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Author Topic: You know you're a Projectionist when -: Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 01-12-2011 05:55 PM                     ..you think that your recipe for apple cider calls for vinegar syndrome.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 01-12-2011 07:28 PM                     Despite denying it, would still memorize when a reel with nudity came up, even if it meant walking across the multiplex. AJG  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-12-2011 08:14 PM                    You know the Lord of the Rings movies as "Changing Seasons", "Grand Tour" and "Till Death For Glory".  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-12-2011 10:48 PM                     quote: Sam D. Chavez From Casablanca. "I was misinformed." Lol!  |  IP: Logged Peter Howard Film Handler Posts: 44 From: Forster, NSW, Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 01-12-2011 11:54 PM                        you remember actual release dates ... even from decades ago. quote: Mike Blakesley ...somebody asks you how long a movie is, and you say "120 minutes" instead of two hours. +1 haha  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-13-2011 07:47 AM                    ...even though it happens almost every year, you always seem to be the only person in the room who realizes that movies are actually released ON Christmas day.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 01-13-2011 08:32 AM                     quote: Mike Blakesley somebody asks you how long a movie is, and you say "120 minutes" instead of two hours. Someone asks you what the movie is about, and you say "it's about 2 hours"...  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 01-13-2011 09:10 AM                     ...when you spend 4 hours explaining to your girlfriend that a 'reel' is 10 minutes long and a 'spool' is anything larger.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 01-13-2011 12:43 PM                     When you spend many more hours trying to justify why you need a huge 35mm projector in the house, and no a DVD player wouldn't be the same thing She's kinda right, it's the same thing. But I like my toys. Loud. Leaky. Huge. Toys.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-13-2011 01:54 PM                        You know you're a Projectionist when -: You wanted to name your son Brenkert.... but had to settle for it to be the dogs name instead.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 01-13-2011 04:13 PM                       "You wanted to name your son Brenkert.... but had to settle for it to be the dogs name instead." At Telluride Film Festival the techs are known as members of the Carl Brenkert Society.  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-13-2011 05:52 PM                     When your cat is named Sprocket.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 01-13-2011 08:07 PM                        at one time your cats were named Zipper and Essanay  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-14-2011 04:55 AM                     When you see 3rd class booth personnel who really don't care on any form of techniques, train others on how to run projectors and let them run solo after two days and they expect the ones whom they trained to know everything.. ..and there is nothing that you can do about it without stepping on any toes...you just have to look and walk away and feel sorry for the patrons who spent their big bucks on crappy presentations. ...Why I'm really beginning to like digital... (Gee, I should retire and do a newspaper deliver route at nights...) -Monte  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-14-2011 09:13 AM                     You're old enough...Effem step on their toes!  |  IP: Logged

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