I took The Littlest Briston to see it yesterday. Wow, amazing piece of work – absolutely loved it.
Until late last night when TLB came out of her room, crying because she had a nightmare that the big twins bad guys were after her…<sigh>…
Please keep in mind that I get to the theater maybe once a year anymore, but there was one thing that I was pleasantly surprised about (that really should have been obvious in retrospect) – in general, I hate going to movies weeks after they’re released, because the film has degraded so much. Everything is all grainy and there are all these pops and rips to contend with – it’s always been so distracting if you’re not watching a new, pristine print.
Two minutes in, it dawned on me – they don’t actually use film anymore, do they?
I’m not sure if that’s entirely true. I went to see “The King’s Speech” last weekend, and there were two points at which the film had clearly broken and been patched. That said, I can’t remember the last time I’d seen that.
Actually, that is going to be a problem down the line. Seeing classic films in theatres will become a thing of the past. They can’t just pop the DVD in the machine. The studio has make the digital print and they may not think it is economically viable to do that for most films. The film depots would have prints of movies held in storage and getting one wasn’t that hard. The prints would be beat up, and sometimes they turn a little pink and smell funny but you could see them in a theatre.
Many theaters now have digital projectors (look closely at the marquee-it will usually say if it’s a digital presentation), although I’m sure film projectors are still being used, especially in art house theaters that would be showing King’s Speech. Star Wars Attack of the Clones (2002) was the first live action film shown in theaters with a digital projector.
Really? I don’t think that is going to be a problem. All of the art houses/revival theaters around here have installed digital projectors because many low-budget “films” never have the budget to make 35mm prints and they show on DigiBeta or BluRay. The film depot now is just a server and uplink facility. If a theater wants to show an older film, it would seem to be a lot less work to make it available digitally than to locate a print and ship it, therefore a lot more profitable.
To hell with film. The Gene Siskel center, the best art house in Chicago, does an excellent job of locating and projecting films. But last year they showed The Princess Bride and the print the studio supplied was so beat up that Inigo’s revenge was missing the best line!
Is that true? I thought I recalled hearing that it was the first film to be only shown digitally, as in Lucas refused to release film prints, but that digital projection had been used before that. I certainly may be wrong.
Sorry for the hijack, but it appears I am only mostly wrong. A film called *The Last Broadcast *was shown digitally at Cannes in 1998, generally regarded as a first. *Attack of the Clones *was the first to be commercially released digitally. And that was only at a handful of theaters, so my “no-film” assertion is way off. (It was, however, the first movie to be entirely shot in digital format.)
I hope that fans of Tangled will join me in a boycott of “The Illusionist” which by means of a cheap trick, cheated Tangled out of a Oscar nod.
The Illusionist was just released here at the very end of Jan. But they had a special pre-release to Academy members, just before nominations closed. Well of course, any film you just saw is going to be remembered better than one months ago.
It’s a cheap trick and it’s a shame Oscar lets filmmakers get away with it. Actually “lets them get away with it” is too weak- they seem to encourage it. :mad:
Apparently so, and in two of them, those were obvious choices. Tangled wuz robbed, imho. Mind you, looks like TS3 will get the win, sure, but still Tangled deserved a nomination, and would have gotten one if The Illusionist hadn’t been qualified by a dating trick.
Someone in the Oscars thread said that the number of films nominated for an award depends on the number of films submitted for that category. So, for example, if only 10 animated films are submitted you aren’t going to end up with five being nominated.
I haven’t seen The Illusionist, but I would have been glad to see Tangled get a nod (although TS3 should and will win).
MutaraNebula, you already started one thread about the movie. I think that’s plenty. You could post to your older thread if you want to, but I’m locking this one.
THANK YOU Marley…that other post was months ago and I figured it would have been inactive and gone by now but after your tip I searched for it and found it was still “live”. Apologies for that.
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THE CHANCE TO SEE ANIMATED GODDESS RAPUNZEL OF TANGLED COMES AROUND AGAIN…
I was a big supporter of the movie TANGLED when it came out last fall. It was the perfect storm of CGI and great story telling and the begainning of what could be a renaissance for Walt Disney which has taken a back seat to its own division PIXAR films of late.
Ironically I wasn’t even going to see the movie when it came out but did and was I ever glad that I did. I’m sure a lot of people dismissed this as a kid’s movie but that is true on the surface only! There’s plenty for adults to enjoy as well. I saw it several times in the theatre and often there were more adults than kids.
After it left theaters I had to content myself with the photos at her tribute page http://rapunzelpictureparadise.wordp…-from-tangled/ and any video clips on You Tube. The good news is it’s finally out next week on DVD.
Just posting to say if you didn’t give this movie a chance theatrically don’t miss it when it’s available for your home. And no I am not a shill for Disney and don’t work for them and have no connection to them . I just want to spread the word of this delightful fim to any who
Tangled was really, really good. It surprised me, when I saw all the trailers I thought it would suck, horribly, and I would hate it forever. I was very pleasantly surprised.
I’m not as… um… passionate about Tangled as MutaraNebula, but I did enjoy the movie and we’ll probably pick up the DVD for the kids. The “I’ve Got a Dream” song from the tavern scene is a particular favorite of theirs.