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Richard Tuller
Film Handler

Posts: 4
From: Lewiston, Maine, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 11-25-2000 12:17 AM

WITH THE HUGE BUSINESS FROM THE GRINCH IS THE BOOTH RUNNING GOOD? ARE THERE ALOT OF TECH CALLS? just wondering

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Joe Grace
Film Handler

Posts: 44
From: Maine
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 11-25-2000 04:13 PM

Everything working good here Rich. Do they still have you in a grinch suit? ha ha. Sorry.

Hey! Did anyone see that comercial with the grinch running a projector and it is out of frame, then he puts his hand infront of the lense? Anyone?

Joe

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Dustin Mitchell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1865
From: Mondovi, WI, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 11-25-2000 04:33 PM

We have both our prints interlocked and have not had a breakdown or scratch yet.

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Erik Schill
Film Handler

Posts: 38
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 11-25-2000 06:00 PM

We got 2 prints of the Grinch and both prints are running and looking splendid

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 11-25-2000 08:55 PM

After only one week of playing, I would certainly HOPE that ALL prints of the Grinch are scratch-free.

My prints do not have any physical damage, but are loaded with negative dirt. The color is washed out and the registration will give you a headache. Just absolutely TERRIBLE lab work! I wish Ron Howard was able to see the quality (on at least some) of the prints. I saw no reason to order replacements, figuring they would all be from that overly worn out and abused inter-negative, but am wondering now if there ARE good prints out there.

Universal sometimes prints at Deluxe Hollywood and Deluxe Toronto. Mine are of course, Deluxe Hollywood. Anyone get one from Toronto?

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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-25-2000 09:06 PM

Over the summer, we had a print of 'Nutty II' that came from Deluxe Hollywood. R1 was bad and the replacement was shipped from Deluxe Toronto. Go figure. Of course R1 looked better than the rest of the movie...

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Rob Brooks
Film Handler

Posts: 57
From: NY, U.S.A.
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 11-25-2000 10:27 PM

I find the focus on "The Grinch" soft. Has anyone else found that?

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Ethan Harper
E-dawggg!!!

Posts: 325
From: Plano, TX, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 11-25-2000 10:57 PM

It seems as if the trailer was a lot better than the feature. The colors on the trailer were great were as to the movie was extremely poor. The sound just plain sucked.
Too, bad the trailer showed it off more than the movie.

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Cory Johnson
Film Handler

Posts: 46
From: La Crosse, WI USA
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 11-25-2000 11:29 PM

We got a couple of replacement reels (bad focus) from Toronto and they both look better than the other reels. Focus also seems soft here also.

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-26-2000 08:45 PM

Funny you should mention it...

I just got back from handling two calls. I got the call from one place, Thursday night, when the plenum-cooling fan died in a Christie console. Just as I got back to the motel and was settling in for the night another call came in. They had a power supply go catty-wompass on them. Luckily, I was pretty near them because of the call from the first place.

I DREAD the day when I get an emergency call from Bristol, VA and Summerville, SC at the same time!

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-29-2000 12:24 AM

I noticed a lot of inconsistency in the color. Like the Grinch's suit will be bright red in a scene, then the camera cuts to a close-up and all of a sudden it looks dirty red/faded.

I sure wish this picture would've been in scope. The scope teaser looked just great.

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Tal Marks
Film Handler

Posts: 57
From: New York, NY
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 11-29-2000 09:53 AM

Opening weekend, I was told that Ron Howard was auditorium hopping at my theater and was heard being "very satisfied" with the presentation and with audience response. I wish he would of taken the booth tour so I could show him what was REALLY going on!

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Carl King
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 199
From: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 11-29-2000 10:41 AM

GRINCH is still good at my place. Some of the colour is a little soft. It looks a bit like soft focus but bounces from scene to scene so it sure isn't intentional. Registration isn't too bad in my print ( which I run interlocked on weekend mats). I'm running Cinemeccanica machines so you know that the image shakes a bit anyway.

We projectionists get the blame for a lot of the poor presentations but , you know, it's nice to know that this one is not our fault.

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Leo Enticknap
Film God

Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 12-04-2000 07:30 PM

Haven't had the feature yet (two weeks to go before we open) but the trailer is so vertically unstable it's an embarrasment. The closing advert is rock steady, then the opening titles of the Grinch trailer wobble up and down like a dying fish (so it can't be anything to do with the projector). A previous user had cut the heads and tails off the trailer, so I've no clue what lab it came from. Hope the feature's a lot better, though...

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 12-05-2000 01:37 AM

The trailers were printed at Deluxe Hollywood as well.

Tal, I'm quite surprised Ron Howard was impressed with the presentation (mainly referring to the lab printing). Did you by chance get an EK print?

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