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ChrisWiggles
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Joined: 12 Mar 2006
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Location: Seattle
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:36 am Post subject: Contagion |
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Omg. WORST MOVIE TO GO TO HUNGRY.
WORST DATE MOVIE EVER. You couldn't even get a blow-up doll to hold your hand in this movie! 
Also, hilariously bad sales prospects, because NOBODY is going to want to sit through this movie with anyone sitting anywhere around them.
A pretty good movie, but still, what the heck movie executive signed off on this one??? What a stupid investment!
This is a movie you will want to watch ALONE in your home theater.
I can't imagine the ticket sales being very strong. 
Also, wtf with casting Demetri Martin as an infectious disease specialist? Definitely not reassuring!
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erikjohn
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Location: Florida
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Wife and I went to it last weekend and walked out half way through. I am a cheap SOB and I will sit through just about anything but that movie was just flat out bad, terrible character and plot development. The movie could have been great with the cast and premise but the bottom line is..............THE MOVIE SUCKED. At least the first 45-50 minutes.
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Curt Palme
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Location: Langley, BC
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Funny, I rarely post about movies, but I liked it... until about 20 minutes from the end. Then they turned it into a chick flick. Why did it end on a hopeful note? I wanted to see the entire world die... except for some hot actress and a fat slob of an actor. Then she'd have no choice but to screw him to continue the world population. 
I did eat popcorn all the way through with my g/f, but yeah, when Paltrow got scalped... I stopped eating.
What interested me more was that in the last 3 months or so, the local 16 screen Cineplex went all digital, save maybe for 2 screens. Almost every movie showing had 'DIGITAL' tagged beside it.
I do like the lack of dust in the movie print, but the motion artifacting is worse than on film.
And what's with all the effing commercials now? It used to be ONE sponsored commercial. Now there's about 5. I swear the commercials ran longer than the previews.
I'm making a point of telling large corporations that I refuse to deal with them if they plaster their ads all over the place. Piss me off.
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dropzone7
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Location: Charlotte, NC
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I really enjoyed this movie.
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ChrisWiggles
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | I did eat popcorn all the way through with my g/f, but yeah, when Paltrow got scalped... I stopped eating. |
I am not squeamish at all, I've seen a lot of surgery on video, and even a movie with a complete real live-birth by c-section.
But yeah, that did kind of surprise me in a mainstream movie, especially that it wasn't just a quick passing shot.
I did enjoy the movie though, and I totally agree about the happy-ish ending, that surprised me, especially coming from Soderbergh.
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What interested me more was that in the last 3 months or so, the local 16 screen Cineplex went all digital, save maybe for 2 screens. Almost every movie showing had 'DIGITAL' tagged beside it.
I do like the lack of dust in the movie print, but the motion artifacting is worse than on film. |
I agree, I noticed that. Did you see it in digital projection?
I saw it at the Cinerama here in seattle, I'm not sure what they're using as they recently remodeled and upgraded their digital side, but I'm pretty certain based on my experiments that it's a 3-chip DLP, and it looked like a 2K unit, which surprised me, I could see SDE pretty easily (less than about 1x screen widths) on things other than text even. There was also severe light nonlinearity vertically, the lower half of the screen was way brighter. But the contrast ratio was very impressive, and I think I only caught some motion banding once or twice, I was very pleased, but I still would rather see stuff shot on film in 35mm there.
I wasn't bothered by the digital projection because this was shot digitally, supposedly on one of the new models of the RED cameras. Digital end-to-end is interesting.
But at the end of this month starts the 70mm festival at Cinerama that I'm very excited about. Their 35mm presentations are some of the best film presentations I've ever seen, and when they do 70mm I have to wear diapers.  
Nothing beats it, they run circles around IMAX DMR, plus their sound is exceptional, and far superior to the sound at our local real IMAX. They supposedly upgraded that at Cinerama too, but it doesn't sound much different than what I remember the last time I went there (probably a year or so ago, can't remember for what exactly), but that's a good thing because their sound is great, and their acoustical design is top notch and very VERY $$$$. I've never seen so many QRD diffusers in my life, they probably spent a million bucks just on diffusion...
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And what's with all the effing commercials now? It used to be ONE sponsored commercial. Now there's about 5. I swear the commercials ran longer than the previews.
I'm making a point of telling large corporations that I refuse to deal with them if they plaster their ads all over the place. Piss me off. |
I don't know, I was late to this movie and only caught the end of a preview to something stupid. I rarely go to the theater to see a movie where they play actual previews, I usually only do the super-obscure foreign stuff or festival viewings at the theater, everything else pretty much I do at home. But even on BD, the previews are starting to get on my nerves. I got so spoiled with ripped DVDs and just junking all the previews, it's weird to have to try to skip through all the stupid warnings on BD. 
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