Superman discussion (was cast, now merged)
06-05-06 | 11:30 AM
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I cant find anything for an Imax experience with this title in SE Wisconsin. Milwaukee Museum says will not have it, dont know why Mayfair was listed as Imax, guy on phone says they aren't.
06-05-06 | 11:19 PM
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out of three IMAX screens in and around the Washingtonian area, hand it to Warner Bros. and the Smithsonian to NOT work out a deal to book this... way to go assholes... now I have to find a way up to King of Prussia or Harrisburg to see this in IMAX 3D.... (this pisses me off big time).
06-05-06 | 11:49 PM
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Superman. Now we're gonna see a REAL hero and not some pussy mutant freakasses. 
06-05-06 | 11:50 PM
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I can't wait to read all the hate posts after it opens.
06-06-06 | 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Giantrobo
I can't wait to read all the hate posts after it opens.
The fact that Superman would be great and X3 would suck was actually decided last summer.
06-06-06 | 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by clemente
There won't be any.
The fact that Superman would be great and X3 would suck was actually decided last summer.
The fact that Superman would be great and X3 would suck was actually decided last summer.
06-06-06 | 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by clemente
There won't be any.
The fact that Superman would be great and X3 would suck was actually decided last summer.
The fact that Superman would be great and X3 would suck was actually decided last summer.
I won't be one of them of course.
06-07-06 | 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
From Jeff Wells at Hollywood-Elsewhere:
"Less amusing is a note from an exhibitor friend telling me that Superman Returns has a "confirmed duration of 158 minutes."
"Less amusing is a note from an exhibitor friend telling me that Superman Returns has a "confirmed duration of 158 minutes."
06-07-06 | 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
From Jeff Wells at Hollywood-Elsewhere:
"Less amusing is a note from an exhibitor friend telling me that Superman Returns has a "confirmed duration of 158 minutes."
"Less amusing is a note from an exhibitor friend telling me that Superman Returns has a "confirmed duration of 158 minutes."
06-07-06 | 01:24 PM
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Given the long running time, I'm wondering if the flashback clips we see in the trailers will play as a few opening sequences of about 20 minutes or so. Basically full scenes rather than a few seconds here and there of the past. I'm glad the time is 2 1/2 hours.
06-07-06 | 04:00 PM
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From: Rocky Mountain High
Some info. for the DVD and already confirming the double dip:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr..._id=1002614570
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr..._id=1002614570
Did he do anything special during production to generate material for Warner Home Video to use when "Superman" ultimately is released in DVD? "We've done a few things," Singer replied. "We've done these really wonderful web logs, which have allowed fans to get on the Internet. They're on SupermanReturns. com and BlueTights.net, which have enabled fans to sort of have an eye into the production. They're kind of whimsical and fun and some of that documented material will be on the DVD. There's something I like about making-of experiences that are little movies in themselves. I think there's a kind of theater that happens during the making of a film that if it's portrayed correctly can be really interesting -- like 'Hearts of Darkness,' the making of 'Apocalypse Now.' It's sort of a scary version of that. So there will be a lot of that (making-of) material.
"I think we're going to something called 'The In-Movie Experience' where you'll be able to be watching the movie and then instantly go to making-of footage. It's sort of the next evolution in running commentaries. Instead of just hearing the filmmakers or the actors talk over the scenes you'll be able to leap in and experience the making of the scenes and experience what we call 'B Roll.' You'll be able to leap to it right in the middle of watching the movie. My hope is that people experience the movie first and then go back and do this not do (it first). I don't know about the first release of the DVD, but there's a sequence I cut from the movie, a pretty significant sequence, and that sequence will appear at some point on (a DVD edition of the movie). It's kind of a fun look into Superman's journey off the Earth (into space that) I didn't use it in the movie. It might be on the DVD. I haven't decided yet."
"I think we're going to something called 'The In-Movie Experience' where you'll be able to be watching the movie and then instantly go to making-of footage. It's sort of the next evolution in running commentaries. Instead of just hearing the filmmakers or the actors talk over the scenes you'll be able to leap in and experience the making of the scenes and experience what we call 'B Roll.' You'll be able to leap to it right in the middle of watching the movie. My hope is that people experience the movie first and then go back and do this not do (it first). I don't know about the first release of the DVD, but there's a sequence I cut from the movie, a pretty significant sequence, and that sequence will appear at some point on (a DVD edition of the movie). It's kind of a fun look into Superman's journey off the Earth (into space that) I didn't use it in the movie. It might be on the DVD. I haven't decided yet."
06-09-06 | 02:45 AM
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Ok, we've got videos!!!!!!
Snippet from the "Look, Up in the Sky" DVD
TV Spot#6
And finally, exclusive from MTV, apparently shown before the Movie Awards show:
Plane rescue footage
Looks fucking awesome!
I also read that there was a press screening tonight for the movie already. I wonder if any lucky DVDTalkers were able to go.
Snippet from the "Look, Up in the Sky" DVD
TV Spot#6
And finally, exclusive from MTV, apparently shown before the Movie Awards show:
Plane rescue footage
Looks fucking awesome!
I also read that there was a press screening tonight for the movie already. I wonder if any lucky DVDTalkers were able to go.
