Kev- yeah, we all freaked when the "crawl" (diagonal yellow text intro) came on the screen, and you had to "pan" to read the whole line :-)
-Ben >From: "Kevin Gilchrist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Star Wars AOTC IMAX review >Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 01:37:38 -0500 > >Hey I saw it tonight too. >Only con is that sometimes there's so much out of your field of vision >it can be hard to figure out what's going on movement-wise (imagine only >seeing the very center of a movie during a frenetic scene) > >But otherwise great ! > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ben Braver [mailto:benbraver@;hotmail.com] >Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 9:31 PM >To: CF-Community >Subject: Star Wars AOTC IMAX review > > >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 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
