Movie captions

[Biggles]

Was just looking at TJ's Grab Rail thread and the great teaching video with its captions.
The thread was already stuffed by us hijackers, so rather than extend the pain, I decided to bring my train of thought to a new thread.

Just thought this worth sharing.  The majority of you with normal hearing can resume your normal programme.   

There may be one or two others out there whose hearing is badly damaged.  I've tried three types of hearing aids and find them useless, so I just ask everyone to say everything twice, preferably after spitting out the marbles.

The reason for this theft of your reading time is to make fellow DOFs aware that some movie theatres now offer Closed Captions ( CC ).  There are 3 here in Brissie, in the Hoyts/AMC chain.

When you look through what's screening, look for the CC.  Then when you pick up your ticket, ask for the CC device.  They may ask for a refundable deposit or your licence as security.
Once in your seat, you stand the device in the cupholder and position the little screen below your line of sight to the big screen- it's on a gooseneck.  It does nothing during the trailers and adverts except tell you it's not working.  But when the movie starts...
 
From there it's white man's magic!    Every word spoken appears instantly in the two lines of LED text.  It is perfectly syncronised with the screen.  It assumes you are deaf because it describes sounds as well as giving the spoken words.

Gotta love technology!

[HOFFY]

Bit of a bugger that you can't re-wind the movie a bit, what with reading the text with prescription glasses, 3D glasses, distractions from the kid next to you with their white light from the mobile phone and being a bit of a slow reader.

Home  theatre is the way to go, when the bladder is full (or empty) you can put it on pause and do what you need to and later rtn to the picture and not miss a thing while sitting in your Lazy Boy recliner.

[Biggles]

Home  theatre is the way to go, when the bladder is full (or empty) you can put it on pause and do what you need to and later rtn to the picture and not miss a thing while sitting in your Lazy Boy recliner.

They haven't had any in the 3D cinemas yet.  It's still only in some screens.
But I agree DVD movies are great, and the ones with subtitles are even greater.
And yep, the bladder pressure can be a killer at the end of a 3 hour movie!

[Old Steve]

Bit of a diversion here, folks, but ....

Yesterday, while driving back from the Bowen Basin, I was listening to the local ABC rural radio station - the only one worth listening to out beyond Copabella.

The announcer was talking about movie "Easter Eggs", special little meanings inserted into a movie.

Like "Toy Story". Andy's cowboy hat doesn't match the hat that Woody wears.  But in Toy Story 2 we meet Jessie, a cowgirl, who was given away by her owner Emily when she grew up.  Through various scenes, pictures of Emily's bedroom years ago, it can be surmised that Andy's Mum is Emily and when she gave Jessie the cowgirl away she kept her own cowgirl hat and has passed this on to Andy (minus the white band).

Which reminded me of an"Easter Egg" I saw in a movie.  In Shrek 2, Shrek searches for the bottle of love potion and finally gets it in his hands.  On the bottle are the Roman numerals IX, which makes it "a little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine!"  Smelt like turpentine and looked like Indian ink, I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink ....  Most of you would be too young to understand.

[Biggles]

Love Potion Number Niiiiiiinnnne

I'm old enough!   

Whoever traced the cowboy hat motif through the Toy Story series is seriously OCD!  AND has waaaaay too much time if they can spend it disecting children's cartoon movies.

But I do like reading up the "goofs" that are found in movies- mostly anachronisms and discontinuities.

[Shiney]

Love Potion Number Niiiiiiinnnne

I'm old enough!   

Whoever traced the cowboy hat motif through the Toy Story series is seriously OCD!  AND has waaaaay too much time if they can spend it disecting children's cartoon movies...

Was it Marcus?

[TAZZIEBAZ]

I'm betting it was Shiney!