Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was OAR on ITV yesterday. I know that's been OAR on C4 before, but to have it shown correctly on ITV was quite a change. I've watched the first half so far, and it looks great, although as it's ITV, no chance of a DD5.1 soundtrack....
...Then again, C4 didn't bother with that for last night's Repo Men or last Sat's Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (which I ditched before getting halfway through)
Originally Posted by eyeblink:
“PACIFIC RIM appeared to be a 15/70 IMAX 3D print as well, though like the above two it was digital-captured rather than shot on film. It didn't quite fill the whole screen, looking like it preserved the OAR of 1.85:1, I don't think Guillermo del Toro has made a film in Scope yet.”
If I see that at the cinema, I'll most likely go for 2D. Apparently some of the CGI was done in 3D, but the rest was shot in 2D and GDT didn't want to make it in 3D anyway, by the sounds of Mark Kermode's review with Mayo (which was part-rant about Michael Bay)
Originally Posted by
mwardy:
“Man of Steel and The Hobbit weren't shot with IMAX cameras, and it sounds like Pacific Rim wasn't either. I don't see the point of making 15/70 prints of these
since They will only open out to the digital IMAX aspect ratio of 1.9:1, as you found.
And with Star Trek, which *did* have 15/70 filmed segments, only getting one print for the country, it's a very confused picture at the moment.
Once laser projectors arrive it will be different, but we are in a transitional stage where it's impossible to know what you are going to get for your money without hitting the web quite hard!”
I haven't heard of laser projectors. Is this something completely new that'll do the job 15/70 projectors did and digital ones can't, ie. 1.44:1 images? (please tell me that's the case!)