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I used to Love going to the movies - now though I find I can get a much more pleasurable experience watching at home - especially in a dedicated "cinema room" in my Loft space with some friends using one of those nice HUGE TV's -- waiting for the new really big 4K 80 inch monsters to appear.
The modern movie theatre experience now seems ruined for me by poor sound mixing -- deafening special effects but spoken dialog mixing is poor, youngsters mobile phone" etiquette (or usually Lack of it), exhorbitant parking / transport charges - expensive and poor quality food / drink and seats that feel like they were bought from Mexican Railways on E-bay. - Nothing against Mexico --have had great time in that country -- lovely food as well - but on the whole the indigenous population is rather "smaller" than we are !!!
There are decent films out there - especially if you include non US / UK one's so it's not the lack of quality films that stop me from going.
I'd recommend as an example particularly the recently released ICELANDIC film - The Deep - got decent reviews around the world - has loads of foreign language sub titles so you can understand it.
Djúpið (2012) - IMDb (Title means The Deep).
I'd suggest to Movie theatre owners -- get the Sound mix right and please INSTALL MOBILE PHONE SIGNAL JAMMERS!!!! - otherwise your industry will DIE like it did in the early 1970's and this time it WON'T return as the home experience with modern technology can all but replicate the "Big Screen" experience.
The strange thing is that these same youngsters who actually go to the OPERA (there are more than you think) wouldn't dream of using the phone in the opera house so it must be something about the movie theatre "ambience".
I can imagine the next generation of High school kids asking their teachers What was "The Cinema" !!!
Cheers
jimbo
I used to Love going to the movies - now though I find I can get a much more pleasurable experience watching at home - especially in a dedicated "cinema room" in my Loft space with some friends using one of those nice HUGE TV's -- waiting for the new really big 4K 80 inch monsters to appear.
The modern movie theatre experience now seems ruined for me by poor sound mixing -- deafening special effects but spoken dialog mixing is poor, youngsters mobile phone" etiquette (or usually Lack of it), exhorbitant parking / transport charges - expensive and poor quality food / drink and seats that feel like they were bought from Mexican Railways on E-bay. - Nothing against Mexico --have had great time in that country -- lovely food as well - but on the whole the indigenous population is rather "smaller" than we are !!!
There are decent films out there - especially if you include non US / UK one's so it's not the lack of quality films that stop me from going.
I'd recommend as an example particularly the recently released ICELANDIC film - The Deep - got decent reviews around the world - has loads of foreign language sub titles so you can understand it.
Djúpið (2012) - IMDb (Title means The Deep).
I'd suggest to Movie theatre owners -- get the Sound mix right and please INSTALL MOBILE PHONE SIGNAL JAMMERS!!!! - otherwise your industry will DIE like it did in the early 1970's and this time it WON'T return as the home experience with modern technology can all but replicate the "Big Screen" experience.
The strange thing is that these same youngsters who actually go to the OPERA (there are more than you think) wouldn't dream of using the phone in the opera house so it must be something about the movie theatre "ambience".
I can imagine the next generation of High school kids asking their teachers What was "The Cinema" !!!
Cheers
jimbo
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