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Author Topic: Flightplan (2005) John Pommon Film Handler Posts: 25 From: San Francisco, CA, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 10-08-2005 04:18 PM                        quote: Mark Gulbrandsen This film easily gets the "Grainiest Film" award of the year from me. My DLP experience was just the opposite. There was Zero grain, exceptional color balance of the [fake stretched Boeing 777 sets] but the clarity was perfect. Perhaps the focus could be a hair sharper. That was the only difference which disappeared after a moment . . I easily made the adjustment [I would have liked to see a new film-print just afterward.] I thought the begining could have been a little simpler to follow. Major Spoiler ahead! . . . the audience is aware that the explosive C-4 will vaporize her in the explosion. Yet Kyle is not clear what the degree of the explosion will be. but is willing to gamble her life & daughter's by chancing that an unknown bomb's force will blow up just area where the a sky-marshall is . .separated only partitioned by a fire door . . major huh! I think timing would have been more realistic if she was 1st seen coming down the stairs after the smoke clears than already being on tarmac. Otherwise ALL the characters' performances made it worth the trek to see it. The music arrangement was perfect. [ 10-09-2005, 03:54 AM: Message edited by: John Pommon ]  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-10-2005 11:43 PM                     quote: John Pommon My DLP experience was just the opposite. There was Zero grain, exceptional color balance of the [fake stretched Boeing 777 sets] Considering that the grain was so large it was probably hidden by the facct that each grain was the size of a single pixel of the DLP chip...... Mark  |  IP: Logged John Pommon Film Handler Posts: 25 From: San Francisco, CA, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 10-11-2005 02:23 AM                        quote: Mark Gulbrandsen each grain was the size of a single pixel of the DLP chip...... amazingly . . . each pixel on a DMD chip is a reflective mirror. . . . tilting micromirrors, rapidly spinning color wheels & high def optical discs . . . it's all Greek to me. . . I want my intermittant!!! Film may be down but will never be out. Has anyone experienced "the rainbow effect". Basically, the "rainbow effect" is a brief flash of colors (like a small rainbow) when the viewer rapidly looks from side to side on the screen or looks rapidly from the screen to side of the room. Fortunately, this does not occur frequently and many people do not have sensitivity to this effect at all. I did not see this during the Flightplan DLP projection.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-11-2005 07:56 AM                        Nor will you, since the rainbow effect is a signature of single-imager projection devices. Theatrical DLP machines are all three-imager devices, and thus do not have color wheels and the attendant rainbow effect.  |  IP: Logged John Pommon Film Handler Posts: 25 From: San Francisco, CA, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 10-11-2005 03:30 PM                        no wonder I couldn't see it - there's no pro like an old pro, appreciate the facts. Thanks Paul  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 10-15-2005 02:30 PM                     It was OK. You won't get bored. But the final third is a letdown after the good setup.  |  IP: Logged Rob Ferreira Film Handler Posts: 25 From: Conway, NH, USA Registered: Oct 2005 posted 10-17-2005 04:36 AM                        I didn't even find the set-up that amazing with this film. I wasn't shocked when { SPOILERS AHEAD! } the air marshall turned out to be in on any of it. Or the flight attendant. Nothing about this movie was a suprise. And as a friend of mine said after watching this film: "After a half hour of searching, I didn't care whether the girl was real, imaginary, or sipping cocktails on a beach in Tijuana." I very much enjoy Jodie Foster, and she does have a knack for making good (mostly) films. Out of all the movies playing at my theatre right now, this is the one I reccomend; but that doesn't mean it was anything to write home about either. *** out of 5  |  IP: Logged Robert Burtcher Expert Film Handler Posts: 194 From: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-18-2005 10:53 AM                     Isn't this like the second or third movie starring Jodie Foster in which she loses her kid and goes psycho trying to get him/her back? Someone should call the DHS on that woman, geez.  |  IP: Logged

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