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Originally Posted by surfinhank
When was that? Did they show an actual film print? Just wondering how it looked because I saw it a while back at the New Beverly and the print they had was badly faded.
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Originally Posted by schlock
Hollywood Forever just projects a DVD on the side of a big mausoleum wall, and people lay down on blankets, eat, drink alcohol, and smoke pot. I saw CARRIE there about 8 years ago and the sound was muffled and you couldn't make out the dialog, so I had to maneuver my way through the massive crowd of blankets and people sitting in the dark to tell the DVD-player "technician" to turn the audio up for people further back. Before I got back to our group, I had missed the first 15 minutes of the film. Then, the rest of the film, people are talking through it and stumbling into you or falling over. That's when we said "never again". If I want to watch a film, I'll just stay home and watch my disc of it - better presentation, and I won't be forced to pay a so-called rip-off "donation" (which is mandatory) to wait in line for hours to get in and deal with annoying crowds of people, most of them there for the experience of this massive stoned picnic; the film is secondary to most there. I still can't get over that this company rakes in probably well over $50K every Saturday night just for projecting a DVD on a wall, sometimes twice when they have a Sunday show.
/rant
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It looked better than a DVD, so I'm guessing they upgraded to blu-ray, but yeah, I can't really fault schlock's description. But that's exactly what I was expecting, so I had a blast. Drunk, stoned, yelling at the screen. "I should have killed myself when he put it in me!" It's an experience.
Mommie Dearest and
Showgirls were equally fun. And of course, I also appreciate
Carrie on a more serious level, but I'd rather watch it at home for that experience. I think I've only been to the New Beverly once. It was for
Deathdream and the print was so badly faded that I never went back.