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Why would you pay to see a movie on a screen that small?TheBat said:I saw the 2d version on the big screen. a theatre that had a 65 inch size. it was a fine theatre. too bad the movie stunk.
Jacob
That's not the same thing. If you buy it and watch at home it's different than going to a theater and paying to watch it on a screen that's a little bigger then a tv screen.Mark Oates said:I'm going to pay to see the movie on a 42" screen.
Well, there's "Flop" and there's "Box office disappointment, persecuted by media panic".Ronald Epstein said:The film was a box-office flop. For that reason, I
suspect the studio is going to get this out quick to
try and recoup some of their losses.
100 feet must have been a Cinerama screen. I have a list of the UK Cinerama theatres on my web site - http://cineramahistory.com/ctcineramatheatres.htm . Some of them have pictures of the screens and/or the curtains in front of the screens.Mark Oates said:I appreciate that, Tony. Actually in retrospect I agree with you about seeing a movie on a theatrical screen that small. But that's the curse of the modern multiplex. It wouldn't surprise me if you couldn't find a screen that dinky. It's one of the reasons I don't go to the cinema any more. Here in my home town we have one ten-screen multiplex with a number of different-sized screens. The largest screens are something like forty feet, and the smallest is probably in the 100 inch range. Compared with the cinemas of old, where movies were showcased rather simply thrown on a screen, modern cinemas are a depressing prospect. We used to have screens up to (I think) about 100 feet - certainly the theatre containing that screen was the largest auditorium in the UK. Now it's a cabaret bar. To see a decent-sized screen I think I would have to travel cross-country to Bradford where they have Cinerama and IMAX capability, but here in my home town there's just the Odeon multiplex and the people who run it don't really care.
My home set up is a 42" LG with 3D capability. It's about as big a screen as can comfortably be accommodated in the living room at our current viewing distance, which I would say would be the equivalent of watching a moderately-sized theatre screen from the middle of the balcony (or the stalls if you sit cross-legged on the floor)