Has anyone actually SEEN the film? From what I was told, they only offered screenings of 20 minutes at ShoWest. I wasn't there myself, so I have no validity of the comment.

It would seem strange, however, that they would add in 28 minutes of footage ONE WEEK prior to playdate. Makes me think again that it just won't have strong multiple returns from viewers.

To John P: Thanks for the awesome suggestion of having PH survivors or WW-II vets in the lobbies to "relive" the truth.

I enjoyed the movie... the first time.
If I see it again... take cover.

I think this flick will do good especially here in NYC, people might feel like they finally got they're 10 bucks worth with a
3+ hour movie. I was personally satisfied with the main battle scene. Mixed for 8 channels, this is the first time at my theatre I was impressed by the SDDS (after it was tweaked for over an hour).

We have booked to open it on 5 screens (we're just a 12-plex) plus another few shows on our IMAX screen @ night.

Since I haven't seen the movie proper (in the auditorium, uninterrupted) I won't really comment on it, but from the booth I got the sense it was actually two separate stories, a love story and a trademark Bay action flick. I can't complain about the gorgeous EK print, however. Still, dye transfer would have been better, but wasn't ready, and furthermore I am told the analog tracks on those will be silverless and therefore incompatible with tungsten readers.

That would be news! Normally, the soundtracks are printed on the B&W emulsion of the "receiver" and processed to yield silver tracks for all four sound formats. To have a dye track, the dye would have to be transferred from a matrice, much like the pictures. If anyone gets an IB print, verify whether the tracks are silver or dye.

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If this thing turns out to be another sorry assed love story with Pear Harbor as an incidental

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Like "From Here To Eternity"? They bombed Pearl Harbor in the last reel. That was a nightmare show when I ran it a few years ago. A very nice new print, but the shipping case had apparently popped open en route, the reels fell out, the evil black plastic shipping reel shattered, & whoever dropped it just jammed it - broken plastic reel pieces, film, & all - back into the case.

The sharp broken reel fragments & jamming did a number on the spooled print. The last reel had at least TWO breaks in the edge per layer around the reel for about 90% of its length. No perforation/edge-fixing tape, & 18 hours until the show, one show only, & it had to run on a platter. I spent forever sticking a little piece of splicing tape over the edge at each crack, & perforating it in the splicer.

When the last reel all ran through the projector without breaking going around a corner, I felt like I was ready for a drink & tranquilizer dart.

There is a real nice print of "From Here To Eternity" out there somewhere, with a bazillion little bits of splicing tape along its edges. I guess if I'd used a CineBug, I would have needed 2,000 ft. of tape.

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They would rather have you selling out a 300-seater than just putting 100 bodies each in 3 different auditoriums.

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What?! Can't be possible. That would involve Disney doing something that makes sense and that benefits both the theater and themselves.

William's mention of "From Here To Eternity" reminds me of Columbia's re-release in 1955 of a vertical scan to Anamorphic 2.35:1 - they called it MegaScope. I did see this on a 40 foot screen, a widescreen novelty at that time best forgotten especially in B+W. Also best
forgotten is a budget video I have of the same film which must have been taken from the most clapped out copy found, last shown down a coal mine by the look of it.

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It runs smooth and fast, even at three hours.
I did, however, find that there is definately a strong love story theme. I guess character development depended on it. The only "TRUE" soldier character, from what I have heard, is Cuba Gooding Jr.'s. He is based on a real person, that was the first black man to recieve a silver star, I believe.
Unfortunately on Jay Leno about two weeks ago, they showed the whole boxing scene that he is in, get this, INCLUDING THE ENDING. Pissed me off. Anyway, the movie is good, not great. "If you promote it, they will come." Should be able to fill the seats, for a couple weeks, hopefully. Thats my guess, I hope our patrons prove me wrong.

-Will