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Movieguide Guest Book
06/03/00 03:20:19
| My URL: Visit Me |
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06/27/99 08:36:44
| Name: Mayor |
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05/27/99 23:23:56
| Name: ICQ Gal | My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me | |
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Cool page. Thanks for letting me sign your guestbook
04/24/99 15:02:51
| Name: paul summers | My URL: Visit Me | City, State: mississauga, ontario |
| Favorite Theatre: coliseum 9, uptown 1 (famous players cinemas) | Coolest Movie: the matrix | Best Actor or Actress: denise richards |
| Ultimate Vehicle: ferrari 355 f1 | Vacation Hot Spot: boston |
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In toronto/mississauga, the theaters with "BIG SOUND BIG PICTURE BIG DIFFERENCE" are
in the famous players movie chain. (a VIACOM company). the coliseum 10 movie theater in mississauga was the #1 theater in north america for 39 weeks starting may 17, 1997.
My point is the AMC 24 , AMC 20 and AMC 30 theaters(brand new ) here only meet the standard of 'what is needed' , i.e. great seating, good picture, o.k. sound. the o.k. sound is due the surround sound not matching the front channel sound and brittle sou
d quality.
Famous Players theater sound is better due the
BRYSTON brand amplifiers they use and the fact that all the coliseum theaters are THX .
the uptown theater has bass that rocks!, yet the stadium seating in this theater has very little knee room.
some facts:
the bulbs last about 4000 hours (should be changed after 2000 hours.)
the dreaded red tint, missing black detail is caused by the projection bulb fogging up due to the uv light fogging inside of the bulb, then filtering the blue light, causing a red shift.
(i have seen this red tint in theaters before the coliseum, silver city movie theater expansion in the toronto area. l have not seem this effect in these new theaters.)
02/15/99 00:36:54
| Name: Joanna |
| My URL: Visit Me |
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Was interested in your description of SDDS. When it first came out, it was pretty unreliable. I read somewhere that it became a joke at the time and some said it meant, "Still Doesn't Do Shit."
02/10/99 05:37:56
| Name: Marshall | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Livonia, MI | Favorite Theatre: AMC 20, Livonia | Coolest Movie: Fargo |
| Best Actor or Actress: Ralph Fiennes | Ultimate Vehicle: Porsche 928 | Vacation Hot Spot: Park City, UT |
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01/06/99 09:27:22
| Name: Brian | My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me | City, State: Phoenix, AZ |
| Favorite Theatre: Shea 14 |
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I have been working at Harkins Shea 14 off and on for the past few years (as floor staff, supervisor, and Ast. Manager Trainee)!!!! I wish people would read the info. that you have on your page! Also, TO EVERONE WHO HAS EVER BEEN OR IS PLANNING TO GO TO S
EA 14: BE NICE TO THE EMPLOYEES!!! THEY WORK HARD TO MAKE YOUR MOVIE EXPERIENCE THE BEST!!!!
12/05/98 07:30:22
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12/02/98 20:26:19
| Name: Nathan Lewellen | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Oak Hill, Ohio 45656 | Favorite Theatre: Tri-City Theater | Coolest Movie: Starship Troopers |
| Best Actor or Actress: Will Smith | Ultimate Vehicle: Diablo | Vacation Hot Spot: Virginia Beach |
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Sup? I'd like everyone to visit my homepage and E-mail me I'm still working on it and I need some help making my own guestbook so please tell me how to do it. I have some really cool links too.
11/24/98 19:39:08
| Name: bob | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: london | Favorite Theatre: canan | Coolest Movie: goodfellas |
| Best Actor or Actress: deniro | Ultimate Vehicle: car | Vacation Hot Spot: liverpool |
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11/17/98 16:34:04
| Name: Judy graves | My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me | City, State: Waldorf, Maryland |
| Favorite Theatre: none, cause i work there | Coolest Movie: one that is not in my theater |
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i am just curious as to what other people have found in movie theaters. Strange stories. could be anything from drugs, money, alchol, weird types of food that somebody sneeked in, etc.. i wanna know the weirdest most funniest stories. pleas write to
me if you have a story to tell.
10/08/98 19:26:09
| Name: Richard Lopez | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Waco,Texas | Favorite Theatre: Galaxy 16 | Coolest Movie: Airbud |
| Best Actor or Actress: Kevin Costner | Ultimate Vehicle: Lamburgini | Vacation Hot Spot: Waco Texas |
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Can you please help me on my science project????? Could you go around to a few theatres and ask them to help you on a friends projects.i am doing a project thats Question is Does the population of movie theatres Go down during football Season????? if you
ould please help It would be a lot of help.Could you maybe get like free pencils for display or something?
