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Author Topic: Vomit count for "Cloverfield" Chris Mosel Film Handler Posts: 74 From: New Braunfels, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-18-2008 02:47 PM                     4 for the first show. 1 men's room, 1 women's room, 2 auditorium.  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 01-18-2008 03:13 PM                        It is a PG-13 movie what can be so bad in it to make people throw up?  |  IP: Logged Chris Mosel Film Handler Posts: 74 From: New Braunfels, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-18-2008 03:20 PM                     Motion sickness  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 01-18-2008 03:57 PM                        KWELL  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 01-18-2008 04:03 PM                        We did a midnight show on Giant Screen. Didn't notice any foul stenches anywhere post-show. But I did find it difficult to watch for prolonged periods.  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 01-18-2008 04:16 PM                        I use to have a theater that had relatively small auditoriums (150) but were quite wide so you were not far from the screen and it was 38 feet wide! When we ran Perfect Storm we had major trouble with people sitting near the screen getting ill and having to get out of the auditorium!!! It is all a matter of how close and how big I guess! Cinearama screens in the front row for any of the original Star Wars movie major stomach jumps! But I like that!  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 01-18-2008 04:44 PM                     Once Cloverfield ends up in the smaller auditoriums with smaller screens, the incidents of motion sickness should pretty much stop.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-18-2008 08:13 PM                     Shaky-cam sucks. Whoever shot this thing should take a class in how to hold a camera steady.  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 01-18-2008 08:22 PM                        It was shot that way on purpose to make look like it is home made on cheap camera! I am not saying that it makes sense but they have a reason!  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-18-2008 08:28 PM                     Bruce the point is it isn't supposed to look like a Hollywood film! Have you seen any of the 9/11 home videos? They were all shaky cam, I don't think you could shoot a hand held movie while trying to run from a GIANT MONSTER tearing the shit out of the city. But hey maybe you can. On the puke line though... Had it on three screens last night, 992 people. In the Cine-Capri we had 9 people throw up from the Capri. 4 in the theatre 5 in respective bathrooms. Along with about 15 refunds/readmits for motion sickness.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-18-2008 08:38 PM                     Yep, watched 5minutes of this today and that was 4 minutes too long for me.. way too much movement for the eye to follow - as with its mentor - "the Blair Witch Project"  |  IP: Logged Peter David Bruce Expert Film Handler Posts: 187 From: East Anglia -England Registered: Aug 2007 posted 01-19-2008 08:43 AM                    should I take all this into consideration and suggest to management that we need to keep it OUT of our larger screens? I mean, even for the last Bourne film we had people complaining of motion sickness... this many reports for cloverfield just makes me worried about the size of the cleanup effort and the fallout. perhaps stick it in a smaller screen, and pack all the seats? I dont know.. we havent recieved this film yet in the UK...  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 01-19-2008 02:29 PM                     Peter, that will depend on how much business it does here. If it tanks pretty fast, then you can probably open it in a smaller auditorium. Thankfully, not too many people are afflicted with motion sickness, so giving the movie seats will still be fiscally prudent IF the movie does well here.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-19-2008 08:00 PM                     quote: Ron Funderburg It was shot that way on purpose DAH! But it still SUCKS!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-19-2008 09:28 PM                     quote: Peter David Bruce should I take all this into consideration and suggest to management that we need to keep it OUT of our larger screens? It might be worth considering. Movies like this (using lots of hand held video camera footage) tend to work better when shown on TV screens rather than big movie screens. I haven't seen Cloverfield yet, but when I do I will probably sit a little farther back in the theater than the usual seats I pick. This issue also brings up how a number of movies blown up to IMAX DMR sometimes do not work well on the giant screen. To be specific, I'll mention Superman Returns. The framing on that movie was opened up taller than the 2.39:1 version seen by most people. Still the composition didn't work. Close ups of people were way the hell too close (and blurry -thanks for videotaping in 1080p instead of using film). Rapid movement of objects across the frame were often seen as an unintelligible blur. This especially goes for the opening title sequence with all its CGI planets, pixellated lettering and other stuff speeding past in goofy, spastic, fast forwarded fashion. Ugh. That shit might look cool on a computer screen in a visual effects lab, but it plays like indescribable shit on a giant screen. So...big tip for filmmakers: compose your shots and camera movements for the scale of screen it will be viewed!  |  IP: Logged

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