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(Naturally I'm pickier about my weekday matinees, and I never attend evenings.) For once the level of CGI didn't bother me, mostly because the tripods were really scary and their video snakes so prowlingly feline that I was fascinated. And scared. It's a really scary movie at least for the first hour. Although maybe the people cages came later... But the single scariest moment was not caused by the aliens... I'll leave it to your imaginations.Tom Cruise was serviceable. Dakota Fanning can really scream.
I bothered to see it in Boston's best-sounding house, actually the showpiece for the HPS-4000 systems that originate here. (In LA there's scarce a good theatre without them.) Plus with SDDS, the best digital sound and hardly digital-sounding at all. Ms. Fanning's aforementioned screams cut through in just the proper piercing way, but nothing else. Also with Cinemeccanica projectors and stadium seating, the exhibition is unbeatable, if a 25-minute drive away.
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be talking about the Framingham Cinema.
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It's my favorite theater in the Boston area too. They used to have a little rack with brochures about the HPS-4000 sound system in the lobby.I took my daughter to see Herbie Fully Loaded there yesterday. The Cinemeccanica projector did a fine job of presenting Lindsay Lohan's talents. Both of them.
Just came back from seeing it at the Loews Boston Common. The part that got the biggest laugh from the audience was, and keep in mind this was in a Boston theater, was when, (spoiler space)
Tom Cruiser, wearing a Yankees cap asks his some to play catch with him and the son dons a Red Sox cap.
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It isn't a "great" film by any means, but it does succeed where it needs to succeed, in the thrills department. There's even a clever angle provided about the alien's intentions and of what use humans are to them. The psychology motivating the characters and their actions rang true and, thankfully, Spielberg didn't screw up the film with plotholes and inconsistencies that creep in when he has the urge to push the suspense up a notch. This film may actually survive repeated viewings and be a worthwhile DVD purchase!AuPh
Your comments about the Boston theatre and HPS-4000 reminds me of an afternoon long ago when, after reading "Widescreen Review" #8 with Gary Reber's interview with John F. Allen, I called Klipsch up in Hope (I lived in Texarkana at the time and it was almost a local call) and asked for more information about Allen's thoughts on the Klipschorn. They gave me a phone number and a moment later I was talking to a surprised Allen on the phone. Klipsch had apparently given me a private phone number!No matter. He kindly talked with me for half an hour about the HPS-4000 system, the Klipschorn, and Paul Klipsch. A great conversation.
I will admit I wish I lived in a community with a movie theatre using the HPS-4000 system (I understand Boston has a couple of other amenities as well). Perhaps when the Robinson Film Center builds its theatre next year....
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