[jazzo]

This guy is truly priceless!!

[TeenagedConservative]

Lol, the movie industry has gotten so bad that a movie many times worse than an average book shines above all others. Goblet of Fire as a book was pretty good. The movie destroyed most of the good aspects of the book, and yet is decent.

[CommandoFrank]

This guy is truly priceless!!

Yes, I agree...

By the way, does Hollywood still make movies?

[Paleo Conservative]

Small multiplexes apparently save money by hiring one projectionist to run several screens. The drawback is that one or other of the semi-unmonitored machines will jam, leading the projection lamp to burn a hole in the print. To lessen the risk of this, the projectionist expands the space between the gate and the lamp -- i.e., he shows the film slightly out of focus.

I wonder how much longer small multiplexes will be showing conventional motion picture prints on film anyway? I would think the next step will be to replace film prints their projectors with high resolution digital projectors. There may not even be any hard copy of the movie actually shipped to the theaters either.

[Gordongekko909]

The only movie I've gone to see in a theater in the last two years was Rocky Horror. And that doesn't exactly count.

I'll just have fun with my copies of Maltese Falcon, Minority Report, Aliens, Training Day, and Man on Fire, thank you very much.

[SmithL]

Posted here, and discussed back on November 27th: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1529428/posts

[Anti-Bubba182]

"..No wonder it's 20th century Britlit -- ''Harry Potter,'' ''Lord of the Rings,'' ''Narnia'' -- keeping those Monday morning numbers up. It's Hollywood's yarn-spinning that's really out of focus, and in the end even home entertainment revenue won't save a storytelling business that no longer knows how to tell any."

It is true that they are telling less engaging stories these days. I used to like movies better.

[GOPJ]

It's Hollywood's yarn-spinning that's really out of focus, and in the end even home entertainment revenue won't save a storytelling business that no longer knows how to tell any.

More like "yawn-spinning"...

[goresalooza]

Sorry, Hollyweird, but car crashes, gangsta thugs, obviously aged "stars" with too much plastic surgery, and anti-American propaganda flicks just don't cut it for this consumer.

The last movie I saw and truly enjoyed was the Kurt Russell film, "Miracle" about the 1980 Olympics ice hockey team coach Herb Brooks and the gold medal win. Fantastic and made ya feel damn good.

Hollyweird has totally forgotten the fine art of storytelling, instead it's a mindless whirl of stereotyping and boredom.

[Ma3lst0rm]

This guy has the mark. I have stopped going to the low end movies because they are so unsatisfying and for th 50-60 dollars or so they expect one to spend for a family outing it becomes more appealing to wait for the DVD or when it comes on a movie channel.

Some of the most memorable movies I watched and enjoyed in the past few years at a theater are:

Lord of the Rings (All Three Movies)
The Passion of Christ
Spider Man I and II
Harry Potter (all the moves except the Goblet which I'm seeing this weekend)
American Pie (All of them)

The worst movie I saw in a theater in the past year was
"Kicking and Screaming" but I'm sure there were many more available to choose from. It is horrible how easy it has become to watch very few movies at the theater and find that you have watched much of what was worth watching leaving little that is desirable to watch from the video store.

[There You Go Again]

Some will disagree, but one of the exciting advances is this whole video and audio podcasting....because, a person can do and say what they want without worrying about being P.C. Obviously this technology is new, but many will no doubt want to ban what comes about...because it won't follow the P.C. dictates of Hollycrap.....

[Cobra64]

The last movie we went to see was The Patriot

[pillbox_girl]

The best movie I saw this past summer was 90 odd minutes of penguin footage.

Says it all really.

[BenLurkin]

''These jokes were wrong then and they're wrong today'' -- unlike, say, Whoopi Goldberg's most memorable joke of recent years, the one at that 2004 all-star Democratic Party gala in New York where she compared President Bush to her, um, private parts. There's a gag for the ages.

Heh-heh.

[libstripper]

To lessen the risk of this [burning a hole in the film by having the lamp too close to the film], the projectionist expands the space between the gate and the lamp -- i.e., he shows the film slightly out of focus. I don't know whether that's why the Harry Potter I saw was so dark and blurry, but, after reading about all the lavish effects-laden set-pieces Mike Newell had put in the movie, I did rather feel that I was seeing the cinematic equivalent of a digitally remastered symphony concert played back through a 1950s transistor radio.

I noticed something like that this summer when I went to see "Miss Congeniality Two" while my house was being refurbished. The film was somewhat out of focus and, even worse, the contrast ratio was way down, making everything flat and blurry. Since I have a Mitsubishi 73" HD projection TV that turns my living room into a movie theater, I decided I'd be better off watching all of my movies on it with DVDs.