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Author Topic: evil trailers from hell Andy Davis Film Handler Posts: 49 From: Gainesville, FL Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-06-2000 01:42 PM                        My old theatre had an alarm for film breaks (ORC package) that produced a high-pitched tone. The theatre also featured NCN MovieTunes in the lobby. One month, there was song in which the singer held a note that was almost identical to the frequency of the film break alarm. Whenever the singer hit this note, the usher/projectionists would jump and look at the indicator panel to see what movie was interrupted. Then they would realize it was the song and their heart rate would return to normal. This song played every hour or so and the result was always the same. It was kinda annoying but funny at the same time.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-07-2000 03:58 PM                     What was the movie where the credits went out of 'register' and looked like one big, continuous brain-wrap in progress? Was it Bordello of Blood or Spawn or something like that?  |  IP: Logged Robb Johnston Expert Film Handler Posts: 147 From: St. Louis Suburbs Registered: Nov 1999 posted 04-08-2000 12:56 PM                        Spawn did it. I built the print up and had warning. A few of my fellow projectionists ignored my note, and boy did they run when they first saw the credits running. artificial scratches, credits running diagonally, looking like the film is pulled out of the gate sideways. it was painful to watch.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-10-2000 10:46 PM                     It really caught my attention the first time I saw the credits! It took me a few seconds to realize that if the screen was going THAT crazy, the projector would probably sound like it's going to explode.  |  IP: Logged Robb Johnston Expert Film Handler Posts: 147 From: St. Louis Suburbs Registered: Nov 1999 posted 04-11-2000 09:43 PM                        The titles in the trailer for Shanghai Noon also have faux scratches. I guess they want to give it the feel of an old western, in full color, and martial arts, yeah just how I remember them. And don't forget one of the greatest in film breaks, The MUPPET MOVIE, with the Swedish chef in the booth of the screening room.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-12-2000 12:21 AM                     One of my favorite evil trailers was an older Pink Panther one, it was a teaser for "return" or "revenge" of the pink panther, I can't remember off the top of my head. But I remember Sellers as Clouseau doing a voice over on the trailer as if he's in the booth, and everything goes haywire, it was pretty funny.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-12-2000 09:59 AM                     "De flum is okey-dokey" Chef fires up projector while the film is still wrapped around him. That video is a favorite in our office .  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 04-12-2000 12:30 PM                     Well, these aren't trailers per se, but worth mentioning while we're on this topic...'Gremlins 2' is a good example of a film featuring a complete film break (by the Gremlins being in the booth, making shadow puppets, no less, with directional sound to match!) There is also Monte Hellman's 'Two Lane Blacktop' featuring a burn-out right at the end, and my favourite example of this is Ingmar Bergman's 'Persona', which features a sudden roping off effect and then a burn-out which lasts for several seconds during the movie. When 'Persona' was released in 1966, so many projectionists were caught unaware that they eventually labelled the cans with a warning. Persona also starts in darkness with the first image being carbon rods striking and film running through a projector...it ends the same way but in reverse: the film tails out and the rods part. Great, great film, I think.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 02-07-2009 12:25 AM                 It has been 3222 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-07-2009 12:25 AM                        I must revive this ancient thread because I am currently running two trailers that are pissing me off. They aren't purposely edited to be evil, but they make me look like I am a dumbass... and that's waaay hard to do! Take, for instance, the trailer for Sunshine Cleaning, specifically the scope version (sorry Bobby, I will not put an apostrophe before "scope". Suffer.) Anyway, the title slates of this trailer use a vignette that constantly make me think that my xenon bulbs are incredibly out of focus due to the dark corners. Since the majority of my lamphouses are STRONG X90's it is easy to see why I would think this since the xenons rarely stay where you put them due to incompetence in design of most things STRONG. The audience constantly comes out of the auditorium, berates me for not being able to focus a simple xenon, asks for refunds and the theater goes out of business. This happens to me nearly every time this trailer shows. Another one that chaps my ass is My Life in Ruins, again the scope trailer. This trailer is for a flat movie and it has a giant black bar on the right side... ONLY the right side. Basically this trailer was printed much too far to the left of center. It makes it look like I have trouble aiming the projector at the screen. Customers complain, ask for refunds, the theater goes out of business and I am again embarrassed because of another evil trailer.  |  IP: Logged Jack Theakston Master Film Handler Posts: 411 From: New York, USA Registered: Sep 2007 posted 02-07-2009 12:31 AM                     Your customers even know what a Xenon bulb is AND understand vertical alignment? Kudos to them but it sounds like they're in that .000001 percentile of the country.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 02-07-2009 02:30 PM                     Joe, best solution to the problem, don't run those trailers. And if the head office complains, tell them to get Many years ago while working for the local art theatre chain, a trailer for one film came in..it was 12 minutes long!! The owner and chief projectionist got together and decided to edit it down to a more reasonable running time. The chief then sent out instructions expecting the projectionists at each theatre to edit the trailer themselves. I told the chief to stuff it and edit the damn thing himself. After some grumbling he did and sent me the edited copy which I promptly placed on the screen. It ran for 5 days before we pulled it, cuz it turned out we weren't getting the feature.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-07-2009 03:56 PM                     When I see an evil trailer they go bye bye. If the green band isn't centered vertically, or the letterbox/pillarbox is off center, or whatever the technical problem...into the trash can they go!  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-07-2009 05:43 PM                     If they go in the trash how do you deal with clauses in the booking contract for a specific trailor in a specific location A projectionist can only advise the manager of a presentation issue not enforce their own presentation policy  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 02-07-2009 11:22 PM                     Theres always the excuse of "Oh yeah, that trailer got ruined in a brain wrap, so it had to be pulled off"  |  IP: Logged

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