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On another note: "Angels and Demons" was not made in IMAX. Don't be fooled by the theater chains who might USE the IMAX theater to run regular 35-mm. films. It's a 35-mm. film, being run through a 35-mm. projector. It just happens to be showing on a large screen, where it won't fill up the screen and will look just as grainy and blurry as it would in a regular 35-mm. theater. It's about as "IMAX" as if you showed the film on the side of a building. |
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06-21-2009, 03:29 PM | #2612 |
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Saw "The Hangover" the other day, and "Land Of The Lost" today. "Hangover" was good, but not as good as everyone's making it out to be. (Granted, the theater was empty, and it's hard to get into a comedy when no one is around you, laughing.) Conversely, "Land Of The Lost", while not heading to the Academy Awards, was better than people have been giving it credit for.
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06-21-2009, 03:49 PM | #2614 |
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Both of them ("A&D" and "DaVinci") were nowhere near as good as the book. In general, it's hard for a film to match a book's complexities or narrative ability, or to fully render what your own imagination can provide (which probably wasn't Tom Hanks with a mullet). But, conversely, I think if you read the books you'd probably enjoy (or, at least, tolerate) the films better.
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06-21-2009, 05:35 PM | #2616 |
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Going to see Drag Me to Hell tonight with a lady friend... I'm looking forward to seeing it for the second time...
I'm also looking forward to having some birthday sex afterwards.
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06-21-2009, 06:00 PM | #2618 |
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Angles & Demons, just like Da Vinci Code, is as good as the book, imo. Which is to say, not at all.
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But "Land Of The Lost" isn't in IMAX, either. Again, don't confuse a movie chain using its IMAX Theater to run 35 with an actual IMAX presentation. They might advertise "...in the IMAX theater!" but unless they actually say "in IMAX", they're fooling you. A regular film shown on a regular projector in an IMAX theater will look just like a regular film; it'll just have a lot more unused screen around it. Consider it like serving a McDonald's hamburger on a giant china plate, LOL. The most recent IMAX films were "Star Trek" and then "Night At The Museum 2". "Transformers 2" will be in IMAX, with some scenes filmed using the IMAX camera like they did with "The Dark Knight" and, in addition, I believe "Transformers 2" will have IMAX-exclusive extra content (a few more minutes of robots fighting or something). After that will be "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", which will not only be in IMAX but will have select scenes in IMAX 3D; for the last Potter film, the last 20 minutes or so was in 3D, but I don't know if they're going that route again or doing what they did for "Superman Returns" (where they had short scenes interspersed throughout the film, such as the airplane rescue and the boat rescue). After "Prince" there's nothing on the IMAX docket until Disney's Jim Carrey version of "A Christmas Carol" in early November, and then James Cameron's "Avatar" in December. That's a big hole, so something else will probably be in IMAX--perhaps "G.I. Joe" in August, no one knows right now. |
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Doesn't mean you can't enjoy the books while realizing they aren't great fiction.
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I enjoyed the books as well as the films. They weren't life-changing, they were simply a novel historical-speculation-based twist on the spy/chase mystery, much as "National Treasure" was.
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Likewise with the movies.
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06-21-2009, 06:28 PM | #2624 |
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That's the thing about movie critics which bug me. They can never be an accurate judge of how you'll like a film because, number one, they don't know your intellect. I'm not saying how "smart" or "stupid" you are, more like, "what you think is funny". And, number two, it also depends on your mood. Sometimes I want a burger, sometimes I want a fancy meal. Sometimes I want deep reading, sometimes I want a fluff sci-fi or mystery novel to kill time. Sometimes I want classical music, sometims I want heavy metal. And sometimes I want a dumb-ass movie like "Land Of The Lost", other times I want soul-moving cinema like "Schindler's List" or the first half of "Saving Private Ryan" or something.
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