Post by Hook on Apr 5, 2009 23:32:26 GMT -8
Why do you "know"? It's remarkably stupid. My screen is not 3.5 times the size as the one in my theater, why the hell would I want IMAX footage in my living room without a say?
Just saw it (yes, 5 months after purchase, bugger off) and I need to come out straight: I was talking out of my ass. Even though a tiny TV screen is no match for an actual IMAX screen, the image is remarkably different from the 35mm footage. The grain is imperceptible (well, on night shots you kinda see it) and the image has far more detail than the standard resolution and the aspect ratio changes do not throw you off the experience. And, to top it all off, I watched the pains they went through shooting in IMAX, and even though the people who own the IMAX brand are killing it by showing subpar screenings of non-IMAX footage across the globe and not promoting the format enough (guys, we're talking about the future of cinema and here it is, the first action film shot in this format, using the only 4 lightweight cameras available in the world and the crew ended up destroying one of them), and the honchos lay on their backs as all this digital and 3D crap is brought upon us (and even 35mm film with all its motion blur problems, which could be solved a tad with Maxivision, but nobody seems to want that). Give me the good stuff. And make it practical, for heaven's sake.
Oh, and as for Blu-ray, expect more shopping from the store, Jon. I'm not looking back (ok, that's a hyperbole, of course I'll keep seeing DVDs, DVD rips and the dreaded R5s and Telesyncs -- never a man of a CAM, though -- but I promise I'll only leech and be a very poor seeder).
Wow, I used the word "and" a lot of times in this post.