Cinema Screens Paranormal Activity 4 Instead of Madagascar 3
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In their defense, gamers are so used to jump scares that they don't realise how scary it would be to a kid. Doll faces? With that noise? That throws us way off our game.lacktheknack said:
But I agree, after reading everyones responses to your avatar and then to the film, it is indeed pretty funny.
The kids will be scared for a week, but after that they'll have the power of bragging to their friends about this. "I saw an R-rated movie, i'm so bad-ass, I poop awesome!". Scarred for life? Unlikely, I mean what age were you when you saw your first R-rated horror film? I remember watching Night of the Living Dead with my family, but we're pretty strange anyways. I mean during Christmas time we would watch Die Hard instead of It's a wonderful life.
Edit: I do feel sorry for the parents. No chance to get busy when the kid wants to sleep in their bed all the time.
Edit: I do feel sorry for the parents. No chance to get busy when the kid wants to sleep in their bed all the time.
Another interesting side note is that I've exposed small children to that video of my avatar (it was an accident) and they thought it was the best thing they'd seen all day.dogstile said:
We can conclude three things here:
1. Adults work with jump scares much better than kids.
2. Kids can work with WTF way better than adults.
3. I'm an oversized child.
You sound sane in the head!^^ I am appalled by some individuals...gmaverick019 said:just because it isn't scary for you, doesn't mean it isn't scary for someone else, [...] the kids will be fine, nothing like growing a little hair on your chest from seeing disturbing images as a child
The same kind that watches the news and joke and scoff at genocides and such...
...Crap, I can totally see that. Time to start building the bunker.dogstile said:A kid thought that was the best thing he/she had seen all day?lacktheknack said:
Oh come on
I saw the Alien movies when I was EIGHT.
Some people like exaggerating a bit to much. I would have asked my kid if he wanted to see it, and if he said yes I would have stayed and openly mocked the entire thing.
Its not even scary, it just relies on shock value.
I saw the Alien movies when I was EIGHT.
Some people like exaggerating a bit to much. I would have asked my kid if he wanted to see it, and if he said yes I would have stayed and openly mocked the entire thing.
Its not even scary, it just relies on shock value.
Ah yeah, a body being flung at the camera is definitely scaring for life.
Kids are such wussies nowdays, did the boys not shout out in joy over gore? I know I did back in the days when such trivial things did not fuck us up.
This is clearly a case of parents overracting, of course the cinema could be sued for false marketing by showing the incorrect movie.
Kids are such wussies nowdays, did the boys not shout out in joy over gore? I know I did back in the days when such trivial things did not fuck us up.
This is clearly a case of parents overracting, of course the cinema could be sued for false marketing by showing the incorrect movie.
Oh lawdy and when I thought my local Cineworld is awful (one time the screen was like manify and another time they mess something up that a employee was standing outside telling up that can't show any films today due to technical issues).
Man too bad this didn't happen on Halloween night as it would of made an excellent trick!
Man too bad this didn't happen on Halloween night as it would of made an excellent trick!
So because he merely remembers something from his childhood, it means he is scarred?lacktheknack said:
In my childhood i also suffered a scary experience that left me with nightmares and fear for quite a while. It still didn't scar me because just like a scary movie, you eventually grow old enough to realize that fiction can't harm you.
Fail logic is fail.
I wasn't being totally serious. It was a fun little connection I'd thought I'd bring up.Athinira said:
For the love of God, don't make me break out the pink text.
Yeah, I worked in Film Distribution for a while, thankfully I got out of that train wreck of an industry while I could a few years back. So, my knowledge is a bit dated, but here goes:Owyn_Merrilin said:
Yeah, the first series of Digital Cinema projectors had to have their drives swapped -and consequently powered-down- if you wanted to swap films, but this was as far back as the late 90s and early 20th century, and most theaters could not afford the $4 million USD price-tag for each projector anyway. The only theaters running those machines were studio-backed theaters, since upwards of 75% of the ticket price that you pay goes directly to the Distributor company. This is why they charge $5 USD for a bucket of popcorn, kids, because Tom Cruise needs $20 million USD a film, and cannot spare a dime for the minimum-wage theater employees, nor for families just trying to have a night out.
