It turns out I can't tell the difference. I sat through a whole digital show without realizing it.
Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?
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Laga - Dec 24, 2009 10:51:52 am PST #5731 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
§ ita § - Dec 24, 2009 10:55:33 am PST #5732 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just read an interview with Quentin Tarantino where he said he's quitting at age 60, I think, or when the industry goes all digital, whichever comes first.
I think the time of the non-digital is better, so I'll probably go that way if ticketing allows.
Atropa - Dec 24, 2009 2:00:07 pm PST #5733 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
You know what really says "Merry Christmas, sweetie!" A life-size bust of a Predator head.
I'm not kidding. Thanks to a friend with connections, Pete just uncrated his Christmas Predator bust. No, I have no idea where he's going to put it.
le nubian - Dec 24, 2009 2:34:23 pm PST #5734 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
are there pictures of your household somewhere? I can't be the only one here who is curious.
Atropa - Dec 24, 2009 2:41:57 pm PST #5735 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Holiday Predator head, with Devilbunny who covets it: [link]
le nubian - Dec 24, 2009 3:39:49 pm PST #5736 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
that is fucking awesome.
Jessica - Dec 24, 2009 4:46:30 pm PST #5737 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
This early in the run, the film and digital prints will look almost identical. In a few weeks (once the film's been run through the projector a few hundred times) the digital will look better.
ION, Avatar is pretty freaking awesome. Dances with giant Ewoks comparisons aside...this is a movie where a pterodactyl blows up a helicopter. In IMAX 3D. I mean, DUDE. DUDE.
My one major quibble with the worldbuilding is that the Na'vi should have had four arms. Every other vertebrate on the planet has 2 pairs of front limbs - there are six-legged rhino, wolf, and horse analogues, and all the pterodactyls have four wings and two legs. And yet the Na'vi have only one pair of arms. What gives, Cameron? (This is not a spoiler for anything but the production design, but what the heck, spoilerfont is easy.)
Steph L. - Dec 24, 2009 7:33:06 pm PST #5738 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I just read a Spidey 5/6 spoiler that probably dictates plot in Spidey 4:
I'm sorry, but WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK??? Uh, no. MJ does NOT die, because... just NO.
God DAMN. That's like killing Lois Lane. It just ISN'T DONE.
§ ita § - Dec 25, 2009 3:03:10 am PST #5739 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wait--I just checked and it's to all happen in 4. Apparently Anne Hathaway is to play Black Cat. I'm not a Spiderman purist by any stretch, but even I get that's wrong.
evil jimi - Dec 25, 2009 4:52:27 am PST #5740 of 30000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Arnie's head now looks too big for his body. Very freaky.
Love the Pegg/Frost pics.
Speaking as someone who now lives in a town with one cinema, I can't wait for all-digital projection. The prints we get hear are abominable, so digital has got to be an improvement.