http://www.variety.com/article/VR111792 ... id=13&cs=1

Don't know if this has been posted anywhere, and this seemed like the place to do it. If they really want to kill theater business, I would suggest following this example.

I read about this a few months ago. apparently a few people were experimenting with it and everyone else is just waiting to see what will happen.

I just dont see hwo they will make it work or how in the world they might actually think they can change releasing formats to this type of simultaneous exposure!!

what's even more insane is Soderbergh signed up to do 6 of these???????

Personally, I don't understand why anyone would choose to watch a movie on TV (broadcast or DVD) when they have a choice to go see it on the big screen. Anyone who's undiscerning enough to do so, deserves the minimized experience of not seeing a great movie with an appreciative crowd in the darkened heaven of a cutting edge technology modern movie theatre.

The same people who would do this are probably the ones that already "wait for the DVD"...

Ebert & Roeper raved about Bubble on their show this week, Roeper even called it a masterpiece. I'll definitely be checking it out, though I'm not sure if I'll do the theater or DVD route yet.

By the way, this is coming out next Friday in theaters and the Tuesday after (31st) on DVD.

Personally, I don't know why anybody would, given the choice, have to fight for seats, sit in a crappy theater with bad sound and bad screen experience and an audience that doesn't shut up when they could watch a crystal clear DVD, on a Plamsa screen television, in a nice comfy chair. At least at home I can turn off the goddamned cell phones.

Unless every film you go to is either IMAX or some sort of digital projection, I don't know where these "cutting edge, modern" theaters are.

I say: down with theaters.

Didn't Noel do the minimal theater/television/dvd (maybe even disposable DVD, now i think bout it) thing in 2004?

That was a pretty good movie, actually.

And I guess it's just one of those subjective experience things...I've never had "bad" theater experiences...never a burned out print, or smelly screamy baby or blurry unfocused screen. I doubt home viewing will ever replace the theatre for me, unless by force. (Or if I ever happen to have a home and the money enough to dedicate a room to it. but that'd still be more "theater" than "living room TV" kinda thing.)

I plan to check it out in theaters first.

Not too crazy about the whole idea myself but we'll see.

Me either. The theaters I go to are really nice.

Although I occasionally get the crap crowd.

Not that often, though.

On the flip side, at least 1/3 of my showings last year had some sort of cell phone interferance (the last being Brokeback Mountain, twice!). Because of weird release rules and schedules I had to chase films down and get crappy seats for at least two movies I was very hot to see (one of them Good Night, and Good Luck.) in my lifetime there have been about 20 prints that were so fucked up I had to walk out. Earliest being Back to the Future in 1985!!!! I can remember Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Empire Strikes Back SE, Hulk and the most disturbing one being Dogma, which was so fucked up and so late at night that the theater just sent EVERYONE home.

3 times the fire alarm has been pulled when I've been in a movie... the most recent being Hotel Rwanda, the other one time I can clearly remember was The Lost World, 9 years ago.

Then when you go see stuff like The Corpse Bride, look at how washed out the colors are, then come home and watch the HBO HD cable special with footage from the movie and realize how much of the color and life is drained out by front projection technology.

I haven't felt a "superior theater experience" since Jurassic Park.

Remind me not to go see a movie with you. You seem to have bad luck all around.

I've only had a few bad experiences. Once the theater opened 20 minutes late due to "power issues" and the projectionist forgot to load the second reel so the film just cut off. I left at that point and saw the film a few days later (it was only $1).

One fire alarm in my memory, two years ago during King Arthur.

I know! It sucks! I don't know why it is. There were literally like 20 people in my Brokeback Mountain showing and there were 2 cell phone attacks!

I have compensated with very nice televisions and VERY nice DVD players.

I don't feel like my cinema experience has been cheapened in the least bit or that I'm getting "less" out of film. The only reason I go to theaters these days is if it's a social thing... like I'm going with my friends or if I'm so hot to see something that I will sacrifice my money and extra time to actually get my ass in the seat. I'm so minimalist when it comes to movies that basically I won't go see anything but the first showing on Saturday mornings of almost any film.

EVEN MY FRIENDS ALMOST RUINED MUNICH FOR ME. They were sitting right next to me during the "attack" sequence when the team goes to Lebanon and my friend was all like "Oooh that's Al Green". It's SOOOO aggrivating.

