Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: HALLO-Film-Tech-WEEN (and Andy's THX cinema is not THX)

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Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 10-29-2005, 06:18 PM:

Over the next few nights there I’m running some spooky films, yes Happy Halloween all, boo…LOL

Halloween Dolby 5.1 THX
Ghostbusters six-track Dolby Stereo THX
House on Hunted Hill Dolby Digital THX
Beetlejuice six-track Dolby Stereo THX
The Thing six-track Dolby Stereo THX
The Mummy Dolby Digital THX
Alien six-track Dolby Stereo THX
The Hunting Dolby Digital THX
The Fly six-track Dolby Stereo THX
Cat People six-track Dolby Stereo THX
Underworld Dolby Digital THX
Blade Dolby Digital THX
Ghost Ship Dolby Digital THX
The Withes of Eastwick six-track Dolby Stereo THX
Gremlins six-track Dolby Stereo THX
Gremlins 2 six-tarck Dolby Stereo THX
Casper dts THX
Hunted Castle dts THX
Hallow Man Dolby Digital THX

All films are presented via the Lucasfilm THX sound system for that creepy hallowing deep low end shivering sound…

Presently running Ghostbusters, wow is this a cool comedy spooky classic from the 1984…

All right this chick is toast!
-Grab your stick
-Holding!
-Heat them up!
-Smoking!
-Make them hard!
-Ready!
-Let’s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things down town.
-Throw it!

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 10-29-2005, 06:45 PM:

Goddammit Andy.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-29-2005, 06:51 PM:

But it's a REAL THX system, licensed and all! It even has SPL WOW JBL in it!

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 10-29-2005, 07:10 PM:

More than you can possible imagine…..this magician has a few techniques up his sleeve, hehehehe….

So what you’re doing this Halloween then?

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 10-29-2005, 07:26 PM:

Ya know Andy, **IF** you would show all those films "...Over the next few nights...", it would take you 'til Christmas...THX or not.

On this Monday, the 31st, to a select few of my closest friends, I'm showing a 35mm print of "Halloween" with a 2nd feature of "Friday the 13th III" in 3D.

I usually show "Rocky Horror Picture Show" for Halloween, but for some reason my print seems to be missing...

OBTW: I do not have a THX certified system... mine is PHX certified...which supersedes and is much better than that lame Tom Holman crap.

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 10-29-2005, 07:41 PM:

That’s great Phil’ is the print a personal copy? Or is it rented?

THX or not, Hm, it is Lucasfilm THX take a closer look at the AVR in the picture section.

Christmas hay, well so far I’ve got though 4 tonight, with Halloween Beetlejuice Ghostbusters and halfway into Cat People yes the 1982 remake from universal pictures.

Wow “Cat People” in six-track Dolby Stereo THX is made even scarier with the Lucasfilm THX only 15 more to go…that’s around 34 hours in total viewing for argument sake.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-29-2005, 07:47 PM:

Jesus Christ Andy, you don't believe that THX is a sound format, do you?

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 10-29-2005, 07:53 PM:

No it’s a guarantee and special electronic techniques that present the films soundtrack with a wider dynamic range bla, bla, bla is if I all ready didn’t know that.

You’re a professional you’ve worked for Mann theatres, happen to have worked at the Chinese?

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 10-29-2005, 08:08 PM:

quote: Andy Summers
...that’s around 34 hours in total viewing...

So Andy',
Don't you have a life? Or even a GF or BF? I cannot imagine someone spending ALL their time watching films.

Even Joe has other interests.

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 10-29-2005, 08:16 PM:

Phil’

Look at my profile it says right there….

As for Joe’s it says taking over the world, yours and mine is interesting though I have to say I do like film and eating well not so much this week, haven’t cooked in little over a week now, just having sandwiches instead.

P.S i like THX LOL

Now this opening in “Ghost Ship” is bit over the top, no, no arr now I can’t look at that, hang on now I can, I like “Gabriel Byrne” fine actor and I like the sound of his voice recorded in Dolby sounds cool. And THX JBL…

only 14 films to go now, spooky evening so far, I like the line in the film “Would you turn of that fucking music?”
LOL

That was some jolt?

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 10-29-2005, 09:46 PM:

Wider dynamic range my ass!

Andy you are unemployed. How do you afford all the JBL SLP THX WOW LOL SPL OMG SPL speakers and all the wonder movies you buy with fantastic THX dialog like Casablanca?

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 10-29-2005, 11:04 PM:

Had you considered putting as much effort into seeking employment as you do making posts here?

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 10-30-2005, 12:05 AM:

I don't care what anyone else does... I'll be in Salem on Halloween this year! [Smile]

Posted by Cory Isemann (Member # 2517) on 10-30-2005, 01:10 AM:

Somehow I knew they would all be THX... somehow.

quote: Phil Hill
Even Joe has other interests.

