Star Wars: Rogue One - * Non Spoiler Discussion Thread * — Page 38

TV’s Frink said:

You could reverse it…

No, nevermind.

No, you were right the first time. Moonwalking Abe Simpson would be awesome.

Cookie Monster is my favourite drug addict of all time.

Tickets on sale in the UK today i guess? no news about US:

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/buy-rogue-one-star-wars-tickets

dahmage said:

So who is planning to buy pre-sale tickets? IMAX 3D? Standard 3D? Standard?

I’m booked for the 12:05 showing Thursday 15th and also an evening showing on the 16th in 2D, here in the UK.

Wolfman said:

dahmage said:

So who is planning to buy pre-sale tickets? IMAX 3D? Standard 3D? Standard?

I’m booked for the 12:05 showing Thursday 15th and also an evening showing on the 16th in 2D, here in the UK.

nice. still waiting to buy tickets here … 😦

SilverWook said:

I still can’t find any info about possible 70mm venues, and the IMAX I saw TFA at back in January seems to be closing for repairs or something on opening day. 😦

that is terrible timing!

Fandango is telling me that Rouge 1 will be in IMAX 2D instead of just IMAX 3D is this true because I know that they didn’t do this for The force awakens.

SilverWook said:

dahmage said:

Wolfman said:

dahmage said:

So who is planning to buy pre-sale tickets? IMAX 3D? Standard 3D? Standard?

I’m booked for the 12:05 showing Thursday 15th and also an evening showing on the 16th in 2D, here in the UK.

nice. still waiting to buy tickets here … 😦

SilverWook said:

I still can’t find any info about possible 70mm venues, and the IMAX I saw TFA at back in January seems to be closing for repairs or something on opening day. 😦

that is terrible timing!

I know. I hope they aren’t replacing the projector with that new laser system they’ve been installing elsewhere.
And if Batman Vs. Superman could get 70mm prints, why not Rogue One?

The Laser projectors look brilliant because you don’t get hot spots.

Basically you won’t see the intense whiter shade of blue in the middle and the image is linear in color temperature. And you can sit next to it and it won’t sound like a hair dryer and it does not kick out a tonne of heat either. They also last a long, long time unlike even the best Bulb technology.

Air & Space Udvar-Hazy out in Chantilly was one of the first Imax theaters in the world to convert to the new laser system. I saw the “formatted for (1.9:1) Imax” and entirely 2D Tomorrowland there only a few weeks after it reopened (just in time for Age of Ultron) and also caught the “partially shot in (actual 1.44:1) Imax” Batman v Superman there as well. Instead of simplifying things like Disney did with TFA (showing it in 2D at the 70mm locations and in 3D at the laser ones) WB decided to make some of the laser locations 2D and luckily Udvar-Hazy was one of them.* I noticed they did the same for Fantastic Beasts.

I only caught TFA once on the big screen (one of those very first (well, 10pm) thursday night screenings in regular-sized 2D) and meant to catch it again in 15/70 at the Air&Space in downtown DC if only to experience that one native-Imax scene in all its glory, but I only heard about their plans to close and convert to laser a couple days in advance … and I’d already made plans for that weekend.

A good friend of mine has had his heart set on getting a group together to see Rogue One at Udvar-Hazy ever since last month. He and his wife saw TFA there on New Year’s Day. They’ve both got good vision, so the 6p 3D method the laser system uses presumably wasn’t an issue for them. I wouldn’t mind seeing Rogue One there, even though it wasn’t shot in Imax like TFA,** but if it ends up being 3D-only at that location I might have to say forget it. Disney did that for Captain America: Civil War, which switches from 2.35:1 to 1.9:1 for a scene shot on the 65mm-sized Alexa, so my friends and I went all the way out to Manassas to see it in Liemax 2D. I’m not against seeing 3D movies when they were actually shot that way (The Martian for example), but otherwise I try to avoid it. Doctor Strange, which apparently had multiple 1.9:1 Alexa 65 scenes, was only shown in 2D in normal-sized constant-2.35:1 theaters. They didn’t even do 2D liemax screenings like they did for Civil War since Kevin Feige’s been hyping the shit out of the 3D all year.

*fun fact: apparently the projector chips in the new 4k+4k laser system are still the default digital cinema AR of 1.9:1 just like the smaller 2k+2k liemax theaters. In order to show full 1.44 movies they use a special anamorphic lens, which of course means the entire movie (including the 2.35:1 scenes) is actually stretched out and the vertical pixel resolution of the 2.35:1 scenes gets compromised. A movie like Rogue One will presumably not be compromised since it doesn’t have any 1.44:1 material and therefore doesn’t need to worry about filling the screen.

**I’d make an exception for Rogue One only because Edwards shot the entire thing on the Alexa 65 using the Ultra Panavision lenses Tarantino dusted off for Hateful Eight. That makes it worthy of the giant screen experience to me. Again, This is only if I can actually see it in giant-size Imax without the 3D.

SilverWook said:

I’m not knocking it. I just don’t want to see a 70mm projector ripped out for it. There are so few left. I went to a lot of effort to be able to see TFA on film, and I was not disappointed.

Ah… yeah there is no need to rip out the old one. You could fly the laser projector in the room and it would not ruin viewing pleasure. In fact you don’t kneed a booth really with the laser projectors.

SilverWook said:

Dude, I saw TFA twice in 70mm 2D IMAX. 😉

I just contacted a few local theaters. Apart from a select few 2D 70mm showings, it will be all IMAX 3D.

SilverWook said:

So there are some 70mm prints being made? Maybe I will luck out!

Seems so. but no idea where. Best of luck to you!