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Re: Either I didn't...etc....also other films, other semantic production issues

Posted by CarlEber (A) on August 22, 2001 at 04:06:24

In Reply to: Either I didn't get your e-mail or missed it, but don't get upset. posted by Audiophilander on August 21, 2001 at 08:35:33:

I just replied to the e-mail that you finally replied to.

Look, most everyone I know detests Haley Joel Osment, so I am in no way a "majority of one" (that's just wishful thinking on your part). I'm surprised that you would be so in lock-step with what essentially every movie critic on the planet thinks about Osment. Can't you decide for yourself?

He has only played one role in his short carreer: that of the introspective, wistful outsider-kid who always manages to out-think everyone, and solve everyone's problems for good measure (almost like a pseoudo-pop psychologist in kid form...a miniature Depac Chopra if you will....ok, this mostly applies to "Pay it Forward", but you get the idea). There's nothing compelling or plausible about a character like that. And who are you to criticize me for whining? This Haley kid whines more than Al Franken on Inauguration Day, and almost one tenth as much as Ben Affleck in "Armageddon"...Ben's borders on inhuman, so ten percent of his whine-level is more than enough to be troublesome.

btw, Read my review below of "Along Came a Spider", and tell me what you think of it if you've seen the movie (and forget it was me that wrote it, please...hypnotize yourself if you have to...listen to a Barbra Streisand song or sumthin).

You seem to be hung up on the usher thing. Have YOU had any bad experiences with them? Seriously, I'm curious...They seem to be decent teenagers for the most part. Sometimes they'll fix a focus problem, other times not (esp. if it's a problem that refocusing won't fix).

Frankly, I long for 1993 thru '94, when DTS films made use of the dynamic range DTS is capable of. None of them do anymore...even Phantom Menace was pooped out...huge disappointment for me. The DTS reissue of Episode 4 in 1997, was worlds more dynamic than the soundtrack for Phantom Menace. What a waste! IMO, I think that the theater chains must have complained to the movie studios about people not liking the loud sound effects, or maybe they even were burning out speakers a lot of the time?

And now, no theater in my area has decent sound anyway. They've all let it go downhill (and the picture lots of times too...they let the bulbs get old and dim and don't replace them when I suggest it repeatedly).

It's all the fault of the management and the theater chains themselves. The ones in my area are Carmike, and Regal. What ones are in your area? Regal has the room that I saw JP1 in (every room there is of low quality now)...but back then it was a sonic and visual experience that I'll always be nostalgic for. I just don't see the total experience of stimuli ever exceeding that in a public theater again. Just seeing this film then, caused a fine-tuning of my interest in audio, for which I am grateful!

Lots of people love to knock the sound quality in public theaters, but in 1993 this room in this theater was something different and special. The room eq must have really been dialed in. And honestly, besides dynamic swings seemingly matching that of guns firing in real life...the tonal quality was still like tubes in a highend 2 channel-for-music system! I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's true! The soundtrack allowed the sound effects to be 30 dB or more above dialog level. No DTS movie soundtrack that I've heard since then has even approached that ("Star Trek 7" and "True Lies" both take second place)...much less a Dolby Digital one.

Carl

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