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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 12-29-2012 09:02 PM

quote: Marcel Birgelen
I've been in the Florida and Paris version several times, but never witnessed any speakers under my feet actually, but maybe I wasn't focused enough.

Not under your feet, but there are speakers under your butt. There are 120 speakers in each of the 24-passenger "limo" trains.

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Frank Angel
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posted 12-29-2012 09:56 PM

But in all fairness, Sam, you DID say it was FREAKY! Sound wrong enough for me.

And thanks for the heads up on brightness (lack thereof). I try always to see 3D titles in IMAX. For all the reasons we can flame LIEMAX, the one good thing they do for 3D is they use dual projectors so they produce the brightest 3D you will find. And their screens are bigger than most, which it pretty essential for good 3D. You really don't want to see a box with a moive picture in it sitting in the middle of your vision; you want to get rid of the box and just see the image filling your field of vision -- as Mike sez. Personally, I tend to sit that close for 2D movies as well.

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 12-30-2012 04:22 PM

quote: Mike Blakesley
Not under your feet, but there are speakers under your butt. There are 120 speakers in each of the 24-passenger "limo" trains.

Still people regularly "outscream" those [Wink]

quote: Frank Angel
And thanks for the heads up on brightness (lack thereof). I try always to see 3D titles in IMAX. For all the reasons we can flame LIEMAX, the one good thing they do for 3D is they use dual projectors so they produce the brightest 3D you will find.

Still, I prefer dual projector Dolby 3D setups, especially for movies shot in scope (this one was in flat although). LIEMAX still has an awful lot of ghosting and you need to keep your head straight the whole time because of the old-school horizontal/vertical polarization. Excessive ghosting totally destroys the 3D for me. Also, those large silver screens have the tendency to collect any ambient light around.

quote: Frank Angel
You really don't want to see a box with a moive picture in it sitting in the middle of your vision; you want to get rid of the box and just see the image filling your field of vision -- as Mike sez. Personally, I tend to sit that close for 2D movies as well.

Screen size is really not that important at all for me. I want to have the screen fill most of my field of vision and you can achieve that quite easily by sitting at the right position in most well-designed auditoriums. I never understood why so many people want to sit as far back as possible from the screen...

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Gerard S. Cohen
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From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
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posted 12-31-2012 08:43 PM

"I never understood why so many people want to sit as far back as possible from the screen..."

For one thing, you are more apt to be on a sight level with the center of the image, so you're not straining your neck looking up or down. And you are above the heads of other rows.
For another, for older people with vision problems, the image seems sharper in focus, and can be viewed in its entirety.
An unconscious memory of always having seen images framed may familiarize the viewer with the screen image, versus immersion in an unfamiliar or threatening environment, thus causing him to opt for seating that preserves the frame. The elderly loose
some peripheral vision as they age, and distance seems to compensate for that loss.
The theatres I patronize are mostly old ones that have been twinned or multiplexed, often awkwardly, sometimes with auditoriums much wider than long. The only satisfying seating position is the last few rows, and the last row fills first. I always go early to choose my seat (my wife agrees) even though
this means sitting through unwelcome advertising commercials.

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Claude S. Ayakawa
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posted 12-31-2012 09:45 PM

There is a big difference with 3-D presentation between Consolidated (Reading International) and Regal theatres here in Hawaii. Regal uses RealD and their picture is very nice even with glasses and single projection. Consolidated gives 3-D a very bad reputation with extremely dark image using single projection Dolby 3-D in their standard houses and Expend 3-D in their Titan XC auditorium at the Ward. I always go to Regal for most of my movies but was forced to see a Japanese 3-D movie (HARAKIRI) at Consolidated's Pearlridge a few months ago because they had a exclusive on it and the presentation was dreadfully dark. TOY STORY 3 in 3-D in the Titan House at the Ward was even worse! THE HOBBIT in the RPX house in 3-D and HFR at the Regal Dole Cannery was fantastic and so was almost every 3-D films I saw there and the Regal Pearl Highland 16.
When I see in 3-D movie, I alway try to sit in the centre and half way from the screen and the rear of the auditorium.

-Claude

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Manny Knowles
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posted 12-31-2012 09:45 PM

I recall being in a Cineplex Odeon in Century City (Southern California) back in the 1990s that had little speakers on every other seat back.

Ridiculous as this will seem, the movie I saw in that cinema was Jodie Foster's "Home for the Holidays." Not exactly a "big sound" movie. But, there it is.

The sound system cannot be named here on Film-Tech -- that should help some of you figure it out.

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F. Hudson Miller
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posted 03-18-2013 07:45 PM

Life of Pi - I knew we were in for a treat by how the title cards are placed at different 3D levels. Very tasteful. First time I have seen 3D actually used to enhance the story telling. The relationship between Pi and the tiger is carefully controlled in the 3D depth. It is always thrill to watch a real film artist at work. I have seen a bunch of films in 3D (not by choice) and this was the only one in which I found the 3D an asset.

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Jeff Kane
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Registered: Jun 2011

posted 03-20-2013 02:12 PM

quote: Manny Knowles
I recall being in a Cineplex Odeon in Century City (Southern California) back in the 1990s that had little speakers on every other seat back.

Ridiculous as this will seem, the movie I saw in that cinema was Jodie Foster's "Home for the Holidays." Not exactly a "big sound" movie. But, there it is.

The sound system cannot be named here on Film-Tech -- that should help some of you figure it out.

Would that be a very powerful sound system? Say, 4000 HorsePowerS?

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 03-21-2013 07:03 PM

quote: Jeff Kane
Would that be a very powerful sound system? Say, 4000 HorsePowerS?

I doubt that the Voldemort 4000 Sound System ever featured speakers attached to the back of the seats.

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Bill Enos
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From: Richmond, Virginia, USA
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posted 04-01-2013 04:11 PM

Would have been much more satisfying with out the psycho analysis at the end. The final scene on the beach would have been the perfect ending.

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