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Edwynn -> RE: The big summer movie season (6/30/2012 4:03:05 AM)
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I worked as a grip, an electrician, the Best Boy gofer, set decorator, etc. on various movies. I ran a 35 MM projector for some years. Except for the very few times I ran a 70 MM film, with six track magnetic (as opposed to the normal two track optical sound track). Dick Tracy was the last 70 MM I screened, so yeah, it's been awhile. I also screened a bunch of indie movies at various 'art houses,' some few of them with the original 16 MM print.
I saw my first few movies on the computer and 22" 'screen' recently, ... it's a different experience.
I saw The Hunger Game, and Hanna, recently. Same old violence/vengeance themes, but pretty well done, as such things go. Both were decent movies. There was some guy reviewing at IMDB and ranting about the Disney movie John Carter, saying "where was the 250 million dollars?" (budget for the movie), he was disappointed; he thought he didn't get his $250 millions' worth (though he only paid the movie ticket or DVD rental himself) so, of course, I had to see it.
Fun movie. Knowing what I know, the dust raised from the alien dog snorting, early in the movie, probably cost $10,000 by itself. The opening sequence alone probably cost $50 million.
Buster Keaton ran up a budget of $750,000 in 1926 for his silent film, The General, which was essentially the "$250 million" of it's day. That is an astoundingly fun movie, too. Every once in awhile, the 'big budget' thing actually works.
Shooting schedules and natural weather have little to do with each other. If the schedule calls for dark rainy night, in the middle of a hot sun-shiney day, you pay people to make it a dark rainy night. Most of the 'daylight' indoor scenes from the movie Days of Thunder were actually shot from 11:00 PM to ~3:00 AM, me and one or two other guys aiming a 10kW lamp through the windows of that rented warehouse from a lift 25 ft. in the air, outside, in a serious downpour.
I plan on seeing The Fall, Keyhole, The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo, and a few others soon.
The real 35 MM theater experience provides the best presentation, by far, but modern loud and raucous audiences ruin the experience sometimes. Almost every time, actually.
Sucks.
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