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Author Topic: Snakes on a (muthafuckin') Plane (2006) Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-29-2006 11:57 AM                     A fun movie, marred by some presentational issues: DLP at Mann's Chinese 6, Theatre #2... Bad keystoning from super high-angle booth, exacerbated by curved screen. Image slightly tilted (titles on trailers and movie not parallel to top/bottom of screen). Possibly also a slight twist in the anamorphic lens; hard to say for sure with all the other image problems going on. All of the night-time exterior shots of the van in the scene where the snake expert is introduced seemed low-res with strobing.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-29-2006 12:51 PM                        I noticed this strobing video-effect in the nighttime van scenes myself, but I watched this on film at the world famous AMC 24 Highlands Ranch.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-31-2006 01:05 PM                     Location: Cinemark at Carefree Circle, Colorado Springs, Auditorium 6. 4:30pm show, August 30. 35mm projection. Sound format: DTS (I think). This was a fun movie for what it was, although I wish the choreography of the snakes biting the passengers had been handled better. Some of the bites were happening in too rapid fire of fashion and it reminded me of the blurry who-knows-what-the-fuck-is-going-on fight scenes in the horribly directed Bourne Supremacy. The nudity? Very nice. Pretty funny with what happened next. And the guy trying to take a leak with the snake coming up out of the toilet was pretty funny too. I noticed the really shitty image quality on those van scenes as well. It looked like it was videotaped, rather than filmed. There was a really really bad 3:2 pulldown sort of herky jerk when the van stopped in front of the snake expert's apartment. Just awful. I probably would have enjoyed this movie more had it not been for some rather aggravating presentation problems. 1. The projection sucked ass. Sure, the image was reasonably bright (at least a lot brighter than that very dim Cinemark First Look video thingie before the feature). But the damned image was badly keystoned on the screen. It was like a projected parallelogram slanting downward from left to right. On top of that, this was a fixed width auditorium with vertical masking. Guess what? About 15% of the freaking image at top was projected onto the curtains. And there was a nice blank space on the bottom of the screen. Yay! The projection port was way the hell above the last row of seats in this stadium seated auditorium. I could barely see the DTS reader up there. 2. On the sound end of things, I heard plenty of stuff happening in the surrounds. But the stage speakers were pretty harsh sounding and overall everything seemed badly compressed. I couldn't help wonder if someone forgot to thread the DTS reader. It sounded very much like badly overdriven analog. Blah. What amazes me futher is this theater has an IMAX-3D screen, which usually delivers pretty damned good show quality (so long as they're not showing something originally shot on fucking video). With such a high end room on the north end of the complex one would think perhaps maybe more attention to detail should be given to the other rooms so as not to have such a tremendous difference in show quality.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Benjamin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1445 From: Denton, MD Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-07-2006 04:06 PM                        9/07/06 - Cambridge Premier Cinemas, auditorium #2: Finally got to sit down and watch this entire film. Of course the 2500 watt xenon bulb thrown onto the curved screen with Dolby Digital Sound made it a premium presentation. The Stadium seating helped too. I loved it. I found myself laughing out loud during quite a number of scenes. It seemed to get better in the last two reels, and the landing of the plane was by far the funniest part of the movie. I could tell on the parts where they layed in new audio portions and scenes, but since they made the film better - I didn't mind it so much. I liked this film and will buy the DVD.  |  IP: Logged Edwin Sheldon Film Handler Posts: 95 From: Mobile, AL, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 10-03-2006 05:19 AM                     quote: Brad Miller I can't wait for the sequel. Mo' Muthafuckin' Snakes on Mo' Muthafuckin' Planes!  |  IP: Logged

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