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Author Topic: The Dark Knight Rises Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-09-2012 11:35 PM                     The "shot on film" bullshit -- even IMAX -- is pure ego and marketing at this point. It does not impress me in the slightest. Nothing new with shooting on film. "It's been done."  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 08-10-2012 12:09 AM                     I was reading American Cinematographer DKR shoot and how they went about it.If i were a filmmaker I would be trying to juggle all these formats and slowly lose my grip.It can't be easy. Any film becoming great is against the odds. He is the first filmmaker to try shooting in Imax for a feature and I am grateful for his efforts. Too tired too think of anything else right now...  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-10-2012 09:15 AM                     It's not easy -- no film production is ever easy -- I just don't agree that the added difficulty of shooting on film (and IMAX) serves the story -- I claim that it only serves the egos of the director and cinematographer -- more people will see the film in a digital format -- especially if you include posterity.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 08-10-2012 12:03 PM                     It will look far better in any format thanks to it's photo chemical origins. In 5 years it will still look great where most of this digitally shot crap will look dated. I have watched it twice in real Imax and love it but agree it falls short of Dark Knight.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-10-2012 01:24 PM                     I'm looking forward to seeing the other two -- I liked this one enough to try "Batman" again.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Kane Film Handler Posts: 74 From: corpus christi, tx Registered: Jun 2011 posted 08-30-2012 01:09 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer When it comes to sound, Nolan is a hack job. The fight scenes in Begins show he had yet to grasp the concept of proper editing as well. This has also improved after people (gasp) complained. Yet Inception sounded glorious... so perhaps he just wants Batman to sound 'gritty'? Every time I heard Bane I kept thinking "Werner Klemperer with a gas-mask on".  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 09-01-2012 10:54 AM                     Saw it finally. Real IMAX at REgal 20 Mall of Georgia. 7pm show. nice and bright. Got a free ticket to watch Hit and Run by Sunday. Some kind of promo, I guess. Bright picture with the contrast being OK. OPening action sequence showcased well in IMAX dimensions. I gotta say this though. IMAX is not necessarily the best storytelling format. It does not detract from anything, but it is not essential to have IMAX to have a great experience. It is overkill for regular scenes so i won't mind it when they crop out the top and bottom for home video. Where it's awesomeness lies is skyscraper scenes or scenes with a lot of vertically oriented scenery. Scenes where a lot of background scenery where you dont need to focus on the entire image but it is fun to move your eyes to scan the entire frame gradually during the scene. But for regular scenes where you want to take in the entire frame, I prefer widescreen. The only time, I liked the IMAX format in a non -nature/skyscraper backdrop scene was the one where Batman is focused on in closeup as he sits in one of his vehicles. As far as the movie, I liked the first hour, I liked the last hour. I hated the middle 45 min because I found it too easy to nod off. I nodded off during a lot of the middle 45min and I feel like I missed nothing. The goals of the bad group of people were essentially so simplistic (let's create chaos) that it didn't require that much of a slow pace to give it heft. I didn't find Bane's voice muffled at all. if anything, it seemed crystal clear. Batman's voice on the other hand is still laughable.The Heinz Field blowup was a tad disappointing because the trailer made that scene seem epic, but nothing extra was shown in the movie itself.Since they were showing a bunch of Steelers, they might as well have had James Harrison appear and try to take on Bane.  |  IP: Logged

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