@ScottyRocks Don't want to derail the whole thread with talk of movies, but honestly, working for a big box store would probably be better than working for one of those awful chains.
I'm only loyal to AMC and Regal at all because they have a few union oldtimers working there. That'll be done within a year though. Only the big cities still have any fairly-paid projectionists.
I just heard today (from one of the abovementioned) that this was the worst year for tickets in 25 years. When television came in and threatened cinema in the '50s, they brought in widescreen, expanded color production, cheaper color film that didn't require a Technicolor camera and 1,000,000 watts of light, made movies like "Ben Hur," "How the West Was Won," now we have (with the exception maybe of Avatar - that had many advantages in 2D as I saw both) a bunch of mediocre 3D movies that COST MORE, have less resolution than your TV, and "Cinemedia Extravaganzas" like "Wizard of Oz" that basically resulted in $6 million 35mm restoratino prints being withdrawn (destroyed) in favor of showing the movies on a bunch of those stupid video preview projectors.
Why in a time of trouble would theatres charge more, go to a medium that was Oh for Three (stereo "3D" movies), and tear out real IMAX screens. Almost any "IMAX" theatre built new (and a lot of old ones at the "big three" are scrap now) is just a BIG SCREEN with basically two HD projectors (television resolution files, marginally better 10% resolution projectors playing the one file).
A theatre-goer doesn't know what the hell goes on in the booth. Nine out of ten don't care (as Lizzie can attest), but they know when a movie sucks, they have gotten gouged, and when they basically paid the price to own the movie to get a presentation that is, in several ways worse than their set at home.
Your Blu-ray has more 2D resolution than an $80,000 "3D" projector, or a $2,000, 8,000-foot length of 35mm film. Why would you go and see that more than once? People know when they aren't getting their money's worth. . .
Theatres are out to trick you out of your money, rather than trying to earn it. And, with the filth they're peddling, digital 35mm prints that look worse than your TV set, or $2 million investments in digital machines that could've paid projectionists to walk around up there for almost 100 years, I won't miss AMC, Regal, or Cinemark one bit. They've fired, demoted, kicked out anyone smart enough to work for them who could have figured this out.
I'm only loyal to AMC and Regal at all because they have a few union oldtimers working there. That'll be done within a year though. Only the big cities still have any fairly-paid projectionists.
I just heard today (from one of the abovementioned) that this was the worst year for tickets in 25 years. When television came in and threatened cinema in the '50s, they brought in widescreen, expanded color production, cheaper color film that didn't require a Technicolor camera and 1,000,000 watts of light, made movies like "Ben Hur," "How the West Was Won," now we have (with the exception maybe of Avatar - that had many advantages in 2D as I saw both) a bunch of mediocre 3D movies that COST MORE, have less resolution than your TV, and "Cinemedia Extravaganzas" like "Wizard of Oz" that basically resulted in $6 million 35mm restoratino prints being withdrawn (destroyed) in favor of showing the movies on a bunch of those stupid video preview projectors.
Why in a time of trouble would theatres charge more, go to a medium that was Oh for Three (stereo "3D" movies), and tear out real IMAX screens. Almost any "IMAX" theatre built new (and a lot of old ones at the "big three" are scrap now) is just a BIG SCREEN with basically two HD projectors (television resolution files, marginally better 10% resolution projectors playing the one file).
A theatre-goer doesn't know what the hell goes on in the booth. Nine out of ten don't care (as Lizzie can attest), but they know when a movie sucks, they have gotten gouged, and when they basically paid the price to own the movie to get a presentation that is, in several ways worse than their set at home.
Your Blu-ray has more 2D resolution than an $80,000 "3D" projector, or a $2,000, 8,000-foot length of 35mm film. Why would you go and see that more than once? People know when they aren't getting their money's worth. . .
Theatres are out to trick you out of your money, rather than trying to earn it. And, with the filth they're peddling, digital 35mm prints that look worse than your TV set, or $2 million investments in digital machines that could've paid projectionists to walk around up there for almost 100 years, I won't miss AMC, Regal, or Cinemark one bit. They've fired, demoted, kicked out anyone smart enough to work for them who could have figured this out.
