I have no interest in seeing it, and nobody else I know cares to see it either.I literally have met zero people who are interested in it or have watched it.
#METOOI ran into the neighbor’s kids (19 and 22) tonight. They watched it mid day today and are planning on seeing it again tomorrow in IMAX for the “full experience”. I may no longer be the target demographic…
I don’t think this is a watch it at home movie in general. Every few years since the 70s you get a special effects marvel that redefined special effects. They don’t necessarily hold up all that well and it may not carry over to the smaller screen.Even when the blu-ray rips drop, I don't think I will bother to see it.
I think I'm ok with that.I don’t think this is a watch it at home movie in general. Every few years since the 70s you get a special effects marvel that redefined special effects. They don’t necessarily hold up all that well and it may not carry over to the smaller screen.
I so dislike this big screen elitism, if a movie is trash it is trash no matter if I watch it on a bootleg VHS from the 90s, or on the hyper-super most bestest awesomest trimax dolby thx megamax.I don’t think this is a watch it at home movie in general. Every few years since the 70s you get a special effects marvel that redefined special effects. They don’t necessarily hold up all that well and it may not carry over to the smaller screen.
If I were going to watch it, I would be in for the full IMAX viewing, but I’ve got small kids I wouldn’t take, and I’m no longer interested enough in fancy special effects to justify spending for a baby sitter.
I’ll use Jurassic Park as an example here. The idea the film is pretty good, and the special effects were absolutely fantastic and amazing in a THX theater in 1993. I completely loved the movie in the theater.I so dislike this big screen elitism, if a movie is trash it is trash no matter if I watch it on a bootleg VHS from the 90s, or on the hyper-super most bestest awesomest trimax dolby thx megamax.
Were they special because they were in a theatre, or because they broke some ground at the time?You can replace Jurassic park with first Avatar, The Day After Tomorrow, Transformers, and others that were pretty cool in the theater at release that are nothing special now.
Because they broke ground at the time, combined and further enhanced by an experience that couldn’t be recreated by most people at home in 93.Were they special because they were in a theatre, or because they broke some ground at the time?
I mean: if they re-released Jurassic Park today, would it still be as good in a theatre? Or to ask it differently: When you watched it on VHS later, was it worse just because it wasn't in a THX theatre, or was it because what made it special at the time had already become "normal" for many other movies as well?
We had the “Half hearted” home theater at my last house. Previous owners had put black carpet on the walls of the basement, put a couple speaker mounts on the walls for rears, and painted the support pole in the middle of the room Black. We put in a 67” rear projection and 5.1 surround and it was fine. In the end we found we preferred the “activity, dinner, and a movie” experience at the local ultra screen for action movies with big special effects. For something like Amelie, the home theater was fine, but so was the 36” Sony XBR too.Yeah, I will admit that hearing the dinosaurs walking, that scene with the glass of water: it was pretty cool. It is also pretty cool on my Home Theatre with a subwoofer though, even today, and yeah, louder subs make it more intense, I admit. But not cool enough to make me give up my remote control.
That's only the first viewing bias. When you first see a movie it seems better. It happened to me with Phantom Menace which I saw first in theater, but also happened with Force Awakens which I saw first at home. Subsequent viewings reveal more and more issues that I glossed over during the first watch. If you saw Jurassic Part at home first you'd still think it was awesome at first. Hell I even thought Congo was good when I first saw it, only to be shocked when I re-watched it 20 years later.I’ll use Jurassic Park as an example here. The idea the film is pretty good, and the special effects were absolutely fantastic and amazing in a THX theater in 1993. I completely loved the movie in the theater.
When it finally got around to VHS in, what, 95(?) it already had lost some luster because of how fast special effects were moving. On top of the perceived decline of the effects over 2 years, I was watching it at home on low quality VHS on roughly a 21” screen in the living room. It had lost some to most of the suspense that you had in the theater.
I caught part of it on TV a few years back, and what I was one amazed at looked pretty hokey and I didn’t bother watching past the first commercial break.
You can replace Jurassic park with first Avatar, The Day After Tomorrow, Transformers, and others that were pretty cool in the theater at release that are nothing special now.
Back in 2008 I certainly could never duplicate the way an IMAX can make you feel like you’re moving when I had the home theater room I described a few posts up. Even with a mid range Denon receiver, the wall mounts for rear speakers and a 10” sub, the surround sound never compared with the local Ultra Screen and forget something in 3D comparing at home to an IMAX.Many MANY of the things that made a movie experience extra special are now replicated in a good home theater setup.
Hell a half decent dolby atmos sound bar with a sub can really deliver on the sound portion for most homes with ease. Then a TV that isn't the 'cheapest at the size I want' that most people buy at is really the next level on screens and in many cases better than what a movie theater can deliver. At least until they start making 100ft 32k OLED movie theater screens.
I used to talk some serious smack about soundbars up until I tried our first one a few years ago. We got a Vizio 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos for the bedroom which was a BF deal for $400. It's been awesome. Since then I've kept track of them in general and the good ones have really jumped in price. Basically, at this point, it's like buying a high-end version of one of those home stereo kits from the early 2000s but I feel these are much nicer and easier for the average person to work with. Something I really like about our Vizio is that the Sub is wireless and the rear satellite speakers plug into it allowing for all of the rear channels to be wireless. I'm actually on the fence as to whether or not I'm going to replace the Onkyo TX646 in the living room with a soundbar setup once it dies since all those speakers are starting to show their age. Either way, I'm looking at $1K-$2K given the current receiver or soundbar prices for a replacement that has all the features I'm after but it's also another project that's years down the road.Hell a half decent dolby atmos sound bar with a sub can really deliver on the sound portion for most homes with ease.
