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Re: Theater Owners Decide: Go Digital Or Go Dark
That sucks for all the reasons they mention, but the digital format makes it a lot easier/cheaper for smaller companies or people to get a movie made or even make it themselves.
I think film to digital is one of those rare technological advances that will be good for art/artists in the end. At least for the little guy, just like how home-recording getting cheaper and easier with digital did for smaller musicians
Re: Theater Owners Decide: Go Digital Or Go Dark
This is really just a sign of the times. Phasing out smaller venues for larger ones (much like what has happened to the shopping centers in most places).
Russ, I don't know this with 100% certainty, but I'd guess most small town theatres are barely scraping by these days. Any added expense is going to be a killer. I have to go 30 minutes to get to the closest theatre to my house...no big loss since I'm not really a movie guy anyway, but there used to be one 10 minutes from my house that closed in a town where there's nothing else to do.
Re: Theater Owners Decide: Go Digital Or Go Dark
I just saw the original Halloween last night, for the first time in a theater setting on a big screen.
For as cool as it was, something about it was... off.
It all came down to the fact that it was all digital. The film looked like someone played a Blu Ray on the big screen. Now for the digital aspect of it, it looked great. The film looked like it could've been made last year. The audio had NEVER sounded better. The breakout scene at Smith's Grove was so multi-dimensional that it sounded like the thunder blasts were in the theater.
But something was so fake about it. Not getting to see the original Halloween from a souced film print, kinda took away from it. It was too pristine. Too clean. Too polished. Somewhere the ambience was lost.
Now i'm cool with watching Bluray's in my home, but it's kinda sad that film prints are gonna be lost in the 21st century. The older films really don't look the same. Films period, don't look the same.
The downside of Michael Mann fiddeling with the way shit was shot.
