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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-28-2013 01:51 PM

quote: Bobby Henderson
how about that dreary, depressing color palette?

Agreed. I think this was a Christopher Nolan contribution and is part of the "Batman-ing" of Superman.

This washed-out color thing is getting to be too common in today's movies. I wonder how many people in the theaters think the "color is adjusted wrong?"

On the other hand, today's TV sets have the color adjusting controls buried into menus to the pont that most people probably never even know they're there.

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Claude S. Ayakawa
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posted 06-28-2013 03:31 PM

Eastman Color, a single strip color negative system was introduced by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1952 to compete with Technicolor's three strip process and a few film makers started to produce films with a very dull color pallete with this new motion picture color negative process. Among the first to do so was William A Wellman in 1952 with his film TRACK OF THE CAT starring Robert Mitchum. John Huston again did the same with his film MOBY DICK in 1956 starring Gregory Peck. I thought the process was pretty cool at the time but I think it is overused today and I DO NOT LIKE IT! Not only MAN OF STEEL used it but WORLD WAR Z also had it too and watching this movie in 3-D with hardly any color was no fun although the movie itself was very good. I would actually prefer a film to be in black and white instead of this drape color cinematography

-Claude

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Marcel Birgelen
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posted 06-28-2013 03:42 PM

quote: Mike Blakesley
No, because at the very beginning of when they activate it you can see water rising too. Another special effect they did just because they could....no matter if it makes sense.

Obviously it was very healthy mineral water. [Wink]

Honestly, I thought the whole concept of drilling trough the earth and sending some kind of *whatever pulse* trough it to harvest *whatever* energy with it was kind of far fetched...

quote: Mike Blakesley
Agreed. I think this was a Christopher Nolan contribution and is part of the "Batman-ing" of Superman.

I wouldn't call the color palette of Zack Snyder's previous movies too bright either. I don't remember 300, Watchmen and Sucker Punch as especially brightly colored movies.

For me, the Nolan contribution was more in the dramatic scenes and the dark and heavy soundtrack by Hans Zimmer.

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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

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From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 06-29-2013 11:14 AM

Is anyone else having sound issues with this movie (normal 5.1 or possibly 7.1). That is, where the dialog to the music/effect balance is far apart so that if one has it loud enough to clearly hear the dialog the music/effects are off the charts?

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 06-29-2013 11:56 AM

It is a "super" loud mix. It didn't seem out of the ordinary for this kind of movie though. I had no trouble hearing the dialog.

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Frank Cox
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posted 06-29-2013 12:16 PM

It sounded just fine when I played it here. I played it at my usual volume setting and it blew the roof off, just like I expected it to.

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Jonathan Goeldner
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From: Washington, District of Columbia
Registered: Jun 2008

posted 06-29-2013 06:59 PM

quote: Bobby Henderson
Speaking of Dolby Atmos, I thought the mix was pretty good. Although, I didn't really hear a whole lot of point source specific sounds placed in 3D space within the room. The Dolby Atmos trailer did a much more clear job of demonstrating all of the wild zig zag surround movement that is possible. The Man of Steel mix did more to fill the space in the room rather than sound like it was merely coming from the walls. At least that was good. My only complaint is the bass level could have been better. But I don't expect huge, stadium seated rooms like the Cine Capris to deliver chest rattling bass like I've heard in certain other standard seated auditoriums in the past.

I thought the one instance where the Atmos mix created pinpoint 3D imagery was when Zod's helmet started to malfunction - the odd blips, beeps and other electronic noises where emulating everywhere in the soundfield, and put you literally inside his helmet - it was really quite remarkable.

As for the bass, even amongst all the barrage of noise, I agree, the lack of significant oomph was lacking.

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