't have red light on their screens? So far, I haven't found one. This auditorium features a smallish constant-width screen unfortunately, and there isn't any masking, so black bars were projected above and below the picture. (At least it wasn't cropped.) I was excited to take my 12 year old and one of her friends to see ALIEN for the first time on "big" screen. I should have just stayed home and shown it to her on my home theater. (BTW, ALIEN sold more 40% tickets than the current release playing in the complex's largest auditorium at the same time, once again proving that cinemas should put classics on their largest screens.) Ugh - I meant to post this under Reviews, not Yak. Please feel free to move it. Sorry.  |  IP: Logged

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