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The Town is the latest film directed by Ben Affleck (after Gone, Baby, Gone which I still haven't seen.) Affleck plays a bank robber who checks up on a potential witness (a woman they took as a hostage - Rebecca Hall) and finds himself falling in love with her.
It has some wonderful performances - even Affleck himself isn't too bad (I think he may be a better writer/director than actor), great location work (you do get a sense of the city of Boston and what makes it different from other US cities) and an engaging plot. It just wasn't anything especially outstanding.
The one issue I had with the experience was nothing to do with the film but everything to do with the cinema. I don't think I've seen a film at the "Event" Cinemas in George Street that hasn't been off-frame or out of focus or otherwise sloppily projected. I put up with a sliver of the top part of the frame appearing at the bottom, because it can take ages to find someone who can actually get into the projection booth to fix the problem. I put up with it, because there was always the possibility of making it worse.
I'm sick of huge cinema chains that are happy to take our money but don't feel they are in anyway required to supply a commensurate amount of service. I guess I'll just have to stick to the smaller cinemas from now on, and catch up with what I'm interested in the larger cinemas on DVD. It's just not worth going to Event Cinemas any more.
It has some wonderful performances - even Affleck himself isn't too bad (I think he may be a better writer/director than actor), great location work (you do get a sense of the city of Boston and what makes it different from other US cities) and an engaging plot. It just wasn't anything especially outstanding.
The one issue I had with the experience was nothing to do with the film but everything to do with the cinema. I don't think I've seen a film at the "Event" Cinemas in George Street that hasn't been off-frame or out of focus or otherwise sloppily projected. I put up with a sliver of the top part of the frame appearing at the bottom, because it can take ages to find someone who can actually get into the projection booth to fix the problem. I put up with it, because there was always the possibility of making it worse.
I'm sick of huge cinema chains that are happy to take our money but don't feel they are in anyway required to supply a commensurate amount of service. I guess I'll just have to stick to the smaller cinemas from now on, and catch up with what I'm interested in the larger cinemas on DVD. It's just not worth going to Event Cinemas any more.
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