Derrick
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This past Saturday I experienced something that has become a phenomenon at the Menlyn Nu-Metro cinemas. Terrible projection!
Either their projectionist is blind, untrained or unqualified, but the situation has become untenable. I have complained about this on numerous occasions with no long term solutions apart from a quick adjustment to the picture forthcoming. On Saturday, the adjustment wasn’t even quick. The projectionist unfocused the picture even more, left it thus for quite some time and then sharpened to picture, but leaving the screen edges untrimmed (the adjustment of black canvas to eliminate the fading edges left by the sides of the film bulging or lifting on the edges of the screen one is not supposed to see) and allowing a trailing effect on bright colours.
Absolutely unacceptable in a world where cinema is supposed to be the holy grail of movie going!
Even slightly out of focus pictures are unacceptable, but the display at Nu-Metro Menlyn (after how many other such incidents) set a new standard for incompetence and forced me to kick up a storm, remove myself and my money (which I took back) from the establishment and drive over to the Brooklyn Ster Kinekor complex to watch the movie there.
I always loved the Menlyn Cinemas, but it will be a while before I set foot there again. An invitation by friends won’t do. Perhaps a Nu-Metro invitation in big black and bold will do after they overhauled and inspected that atrocity people refer to as a cinema.
Despicable!
Service like this may not be bemoaned by many a moviegoer, but I can assure anybody in the movie presentation industry that it has become infinitely more entertaining to watch movies on home screens than it was a year back. One would think that movie houses would have quality control (a manager walking into every cinema to see that the focus is perfect for instance) to ensure a perfect experience. This is the stuff that drives people away from the cinema experience and should this ever become the norm cinema will die! Movies won’t, but the classic cinema experience will die as did the drive-in.
The ice is too thin for cinemas to be loading such heavy stuff on it. Come on guys, please sort this out.
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Details of the event for Nu-Metro to investigate:
It was the Noon showing of Mr Woodcock on 10 November 2007
Cinema 7
The Duty manager was rude, did not indicate what and how he will assist and ran away after I got upset with his response.
Either their projectionist is blind, untrained or unqualified, but the situation has become untenable. I have complained about this on numerous occasions with no long term solutions apart from a quick adjustment to the picture forthcoming. On Saturday, the adjustment wasn’t even quick. The projectionist unfocused the picture even more, left it thus for quite some time and then sharpened to picture, but leaving the screen edges untrimmed (the adjustment of black canvas to eliminate the fading edges left by the sides of the film bulging or lifting on the edges of the screen one is not supposed to see) and allowing a trailing effect on bright colours.
Absolutely unacceptable in a world where cinema is supposed to be the holy grail of movie going!
Even slightly out of focus pictures are unacceptable, but the display at Nu-Metro Menlyn (after how many other such incidents) set a new standard for incompetence and forced me to kick up a storm, remove myself and my money (which I took back) from the establishment and drive over to the Brooklyn Ster Kinekor complex to watch the movie there.
I always loved the Menlyn Cinemas, but it will be a while before I set foot there again. An invitation by friends won’t do. Perhaps a Nu-Metro invitation in big black and bold will do after they overhauled and inspected that atrocity people refer to as a cinema.
Despicable!
Service like this may not be bemoaned by many a moviegoer, but I can assure anybody in the movie presentation industry that it has become infinitely more entertaining to watch movies on home screens than it was a year back. One would think that movie houses would have quality control (a manager walking into every cinema to see that the focus is perfect for instance) to ensure a perfect experience. This is the stuff that drives people away from the cinema experience and should this ever become the norm cinema will die! Movies won’t, but the classic cinema experience will die as did the drive-in.
The ice is too thin for cinemas to be loading such heavy stuff on it. Come on guys, please sort this out.
- – -
Details of the event for Nu-Metro to investigate:
It was the Noon showing of Mr Woodcock on 10 November 2007
Cinema 7
The Duty manager was rude, did not indicate what and how he will assist and ran away after I got upset with his response.