jonnyp
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Same. Prisoners was amazing, arrival was pure shit.
I hope this delivers but blade runner is in my top 3 of all time so it has a lot to live up to for me
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First Blade Runner 2049 impressions
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Same. Prisoners was amazing, arrival was pure shit.
I hope this delivers but blade runner is in my top 3 of all time so it has a lot to live up to for me
Arrival was pure shit?
(yes and it looks plenty soupy which should be great at letting the colored lighting be carried through the air)
jonnyp
Member
Yes, plot is completely stupid. It is nicely filmed and Adams is good but doesn't help when it's so mindnumbingly stupid. Cannot understand how well liked it is, but then again so is Interstellar which is even way worse.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
Prisoners stunk. Fight me.
I love how colorful the film is.. but a balanced colorful. You can tell they spent a lot of time constructing the sets to produce a specific tone. Not like Guardians 2 where it was like an unending neon rainbow.
How is the plot completely stupid?
How is the plot completely stupid?
Beer Monkey
Member
I dunno about that, I think he's gonna get an Oscar before he retires but of course the Academy is all about politics not merit so you never, ever know.
I personally think he's the greatest living cinematographer.
I dunno if I'd call Arrival "pure shit", but it definitely wasn't as good as Prisoners or Sicario. It was a very pretty, very well done science fiction movie whose story left something to be desired. Hey, Villeneuve is like Ridley Scott, after all!
And then Star Wars again.
This is the kind of nuance I miss in hype threads like this one
Watch as Lubezki snatches it again.
I think Hoyte van Hoytema is going to be Deakins primary competition this year although I can see Elswit sneaking in.
However Deakins will probably be the frontrunner, going by these impressions, partially due to his work in BR but also for previous years.
It's true, always had remakes. However today the complicated thing is watch an original film.
Beer Monkey
Member
Both. Not just one.
I so want to see BR in Dolby Cinema but my screen here is fucked and I won't support it (red cast from aisle lights).
Bobby Roberts
Banned
This is not a complicated undertaking you are describing
i dont keep up on theater stuff too much since i dont go very often, but there's a dolby cinema amc around the corner from my office and now im fucking psyched to see blade runner there
shit...where are you haha
shit...where are you haha
Inferno313
Banned
mother!
Stronger
American Made
Battle of the Sexes
Lucky
Those are just the well-reviewed original films that have opened, or are about to open, within the last 2 weeks.
If you're not watching original films, that's a 'you' problem, and you need to branch out more.
Fakeknowledge
Member
Went to watch the original on now tv but it's the one where Deckard narrates here and there, isn't that the one to avoid?
Inferno313
Banned
It's not most folks favorite version, but if it's all you've got, give it a watch.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
DON'T AVOID ANY OF THEM
Even the least-great version of Blade Runner is still a great movie.
I liked the original, didn't love it. I wouldn't be surprised if I end up liking this one more than the original.
Last few films I watched.... Kingsman 2, mother!, Logan Lucky, Dunkirk, Baby Driver, In This Corner of the World. The last "remake/reboot/whatever" I watched was... Spider-man Homecoming. Seems to be the exception rather than the norm,
Beer Monkey
Member
Cincinnati. But a google search indicated that there are several other Dolby Cinema screens out there with the red cast problem. Search "dolby cinema red aisle lighting screen" and you'll find this is a problem being reported at several locations (but not all).
If the theater has red aisle lighting in the front of the hall there should be a horizontal black matte at the bottom of the screen to prevent the red cast, but it doesn't seem they are doing this.
I saw GotG2 and the bottom third of the screen had a red cast, very visible in every dark scene, will never return to that auditorium. You can't unsee it.
Here's an even worse example than my local one. Some poor bloke paid extra to see Wonder Woman in Dolby Cinema and this is what he got for his money!
Cincinnati. But a google search indicated that there are several other Dolby Cinema screens out there with the red cast problem. Search "dolby cinema red aisle lighting screen" and you'll find this is a problem being reported at several locations (but not all).
