Nurse Betty ?

[Phydeault]

Is it me or we see the boom mic in 2 scenes.

It's not written @ the IMDB ...

(The 1st one is when betty meets the family of the guy she saved at the hospital)

Phydeault

[Brock Landers]

You may be right, fratboy...but overall the film is great...lots of great films have fuck-ups...just check out "Double Indemnity"...

[Crynot]

So is this film worth going to see tonight? The wife and I are going to check out something - but nothing really looks good out there.

Crynot

[Cinemaniac]

No, there were no boom mics in the frame at any time when I saw Nurse Betty. The projectionist probably just screwed up, that happens all the time.

When I saw Hollow Man a few weeks ago, the projectionist screwed up really bad. Boom mics were visible in just about every scene.

Things like this often aren't the movie's fault...it's the theater projectionist who messed up more often than not.

[Brock Landers]

I really enjoyed this film and I think chicks will dig it to, man...It's a good date flick because a)it's directed by Neil Labute [for the guys] and b)it's got Renee Zellweeger and the old "Talk Soup" guy, Greg Whathisface [for the girls]. I already wrote about it in the General Discussion Forum under my adventures...

[This message has been edited by Brock Landers (edited 09-15-2000).]

[Phydeault]

Originally posted by Cinemaniac:
No, there were no boom mics in the frame at any time when I saw Nurse Betty. The projectionist probably just screwed up, that happens all the time.

When I saw Hollow Man a few weeks ago, the projectionist screwed up really bad. Boom mics were visible in just about every scene.

Things like this often aren't the movie's fault...it's the theater projectionist who messed up more often than not.

I didn't know that. I thought that only the visible stuff was on the film cells ? Isn't it the case ?

Phydeault

[QUENTIN]

No as Ebert writes "99.9% of the time when you can see a boom mike it is the projectionist's fault. I have only been to one film in my life inwhich the boom mike was in the film itself. But most theater projectionists are pretty incompetent and they show the film out of the frame of the screen." It is almost NEVER the film it is almost ALWAYS the projectionist, and the manager who says it is the film is lying and doesn't know what she's talking about anyway, she's just trying to get u to shut up so she can go have a cigarette break.