Lord of the Rings and Lawrence of Arabia in IMAX
11-27-02, 01:13 PM
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Lord of the Rings and Lawrence of Arabia in IMAX
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Seems like it's time for another "WHAT ASPECT RATIO WILL IT BE IN?" arguement. IMAX seems all too willing to butcher film for the sake of making them bigger. IMAX was always about the highest quality in their own documentary/educational genre, now they just want to parley their BIG DICKS (I mean screens) into showing the same Hollywood junk only bigger and butchered. I can't remember the last time the IMAX by me had a "real" IMAX movie playing. It's all disney and "enhanced 35mm". Press anouncements like this should specify how they intend to do this.
New digital remastering techniques will, for the first time, allow film spectacles to premiere in giant-screen Imax theaters on the same day that they are released to conventional theaters. (Treasure Planet is the first feature to get such a dual release.) Imax Co-CEO Brad Wechsler told Britain's Guardian newspaper that the third movies in both the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings series will open at Imax theaters simultaneously with their opening elsewhere. He said that Imax technicians have shown director Peter Jackson a test screening of the first Rings film, and that his reaction was: "This is the way I dreamt my movie would be shown." Since Imax projection booths cannot handle films longer than two hours presently, Rings will probably be shown with an intermission, Wechsler said. He also said that Imax is planning to release at least one remastered classic each year and has selected Lawrence of Arabia for 2003.
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Originally posted by Rypro 525
and how much will they cut both movies???
and how much will they cut both movies???
11-27-02, 09:13 PM
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Hopefully they op for doing the intermission. I'm sure anyone who is watching these films would understand and enjoy an intermission thrown into the mix.
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Originally posted by Jackskeleton
Hopefully they op for doing the intermission. I'm sure anyone who is watching these films would understand and enjoy an intermission thrown into the mix.
Hopefully they op for doing the intermission. I'm sure anyone who is watching these films would understand and enjoy an intermission thrown into the mix.
