I watched that movie yesterday. Was the picture slightly out of focus or is my vision deteriorating?
Naaa, it was the movie. I noticed it too…soem sort of film effect to make it look old fashioned I guess.
It’s also a very cheap way to hide artefacts of using bluescreens all the time. E.g., around the edges of the actors’ bodies.
At least it’s not the problem they had with Star Trek 3, the search for Spock—the 35mm prints were sharp, but the 70mm print I had was out of focus, and from what I heard they ALL were.
I thought I was looseing it—I could see the sound holes in the screen sharply via binocs, I could see the film grain fine–it was the overall picture that was very soft.
Thanks Theatre Alignment Program! Dropped the ball on that one…
I had the same thing with LOTR : The Fellowship.
It was just incredibly fuzzy and non-detailed.
On DVD it was crystalclear though.
I discussed it with a friend of mine who used to work in theaters, and he told me that a lot of cinema’s lower the temperature of the lamp in the projector so it lasts longer. 
One more reason why I never go the cinema again.
When I saw this movie last weekend, I found it very dark–literally dark, so murky at points that I couldn’t see what was going on. For example, in the scenes where our heroes are in the warehouse full of robots, and when they enter the scientist’s lab with the tiny elephant.
I guessed at the time that the theatre I saw this in was using a particularly dim bulb in the projector, but I wonder if anyone else had this same problem.