[Hpdovoxm]

68" screen here mate (small room, I sit ~6' away) and I'm only using Z5500's, audio fidelity is lost on me I'm afraid as I have tinnitus. A bigger, better sound system would also sadly eat into much needed space in here.

Our local cinema used to be quite magnificent, worth making an effort for, even when it meant queuing in the rain, but they pulled it down and we got a duff soulless multiplex as a replacement.

http://cinematreasures.org/theater/6265/ (some pics below too *sigh*)

I saw Indy recently at the multiplex and came away totally underwhelmed, I know it was supposed to look slightly dated but even the trailers (Wanted being one of them) looked mediocre.

Here's my temp set up (sub's under the table)... have to get out the projector when i want to use it and put it away after - which is a little annoying - but worth it.



and seating - nice and comfy sofa:


And to the screen... bare in mind, it's daylight outside at the minute - so images are a bit washed out - forgot to take some last night lol... finally found the darn camera battery charger! woo!



I watched The Chronicles of Riddick for the first time in a while the other day, great for giving the sub a workout & the scenes in it are nothing short of amazing. Very picturesque.

[megatrendsZ]

Oh good I thought I was the only one!

I would consider going, if I thought that I could actually keep myself from yelling at the screen " YOU CAN"T CURVE A DAMNED BULLET LIKE THAT!!!" every time they did it...

Now that you mention it... it is almost like we are talking about a fictional movie based on a graphic novel or something. [shocked]

I am going to see Wall-E sometime this weekend and I am buying tickets for you guys so you can sit to the sides of me continually yelling, "THE ROBOT ISN'T REAL!".

[gopsbousperie]

Oh good I thought I was the only one!

Nope, another one here.

[megatrendsZ]

Nope, another one here.

Right? This unbelievable stuff happening in motion pictures is quite an atrocity to the art.

Anyway, the way they integrate it into the sequences is beautifully done and the theater full of people yelling and clapping seemed to agree.

[gopsbousperie]

Right? This unbelievable stuff happening in motion pictures is quite an atrocity to the art.

Anyway, the way they integrate it into the sequences is beautifully done and the theater full of people yelling and clapping seemed to agree.

Oh don't get me wrong I love a bit of fantasy and a bit of beyond the realms of the possible, but the trailer just left me feeling a bit "WTF?"
Maybe I missed the genre of the film and was presuming it was supposed to be a bit more serious than what it is.

Oh and is it common for people in the cinema to yell and clap in the US? I'd go nuts if that happened here!

[megatrendsZ]

Oh don't get me wrong I love a bit of fantasy and a bit of beyond the realms of the possible, but the trailer just left me feeling a bit "WTF?"
Maybe I missed the genre of the film and was presuming it was supposed to be a bit more serious than what it is.

Oh and is it common for people in the cinema to yell and clap in the US? I'd go nuts if that happened here!

The movie is only serious in the sense that it goes non-stop and is unapologetic. I suppose I figured that the trailer gave away the point that it is meant to be ridiculously over the top. It is based on a comic book mini-series.

I have witnessed it happen during opening nights for high action movies and most of the time the clapping and yelling will happen during a crazy loud sequence. To some it may upset them but a movie like the one we are talking about it builds up the action even more for me. Kind of like how when I saw Get Smart the crowd was laughing and helped me release and belt out some laughter myself. [yes]

[Hpdovoxm]

Right? This unbelievable stuff happening in motion pictures is quite an atrocity to the art.

Anyway, the way they integrate it into the sequences is beautifully done and the theater full of people yelling and clapping seemed to agree.

LMAO... it's funny how people don't seem to like fictional things happening in a fictional story (movie)... omg... that's NEVER happened before!

I mean... look at... oooh... nearly EVERY movie out there!

[rofl][rofl][rofl]

[Hpdovoxm]

Oh don't get me wrong I love a bit of fantasy and a bit of beyond the realms of the possible, but the trailer just left me feeling a bit "WTF?"
Maybe I missed the genre of the film and was presuming it was supposed to be a bit more serious than what it is.

Oh and is it common for people in the cinema to yell and clap in the US? I'd go nuts if that happened here!

I've seen that happen when I've been in the states - thought it was weird at first.

But then I watched a comedy or two over there & there always seems to be someone in the audience with one hell of a laugh & it just adds to it.

[CaseyFronczek]

Possible Spoilers:-

I didn't think much of it, to far fetched for me to really get into it, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

I kinda agree. I went into the movie expecting far fetched action and off the wall stunts but it took it a little too far, plus the twist was spotted by my girlfriend who had trouble with the plot intricacies of finding Nemo.

The movie started so well, the office scenes really captured the drudgery of modern service workers lives. You really began to connect with the character, then it just becomes idiotic, he becomes idiotic, even Angelina was idiotic.

Morgan Freeman really dialed in his performance and his one dimensional character could have been played by any 'black man in a suit', at the end I didn't care who died, how they died or how quickly a bazillion rats would need to run to cover a 3 story fort in 30 seconds.

Or how a sniper viewing scope is useless for a bullet trajectory that passes through several windows in an arch not dissimilar to that of a rainbow.

Or how a corvette can take the weight of a muscle car driving over the top of it.

I could go on all day.

Clive Owen's Shoot em up was also filled with a generous amount of WTF but it did it all tongue in cheek with splashings of humour that made the whole movie palatable and IMO brilliant.

Wanted is a pile of garbage, layered in garbage with a drizzle of tramps urine to top it all off.

[megatrendsZ]

Clive Owen's Shoot em up was also filled with a generous amount of WTF but it did it all tongue in cheek with splashings of humour that made the whole movie palatable and IMO brilliant.

Wanted is a pile of garbage, layered in garbage with a drizzle of tramps urine to top it all off.

Interesting, I personally think the exact opposite. To me, Shoot Em Up was unbelievably awful and struggled so hard to be that campy, over the top movie but was just a lifeless wannabe executed poorly, coming up short.

What Shoot Em Up tried to be, Wanted nailed brilliantly in my eyes.