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Post #892459

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MaximRecoil
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Team Negative1 - Return of the Jedi 1983 - 35mm Theatrical Version (unfinished project)
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2-Jan-2016, 8:19 AM

Wazzles said:

Asaki said:

team_negative1 said:

And then the SE, and the Prequels.

You forgot about The Fanfic Awakens!

That would be a pain to get their hands on considering there’s like 2 prints in existence.

I thought TFA was an utterly ridiculous/worthless movie, but there will still be plenty of 35mm film prints of it once it hits the second-run theaters. A lot of small time theaters still only have film projectors, and even though the big studios won’t make them prints anymore, there seem to be middle-men that will. A couple of years ago a couple of local small-time theaters were trying to raise funds for digital projectors because of the announcement that they could no longer get film prints. However, just this past summer I watched the new Terminator movie at the drive-in on 35mm film (they still only have a film projector). According to their Facebook page, they found a source, despite their fears of impending doom from a couple of years ago. It wasn’t just the new Terminator movie either; they showed the then-current crop of second-run movies all summer long on film (I had to sit through “Minions” as part of a double feature before I could watch Terminator Genisys).

As a side note, I’m never going to a movie in a theater with a digital projector again, and when film projectors finally die out for good, I’m never going to a movie theater again. The only good thing about the new Star Wars movie was that it was shot on film, but that was entirely negated by the digital projector. Digital projectors can’t match the black levels of film and CRT projectors, so the blacks in TFA (shots of outer space for example) were dark gray, making the movie look like it had bad contrast, and like crap in general. I hadn’t been to a first-run theater since 2007 when I took my nephew to see Transformers, and they used a film projector at the time, so this TFA foolishness was the first time I’d ever been gypped by a digital projector (and it will be the last time, too).