06-09-06 | 12:12 PM
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From Jeff Wells of Hollywood-Elsewhere.....sounds positive:
"I saw Superman Returns last night, but I agreed not to run a review until opening day. If I left it there some of you might draw conclusions, so let me add without hesitation that Warner Bros.' caution is misplaced. I need to say at least one thing: I've echoed in this space the general interpretation of WB's decision to open Bryan Singer's film on Wednesday, 6.28, instead of the originally announced 6.30 debut, as a desire to maximize the holiday take before the dreaded onslaught of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest the following weekend. This view was, in hindsight, partially misleading because it suggested that a better pure-entertainment, bang-for-your-buck element would be coming from Pirates. That will obviously be a matter of perspective as the days advance, but it seems highly unlikely (I almost wrote "inconceivable") that Pirates will surpass Superman Returns in terms of emotionality and embodying a resonant, fully developed theme. I was watching an interview yesterday with the late Don Simpson on the new Crimson Tide DVD, and at one point he repeated the old maxim that a good movie "can't just deliver action or theme-park pizazz or laughs or big stars....it's gotta be about something." No critic is going to argue that Superman Returns doesn't fulfill that demand, and if I owned a house I would bet it on the expectation that Pirates will be about two things and two things only -- good pizazzy fun (action, humor, attitude, production values) and a total lack of regard for Simpson's Law. The other thing is that I don't get is the Advocate- cover idea that SR would have some kind of homoerotic subcurrent. They were dreaming -- this is a film about purity of spirit. One final thing: Superman Returns is opening simultaneously in IMAX theatres on 6.28, and about 20 minutes worth (i.e., "selected scenes") will be show in IMAX 3D. The press was shown a preview of how the 3D footage will look last night after the main screening, and it's mindblowing. There's an airborne action sequence in particular that delivered, for me, the greatest sensory thrill I've ever experienced from a mainstream movie in my life. There's no question that anyone within reach of an IMAX presentation of this film HAS TO SEE IT THIS WAY. (Singer has worked out a green light-red light system that will tell moviegoers when to put on the glasses just before a 3D section begins.) Trust me, catching it this way will be an absolute knockout."
"I saw Superman Returns last night, but I agreed not to run a review until opening day. If I left it there some of you might draw conclusions, so let me add without hesitation that Warner Bros.' caution is misplaced. I need to say at least one thing: I've echoed in this space the general interpretation of WB's decision to open Bryan Singer's film on Wednesday, 6.28, instead of the originally announced 6.30 debut, as a desire to maximize the holiday take before the dreaded onslaught of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest the following weekend. This view was, in hindsight, partially misleading because it suggested that a better pure-entertainment, bang-for-your-buck element would be coming from Pirates. That will obviously be a matter of perspective as the days advance, but it seems highly unlikely (I almost wrote "inconceivable") that Pirates will surpass Superman Returns in terms of emotionality and embodying a resonant, fully developed theme. I was watching an interview yesterday with the late Don Simpson on the new Crimson Tide DVD, and at one point he repeated the old maxim that a good movie "can't just deliver action or theme-park pizazz or laughs or big stars....it's gotta be about something." No critic is going to argue that Superman Returns doesn't fulfill that demand, and if I owned a house I would bet it on the expectation that Pirates will be about two things and two things only -- good pizazzy fun (action, humor, attitude, production values) and a total lack of regard for Simpson's Law. The other thing is that I don't get is the Advocate- cover idea that SR would have some kind of homoerotic subcurrent. They were dreaming -- this is a film about purity of spirit. One final thing: Superman Returns is opening simultaneously in IMAX theatres on 6.28, and about 20 minutes worth (i.e., "selected scenes") will be show in IMAX 3D. The press was shown a preview of how the 3D footage will look last night after the main screening, and it's mindblowing. There's an airborne action sequence in particular that delivered, for me, the greatest sensory thrill I've ever experienced from a mainstream movie in my life. There's no question that anyone within reach of an IMAX presentation of this film HAS TO SEE IT THIS WAY. (Singer has worked out a green light-red light system that will tell moviegoers when to put on the glasses just before a 3D section begins.) Trust me, catching it this way will be an absolute knockout."
06-09-06 | 02:17 PM
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Apologies for not going back over these 34 pages of threads but, how could I get IMAX theatre info?
06-09-06 | 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Kal-El
Ok, we've got videos!!!!!!
Snippet from the "Look, Up in the Sky" DVD
TV Spot#6
And finally, exclusive from MTV, apparently shown before the Movie Awards show:
Plane rescue footage
Looks fucking awesome!
I also read that there was a press screening tonight for the movie already. I wonder if any lucky DVDTalkers were able to go.
Snippet from the "Look, Up in the Sky" DVD
TV Spot#6
And finally, exclusive from MTV, apparently shown before the Movie Awards show:
Plane rescue footage
Looks fucking awesome!
I also read that there was a press screening tonight for the movie already. I wonder if any lucky DVDTalkers were able to go.
FAAAATHHHHHHHHEERRRRR! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
...sorry, couldn't resist.
06-09-06 | 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Rogue588
well whaddayaknow..
guess being lazy pays off sometimes..
guess being lazy pays off sometimes..
Don't hurt yourself the next time you stumble onto the internet.