Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject: Tales of Terror
I worked in movie theatres across the country for a total of... um... seven years, roughly. On and off. Here and there. And boy, I could tell you some stories!
Hey, wait a minute. I am telling you stories.
Anyway, now it's your turn. I'd love to hear about what you endured, where you had to clean, who you ridiculed... you know, normal movie theatre employee rituals.
Who knows, I might turn some of them into a page of Brainwrap someday -- don't worry, I'll give you mad props if I do.
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject: Horror Stories
The Blair Witch Project will always stand out in my mind as the worst thing I ever had to deal with in the theater. Most people hated it because it was a horrible movie, but I hate it because of the number of people who puked because of the show. The sheer number of people who got nauseated from watching it astounds me to this day. It got so bad, at one point we actually put up a sign outside the theater politely asking people to leave if they started getting sick as well as getting in front of the audience before each showing, reminding them yet again to leave if they were gonna hurl. It never failed to have at least 3 or 4 people puke in each show, my favorite being the ones who would start down the aisle to leave, but start puking, leaving a nice trail of vomit up to the door. The theater had that sickeningly sweet smell of vomit powder for at least a month, even after the film had long left. _________________ My backpack's got jets.
I'm Boba the Fett
I bounty hunt for Jabba Hutt
To finance my 'Vette
~MC Chris
It never failed to have at least 3 or 4 people puke in each show
Dude. That's hilarious. You'd think the customers would heed the warnings of the puke stains in the carpet.
I had never heard that one before... reminds me of another "mass phenomenon" for another film: all the complaints we got from people claiming that Rumble in the Bronx was out of sync. Try to explain to them that it's dubbed, and all you get is a blank stare. One guy I know said he fielded such a complaint from a self-proclaimed "die-hard Jackie Chan fan" who refused to believe that any Jackie Chan movie had been dubbed.
Oh man, I can't watch any Kevin Smith film because of the way he LOVES post-sync sound. Hey, let's record the voices again, after the filming's been done! Nobody will notice when the voices are slightly out of sync with the lips!
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:00 am Post subject: But...
Ryan wrote:
Oh man, I can't watch any Kevin Smith film because of the way he LOVES post-sync sound. Hey, let's record the voices again, after the filming's been done! Nobody will notice when the voices are slightly out of sync with the lips!
YES THEY WILL KEVIN
But who cares, really? In France or Germany, f.e., all movies get German or French syncs. Since most of them are Hollywood productions filmed in English, the lip-movements never fit the things said. Does it matter? I mean, I prefer the original versions, too, but the sync has yet failed to ruin any movie for me.
Only Americans could ever complain about that! I remember one of them telling me how funny it was that the character's mouth didn't move in a way fitting the their voices after seeing A Bug's Life...
Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 179 Location: Somewhere with a lot of dirt. And cows.
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:17 pm Post subject:
Did you ever see Life Is Beautiful? The dubbed version was absolutely horrible; subtitles made the movie, if you had them, but if not, it wasn't worth watching.
Well, they can complain in other countries too, because it's an awful way to translate a movie. Subtitles, my man! Subtitles are the way to go.
Really? I don't like it if there are subtitles in a movie; in a worst case scenario, they can even be distracting or covering something one would like to see. A sync might not fit the moves on screen, but facial expressions stay fitting, and the expression over the voices do, too.
The main-problem, that a translation is, well, just a translation that most of the time cannot capture puns etc. stays the same for both subtitles and syncs.
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 9 Location: NW Suburbs of Chicago
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:56 am Post subject: Sub 'n' dub
Subtitles are the shit. I'd rather have subtitles than dubbed any day. The original language the film was shot in is the way it should sound. It's not the filmmaker's fault the audience doesn't understand Chinese or French or English, depending.
Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Maverick Orbital Satellite 652-W05
Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:47 am Post subject:
One time during one of the "local" GKC's rerun festival they had to show at midnight instead of the advertised 11 because the movie before it was running late, and this one guy was yelling at the ticket girl about it. God damn, I was ready to go and deck the guy until a manager and a couple ushers intervened. What's funny is that the jackass tripped on his way to his overly-large pickup and banged himself up pretty badly. Poetic justice at it's finest _________________ Hating humans since 20XX!
I'm guessing I don't get it nearly as bad as your average usher, but one of my worst experiences happened just last Saturday. As you know, that Yu-gi-oh movie also opened last Friday, so some basics:
- The theatre has 12 screens - 2 large, 2 medium, and 8 small.
- YGO was initially asigned to a medium at first, but was moved to a large because it would have sold out otherwise.
So the management, giving us about 10 minutes warning, moved it back to the medium screen it was initially on. However, we first had to wait for the showing of Alien Vs. Predator on that screen to end, so YGO was going to be starting a good half-hour late. What's worse? Pissed-off little kids? Pissed-off Otaku? Both? I don't know what we were dealing with, I just know they were pissed. So while one of the security guards were bribing them with more of those promotion cards for YGO to buy us time. So the instant AVP got out, the six of us rushed in to clean. That cleaning job we did was LEGENDARY. We got the whole thing done in about four minutes, with the sweaty backs to prove it.
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