Heh, that's saying something!

(Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash Andy here, or anybody for that matter. Just trying to illicit a chuckle from anyone that reads this)

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-30-2005, 01:27 AM:

Ok Andy, enough lying now. Just face it, you do not have a THX cinema...even if you go by "home THX" standards, which for the record are not as strict as real cinema THX sound systems.

Please check this link direct from the THX website.

http://www.thx.com/mod/services/CHTTechnicalOverview.pdf

I thought the joke picture page of Joe's THX Cinema would've been enough to get the point across, but clearly I guessed wrong. Time to face the facts. Even just skimming the requirements, it is quickly obvious that your home cinema fails on every aspect of the picture and it also fails under every aspect of measurement in the pdf file linked to above. Whether you can actually meet the sound requirements is unknown, but again without "design review and approval by the THX Design office", you are still NOT a THX cinema. Just having a receiver that says "THX" on it in no way means you are actually listening to these soundtracks under actual THX specifications.

So as of right now, you are hereby forbidden to continue using the term "THX" in your posts as it translates to you watching videos at home. The THX program deserves a little more respect.

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 10-30-2005, 03:01 AM:

"Witches of Eastwick" (1986 Dolby"A") what a movie from WarnerBros. Jack Nicholson did a good number in that one.

"Ghostbusters"(1984 Dolby "A"). Excellent summer blockbuster movie from Columbia (Just about toppled over "Temple of Doom" back then for the biggest summer hit). This is one movie that I had to watch over and over again back then when I was playing it in a single house. Talk about an original movie!

("What about the Twinkie", and "Yes, that man has no dick..")

-Monte

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 10-30-2005, 08:02 AM:

Please use a mirror to invert!LOL

Freedom of speech and yes I can it the required SPL at peak without clipping, so what if people say the word XHT means very little in respect to very few that haven’t head the XHT sound system program in the professional field or in the home environment under strict conductions, has for the XHT link, I’ve got lots technical papers including the XHT monitor newsletters that where published years ago under the original.

Not sure if you saw on the web a few years ago someone was making a home made version of (XHT 1138) damn did it look like the real McCoy, like to look under the hood….

How I can afford this Joe’ I can tell you but then I’d have to silence you get the picture?

Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 10-30-2005, 08:46 AM:

What will I be doing on Holloween? Well, Maricopa Community Colleges has their College of Mortuary Science ( in what used to be the U.S. Military Mortuary) right across the street from our Department. Anyhow, all my attempts to convince Student Housing and Student Government to have our Holloween party there have failed! Would it not be fun serve Everclear out of the embalming machine?!...OOOOOHHHH.....MY SICK, SICK SENSE OF HUMOR! [Big Grin]

Well, I suppose I can stay outside all night driving everyone crazy by hollowing at the moon! Hell, with my MANLY, hairy chest that both Phil and Joe are fixated on I might convince people that I am actually a WEREWOLF! [Big Grin]

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 10-30-2005, 01:04 PM:

Just for you Andy, get your mirror out.

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The rest of you owe me!

Posted by Cory Isemann (Member # 2517) on 10-30-2005, 03:09 PM:

Wow. Reading that without a mirror gave me a headache!

Posted by Jim Ziegler (Member # 86) on 10-30-2005, 06:18 PM:

Damn Brad.. That must have taken a few minutes to do.. lol

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 10-30-2005, 06:57 PM:

Bah, that's what Perl is for! It's a super simple one liner:

perl -e 'print scalar reverse "Ok Andy, now you are intentionally trying to anger me with this THX nonsense. You are hereby given a leave of absense from these forums, maybe permanent if you start annoynig me via email."'

Posted by Jeremy Jorgenson (Member # 2989) on 10-30-2005, 07:04 PM:

I think my favorite line from this thread is ...

quote: Andy Summers
P.S i like THX LOL

Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 10-30-2005, 09:24 PM:

damnit. Now we're never going to get any closure on the SWEPIII thread.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-31-2005, 11:39 AM:

Thanks, Brad. [beer]

Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 10-31-2005, 02:15 PM:

"Andy did you hear about this one?"

Posted by John Lasher (Member # 968) on 11-01-2005, 10:54 PM:

pic moved to "costume" thread by poster

[ 11-05-2005, 09:37 PM: Message edited by: John Lasher ]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 11-04-2005, 04:01 AM:

Some moderator PUHLEEZE delete that above pic since it doesn't belong here and is posted elsewhere...thus a forbidden double post.

OBTW: I miss Andy... He was entertaining...

[ 11-04-2005, 08:37 AM: Message edited by: Phil Hill ]

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 11-04-2005, 08:33 AM:

Same here. Someone should invent an "English -> Andy Dialectizer", or maybe better, an "Andy -> English Dialectizer" so we can go back and catch up on all of his posts. [Smile]