10/06/98 08:44:02
| Name: Bad Bunny | My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me | |
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Just surfing. Thanks.
06/25/98 18:00:25
| Name: Jane Doe | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Cottonwood, AZ | Favorite Theatre: here? none, yet | Coolest Movie: which one? |
| Best Actor or Actress: oh so many!!! | Ultimate Vehicle: a 4X4 with power | Vacation Hot Spot: Sedona, AZ |
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I think the DTS systems are fantastic. From a singer's point of view, the sound is excellent. Enough superior to mention.
Just moved here from the L.A. area, and don't know many theaters here...yet.
Manns isn't that great ya know, been redone 3 or 4 times already - I think it even burned once. Give me a break.
06/25/98 17:37:27
| Name: dr. susan j. russo | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: nyc | Favorite Theatre: ???? | Coolest Movie: conspiracy theory |
| Best Actor or Actress: mel gibson | Vacation Hot Spot: cape may nj |
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you are the best..thanks for all your help today
06/24/98 22:43:41
| Name: M. Chapman | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Nashville, TN. | Favorite Theatre: Regal Cinemas - Bellevue Cinema 12 | Coolest Movie: Money Talks (so funny) |
| Best Actor or Actress: Who's to say... | Ultimate Vehicle: My car | Vacation Hot Spot: South Beach |
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Excellent page!! I only wish every person in the world was required to read and sign your page to better educate themselves about the theatre industry. I've read your entire page, and it's great!! I have only one concern, when patrons visit a theatre an
purchase items from the concession stand for their personnal consumption, please inform your readers of the importance to pick up their trash and deposit it into the trash containers at the back of the auditorium once their movie has ended. If only we c
uld make everyone an "Usher" for a day...... If everyone would consider cleaning up after themselves, what a better enviroment they would have each time they visited a movie theatre.
Thank you for the page and the forum!!
A Theatre Employee
06/17/98 22:25:57
| Name: Per Hauberg | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Malling, Denmark | Favorite Theatre: The Empire, Leicester Square, London - The Greatest !!! | Coolest Movie: Tati's PLAYTIME |
| Best Actor or Actress: Peter Sellers | Ultimate Vehicle: Scandia Skinnebus - Serie II | Vacation Hot Spot: Cinema Owner - never on vacation |
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Site is fine, -but putting DTS as # 3 takes You down !
As Martin Brooks of Southampton in this guestbook, i too mean that SR-D is last - You get drop-out for every splice, and for optimum listening You have to see the film within 3-4 weeks in theatre. -It is simply too cheap - except when You're buying the ge
r...
DTS/70 must be the way foreward: No huge extra expences for the magnetic track, and sound as new for years. -Look foreward to this getting common.
SDDS - I never heard it. -Represented in Denmark only on (few) Columbia/Sony/TriStar pics, and the only theatre running SDDS has only 3 front speakers. -I'll wait !
I'm running, what DTS calls "The Smallest Show on Earth" - "Malling Bio" in danish village with just 4.500 people - trying to do something big within a very small house:
Screen #1: 104 seats (originally 202, but now space for but and legs instead)
2 lovely,. old Philips DP70 (Norelco AA II) with
Dolby CP65(70) for 4- and 6-track magnetic + DTS-6 (35mm) and SR-D.
Screen #2: 39 seats, the mishap of Cinemeccanica Victoria 9 (someday there will be money for a n y t h i n g else) CP65, DTS-6.
If not the worlds smallest public cinema, then at least the smallest with 6-track digital sound !
Maybe, americans used to "big is beautifull" will
want to avoid - but that's what the site can lift.
Have also once been leading one of the lands really greatest cinemas, the TRE FALKE BIO,
Copenhagen (1980-81) running a 10 month series of old 70mm, before collective junking of practically every 70mm print in DK (disaster !)
On reel Todd-AO - deeply curved 50 feet screen two weeks (or so) each: "Where Eagles Dare", "Sound of Music", "Hello Dolly", "Ice Station Zebra", "Paint Your Waggon", "Dersu Uzala",
"Doktor Zivago" and many moore. -Well, -those were the days...
