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Topic: Ready Or Not (2019)
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Mark Ogden
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From: Little Falls, N.J.
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 08-22-2019 06:47 PM
At the Cinemark 12 Theaters, Watchung, New Jersey.
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The Le Domas family has been making board games for over one-hundred years, but unlike Milton Bradley or the Parker Brothers they owe their success to a Faustian deal that the company namesake made a very long time ago. But it turns out that the long-dead patriarch still needs some occasional fun, and that is why anyone marrying into the family must spend their wedding night playing a game with the rest of the group, lest they incur his wrath from the Great Beyond. Sometimes it’s Old Maid, sometimes it’s a deadly game of hide and seek. If so, and the bride escapes, it’s curtains for everybody else. Or is it? Could it be everybody is just bat-shit crazy, and they are just making it all up? Either way, the bride in this movie winds up spending her wedding night dodging her in-laws, all of whom are out to kill her to stave off the family curse.
This is a fast-moving, furious and occasionally very funny movie, but one that has a set of rules so complex that everybody’s motivations aren’t completely clear, at least not at first. Some of the family members have divided loyalties as well, and the new bride’s brother-in-law makes it clear that if the curse is real, he would just as soon see her escape and have it all over. The blood and gore level is pretty high, but it’s eased a bit by some hysterically funny scenes. The whole cast very good, and the gal playing the put-upon bride is terrific. The ending is a hoot, too.
I might add that this is one of the most dimly photographed pictures I’ve seen in awhile. Everything is dark and dingy except for some very harshly lit highlights. That may have been the intention, but see this in a theatre that you know has good luminance, because otherwise this will probably look like mush.
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Geoff Jones
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From: Broomfield, CO, USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 08-26-2019 08:56 AM
I saw Ready or Not last night and enjoyed it for the most part. The trailer gives away far too much. If you're a fan of dark comedy horror, skip the trailer and go see this movie.
But be sure to find a theater that cares about showmanship.
I made the mistake of seeing this at Regal's Greenwood Plaza Cinebarre. I hadn't been to a Regal cinema in years after a number of lousy presentations, but circumstances made this location and showtime my best option. I should have stayed home.
Bright green light from the exit sign blasted across the bottom of the screen during the entire film, and it's a darkly-lit movie.
I complained to the manager afterwards, who was standing around in the lobby hanging out with a half-dozen other employees. They acted stunned. They had no idea what was going in the auditorium. I guess Regal is paying them to socialize and not to monitor their theaters. I doubt they will be paying them for long, though, because there were more employees in the building than customers.
I also had to get him to refund my credit card for the drink that I ordered before the show started that never showed up. He jumped right on that. Apparently, the employee who took my order has been a problem for them, and they all started badmouthing her like a bunch of gossips. I believe one of them called her "manic."
Sadly, I left the theater feeling pretty sure that she would be fired and nothing would change about the green light blasting across the screen. At least I know better than to go back to a Regal theater.
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Geoff Jones
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From: Broomfield, CO, USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 08-29-2019 06:10 PM
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I have annoying exit lights on both sides of my screen - they can not be moved, its not theater staff's fault or something they can do anything about.
Typically you have to have three exits in a typical theater, each must have an exit sign. These are code requirements and not negotiable - even the brightness of the exit light is dictated by code.
Its just unfortunate that there exit doors are poorly placed [Frown]
I'm sorry, but I absolutely refuse to accept this response. Any theater that can't properly project a movie shouldn't be patronized and shouldn't be in operation. Proper projection includes keeping stray light off the screen.
The light could easily be blocked from hitting the screen with a couple of pieces of cardboard, some black felt, and a few tacks. Alternately (and a little more elegantly), a little cluster of black drapes could be hung from the ceiling behind the sign to absorb the light heading toward the screen.
Neither of those solutions would block the view of the exit light from any seat, nor would they dim the light.
It's also worth noting that Regal recently did a major retrofit to turn this location into a "Cinebarre" food-service theater. If they cared about presentation, they would have taken the opportunity to address the problem then.
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