[HPFGU-Movie] Re: IMAX / movie runs / DVD extras

[nicholas dean]

>Richard said:-



>I saw PoA in IMAX (with a bunch of other HPFGU people) when it was on


(snip)
Richard; I have been keeping an eye on the main IMAX cinema 
programmes (London, Birmingham etc) but none of them seems to have 
shown GoF. Do you know if it is likely to come to any of them? 
British IMAX cinemas seem to concentrate on documentaries 
specifically made for the format...though I noticed that several were 
showing 'The Polar Express' over Christmas.

>
>Richard, who's sad that GoF has now disappeared from his local multiplex
>and saw it for what will probably be the last time in the cinema yesterday
>- in the company of three other people...


I saw it last Monday evening, and the cinema was half full. It was a 
7.45 performance on a school day, so the audience was almost entirely 
adult. I have three multiplexes within a 40-minute drive and last 
week only one of them (Showcase) was showing GoF, twice per day, late 
afternoon and evening. This week it will be morning and 
mid-afternoon...however, the other two multiplexes (Odeon and 
Cineworld) both showed the film over this past weekend, during the 
day, presumably aiming for the younger audiences.

Showcase, which has continued to show GoF daily, has always been the 
one which retained the HP movies for a longer run than any of the 
others. As I recall, PS/SS ran for about four months, lasting until 
the February half-term. With the GoF DVD due out in March, there's 
still not much of a wait even if the movie comes off at the end of 
this week. However, that's by no means certain; Odeon and Cineworld 
seem to have predetermined runs, no matter how well the tickets are 
selling...when Cineworld stopped showing GoF daily, their website 
listed it as their sixth most popular movie of the previous week. 
Showcase seems to be more flexible; as long as they are selling 
tickets, they keep showing the film. 'Nanny McPhee', for example, was 
still showing there after Christmas, weeks after it had disappeared 
elsewhere.

On a different subject; have to agree with some of your points about 
the DVD extras; CGI is best covered by Cinefex et al, as you say; on 
the DVD itself, I like the background stuff on stunts, the actors' 
'take' on their characters, and the set construction. I do like a 
director's commentary though, when it is well done. The worst I ever 
heard was to 'Donnie Darko', which as I recall was the director and 
several of the actors, who spent the first five minutes saying 'oh my 
God'. A lot. I switched off.
Note to directors; actors may be able to deliver lines, but that 
doesn't necessarily mean that they can put a sentence together when 
they don't have a script.

Cheers,
Nicholas

PS Showcase programme just out for next week; GoF continues....

PS...OK, Richard, last week was your last cinema viewing of 
GoF....how many did you rack up in the end?