Wow. WOW. W-O-W !! Saw Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones in IMAX last night at the premiere.
The good news: This is the way this movie was meant to be seen, heard, and felt. Yoda 50' tall. Every hair of Obi-Wan's beard. Each wrinkle on Yoda's face. All the background details clear and sharp - I spent a lot of time marvelling at the things I couldn't see before, like Jawas moving around inside their transport when Anakin is searching for his mother. The arena "execution" scene is totally awesome. The speeder chase through Coruscant is almost dizzying. A close-up of Anakin and Padme with their faces six stories tall. Jango Fett's seismic charges in the asteroid belt battle you feel, not just hear. The ships passing through the theater. The battles. All the sound - a six-channel, uncompressed, 12,000-watt system. The battle in the rain on Kamino between Obi-Wan and Jango, and the light-saber battle between Dooku and Yoda are just awesome. Seeing the clone army on Kamino was chilling in its scope and detail. Now, the bad news: They cut about 23 minutes from the running time. Some of the time is in the end credits - instead of rolling credits, they fill up the whole IMAX screen with text. A number of scenes had minor cuts. Some scenes are gone all together, like Anakin and Padme in the field. While we noticed the cuts, in most cases they didn't adversely affect the plot, flow, or impact of the film. In a few cases, though, the short cuts were of important dialogue - the scene where Palpitane manipulates Jar-Jar about the vote in the Senate is gone. Overall recommendation: see it. SEE IT. You will wish that somehow your living room could be six stories tall and you could watch all the movies you love like this. Yes, it has some flaws. But it was great. -Ben P.S. It was even better in a theater full of "Jed-heads" having a really good time, and with a lot of people in wonderful costumes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