My other question is...

"When is the Academy/Guilds going to change the Oscar rules?"

It is a question of when.

Which rules? Like TV airing = ineligible type thing?

Yup.



There is also a rule about films playing for no less than seven consecutive days in Los Angeles County.

Not that Bubble will recieve any Academy Awards. But the door is being slowly opened to quality dual or straight to DVD releases.

The fire alarm has been pulled during Random Hearts (I should've left instead of returning to the auditorium to view the rest of it), my second viewing of Pirates of the Caribbean and my first viewing of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (in the middle of a thunderstorm during which we had to stand outside for an hour, bleh).

'Tis was not fun.

One of the first theater experiences I can remember is my mom took us to Kirkland Park Place in Kirkland, Washington to see Pinocchio. In the old days, before video for you kids, Disney would re-release their films into theaters on a rotating 5-to-7 year basis. They did this for decades, especially before the time of The Little Mermaid and the mass expansion of VHS (mostly in the late 1980s, early 1990s).

ANYWAY, the reason why I remember this is that my mom took us to see this film... it must have been like 1981 or 1982, and she didn't realize that the theater didn't have the rights to Disney's version (which at the time was being advertised, it was released on video in 1985) and instead they were showing some really crappy live action version of the film. Not the Sandy Duncan one, but I've never been able to find the name of the film and can't even remember if it was in English or not.

Regardless, all I can remember is my mom pulling us out of it and the argument that followed with the theater owner, and her being really upset at the theater and crying. And seeing your mom cry when you are like 5 years old is pretty fucking traumatic.

So yeah, down with theaters! Theaters = moms crying = pain.

My second memory is goin gto see the Northwest premiere of Return of the Jedi, which was must more positive, BUT STILL!!!

..Wow,abouttheworstfilmexperienceI'veeverhadwasthefilmmessingupduringPokemon:TheFirstMovie andhavingtowaitfiveminutesforittocomeback. Ifeelveryluckyallofasudden.

I've never had bad experiences like that.

Probably the worst would be that Aeon Flux started 30 minutes late because of projector problems, but we got our money back and free passes in return for the wait, and for me, watching a crappy film.

See, that's funny... when Dogma broke (or whatever happened to it) we had to wait around for 45 minutes at 12:30 in the morning to get a *pass* because the theater owners were so inept. People were so pissed... it was the 11 something PM show.

The film died somewhere around the point where Alan Rickman meets the Bethany chick down by the water/lake. I didn't see the second half of the movie until the second year of its DVD release... so thank god it broke or whatever.

Oh, I forgot, that movie where Val Kilmer played a blind guy with Mira Sorvino window dressing the entire time (At First Sight?) started like an hour after the scheduled time and it was like 2 degrees in the theater.

I can't stand to see my mother cry. One more reason why I'm happy I no longer live with or anywhere near here. She did it way too much.

I have a log of bad theatre experiences, ranging from near fisticuffs over seats, the kicking of chairs, or cell phone usage, to witnessing a robbery during Empire Strikes Back SE. I dread going to certain cinemas at certain times of the day. I almost always try to see the first show of the day. When I'm pulling a marathon, I don't have a choice. But teens, thugs, old people, couples, small children, soccer moms, they all irritate the fuck out of me.

I've invested a lot of time and $$$ into my home theatre and I'm drawing up plans for an actual screening room with curtains and deluxe seating, the whole nine. But as is, my home theatre is still second only to IMAX and DLP theatres in terms of picture and sound quality.

I hope we see more of these simultaneous releases. Watching the Enron debut on HDNet was without a doubt better than going to a theatre.

I have counted that I have been to the theatres for about 400 times in the past 6 years. I don't know what's wrong with the ones you are going to, Loyal and andaroo, but my experiences have almost always been great. Good seats, great theatres. I have had one or two messed up prints in all the years. In only one single showing out of 400+ did a cell phone ring. It's quite a taboo over here... The worst thing ever happening to me would be someone's head of someone seating ahead of me covering part of the screen, but that happened for about 5 times out of 400.

The only fire alarm pulled in a theatre in all the years was actually my own work, hehe. It was an accident, though and during that time there were no showings anyway.

I generally run into a serious print/and our audio issue once or twice a month.

In a given year there are only maybe 20 films worth paying $10 for.