Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

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Originally Posted by Alex

Just not snippets about the interesting part of the story (you have no idea what happened to the ballplayers).

For as purely formulaic movie as it was it was well enough done. But I walked away feeling they took a very interesting story and focused on the least interesting part (the personal growth of the savior white guy figure).

Good points, Alex, and I agree. But I still enjoyed the movie.

[Moonliner]

Disney is making a movie from "Into the Woods"

Rapunzel is in into the woods.




In "Into the Woods" Rapunzel dies.

[RStar]

She is chased through the woods by a wolf. But she comes to a cabin made of candy, and takes refuge. She is quickly confronted by an old hag that runs a house of ill repute and an Appple Store with seven dwarfs. She is killed by the old hag, and eaten.

But fear not! She has her revenge as a huntsman on the back of a dragon fly in and set fire to the cabin and surrounding woods, causing all of the animals to flee! I love happy endings!

[Moonliner]

Have any of you been to see a movie mixed for Dolby Atmos in a theater with Atmos (AMC seems to call it "ETX")

I noticed there are now a couple of theaters in my area that carry it and I'm wondering if it's worth the cost/travel time.

[Alex]

I have seen the Regal, AMC, and Cinemark versions of these premium screenings. No idea as to what supposedly is involved.

Other than being louder I've not noticed anything worth the extra money. I've not paid for the even more premium service of sitting in one of the special seats with build in speakers and whatnot.

But I'm nowhere close to an audio snob (we'll leave out the part where I'm convinced 99.99% of audio snobs can tell the difference either, they just like thinking they can).

[RStar]

I usually go to the AMC downtown Disney, and they don't have it. But the AMC 30 at the block does. I may have to give it a try, it sounds interesting (pun intended). I enjoy the IMAX 3D, but at $19 a ticket it's getting expensive!

Which brings me to the point that I think that to gauge a movies' success, they should also publish the number of tickets sold, not just the dollar figure.

[Moonliner]

I'd like to give it a try this weekend, but having to see transformers 4 is a heavy price to pay for trying out a new audio format.

Originally Posted by Alex

But I'm nowhere close to an audio snob (we'll leave out the part where I'm convinced 99.99% of audio snobs can tell the difference either, they just like thinking they can).

I generally agree, but that's about speaker qualities like tone and timber. Simply adding more speakers is a difference that's easy to spot no matter how un snob-ish you might be. Speakers overhead give a different sound stage than just the typical wall mounted speakers or at least that's the theory of Atmos.

[Alex]

Oh, I can tell it is different. I can't discern any improvement.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

Oh, I can tell it is different. I can't discern any improvement.

From what I have seen:

Not all special/enhanced/whatever they call it theaters have Atmos.
(For example "Imax" theaters don't seem to have it)
If it is an Atmos theater, only a few movies are mixed for it.
If it is an Atmos theater, and the movie is mixed for it, the locals don't always remember to turn it on.

So it's possible (probable?) you have not seen a movie with Atmos yet.

[Strangler Lewis]

Rocky Balboa: [noticing Mickey's hearing aid] What's that in your ear there?
Mickey: What it is, is I hear stupid things better.