[aclug-L] Re: Northrock 14 Digital Projector / Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw it on the digital screen on Thursday.  I watched it at midnight at the
Warren first, though.

Although it didn't seem dark to me at Northrock, it was a very crappy
experience compared to the Warren.  The sound quality was far superior at
the Warren, and I found the pixelization at Northrock to be annoying.

I heard someone (apparantly a manager) at the Warren explaining to some
patrons around 10:30pm (while waiting for Thursday to roll around) that the
Warren chose not to install a digital projector for that very reason.  I'm
glad the Warren chose not to.  If it's annoying at Northrock on a small
crappy screen, then at the Warren on a 4-story screen, it would be even
worse.

Word to the wise:  Anyone who has not yet seen Episode II, don't see it
anywhere except one of the Warren theaters!

-- Jonathan



On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 04:33:24PM -0500, David Carmichael wrote:
> 
> Just got home from seeing the 12 noon (05/17/02) showing of Star Wars:
> Episode II- Attack of the Clones with their new digital projector and my
> wife and I have to ask a question... is the movie really that dark?  Its
> like somebody needed to turn up the contrast or brightness because there
> were many scenes where we could not make out the main actors faces and where
> the "JEDI" robes that should of been a dark brown looked black.
> 
> IF it was not due to where I was sitting I think that I might of gotten up
> and said something about how dark the picture was during the showing... but
> the couple sitting to the right of me said something about the dark picture
> to each other and the young kids sitting in front of me also said something
> to each other.
> 
> Now maybe the images found on the web of a number of the scenes that I have
> seen come to mind might of  had the brightness increased due to the direct
> viewing of the computer monitor?? But due to this one kind of expected the
> images on the screen to be just as bright.
> 
> My wife and I have gone to the Northrock 6/14 a number of times the past
> year.. we really don't know what to think about the way that the movies that
> we have seen were being displayed. (going back a few weeks when the movie
> "The Scorpion King" was released the audio playback was messed up and
> sounded 'MONO' (note: said something to Jim [the manager] who at the time
> was banging on the west popcorn popper.)
> 
> --David
> 
> 
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