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Author Topic: Taken 3 (2015) Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 01-10-2015 08:04 PM                        CINEMA: Broken Arrow Warren, Broken Arrow, OK AUDITORIUM: 8 PRESENTATION: Warren Grand Infinity 4K Freaking Laser Beam Digital/Dolby ATMOS/THX with Pre-Show Curtain Opening Ceremony Spectacular PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: None RATING: Two and one half stars (out of four) Walk in and everything is immediately familiar, yet subtley nicer with color enhancements largely through LED lighting accents. The auditorium entrance area in front of the Grand rooms has nice metal ceiling tiles. Stuff like that. But walk into one of the Infinity Grand rooms and there's lots of changes. Once you get over the new decor, you'll notice the Cinerama-level curve of the screen. It's ridiculous and looks terrible from the first few rows, but gets better midway back. And you probably want to sit back a bit to get the full effect of the ATMOS anyway. Every seat has its own set of armrests. That's right...there's two armrests between each seat. The laser projector is mounted on the balcony ledge. Image below. As Bobby predicted, there's a curtain opening ceremony. It puts the IMAX one to shame. It changes colors. There's rotating spotlights. They project stars on it. They played the ENTIRE "STAR WARS" fanfare through it. Then the curtains open left-to-right split from the middle. Oh...they also played a movie. THE PLOT: uh...a Fugitive reboot? Wackiness ensues. I never watched the first two "Taken" movies, but found this one to work just fine as a standalone feature. Unlike many recent action flicks, the beginning and end tie together pretty well. Forrest Whitaker should have had more to do here, though. Nothing great, but not a bad way to kill the afternoon.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-11-2015 11:34 AM                     Yeah, yeah...enough about the movie... What about the image on that deep-curve screen?!?!?!? How did they deal with the geometric issues of projecting digitally on that screen? How rectangular are the rectangles? How was the focus and light distribution?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-11-2015 02:02 PM                     I'm with Steve here. This auditorium is far more interesting than the movie being reviewed. Sam - please open a new thread dedicated to this auditorium in the digital forum and let's keep this thread for anyone that wants to comment about the movie.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-15-2015 06:21 PM                     Almost can tell that someone knew how to design a cinema that needs to operate with digital projection. Not this, "after the fact" stuff that comes out on occasion.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 01-21-2015 10:08 PM                     so I gather the laser projector doesn't make a lot of noise compared to standard digital DLP projectors.  |  IP: Logged

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