filmbuff
Wise-Ass Teenager
A Genuinely Nice Bloke
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Post by filmbuff on Sept 13, 2004 12:07:27 GMT -5
I'm going with the "or not" at the end of the comic.
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Post by Eleanore on Sept 13, 2004 16:48:59 GMT -5
Let's have a rousing chorus of "Yea" to that! *raises glass*
...That was "Yea" as in "yes," not the misspelled "yeah" which bugs me in a pet-peevish way. Don't ask me why.
If I ever can track that guy down, though, believe me, I will make him sit through his own commentary, and see how he likes it.
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Kidd
Lost Child
i'm not as small as you think
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Post by Kidd on Sept 14, 2004 0:06:55 GMT -5
AMEN TO THAT
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Post by STaLka on Sept 14, 2004 0:59:19 GMT -5
As long as I get a drink on the house I'll agree with it!
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Post by Eleanore on Sept 18, 2004 14:22:10 GMT -5
I believe he's the annoying, obnoxious, pompous voice-over guy for Movie Tunes.
And yes, he must be stopped at ALL costs... *grabs a random pitchfork*
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Post by STaLka on Sept 21, 2004 4:08:41 GMT -5
Unfortunantly for me movie tunes is played in our theatres as well............which is ANOTHER reason why I do not care to come early. Damn you movie tunes!
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Post by Eleanore on Sept 22, 2004 20:06:26 GMT -5
That is really cool.
I wish someone would do that at our place.
Then again, we once had a very cool, yet very odd, manager named Erin (she worked for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, if that gives you any inclination to her style), and she would just ditch the Movie Tunes altogether, and played movie soundtracks.
We listened to Matrix, Kill Bill, Lord of the Rings... it was great while she was still with us.
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Post by STaLka on Sept 22, 2004 22:08:42 GMT -5
What happened to her? Did she quit, get fired, or other reasons? I wish they would do that at our theatre.
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Post by Eleanore on Sept 23, 2004 19:21:31 GMT -5
She got fired, I think.
She was cool, yes, but she must have done something really stupid, because she got fired from a MOVIE THEATER. Not to mention, one with about the laxest management I'll ever see.
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Post by STaLka on Sept 23, 2004 19:27:25 GMT -5
Maybe the reason she got fired is cause she seemed smarter than the management?
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Post by Eleanore on Sept 24, 2004 14:28:01 GMT -5
LMAO What a great comeback.
I love doing marquee. It takes about an hour or more at our place, and I'd prefer that to helping customers.
Why does it take so long?
Well, we have a large marquee above our box office, mounted right on the building itself, and then we have another, smaller marquee on the side of the road at the bottom of the shopping center we reside in.
We like to have fun with the letters as well, though in a more subtle way.
The two that stick out in my mind are placing "Grind" and "My Boss's Daughter" too close together, and "Justin to Kelly" accidentally being placed as "Just Into Kelly."
Hey, we get laughs where we can.
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Post by Eleanore on Sept 25, 2004 13:32:50 GMT -5
Yeah, OK, to correct myself, now that I'm actually thinking our system through:
We have the front marquee and the road one, which is 2-sided as well.
Our closing box person is usually in charge of that too; that is unless we're understaffed (which we usually are) and they force Thursday night's projectionist to do it whenver he has a gap between movie starts.
But for us, we use a ladder for changing the posters, but we don't use one for the marquee. For that, we have this really long pole (I would estimate just how long, but I would probably be wrong) with basically a huge, moody suction cup on the end. We lay the plastic letters on the ground, and basically try and slap them really hard with the suction cup, so they'll stick. Since the suction cup is, as I said before, rather moody, sometimes it will appear to be holding the letter, but you lift the pole three feet, and it suddenly lets go. We have lost many silly, fragile little plastic marquee letters this way.
We have a shorter, less moody, suction pole thingy for the road marquee, since it's not so high up.
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filmbuff
Wise-Ass Teenager
A Genuinely Nice Bloke
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Post by filmbuff on Sept 26, 2004 12:22:44 GMT -5
I ♥ my theater's digital marquee.
You know, except for it being difficult to read if there's any light hitting it and impossible to fix if there's a mistake.
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Post by Eleanore on Sept 28, 2004 18:57:28 GMT -5
Our carpet is rather odd.
It's this nasty reddish maroon, with purple and turquoise bits in it (don't cringe; I know it's hard).
Not to mention, both Wayne and I only realized just a few months ago that it has a koi fish pattern on it. It's that ugly that you don't notice for your first two years of employment.
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