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- From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: free movies
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.1489.35832@channel1>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 16:53:34 EST
- Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
- Distribution: rec
- Organization: Channel 1 Communications
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- DB> "The film sent to us was bad"
-
- I work at Loews Theater in Harvard Square, Cambridge, and even though
- I've only been there since August, we HAVE received bad prints from
- the theaters. Our print of A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME was so defective
- that it couldn't even be shown, and we had to wait one day for Loews
- to send us another print.
-
- On the other hand, we had a bad problem one night when the film of
- GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS went kaput, breaking about thirty seconds before
- the movie ended. We had to give out about ninety refunds to customers
- that night - but there wasn't anything else we could do, because the
- film just wouldn't work again. When our projectionist finally got it
- going, the final minute or so of the film was distorted and full of
- noise, and the ending credits had been completely lost - but Loews
- didn't send us a better print of the film for another two weeks. And
- since we are ORDERED to show a print a certain number of times every
- day, we had to screen that bad print of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. We put a
- notice on the box-office window warning the public that the print was
- bad, and they would have to decide then if they wanted to purchase
- their tickets or not.
-
- Furthermore, our print of RESERVOIR DOGS was missing a full eight
- minutes - and we didn't find that out until opening night. So again
- we had to ask for a new print.
-
- The problem is that Loews is a Big Corporation, and it's hard to get
- the Corporation to listen to you when you're only one theater out of
- literally hundreds.
-
- We don't WANT to bilk the public. We want to show them good movies.
- We're not crooks - we're people who like movies. After all, we work
- at the theater because we choose to, and the pay isn't that great
- either. But Loews is a Big Corporation, interested in raking in as
- much money as they can, and so they ORDER us to do things that we
- don't like, such as charging $2 for a small popcorn or having only ten
- minutes to clean a messy theater before the next crowd stampedes in.
- Like any other human beings, we make our share of mistakes - but we
- try to do the best we can.
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