I never call because I never go anymore. There just isn't anything worth seeing in the theater these days.
"A movie lover’s plea: Let there be light; Many theaters misuse 3-D lenses to show 2-D films, squandering brightness, color" May 22, 2011|By Ty Burr, Globe Staff
As if rising ticket prices and chatterbox patrons weren’t enough, moviegoers in the Boston area are being left in the dark thanks to the regular misuse of the lenses on new digital projection equipment at many of the region’s major theater chains. But almost no one at the theaters or their corporate headquarters is willing to talk about it....
Honestly, it puts in my mind of the Zionist prism of a lens we call a newspaper around here.
So many of the movies look so terrible....
And the plots can't carry them.
A description of the problem comes from one of several Boston-area projectionists who spoke anonymously due to concerns about his job. We’ll call him Deep Focus....
One projectionist who has worked at a number of area theaters also preferred to remain anonymous. This man — let’s call him the Phantom Projectionist...
And yet us bloggers out here -- bad, bad anon!
So why aren’t theater personnel simply removing the 3-D lenses? The answer is that it takes time, it costs money, and it requires technical know-how above the level of the average multiplex employee. James Bond, a Chicago-based projection guru who serves as technical expert for Roger Ebert’s Ebertfest, said issues with the Sonys are more than mechanical. Opening the projector alone involves security clearances and Internet passwords, “and if you don’t do it right, the machine will shut down on you.’’ The result, in his view, is that often the lens change isn’t made and “audiences are getting shortchanged.’’
Sorry, readers, I'm walking out on this one.
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Also see: MSM Monitor Movie Matinee
