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Topic: Orlando's Fabulous New Cinema
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Paul Adsett
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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted May 13, 2016 01:39 PM
Well it's not often that I will praise today's multiplex cinema, most of them being like cold black tombs, but last night we went to see the new George Clooney film Money Matters at the brand new Epic Theater near here. The film was mediocre at best, but the cinema itself was amazing. The auditorium was not huge, but the screen was. I would estimate the field of view from where we were sitting (about 3/4 back from the screen) at about 120 degrees. As large as that screen appeared, and being curved, it seemed every bit like Todd-AO to me, the picture was brilliantly and uniformly lit and pin sharp. Now the good part, the seats are leather recliners! Yes, you can lie down fully flat if you want to, there is so much space around each seat that it still does not block the aisle and people can still walk by. Altogether the ambiance of the theater was great, more like a very large private screening room with all the comforts of home.
Best of all they are going to show a classic film one might every week, so I expect to be going to this great new cinema quite frequently.
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Paul Adsett
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posted July 28, 2016 06:15 PM
I know exactly what you are talking about Dave. A large part of my youth was spent in the local cinema in the Cardiff area of the UK. We would buy a ticket for 1/6d (Balcony was half a crown) and be shown by an usher to a seat about halfway back from the screen.
There would be organ music playing and the curtains were closed in front of the screen. Then the house lights would dim and the curtains would pull back as the Pathe Cockerel crowed, heralding the latest edition of Pathe News, or British Movietone News "Leslie Mitchell reporting" This would be followed by one or two trailers and then the second feature, often a western or film noir, would play out for about and hour and a half. Then the big feature would come on for about 2 hours. So you really got your money's worth.
Those day's are long gone, but fortunately they can be emulated in our own home cinema's, which many of us try to do.
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Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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