Dragon Tattoo - crap film print

[Mark Toia]

Just got back from watching the movie the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"...

My comments are, Fantastic cinematography, fantastic directional piece.. all round, great film.. Always been a fan of david Finchers work.
But what completely pissed me off was watching the film from some scratched up print, jittering, soft grainy film print crap...

I've just been editing all day in my suite and Im lucky enough to have a very good 2k projector spreading an amazingly crisp, rich image across 15feet of wall...
And since shooting RED, I just see perfect pictures... Even my 1/2 res offline edits look better than what I just saw at the theatre.

So when I go to see a movie that looks as soft as a projected DVD... I get might annoyed. I so want my $15 dollars back.
Such a pitty that a production company or studio put so much money into making a 4k film, for it to be presented so badly.

I cannot wait for theatres to go 4k... It couldn't happen sooner for me.

[Jan Balster]

I couldn't agree more.

I just watched Soderbergh's Haywire in a small local theater, film print, and couldn't get over how terrible it looked. Soft, jittery, and overall a painful to watch. Watching the trailer on my iPhone was more exciting than my theater experience.

It's time all theaters switched over to digital projection.

[Björn Benckert]

Just got back from watching the movie the "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"...

My comments are, Fantastic cinematography, fantastic directional piece.. all round, great film.. Always been a fan of david Finchers work.
But what completely pissed me off was watching the film from some scratched up print, jittering, soft grainy film print crap...

I've just been editing all day in my suite and Im lucky enough to have a very good 2k projector spreading an amazingly crisp, rich image across 15feet of wall...
And since shooting RED, I just see perfect pictures... Even my 1/2 res offline edits look better than what I just saw at the theatre.

So when I go to see a movie that looks as soft as a projected DVD... I get might annoyed. I so want my $15 dollars back.
Such a pitty that a production company or studio put so much money into making a 4k film, for it to be presented so badly.

I cannot wait for theatres to go 4k... It couldn't happen sooner for me.

Agreed, it looked good but texture and color vice it was almost as soft as that torrent file i did not download... have to look our for that digital cinema sign outside the theater next time..

[Tom Lowe]

Bottom line: film prints SUCK.

[Jack Shanahan]

Bottom line: film prints SUCK.

I imagine they cost a $h!%load too no? Whats the hold up with the theater people? Havnt enough of them shut down already? Time to step it up. I can see why George Lucas pioneered THX certification now.

[John Bannister]

..sad but true. I no longer go and see Films at the theater for this very reason. I have been very disappointed on several occasions by the quality of the print, you get all amped up and excited about the film just to have it fall apart on the big screen either through ratshit projection or damaged film. Now I wait for the BR disk and watch it at home...

[Andrew Walker]

Bottom line: film prints SUCK.

Well its a little more complicated than that. Release prints are horrible. They are on the same quality level as watching the movie on DVD. But if it was an answer print or a wet gate EK print. That would put most digital projection to shame. The problem is they just can't make that many answer prints as it would destroy the original film negative. Not to mention it would take a very long time because all general release prints are printed at high speed. So I'm so glad that theaters are mostly digital now, or at least most of the ones in my area. Because now people get a perfect show the first time and the last time the movie shows.

[Tom Lowe]

Whatever the most pristine copy is, scan it to digital, and then it will never be degraded again... it will just be 1s and 0s.

[Petr Dvorak]

In Prague our only 4K theatre told me that they dont know if they will get GwDT in 4K quality, so I wrote email directly to distributor and didn't got any response. :(

[Sergio Perez]

By reading these posts and also by my own underwhelming experience, I think Red, Sony and all advocating 4K should really try to push bigger awareness not only on the distributors but also on potential audiences and consumers. I didn't have a chance to se Tattoo in 4K and what I saw as an audience member was a good looking film like any other, nothing more nothing less. And that's a real shame, with the technology here and ready!