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BOOM MIKES: THE MOVIE


I believe this movie was a revolution for boom mikes. For decades they've had to work behind the scenes while actors hog all the glory, only getting rare cameos in movies like Mission Impossible II and Gothika. But director Dito Montel made the gutsiest move in Hollywood today by allowing boom mikes to share almost the same ammount of screen time as the actors, sometimes getting so close as to almost touch them. And not just that, he's broken the shackles of boom-mike bigotry and hired boom mikes of all colours and shapes! There's grey booms, black booms, even tube-like booms with red caps on them! Surely this is a glorious time to be a boom mike in Hollywood. In fact, in several scenes, there are TWO boom mikes interacting with eachother, and some are even so expertly choreographed to stay in the shot while the actor and camera move! I believe that one day, boom mikes will be treated as equals and will be risen to the same high ranking standards as top Hollywood actors! Finally, after years of being behind the scenes, the boom-mikes are making a comeback!

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Yeah, the movie was crap.

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Hey dude, your theater sucked. My movie had no mikes showing.

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Still, it seems to be certain films which have this problem reported from various moviegoers (I remember clearly that American Gangster had this problem repeatedly, I checked the imdb and others reported the same thing) so it can't be just the projectionist fault.

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Yes, it is.

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LOLLLL....this does NOT surprise me. The director of this film is an idiot, so is the writer! The movie BOMBED, so not many people saw it. This suckerfish of a film left theatres after 7 weeks...and it's amazing it lasted that long!!

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Holy sheet, now I need to see this movie!!

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Although I didn't notice the boom mikes myself, it doesn't surprise me because the director must have been so desperate to try and pick up as much of the mumbled dialogue as they could, that it's little wonder they got to close with the mikes on occasion.

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