Please let my main question stand open for Mr Harris, doing such otherwise great job in restoring my old loves: Why this ugly, Dolby-oriented mix on My Fair Lady, Spartacus and Lawrence. -Mr Spielberg must have been bought and paid for, when he claimed, t
at Lawrence sounded better than ever - with all the dialouge coming out of the center hole. - SHIT !!
The 3 films mentioned all had beautifull, old-fashionned discrete 6-track - mix with sound constantly following actors across the big screen.
That ought to be in those expensive, restored versions. too.
Moviegoer's Guide is splendid - don't You dare to stop !!
06/06/98 18:32:05
| Name: LUIS RUEDAS | My URL: Visit Me | City, State: LOS ANGELES, CA. |
| Favorite Theatre: UNIVERSAL CITY WALK | Coolest Movie: THE FIVE HARTBEATS | Best Actor or Actress: MARLON BRANDO |
| Ultimate Vehicle: AMC HUMMER | Vacation Hot Spot: SANTA BARBARA |
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THERES NOTHING LIKE GOING TO THE CITY WALK. WERE YOU CAN HAVE DINNER BEFORE YOU SEE YOUR MOVIE, OR WATCH A MAGIC SHOW EVEN SHOP AT OVER 50 STORES, OR JUST HAVE SOME COFFEE OVER AN INTRESTING TALK. YOU CAN ALSO WALK HAND IN HAND UP AND DOWN THE WALK WITH T
E ONES YOU LOVE ALL THIS CAN BE DONE BEFORE OR AFTER A GOOD MOVIE! DONT YOU JUST LOVE IT!
06/03/98 01:08:57
| Name: Bob | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Streamwood, IL | Favorite Theatre: The Theatre of the Mind | Coolest Movie: Alive |
| Best Actor or Actress: Fran Drescher | Ultimate Vehicle: Harrier Jet | Vacation Hot Spot: Anywhere along the Equator |
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You have a slick site here. I never thought somebody could ever make a living at working at a movie theatre, but you hit it big. I'm a big fan of movies too, but I can't see serving popcorn and dishing out tickets. I'd probably be pretty good at yellin
"get yer stinkin' feet off the seats you hooligans!!!", though. Think that makes me management material? Oh well. I'll probably just stick with creating movies in my head for now. Come by and hang at my house if you wanna get to know me more... PLEASE
!!
05/30/98 21:18:42
| Name: Brandi Middaugh | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Oklahoma, Oklahoma | Favorite Theatre: AMC | Best Actor or Actress: Julia Roberts |
| Ultimate Vehicle: bmw | Vacation Hot Spot: Dallas, LA |
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05/29/98 22:13:22
| Name: wayne conkling |
| My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me |
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05/22/98 19:55:46
| Name: Sandra | My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me | City, State: NJ |
| Coolest Movie: Titanic | Best Actor or Actress: Leonardo DiCaprio |
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Hey, great page! I really enjoyed looking at it, I'll come visit again soon. Thanks for signing my guestbook :)
05/19/98 20:00:51
| Name: Tom Rooney | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Phoenix, AZ | Favorite Theatre: Still To Be Determined ... After following the moviegoer's guide | Coolest Movie: There are so many ... |
| Best Actor or Actress: Clare Danes is pretty cool. | Ultimate Vehicle: Anything than can take places that any other vehicle can't. None of this glorified station wagon of an offroad vehicle .... give me something with real power! | Vacation Hot Spot: Capitola/Santa Cruz, CA |
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Dan,
I enjoyed your site, although I haven't gotten to see all of it yet, I have book marked it for later viewing. see you soon.
Tom
05/11/98 14:03:42
| Name: Jeremy Virieux | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Glengarry, Tasmania | Coolest Movie: Men In Black | Best Actor or Actress: Arnold Schwartzneger (typo) |
| Ultimate Vehicle: Nissan Pulsar Sports Car | Vacation Hot Spot: Hawii |
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Great hp, It's awsome and I love the little annimated things moving. :-)
See ya round.
05/11/98 03:52:21
| Name: Angela Marks | My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me | City, State: Mississippi |
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I work for a movie theater corporation and I also know what it is like to be a customer at other theaters but I would like to say one thing: As an employee I think we deserve a little appreciation we want the best for our customers, although the customers
think otherwise. Give the management a REST they are doing their best to better serve YOU!
