Edward Norton Says Spielberg Is Wrong: Netflix Isn’t Destroying Movies, Theaters Are
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Now I want to see a film at the full 14 and not a paltry 6.2!
shareActually, dork, you want to HEAR a film at 7.4.4.
Front channel, right front channel, left front channel, right back channel, left back channel, right back surround channel, left back surround channel, overhead front right right channel, overhead left channel, rear right overhead channel, rear left overhead channel, 1 subwoofer channel for each of the 4 walls of your home theater.
First, you have to be incel. Your woman will never allow you to build such a system.
Second, a high-end 7.1 sound system will destroy the imaging of a DTS-EX crap Best Buy system.
Third, good luck planting 6 or more ceiling speakers in your overhead.
It’s just not practical.
Who said anything about hearing a film? Movies sound fine in theaters, it's the lighting that is the issue. Did you read the article? Permit me to quote a salient passage:
"The filmmaker told The Daily Beast that 14 is the quality control spec the Marvel film should be running at but the theater was running the movie at a 6.2 spec. 'That means it was literally running at less than half the light that was supposed to be on there,' Norton said."
The article explains that "more than 60 percent of American theaters are running their projector at almost half the luminosity that they’re required by contract to run it at."
So no, I don't want to build a theater in my house, and neither would my wife. I want to *see* a film being shown at the correct 14 brightness level. As an aside, while I never knew there were such specs, or that theaters were missing the mark by so much, I definitely notice that movies seem far less bright than they used to. Now I know why.
It is funny before HD flatscreens home theatre sound systems were everything. Now they’re all but gone. Replaced by paltry soundbars.
When Dolby Pro logic hit the scene in the late 80s it was a game changer. The first few films to incorporate real surround sound were over the top. Midnight Run. Days Of Thunder. T2. You’d always see those used as examples in The Good Guys/Circuit City home theatre rooms.
"Midnight Run" is one of my all-time favorites. Such a good movie.
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