If the theater has red aisle lighting in the front of the hall there should be a horizontal black matte at the bottom of the screen to prevent the red cast, but it doesn't seem they are doing this.
I saw GotG2 and the bottom third of the screen had a red cast, very visible in every dark scene, will never return to that auditorium. You can't unsee it.
Here's an even worse example than my local one. Some poor bloke paid extra to see Wonder Woman in Dolby Cinema and this is what he got for his money!
dammit thats horrible
Beer Monkey
Member
Yep, I just go to Atmos now. No upcharge, no red cast on the screen.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
What the fuck
How does something that egregious just slip by QC?
How does something that egregious just slip by QC?
UnemployedVillain
Member
By what bizarre metric is this even remotely the case?!
Beer Monkey
Member
Invariably if you ask the theater to turn the aisle lighting off they reply that they can't because of safety code. And the way they respond, it's routine. They are getting these complaints regularly. Dolby needs to fix this.
More_Badass
Member
So many great original films come out every year that you practically have to purposefully overlook them to not see them
2017 alone has had Mother, It Comes At Night, Wind River, Dunkirk, Free Fire, Stronger, A Cure For Wellness, Split, Get Out, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Raw, Life, The Blackcoats Daughter, Colossal, Sleight, The Wall, Baby Driver, A Ghost Story, Detroit, Good Time, Logan Lucky...and thats not counting the foreign films or adaptations or sequels to original films
this is like when i went to a 70mm showing hateful 8 and i complained during the intermission and after the movie that the fucking movie got more out of focus the further down the screen you went. so basically the bottom 25% of the screen was blurry. it drove me nuts the entire time
they mostly just shrugged and were like "thats how it supposed to look"
I wanna see The Shape of Water real bad
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
Those impressions have me so hyped. I wasnt even really playing attention to this one, but now Ill see it in theaters.
I was properly shook as I walked out of Arrival (and all of Denis previous films) so I expect no less here.
I was properly shook as I walked out of Arrival (and all of Denis previous films) so I expect no less here.
Nappuccino
Member
I guess by the metric that it's a non-traditional movie?
Prisoners, for it's grimy torture plot, is a fairly straightforward detective story.
Arrival is about the importance of language, communication, and the way they change how we think.
It sells to a different audience, I guess.
self_aware_keyboard
Member
I just remember the tested podcast about the movie, "ghost in the shell", at one point he ( if memory serves ) apologies on behalf of men for bad casting choices in Hollywood. *eye roll.
Inferno313
Banned
Not sure what the problem is here.
self_aware_keyboard
Member
Maybe just me, I just finding him annoying at times. Sorry, don't mean to derail this on a tangent.
Fakeknowledge
Member
I'll watch it then, wanna see it before the new one comes out.
Why would this only be a problem with Dolby screens though? Wouldn't other screens at the theater have the same spill from the aisle lights too, or is there something unique going on with the lighting in a Dolby screen?
Insane Metal
Member
Me too. I was basically hypnotized for the duration of the film, what an amazing experience.
Beer Monkey
Member
Dolby Cinema has an over the top red lighting motif. It's their branding.
Aisle lights at my Atmos hall are a dim white. Doesn't cause a problem.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Also, aisle lighting should never be so bright that it's filling the lower third of the screen. Hell, most aisle lighting is barely bright enough to illuminate the seat from the armrest down.
They've got red fucking flashlights pointed at the screen in that picture.
They've got red fucking flashlights pointed at the screen in that picture.
Ahh, man that would drive me nuts. I get annoyed at the IMAX here cause they leave the doors open until the main show starts, and the light from the hallway spills right onto the screen. And that's just for the previews! If there was spill on the screen during the actual movie I'd walk out.
Annoying Old Party Man
Member
So Arrival is mindnumbingly stupid, but Interstellar is even worse than that?
God I hate internet forums.
Nappuccino
Member
I'm red-green colorblind, and I could tell it was washed in red.
That's a problem.