05/03/98 01:07:38
| Name: Scott Knapp | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Phoenix, AZ | Favorite Theatre: AMC Ahwatukee 24 | Coolest Movie: This Year: Good Will Hunting |
| Best Actor or Actress: Jennifer Aniston/Robin Williams | Ultimate Vehicle: 1967 Corvette 427 | Vacation Hot Spot: Paris, Arizona... not really. |
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Very informative! I always thought THX and Dolby were the same thing. I think I am going to go see another movie RIGHT NOW! And it will be so much better because of your page! Thanks so much! You ever need any money, just ask. That's how much your p
ge changed my life. I love you, man!
05/02/98 17:18:14
| Name: Nick Jones | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Phoenix, AZ | Favorite Theatre: AMC | Coolest Movie: The Natural |
| Best Actor or Actress: Charles Bronson | Ultimate Vehicle: Mustang | Vacation Hot Spot: Hawaii |
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Great page!! Keep up the good work!!!
04/20/98 16:44:02
| Name: Martin Brooks | My URL: Visit Me |
| My Email: Email Me | City, State: Southampton, England |
| Favorite Theatre: Empire, Leicester Sq, London |
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Hello there.
I found your pages interesting and informative, but have a few points I would like to raise.
I am the Head Projectionist with a volunteer based film society at the university in Southampton - Union Films (www.soton.ac.uk/~uf).
We are currently equipped with a Vic 5 35mm projector with SR-D and DTS. Having worked extensively with both, I feel that DTS is vastly superior to SR-D. From an audience point of view, SR-D lacks the clarity of DTS - citing for example periods of comple
e silence or subtle noises. SR-D suffers immensely in comparison to DTS in wear and tear - dust, scratches etc, which reduce the quality of sound.
From a projectionist's point of view, DTS is also superior due to it's significantly better redundancy - if the timecode can't be read in a section of film, (eg over a splice), it will continue playing from the CD-ROM for a user-specified duration (normal
y a few seconds). SR-D on the other hand will "drop-out" into SR if there is even the slightest gap or damage to the film, especially over splices. It is common for films in SR-D to get readings of 5 and upwards (0=perfect, 8=Fail) through a DA20 decode
simply due to dirt and everyday use.
I haven't worked with SDDS, although I have come across prints with a SDDS track. I've heard it's good, but it's not all that common over here in England. However, the fact remains that as long as an soundtrack is printed on the film, it will get damage
(probably more so than a CD-ROM).
One small point I noticed - you say SR is basically SR-D without the Digital - don't forget that Digital splits the surrounds but SR does not.
You make the comment that 70mm is sliding into extinction. I would agree with this, but from the angle that it should be saved. If you compare a 70mm film and 35mm version, on screen, the 70mm one provides a much clearer, sharper and steadier picture.
t is not compressed, and gives a much better viewing experience. Now that the abolishion of mag-striping in Europe and USA has forced distributors to get it done in places with less stringent regulations such as China - this too will push the price up, a
d make it less popular (not to mention the cost of buying a 70mm or dual gauge projector!). However DTS offers an ideal solution to this problem, but it remains to be seen if it will get taken up at all.
It would be a shame to see 70mm disappear, since there is little further improvement to be made with sound at the moment - improving picture quality should be a priority for the industry don't you think?
Some rarer film formats you may like to add:
1.75:1 - UK widescreen - very rare now
1.37:1 - Academy/Standard (1.33 - very little real difference)
Well, its good to know there is someone else out there who can tell when something sounds good or not. Too many people use their local cinema without thinking or appreciating how good/poor it is. I get very annoyed when I go to a poorly set-up cinema, o
pay to see a very low presentation standard because the whole experience does not work if the film is played in the wrong sound format, or even worse it is out of focus.
Anyway, an interesting site, keep up the good work.
04/18/98 00:31:07
| Name: Matt Zur | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Endicott, NY | Favorite Theatre: SONY Theaters | Coolest Movie: Pulp Fiction |
| Best Actor or Actress: Robert Deniro | Ultimate Vehicle: Jaguar XK8 | Vacation Hot Spot: Bahamas |
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Excellent page, I'll definitely come back to visit it again.
10/28/97 09:24:05
| Name: Zach Drew | My URL: Visit Me | My Email: Email Me |
| City, State: Phoenix ,AZ | Favorite Theatre: Ahwatuhkee AMC 24 | Coolest Movie: Contact, and all Star Wars |
| Best Actor or Actress: Jenifer Aniston and Anthony Hopkins | Ultimate Vehicle: RAV4 | Vacation Hot Spot: Coronado Island, CA |
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