Too bad they didn't see fit to send a brand new print for the Australian premiere, especially with the director present.
I've seen some of those splices, fortunately not during the show. One was at a check screening of a print for the Australian premiere of "The Piano" and it was my humble duty to make sure everything was ship shape. I was less than amused to see the leading lady jump several metres across the set because the projectionist had "fixed" some damage in the print by ripping several feet out and resplicing.
It took some hours and God's blessing to find an undamaged print in Australia in the couple of hours before the show. I would have preferred a total digital breakdown rather than some cackhanded dopey projectionist "helping" us out. Furthermore the director, Jane Campion, would be likely to have my intestines for garters had this proceeded.
You said it, man! Exactly my thinking. And as a bonus, no more having to put up with other people's chatter and their cell phones going off.
The producers of "Skyfall" were probably extremely proud of all the high-ISO stunts they could pull with their new capture medium and wanted to show off these new capabilities at their best. Excitement about a new medium does not create interesting pictures, though. Maybe we will see a phase where this excitement fades out and directors start making decent looking movies again.
Wow, that will teach people to stop texting in theaters...
I doubt that he will ever text in a movie theater again.
Wow, cops are so stupid...
Not the cops are stupid. But that guy with that glasses on.
Not the cops are stupid. But that guy with that glasses on.
In Soviet Russia there was this joke about three legged dogs running across the border, because police had been ordered to shoot all three legged dogs. When a four legged dog was asked why he also ran, he answered: "they shoot first, then count". This movie theater situation reminds me very much of this joke, and we should be worried by the fact, that it happened not in Soviet Russia, but in the so called free world.
With the google glass device you could go to the theater and watch, and your mate could be home and watch what you're watching in their google glass! Hahah!Movie pirates should rejoice. They can make hundred and hundred of lossless copies and with cheaper cost.
Some films get pirated today by delivery drivers taking the prints to a digitizing facility. To stop that, a lot of theaters get a heads up on a delivery and are encourage to report any late deliveries. Now, it's all encrypted satellite transmissions. I'm sure some cleaver hacker will find a way to break the encryption like what happened to DVDs. The movie and music industry is always try to stay one step ahead of the pirates. If you want free or cheap movies, travel to Asia. You can buy perfect copies of DVDs with nice packaging for about a $1.Movie pirates should rejoice. They can make hundred and hundred of lossless copies and with cheaper cost.
This goes on and on while Kodak has over 1B $ in their kitty from Sony entertainment. I believe that the contract is for 5 years. So, you can count on film for at least that long and at least from divisions of Sony.
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They will probably develop a new printer!
Too bad they didn't see fit to send a brand new print for the Australian premiere, especially with the director present.
Some films get pirated today by delivery drivers taking the prints to a digitizing facility. To stop that, a lot of theaters get a heads up on a delivery and are encourage to report any late deliveries. Now, it's all encrypted satellite transmissions. I'm sure some cleaver hacker will find a way to break the encryption like what happened to DVDs. The movie and music industry is always try to stay one step ahead of the pirates. If you want free or cheap movies, travel to Asia. You can buy perfect copies of DVDs with nice packaging for about a $1.
Give it 10 years when all the old projectors and digitisers have been junked, and some genius will come up with the idea of sending out film prints as a way to beat all the pirates hacking encrypted satellite transmissions...
I keep saying how many young people I run into that *LOVE* shooting film and how they are not only not jaded from losing products that very few ever used but are amazed at how many great films there are out there.
So every year, I shoot black and white at the Winter X Games and this year it is some of my Kodak HIE in 35mm & 120. Today, this 21 year old woman was over the moon to see me shooting a Nikon FM3A and Hasselblad. We talked for awhile and she really echoed what I have been telling you all for years, stop pining for what we no longer have, get out and crush it with fresh imagery on film, because that is what moves film forward, not AARP conventions of how it used to be....
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