As the technology increased, the price came down. When I left the industry, a new digital projector was introduced at Trade West for only about $500,000 USD, and since all North American theaters are supposed to switch to digital by the end of the year, low-end projectors are going at about $200,000 a piece with package deals of eight projectors or more. Of course, the low-end projectors only work for physically smaller theaters, etc.
But the main issue with the first generation digital projectors at the time was not storage space for the film, but rather color brightness and what is called the "Foot-Lampert" measure. When light is emitted by a source, it is measured in Lumens, when it is reflected off of something, it is measured in Foot-Lamperts. The old digital projectors could barely hit the industry standard of 16 Foot-Lamperts at a "Euro Flat" aspect ratio of 1.66: 1, while most American films and screens are "Flat" aspect ratio of 1.81: 1, meaning they have to project a physically larger image at the same distance. All 20th Century Fox films have a "Scope" aspect ratio of 2.31: 1, further putting the old digital technology in the hole.
These issues have been addressed, though. And the mass production of digital projectors for North America will bring the price down, and in Europe and other places where the standard cinema aspect ratio is 1.66: 1, I imagine there will be some even cheaper models available.
But you make a good point, showing the wrong film in any particular theater is as easy as selecting the wrong playlist on your iPod.
Hahaha, I love all these posts saying "Psh, your weak-ass kids should toughen up, why I would have loved that when I was six, I woulda been like 'I'd rather watch this movie!', rawr, I'm awesome."
No, you would have been screaming and crying too and you know it. We all would have. I remember seeing Watership Down when I was a kid and that shit freaking me right the fuck out. I still shudder when I think about it. Nowadays the Saw movies bore me.
Little five year old kids, expecting a colorful cartoon movie about talking animals, who instead have a gigantic twenty foot dead body hurled at them are going to lose their shit and it's not their fault. They're freaking little kids.
NOT... and I want to make this perfectly clear... NOT that this isn't HILARIOUS because it IS. I'm just saying, stop posturing.
No, you would have been screaming and crying too and you know it. We all would have. I remember seeing Watership Down when I was a kid and that shit freaking me right the fuck out. I still shudder when I think about it. Nowadays the Saw movies bore me.
Little five year old kids, expecting a colorful cartoon movie about talking animals, who instead have a gigantic twenty foot dead body hurled at them are going to lose their shit and it's not their fault. They're freaking little kids.
NOT... and I want to make this perfectly clear... NOT that this isn't HILARIOUS because it IS. I'm just saying, stop posturing.
Here he!itsthesheppy said:
For those who claim it wouldn't have freaked them out, maybe you should go have a chat with one of your parents and ask them about seeing horror movies.
What you might not get is finding a ragdoll corpse being flung at a screen as not scaring takes a degree of desensitization and emotional maturity that a little kid isn't going to have. Yes, your all right that said kids will recover and be normal adults and the like, though the experience can, and will be (don't lie, unless your a psychopath) a bit haunting.
Also understand the parent's perspective, minus the overprotection that is arguable bred in from not wanting their kid to die before growing up or not growing up well, who likely don't want to, or feel they should, have a talk with their kid about what they have seen and attempt to calm them down from what was suppose to be a nice family outing. Yes, shit happens and a parent needs to talk to their kids when it does, however, the theater does have a responsibility to not show age inappropriate material to kids under the understanding they would not have the mental facilities to process what they are seeing, and it will (not might) disturb them.
I assume in England, where this happened, there aren't that many previews and trailers in the screenings. I remember as a teen going to see Johnny English (its a piece of shit by the way) and that almost happened. I and everyone else in the audience saw 10 seconds of a trailer for some psychological triller when it cut out and then trailers for rating appropriate films started playing. Like to think the guy behind the curtain went 'opps' and then switched the reels or something.
First question: Why the fuck one wouldn't notice that error sooner.
Second question (and more important one): Why the fuck is there another Paranormal Activity. And why's it called PA4 and not PA7. There was the bear one and the alien one and another one...
Second question (and more important one): Why the fuck is there another Paranormal Activity. And why's it called PA4 and not PA7. There was the bear one and the alien one and another one...