Raiders of the Lost Ark...IMAX!!!!!!

BOOO!!!! This isn't playing at my local IMAX. The closest would be a three hour drive, and while this may be my personal favorite film, driving 6 hours there and back is too much to ask. Also, I learned it is only showing in Digital IMAX (not film), so I am slightly less enthused. I'll console myself with the blu-rays a week later.
 
Batutta said:
BOOO!!!! This isn't playing at my local IMAX. The closest would be a three hour drive, and while this may be my personal favorite film, driving 6 hours there and back is too much to ask. Also, I learned it is only showing in Digital IMAX (not film), so I am slightly less enthused. I'll console myself with the blu-rays a week later.
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Well, it sort of 'worse' for me... there are two theaters with our ordinary driving distance... but captioning is not available... and the Wife really needs that... we may go, but it will not be a good experience for her...
 
Got my ticket for Monday.

I am somewhat disappointed that it is only digital projection, but I have not seen Raiders in theaters, so I am still excited.
 
I haven't seen it in the theater since it first came out and though I know it backward & forward and introduced my kids to Indy three years ago, this will be the first time this 8-years old and this 6-year old will get to see it in the theater. We're gonna share a big bucket of popcorn and have a great time tonight.
 
Batutta said:
Hooray! It's expanding to regular theaters and I'll get to see it, albeit not in IMAX.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/ra...staying-in-imax-theaters-a-little-bit-longer/
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I attempted to watch it in IMAX the other night... We went to theater that we have never been to, and the Wife immediately declared the sound track to be out of sync, and the 'sharpness' on some shots to be suspect.

I can agree with the sharpness issue and I didn't have the time to determine whether it was due to projector setup error, or transfer error, or original negative defect. The audio out of sync could also have been due to her using ear phones, and the audio path via the 'wireless' device could have introduced delay. However, we have never had that much of a problem in the past with such equipment...

Anyway... big disappointment.

We may catch a presentation if the standard release shows with some sort of captioning. Otherwise we have the Bluray set on order...
 
Going to see the Imax version tonight.

They're doing a marathon tomorrow of all 4 films, but I won't be able to go as I have a shoot
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
I attempted to watch it in IMAX the other night... We went to theater that we have never been to, and the Wife immediately declared the sound track to be out of sync, and the 'sharpness' on some shots to be suspect.

I can agree with the sharpness issue and I didn't have the time to determine whether it was due to projector setup error, or transfer error, or original negative defect. The audio out of sync could also have been due to her using ear phones, and the audio path via the 'wireless' device could have introduced delay. However, we have never had that much of a problem in the past with such equipment...

Anyway... big disappointment.

We may catch a presentation if the standard release shows with some sort of captioning. Otherwise we have the Bluray set on order...
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my friend and I saw it last Sunday and today was the first time we chatted about it... we both thought it wasn't sharp in parts... so if others thought the same thing in different cities... maybe so...
 
GaryinCalifornia said:
my friend and I saw it last Sunday and today was the first time we chatted about it... we both thought it wasn't sharp in parts... so if others thought the same thing in different cities... maybe so...
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I looked a bit for similar responses and there were several occasions, one of which was very early, were 'orignal flaws' were maintained. The particular one 'we saw', was the tarantulas and an apparent 'duplication' of one of the spiders, which the Wife did notice.

A couple of times I 'felt' the focus wasn't quite right, but I couldn't determine if it was the projector or again, an original flaw that was sort of 'covered' by the Film film distribution of the era. As it was the Wife left the building right after the encounter with Belloq at the cave entrance, which is were she thought the audio was out of sync with the visuals.... and I had no real choice but to leave as well.

On the topic of out of sync audio, I did see a few references to some IMAX presentations being 'out of sync', but not this particular one. It seems that this may be a projection room problem, if that was the case.

The other thought that occurs to me after the fact, was one of the 'promo' items of IMAX is the 'enhanced sound'. Since we like to sit in the back of the theater for movies, could the distance from the 'sweet spot' produce a couple of frames worth of 'delay' giving rise to the sense that audio for dialog is out of sync?

At 1 foot per millisecond, and 41 ms per 'frame time', a distance of about 100 feet from the screen could be around 2 1/2 frames. If the 'sound system' was also out by 2 frames, because that is 'hardly noticeable' in the sweetspot... a viewer elsewhere could be out 4 frames which begins to be noticeable.

I of course am presuming the speakers for dialog are in fact at the screen...
 
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The softness during the opening sequence and a few other places of the film is in the original print...just one of those things. :)
 
A lot of anamorphic photography during that era had an inherent softnenss to it. A combination of the anamorphic lenses and slower film stocks caused depth of field and focus to get really difficult in low light scenarios. Also, there are artifacts that have always been there, like the weird vibration-like blurring in the spider cave sequence, that are more noticeable when blown up to IMAX size. Raiders was shot quick and dirty, and Spielberg didn't have the luxury of reshooting much as he wanted to prove he could stay on budget after 1941.
 
Batutta said:
A lot of anamorphic photography during that era had an inherent softnenss to it. A combination of the anamorphic lenses and slower film stocks caused depth of field and focus to get really difficult in low light scenarios. Also, there are artifacts that have always been there, like the weird vibration-like blurring in the spider cave sequence, that are more noticeable when blown up to IMAX size. Raiders was shot quick and dirty, and Spielberg didn't have the luxury of reshooting much as he wanted to prove he could stay on budget after 1941.
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He came in 15 days under schedule...it was as "indie" as they come. ;)
 
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