my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » Film Handlers' Movie Reviews   » Iron Man 2 (2010) (Page 2)

This topic comprises 3 pages: 1  2  3

Author Topic: Iron Man 2 (2010) Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 05-03-2010 11:44 AM                     Haven't gotten ours yet, either for the rerelease of the 1st film or the 2nd one.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-03-2010 03:48 PM                     Obviously you guys are not to be trusted. The movie's been out here since last Thursday yet they are still going to lock your cans? Apparently, no-one else in the world could have possibly recorded it yet.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 05-03-2010 04:22 PM                     It is all just a big joke. The locks do nothing, but they have to keep up the show. My actual review of the film follows. I loved the first one, thought it was fun, a great addition to a genre that was starting to get a little stale with each new release. While it didn't invent the wheel it took a good formula and made it better. The sequel had large shoes to fill. While it did a good job for the most part, it did not reinvent the wheel. It stayed with its formula and didn't move much outside of the box. While this is good, it's also bad. It dragged in spots that it probably shouldn't of and fell flat in a few spots it shouldn't have. This one had more humor then the first one, and I think most of it fit well. Mickey Rourke to me was great as the bad guy, not to over the top but right at that edge. Sam Rockwell was a great counterpart to RDJ's Tony Stark. I think I might of gotten my hopes up a little high and then put this on a mountain that it could never reach. I still enjoyed it alot, but wish it could of been more. A side note about the Marvel Movie Universe. I love how they have brought characters in and moved them around in to other movies. To build on the universe and make it feel like a real world. Not just with big name characters, but people like Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson. Not a huge character but someone that can pop up in next summers "Thor" and help bring them together. Also loved the two fanboy moments. 7.5/10  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Althaus Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: Bedford, TX Registered: Dec 2008 posted 05-03-2010 09:48 PM                     Just called TechDigital. Drive for IronMan 1&2 won't be delivered until thursday afternoon, with the full feature unlocked at showtime (9pm for 1, 12am for 2). This has all the potential for a huge disaster, which part of me is secretly hoping for.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-03-2010 11:17 PM                     Well, they wouldn't want to unlock #1 too early or it could be copied and put on DVD... Wait...  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 05-04-2010 01:28 AM                     Lemme get this straight... Due to screener dvd's that are already out there on torrents... The studios decide to lock all other copies of Iron Man 2... Some as close as 1 hour before showtime if not earlier... And THIS is going to stop piracy because the studios won't recognise that copies are already available on Torrents? Yep. Makes perfect sense.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-04-2010 01:55 AM                     It is as if they are setting themselves up for failure with this last second KDM unlocking. I wonder if anything would change if everyone called into Technicolor between 12:01am to about 12:04am on Friday, claiming the movie won't play (even if it will)? How many phone lines do you think they have? You know, fuck with them a little bit. Keep them on the phone for a good 5 minutes having them tell you retarded suggestions on how to fix things. After 5-10 minutes you claim their last suggestion worked so you didn't lose the show (which has been running fine for 10 minutes now). They can get the warm fuzzies and then realize there are another thousand people on hold to treat like idiots because of a last second KDM unlocking. Turnabout is fair play the last I checked. In fairness it isn't Technicolor's fault. It is a joint problem created by the paranoia of the studios, and some jackass wearing a suit at the Technicolor corporate office convincing the studios they need to pay for more useless and annoying services...usually in the form of a phone call. "Hello Mr. Theater? Yes, we just wanted to make sure you knew we would be sending keys over later. Mmmmkay, thanks." Seriously though, where is my phone call alerting me they will be sending this week's 35mm print split over several reels? How can I possibly run the show without being reminded of the same damned routine every week??? We need that phone call each week reminding us that some of the trailers may need rewinding before we can run them!!! These studio heads need to wake up and realize they are being taken for a ride with all of these "services". Ok, I'm going to stop before I say what I really think about all of this. We do need to stop the chit chat here and move it elsewhere anyway. The next person to comment please open up a new thread in the Yak forum titled "Iron Man 2 Stupidity" or something along those lines.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-04-2010 07:10 AM                    Done.