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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-21-1999, 04:27 AM:
What did you think of the new Bond? It opens here in Australia next week, although it is already screening at the new Fox Studios cinemas which opened a couple of weeks ago. Does Michael Apted do it justice? (Well, he's GOT to be better than Guy Hamilton.) But please remember, no spoilers.
Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 11-21-1999, 08:36 AM:
Didn't like it. Plot holes, action sequences that are just too unlikly (even for a movie), etc.
Posted by Paul Konen (Member # 41) on 11-21-1999, 10:38 AM:
Mostly your typical Bond flick. I like the twist of who the bad guy is.Our theatre has a display of the para-planes used and they have been flying in the area. They look cool. I thought it was funny though in the snow chase scene how these planes suddenly developed a belt track for moving through the snow.
I thought the print was awfully dirty or poorly processed.
Posted by Erika Hellgren (Member # 22) on 11-21-1999, 04:46 PM:
What's a Bond movie without plot holes? 
I always enjoy seeing the Bond flicks, but I can never watch them more than once - once is plenty.
What I really enjoyed was the sound. I watched it in DTS-ES, and I thought the sound was perfect - not harsh, and yet it makes your pant legs shake.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-21-1999, 07:21 PM:
Did everybody read the studio memo that came with Bond? It says very specifically that they want you to play it in DTS-ES if you can. If you don't have that, then DTS-EX. Then Dolby Digital EX. Then plain old DTS. Then plain old Dolby Digital. Then finally SDDS just before analog! Ha!
Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 11-22-1999, 01:25 PM:
I was born in 1962, the year Dr No came out. My mother and father were having an argument about what to name their new child (Me). My father wanted to name me after his side of the family, (Oscar, Murry, Woodruff or Alan). My mother's family wanted to name me after their side, (Giovanni, Stewart, Cecel). My mother settled the argument by naming me after Ian Flemming who wrote the Bond books.I have always loved the bond series. My favorate actor is Sean Connery but my favorate film is For Your Eyes Only.
I thought this Bond film to be middle of the road. It is better than most of the Roger Moore films. But not as good as Live or let Die. I thought Sofie Marceu was fabulas. I thought that pop tart, Christmas Jones was a very poor joke. It's too bad she can't act. As for the holes in the plot, Bond films have always had holes in the plot so big you could drive a nuclier sub through them.
Your Truly,
Ian Stewart Woodruff Price
Posted by Chris Erwin (Member # 176) on 11-23-1999, 10:52 PM:
What do I think of 007? I think it's making our Simplex look like a snowstorm. Does anyone else have the same problem on their prints? It hasn't done this but on 007.--Chris
Posted by Michael Cunningham (Member # 210) on 11-24-1999, 08:17 AM:
Chris, I haven't had much of a shedding problem with "The World is Not Enough" in my Simplex projectors (I assume that's what you mean by "snowstorm"). I have, however, noticed a very soft focus in one of the two prints. Items in the foreground keep drifting in and out of focus in different places on the screen (not the entire screen as if a lens problem were occuring). Is anyone else having problems like this?
-Mike
Posted by Joe Smith (Member # 190) on 11-24-1999, 08:46 PM:
I saw 007 tonight at a new Hoyt's 14-plex and my first thought about the film was it was out of focus too much. To me it was noticable immediately, but it drifted in and out of focus all the way through. At first I thought it was the screen quality or the angle I was viewing at, but I think it was the film. Also, this is the first time I went to a new Hoyt with the stadium seating. Very uncomfortable. You're forced to sit too close to the screen and most of the seats are too low for the screen height/width. I left with a sore neck. My other choice for 007 was an AMC house. After the experience of the Hoyt's stadium I'll go back to an AMC...
Posted by Chris Erwin (Member # 176) on 11-24-1999, 08:57 PM:
Mike,I haven't noticed any focus problems, though I didn't screen the entire print (our manager did). Yep, by snowstorm, I'm talking about shedding. It isn't really bad, it looks like the film could use Head and Shoulders though!
Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 11-24-1999, 09:44 PM:
'The World Is Not Enough' is the first print at one of our theatres to get the first ever FilmGuard treatment to -Aaron
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-25-1999, 04:51 AM:
My other choice for 007 was an AMC house. After the experience of the Hoyt's stadium I'll go back to an AMC...Hmmm... NOT a good advertisment for Hoyts, methinks.
Posted by Ed Johnson (Member # 94) on 11-27-1999, 11:45 PM:
After working at one for some time, I was surprised at the complaint about Hoyts. Where was this theater? At the Hoyts 15-plex that I've worked at, the seating is one of our better features. While stadium seating has some drawbacks, I think it can be very effective if its well executed. I've certainly never heard the complaint that stadium seating was too low before. Often theaters are built where the top rows of the stadium seating are just below the projection port holes which is the opposite problem. Unless you sat in one of the very first rows (which are never good seats in any theater) I can't see how you would have this problem. Fill me in.
Posted by Joe Smith (Member # 190) on 11-28-1999, 09:17 AM:
The new Hoyts in question is in Manassas, Va. and is a 14-plex. It's been open about 4 months I think. The stadium seats themselves were very comfortable but the layout was bad (at least at this particular screen). My guess is that there were about 15 rows of seats in the theater and I was in about row 7. Had I been in row 15 I think it would have been fine (except for the out-of-focus problem). I got to the theater about 25 minutes early and even then all the seats in the rear rows were full. The regulars there must know the seating problem... This might have been the smallest theater in the house but it was a bad first experience at a Hoyts. Also, I stood in line at the concession stand for 15 minutes to get served. 14 screens (also playing Pokeman and I think opening day of Toy Story 2)and only 2 workers at the counter and 1 at the ticket booth. I saw one other employee running back and forth from one end of the plex to the other looking very confused. Must have been the overworked projectionist/usher/popcorn pusher/janitor covering all 14 screens.
Posted by AndrewBurnell (Member # 122) on 11-30-1999, 06:43 AM:
I would appreciate it if you said nothing bad about Hoyts We haven't had a single problem with our 007 and it sounds great.
Has anyone been to the new Hoyts at Fox Studios in Australia? 11 Cinemas all Cinemaxx's apparently!? Makes our Hoyts 6 plex look pretty lame!
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-30-1999, 03:23 PM:
Every theater circuit has their good theatres and bad theatres. That's just a fact of life. Not only is it based upon the design of the theatre, but the management, personnel, projection staff and equipment.Most people on this forum bash AMC is the reining champion of bad presentations. This does not mean that there are not excellent AMCs out there. The comment above was simply pointing out a specific bad experience at a theatre. Remember, first impressions are the most important...and if he got a bad show at a Hoyts (even if for the sake of argument that was the only Hoyts to provide anything less than a perfect experience), then Hoyts might have lost him as a customer forever.
Please remember these are opinions and experiences here.
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 12-01-1999, 05:57 PM:
Our prints of 007-19 are pretty good except for the SDDS tracks. They are pretty crummy and keep dropping-out. We've had 9,000,000 complaints about it. I just bypass the SDDS but other people keep trying to play it in SDDS.It's funny to me that MGM/UA suggests that the prints NOT be played in SDDS. (5th out of 7 choices!) It seems to me that MGM/UA is trying to discourage SDDS!
Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 12-02-1999, 02:10 AM:
thats cause they (and Universal) have a piece of the action in DTS methinks...
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 12-02-1999, 05:54 PM:
The Hoyts at Fox Studios has had a few teething problems, or so I hear. One friend was on his way to the complex and was confronted by EVERYONE in the complex coming out to the melodic tunes of the fire alarm.Another said they had several fire alarm interruptions (the shows automatically stop when the alarm triggers) during their movie. Enough to make the film run VERY late. On leaving, they were slogged money for parking by the gate guard bacause they'd been there over the free three hour limit.(!)
The new floor staff were overheard...
#1..."Have you been shown how to thread up yet?"
#2..."Nuh, tomorra"
Maybe this is why an entire feature was screened out of frame recently.