Oh lord. Usually, people who sit too close in IMAX to the front have neck pain with ringing ears. I've seen one IMAX movie at that cinema (great setup) so I'm sure it was your seating location. IMAX seating is critical for sound and vision. In my experience you want you sit at the very top row, or any of the 3 rows from the top - just left or right of dead center. I'm still miffed for you given this was your last opportunity to enjoy a 70mm IMAX movie unless you plan to rewatch it lol. I saw the 70mm version at Lincoln Square in NYC, and it was stupendous compared to the IMAX Digital presentation at Edwards Marquee in Houston. I'm flying to Australia this weekend for business, and I've set aside 3 hours so I can enjoy the film at Sydney's Darling Harbour - the largest screen in the world.
I'm not sure what my expectations were for this movie. I've heard conflicting opinions (mostly positive) for instance "people think this is deep, but it's not blah blah blah" Well it pretty much blew me away. Maybe the imax In Austin at the museum helped but I think I like this better then batman 2 and prestige which were my favorite movies of his.
Good to hear. I'd agree with those saying it's not "deep." But it's bold and (to me at least) thought provoking. It has a kind of reverence for the universe and things we don't understand, and I enjoyed that.
It was a great movie. The ending just seemed rush and I would actually have prefered a two part movie. Or. I wish they would have just focused on the sci fi and had a different ending. Still a great movie, can't think a better space exploration in recent times movie nerds would like.
Saw it with my wife yest. Thought provoking but there are some issues. I was irritated by the audio mixing. I get that you are a brilliant director but don't go overboard with it. Being able to understand dialogue is the basic necessity of watching a movie. I was getting ear fatigue trying to concentrate on M.M's monotone lines. That said: Spoiler The ending was rushed. How did they find him after he entered the 5th dimension? How did the future humans get that capability..and why would past humans exist if they already left earth?
Caught the last run of this in 70mm Imax in Austin last weekend at the Bob Bullock museum and it was incredible. Kinda sad the last real IMAX are all moving over to digital after that experience.
saw this movie thursday and read the entire thread before i posted film was awesome, some really great drama, some complain about the science but they have no clue how it works, if you didn't like it maybe science fiction ain't your thing, there are plot holes in every movie my favorite part of this thread is nero finding a name for a planet kdwp really sad i missed seeing this in imax
Finally saw this movie in Secaucus,NJ (B-Worrell is smiling ) of all places during the holidays, the movie is long, has some plot holes and is hard to believe at times. BamBam's movie review... Spoiler Regardless of all the negatives, I still think it deserves TWO thumbs up!... ....... ....... .......
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great movie, I pretty much dig any kinda sci fi / end of world / future movie. agree with dialoguge being super hard to hear, had tv maxed whole time. end a bit rushed, but def was digging it
I just watched it. I feel dumber now after seeing it. Absurd is an understatement. It was entertaining fluff, however.
Saw it last night. I think most of the issues came down to the format - mega blockbuster movie. A bunch of stuff was simplified or passed by from time constraint. The movie was 2 hrs 47 minutes. If you filled it all out to fix some of the gaps, it could have been 4 or 5 hrs. That, obviously , simply wasn't going to happen. A good example was the period between Wooderson finding the NASA base and going into space was like 12 hrs. Huh? But to include even some basic training would have slowed the narrative and added time. The ending was kind of silly, but it seems like for a mass market film you really need something simple and silly like they came up with to cap it all off, or people will leave the theaters pissed. One thing I really liked was the 3 robots. The voice is always the thing they use to hit you over the head with the fact it is a robot. Either the robot is made with the unnatural voice synthesiser from a Commodore 64, or the voice becomes flat and monotone to emphasize the unemotional robot. I think if you can create machine equal to a person, you should be able to accurately copy and produce realistic human speech and banter. It's just one of those cliches that would be so easy to follow, but they didn't. The one thing I thought was really unnecessarily stupid was the upside down mountains and suspended frozen clouds and other weird terrain on the icy planet. There are certain facts that don't change, like clouds not freezing in mid air, and the ground not being in the sky that just can't exist. There were some other little problems, and this could have easily been fleshed out into a miniseries, but they don't end up with $100 million budgets. The result I'd a necessary compromise between dense, specialist material and a movie theater filled with people with short attention spans.
I just saw this last night as well and loved it. I started it pretty late thinking I'd finish it in the morning but just couldn't turn it off. Fantastic story telling. So much better then Gravity.
The ending alone was beyond absurd. Like...even for science fiction standards it was hard to buy into.