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Smith Expert Film Handler Posts: 201 From: Youngstown, OH Registered: Jan 2010 posted 05-07-2010 09:01 AM                     What's the point of seeing something in IMAX that is coming from a 2K file? FORGET screen size, even if you dupe it onto 7" aerial film, a straight 2K digital file (assuming lossless compression and the same color-space as the film recorder) is going to look better than IMAX every time. IMAX blowups from 2K DIs are just a gross waste of perfectly good 70mm film. . .  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-07-2010 03:00 PM                     I agree it is a waste to blow up any 2K image to 15-perf 70mm film. I'm not all that fond of the IMAX DMR process even when they are working with actual 35mm film elements (not stuff digitally rendered and laser recorded onto 35mm). Basically there is no substitute for 65mm origination. The only advantage an IMAX blow up has is a bigger, possibly brighter image. But bigger is not always better. When the image has limited native resolution it just gets blurry when it is enlarged to true IMAX sized proportions. Nevertheless, a decent number of summer movies will be available with the IMAX blow-up treatment, including 3D blow-ups of Shrek 4 and Toy Story 3. Inception is the only IMAX blow-up that interests me at all and that's only because parts of it may have been filmed with 5-perf 65mm cameras. BTW, Iron Man 2 has settled in with a 71% "certified fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes with 181 reviews counted. 129 Fresh, 52 Rotten. Average rating 6.4 of 10.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 05-07-2010 08:38 PM                        CINEMA: Cinemarkury 20 at Jordan Creek, West Des Moines, IA AUDITORIUM: 11 PRESENTATION: Cinemark XD Extreme Digital Cinema DLP PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: Bouncy image slightly out of focus RATING: Three stars (out of four) Well there's nothing Century about THIS auditorium anymore. They gutted it and gave it a Cinemark interior with some "XD" upgrades. Sconces are more modern (but about the same size as the antiquish ones in current Cinemarks). Seats are the same inserts Cinemark lifted from Century but are covered in black leather. Armrests also have leather inserts, but have so little padding they may as well have stuck with plastic. New JBL speakers replace the Century THX EV's. They lifted the slope floor a bit and stair-tiered the front rows to give the front end of the auditorium a more 'stadium' feel. The seats and rows are numbered, but they're not doing reserved seating (yet). They even moved the exit door from the front to the side wall to make way for the new wall-to-wall (and nearly ceiling-to-floor) screen. There is no adjustable masking, of course, so movies play letterboxed on the exposed screen. They spent a ridiculous amount of money on signage with a HUGE lighted Cinemark XD logo on the side of the building and put some lit signage and a special poster case in front of the auditorium entrance. They're really pushing this as their sort of proprietary IMAX, aren't they. Ticket: $12. Sound was awesome, damn near perfect. Picture, not so much. The image was okay while the movie was running, but the flaws all came out during the credits. Flickering up and down, rainbow effects, fuzzy...Actually, it fits right in with the rest of this building. THE PLOT: A Russian claims trademark infringement. Wackiness ensues. I had to look back at the original Iron Man thread to remember if I'd even seen the first Iron Man. Apparently, I did, and I liked it okay. I apparently bought the Blu-ray at some point (I think I spotted it on sale or something), but I've never watched it. I like this one better in every way, especially the supporting cast. There's a "stay for the credits" deal that apparently has to do with teasing another Marvel character. I won't spoil who it is, but I wouldn't have figured it out if it weren't for others in the auditorium freaking out and shouting the name.  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 05-07-2010 09:26 PM                     quote: Sam Graham There is no adjustable masking, of course, so movies play letterboxed on the exposed screen. LAME!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-07-2010 10:24 PM                     Ok that's the SECOND time I've heard that. Really? Are these auditoriums TOO X-TREME to handle masking?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-08-2010 12:12 AM                     BOUNCY IMAGE slightly out of focus? WTMF??? That sort of thing is NEVER EVER EVER supposed to EVER EVER happen with DIGITAL PHIGGIDY SUPER-DIGI DIGITAL Projection. Honestly, what sort of mechanics would be involved to allow an electronic HDTV resolution image to be bouncy. I really am truly confused. Nice to hear Cinemark is at least putting some beef into the sound system, but with all the other features considered the whole XD thing seems like a ripoff. I'll prefer to have my first thought of XD as being a line of semi-auto pistols sold by Springfield Armory. Cinemark's marketing ploy will be a very distant second. I do loves shootin' some firearms guns!  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 05-08-2010 01:22 AM                     Improper ventilation will cause a bounce. edit: Well, more of a vibration and wobble.  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

This topic comprises 3 pages: 1  2  3

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.