Attack of the Really Big Clones

An anonymous reader writes "CNN reports that Attack of the Clones is coming to an IMAX theatre near you. 50 IMAX commercial venues, and 20-30 science museum sites will begin showing the film on November 1. The IMAX version is expected to add another $20M to the films current $300M take."

Haven't seen it yet, IMAX doesn't do it

[gosand]

Honestly, I haven't even seen it yet, and the idea of seeing it on an IMAX doesn't pique my interest at all. You know what? I have survived this long without seeing it. I may not even give Blockbuster my $2.99 when it comes out for rent.

Figures

[Phoenix]

George Lucas must be a bit miffed that Spiderman was the bigger hit and is trying to put the final nail in the "who made more money" coffin.

Not to be a troll...

[JahToasted]

That movie was painful enough as it is on the big screen, why torture yourself and watch it on a really, really big screen? On the scale of suckage this is like a blackhole.

Now the original starwars and empire, that would be cool (am I getting old?).

Is anyone else going to see episode 3 only because we know anikin is gonna get his ass kicked by obi-wan?

Alright, mod away, I got karma to burn.

Offtopic - SourceForge

[Schnapple]

This is offtopic but I decided to ask this question the next time a Star Wars topic came around.

As we've seen, there are lots of SourceForge ads on Slashdot (both part of OSDN, I know). There are a few different kinds, but the two I see most often are the ones based off of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Now, I dunno/don't care about the LOTR ones but I was curious - since we all know how hard Lucas___ can come down on copyright infringement, how is it that SourceForge is able to advertise using clearly Star Wars related ads? Or are they different enough from Star Wars to avoid it?

Re:Haven't seen it yet, IMAX doesn't do it

[JahToasted]

$2.99 is too much... wait for it to come on cable (and only if you have 2 hours to waste).

It's going to suck! iMax isn't made for this

[Anonym1ty]

Yeah the idea of Star Wars on iMax is a good idea... EXCEPT the movie wasn't filmed for iMax. iMax was made to give you the feeling of being pulled into the action with it's peripheral vision filling screensize. Putting this movie on it will give you headaches and seizures. all those huge 7-story tall people on both sides of the screen making you move your head more than a tennis match

Not to mention the frame rate of iMax causes an obvious flicker when projected so large. And that this movie was filmed digitally with resolution that = crap to many movie goers now... If you couldn't tell then, I'll bet you can tell on iMax!

It will look like another iMax movie that was screwed up by camera shots that were all wrong for such a big screen

See What I hate about iMax [slashdot.org] - It isn't really iMax I hate, just what some people do to it.

Re:Pixels!

[ProfBooty]

i saw it in a digital screen, the image was much clearer, but suffered from the "tron" effect, people just jumped out from the cgi backgrounds pasted behind them.

the upside was that you could actually see yoda moving around and he wasnt a blur like the first time i saw the movie

seeing it in digital did not make it a better movie, but seeing it on an IMAX, if properally formatted might be really nice for the battle scenes.

Re:Great...

[Lord Apathy]

He was hardly in the episode that is true but one must take notice of the part he played. From the lip of Jar Jar spoke the words that handed over the republic to the emperor.

Re:i wonder...

[Target Drone]

Isn't the biggest problem with transferring regular film to IMAX not in the resolution but in the actual framing of the shots.

I could be wrong but I believe that for a regular film if you have two characters talking to each other you could frame them so that one is at the left edge of the screen and the other is at the right edge. If you do this for IMAX (with it's larger screen) however the audience will actually have to turn their head back and forth to look at the two characters. To get around this problem an IMAX director zooms out a little so that the characters are closer together. This means that you can now see the background at the left and right edges of the screen.

So the problem with transferring a regular film to IMAX is that you have to move your head a lot while watching the film because there was no extra bits of background footage to add onto the left and right of the screen.

Re:Haven't seen it yet, IMAX doesn't do it

[gosand]

Your comment had NOTHING to do with the article, other than trolling about it not interesting you

I disagree. I am a big Star Wars fan, but I was disgusted with Episode I. Attack of the Clones was reviews as "OK" by most critics. Why would an OK movie need to go to IMAX, and more importantly, why is THAT news? Obviously, it is to get people to see it, and I was commenting that even going to IMAX doesn't make me want to see it. I am part of the Star Wars fanbase.

I can't believe how many people were indignant with me because I didn't want to see it. People kept asking me "Did you see it yet?" and I would simply reply "No, and I probably won't". Some people were even on the verge of getting upset with me, all because I didn't want to see it. Something is wrong there. Something is wrong in the geek culture where people are derided for not having the stereotypical views. I am a computer geek, but I hate Star Trek. I don't play D&D. That boggles some people's minds, and makes them pissed at me. I just don't get it.

So say that my post may be offtopic, and doesn't do anything but state my opinion. Well holy crap Maynard, just where do you thing you are? This is Slashdot. Heaven forbid that someone disagree with what is regarded as "the only view".

Re:Haven't seen it yet, IMAX doesn't do it

[Anonymous Coward]

it's good at giving him a 5% amazon commission,

Actually its for sale by Target via their Amazon store, which gives me an 8% commission ;^)

Sleazy way to make a buck, IMHO.

And who is harmed by it? SlashDot even conveniently labels links now (if you haven't turned the feature off) so you will know I'm just linking to Amazon. Just like countless other web users I am providing free content which is advertising supported. How is this different then putting a link to a personal site that is advertising supported? How else am I to afford SlashDot Premium?

Re:Science museums??

[msheppard]

The reason it is being shown in Science Museums is becuase that's where the IMAX theaters are.

The Boston Science Museum also shows "Laser Pink Floyd" every saturday night... and aside from the possible connection to chemistry, it has little to do with science.

M@

Re:i wonder...

[MisterBlister]

i wonder if the original film was converted using the newly developed technology by RedHat called IMAX DMRTM using Dell PowerEdge servers.

Huh? Just because IMAX uses Red Hat Linux on the servers that do the processing doesn't make it "newly developed technology by RedHat". Are you on crack, son?

If AOTC was crap, all of StarWars is crap

[Anonymous Coward]

'Now' that StarWars is nothing more than a marketing tool for crappy fast food meals and stupid action figures you say? Do we really need a time machine to remind all the people who complain about the marketing about the original trilogy? Collectable glasses, sleeping bags, and R2D2 underoos were everywhere. There was an action figure for every character who appeared on screen for half a second, even if they only appeared from the waist up or even less. People who bash the acting are just oblivious as to the roles that the actors were portraying - they're not just 'Mom and Dad Skywalker'. If you take into account these characters personal lives, or rather lack thereof, it becomes clear that the actors actually did quite a good job in their roles - but if you can take a step back from your childhood and try to look at things objectivle, you might realize that the acting in the original trilogy wasn't exactly oscar worthy either. But after all that, let me remind you that StarWars is not and never has been 'high art'. It's action/adventure about the struggle between good and evil, with exposition into the lives of those caught in that struggle. The other key ingredient has always been special effects. They pushed technology in the original trilogy, just as they are doing now. When it becomes possible, try sitting down and watching Episodes I - III as many times as you have probably seen IV-VI in your life. You may find your prejudices slipping away.

Re:Heh

[Tassach]

Unfortunately, they don't account for inflation when they calculate the top-grossing films. Also, (IIRC) they don't differentiate between theater ticket sales, merchandizing income, and video sales. A better measure of a movie's market appeal would be number of tickets sold. Likewise, to really rank the earnings of movies accurately, they need to adjust the earnings for inflation.