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Jonathan Goeldner
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Washington, District of Columbia
Registered: Jun 2008

posted 11-28-2010 12:48 PM

I thought the camera work was terrible - if it did another 180 swing around, I was going to go mental. All in all I thought it was rather a waste of time.

even the framing of the digital projector was off, for Regal to install a new DP system (at Gallery Place) and then still have black borders around the entire screen was just shoddy.

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 11-28-2010 01:56 PM

Assuming it was side masking, they probably ran the movie with the flat projector settings, but scope masking. That will produce the goof you saw with black borders all around the screen.

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Joe Redifer
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From: Denver, Colorado
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posted 11-28-2010 03:27 PM

Shouldn't the projector and automation automatically KNOW what format it is? The projector/server should see what it is playing and think "I am playing a flat movie. Shit should be flat." And then set everything to flat. Same with scope.

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Brad Miller
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posted 11-28-2010 03:59 PM

None of the manufacturers have taken automating to that level, as any settings could be setup on any channel, so forcing things has the potential to do more harm than good.

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Josh Jones
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posted 12-10-2010 08:27 PM

3.5 out of 5

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Pravin Ratnam
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From: Atlanta, GA,USA
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posted 12-11-2010 08:14 PM

Regal Hollywood 24. One of the common width screens. The image was a tad shifted towards the left causing overbleeing of the image onto the the left side of the screen.

It was decent watchable fun. If you have to pay for a ticket, it is best to watch the hulu clip of SNL parodying the movie. It is spot on. This is more of a home video type movie. Denzel is just cashing paychecks at this point. The only ineresting character was the truck guy.

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Jonathan Goeldner
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From: Washington, District of Columbia
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posted 12-12-2010 10:55 PM

answering both of you, Joe and Brad: the image was it's full 2.35 scope AR, but honeslty it really did look like they didn't properly aim or install the projector properly - you shouldn't see black borders all around the entire 2.35 image on a 2.35 screen (?!)

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Michael Brown
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From: Bradford, England
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posted 12-14-2010 11:06 AM

Where I watch it I had a perfect crisp image that filled the screen with no ugly borders nor too much overlap onto the masking. but no left channel audio!! (yes I did get a pass after).

Anyway decent movie with solid performances and some nice action sequences.

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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-14-2010 09:18 PM

I liked it but it was really a switch-off-your-brain type movie. I've heard a few comments from railroaders who have come to see it:

- There's no way the control in the cab would "move by itself" like it does in the movie

- If a group of cars/engines going that fast is up on one set of wheels like it is in the movie, it's going off the tracks. It's not going to set back down, and if it DID set back down it's going to derail.

- Engines have a "governor" in them that caps top speed at 55 or 65 (depending what railroad is involved).

I did read a few interesting bits about the real incident vs the movie one:

- The real incident train's top speed was 44 MPH, not over 70 as in the movie

- Nobody was killed in the real incident, vs. one guy killed in the movie

- In the real incident, they hooked another engine onto the rear of the train and braked it just like in the movie, but they were able to slow it to 11 MPH at which time a guy ran alongside and was able to jump on and stop the train.

To me the dumbest thing in the movie was: When they hooked the two units onto the front of the train (which did NOT happen in the real incident), the engineer could have just walked from his cab to the cab of the out-of-control unit and shut it down.

So basically the beginning and the ending of the movie were real events but virtually everything in between was "dramatized."

Not that any of the above is BAD -- the movie was still well made and a fun train ride. This kind of movie isn't supposed to be believable, at least not these days. I didn't find the photography offensive. I mean it's way better than Paul Greengrass.

Also, Michael Scott is safe: The train is heading for "Stanton," not Scranton.

Overall, 3.5 out of 5 for me. Not a DVD buy, for sure.

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