Posted by TheEasterBunny at spider-mtc-td014.proxy.aol.com on August 12, 2000 at 08:36:00:
Okay, normally I never ask these types of questions. But today I must. I saw the Replacements yesterday and something really disturbed me. My question is, Will the film show the same way on every movie screen it is played on or do movie theatres themselves have some way of cropping the actual projected image? The reason I ask is during the replacements I would say at least 10 times, if not more, you were clearly able to see the (I believe it is called the boom?) microphone hanging down in the shots. Once is understandable, but I have never seen it that much in one movie. And it was so damn obvious. SO, is that how every print distributed is going to look like? or was it the fault of the theatre not sizing the print right? The funniest seen involved Pat Summerale and John Madden holding Microphones doing play by play commentary and seeing the Microphone looming low over their heads. More annoying then funny because it destroys the fantasy that it's not a movie set with actors and 50 crew members standing just off to the side you know?
Please, if you can explain without using all the numerical technical mumbo-jumbo that you usually use. Not that it is not appreciated, but like the saying goes, that's all greek to me.
Thanks Vincent, your one smart dude when it comes to all this camera and print stuff so I thought of you immediately during the movie.
Rob