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Topic: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
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Connor Wilson
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Posts: 190
From: Sterling, VA, USA
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 12-19-2011 08:05 PM
CINEMA: AMC Loews Lincoln Square with IMAX, New York, NY
AUDITORIUM: 13 (IMAX)
PRESENTATION: 15/70mm IMAX with Sonics-DDP sound
PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: The screen was dimmer than I expected.
RATING: Six (out of ten)
So good to visit this place again after 6 years. It's pretty much changed, all the traditional screens are now Digital Projection, AMC lost it's THX certificate for the Loews auditorium, and peeking out on the window of the IMAX projection booth, the backup 35mm projector with SDDS is no longer there (or put away). I don't know if these were changed for the better, and I hope the sound system for the Loews auditorium wasn't touched. (Losing THX doesn't mean losing everything)
Anyways, I walked into the theater midway through the Dark Knight Rises Prologue. I was too occupied with buying popcorn and going to the bathroom, but at least I saw most of it, even though I couldn't understand what was going on.
The film itself looked pretty good. The 15/70 scenes obviously looked amazing compared to the embarrassingly bad 75% of the DMR'd film, but those select scenes actually looked inferior to The Dark Knight Rises Prologue. It looks like it was made on a digital intermediate, rather than DMR'd IMAX film and pure IMAX film spliced together, like how it should have been done. And because of this I'm starting to think the DKR prologue actually did go back to the cutting room for editing, rather than taking it digitally.
THE PLOT: ......
Brad Bird's first live-action film isn't necessarily bad. It feels like a Tom Cruise ego-trip that is, on the long run, a happy one.
Also, I did not expect the new Paramount logo to appear this soon. For a studio celebrating 100 years of existence, and that's the first time any film studio ever hit that age, the new logo was kind of underwhelming. Maybe I'm used to the previous one, growing up with it and falling in love with that mountain.
The new logo is below:
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Mark Lensenmayer
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Posts: 1605
From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 12-19-2011 08:28 PM
Seen at 2-week old Rave Grove City Xtreme Screen, powered by Barco, as the short trailer said.
And this is a real bargain, at only a $6 (senior) admission...no upcharge for the larger theatre. 60' screen with a sound system that has a much better balance than the 2 local min-Imax locations. Low end was clean and tight, with some good chest-shaking sounds. Outstanding reproduction of small details in the track.
They showed a very very nice THX trailer. No mention in ads or in theatre of any THX certification, but this room sounded very much like the old 80's vintage GCC THX room that set the standard for sound in this area.
Now, the movie...don't expect any great character development or a plot that makes sense. You won't find it here. First and final sequences are OK, with typical MI touches, but that Dubai sequence at the Burj was terrific. Ridiculous, but terrific.
I'd give this one a B-...entertaining, but not something I'll remember much about. Wife would give it a D...she thought it was just a big cartoon (a point of view that does have some merit.)
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Keegan O'Brien
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Posts: 39
From: Eugene, Oregon, United States
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 12-25-2011 05:27 PM
THEATER: Regal Valley River Stadium 15 & IMAX (Eugene, Oregon)
AUDITORIUM: 9
PRESENTATION: D-IMAX
PROBLEMS: Volume was a tad too loud, other than that, perfect.
RATING: 83/100
This film has the best action set pieces of the year, uncontested. However, the story failed to do anything new. The villain was terrible, his only motive being a loon, and he had so little screen time that the idea of a villain was more present than the actual villain. The doomsday theme was necessary, I mean it is Mission: Impossible, but having to stop a nuclear bomb seems so trite. The film thew a lot of punches, but nothing that knocked me off my feet. I left the theater, ultimately, unimpressed. It's a fun action movie, but I can't say that it's a great film. But of course, the IMAX footage looked great, as always.
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