Amph At The Movies (film discussion thread)

Yeah I have no problems philosophically with the notion of a live person walking out and interacting with the movie as part of the movie. I think it would be pretty mindblowing to see, especially if you didn't know it was going to happen. That would be really cool actually. But it's just not a thing that's feasible except as some kind of a roadshow. But they tried doing a roadshow type thing with Memoria just as a kind of gimmick and it didn't work at all despite not even really having the kind of extra set-up and preparation and logistics that this Megalopolis thing would require.

Now, I am remembering that Mickey Mouse cartoon from a few years ago called Get a Horse. I think it was the short in front of Frozen actually. The whole short is kind of predicated on it looking like an old-school b&w Steamboat Willie-esque short that then explodes "off-the-screen" into 3D and they created a false proscenium on the screen in order to allow that to happen and it was genuinely pretty fantastic.



Maybe regular showings of the movie will do a similar thing. It wouldn't quite as cool if it's not in 3D, but it could still work.

This all sounds very good and makes me optimistic.

 

I honestly don't see any film among those that I'd consider to see in IMAX; but to each, their own.

 

I know as I'd just watched the latest Apes movie in IMAX. But I don't see any movies in IMAX just because its available. I need to actually want to see the movie at the cinema first of course. The Apes teaser about a year ago or so already had me excited. For now at least, none of those other promised films have built up that hype for me.

 

My most anticipated movie is now Untitled Chinese New Year Film.

 

One of the downsides of moving back to Rochester at the end of this month is that the nearest AMC theater is just over an hour away. AMC A List is seriously the best movie theater rewards program

 

when they say "shot with IMAX cameras" ... that can mean a variety of things can't it?

 

Depends if it was Alec Baldwin behind the....camera.

 

No, every time you put the blu-ray in your player, it pings out to a server and Francis Ford Coppola dispatches an aspiring actor to walk into your house and talk to your TV.

 

Ouch

 

And he sold one of his vineyards to afford all those people.

 

He’s got to get top talent, because it gets real confusing when they walk in late.

 

Looks like a Q&A.

 

Finally, the magic of cinema and Coppola's visionary direction have enabled us to imagine talking into a microphone with someone on a screen, a fanciful concept beyond the ken of us mere mortals.

 

honestly I admire Coppola a lot for trying to flame out in an epic conflagration that incinerates whatever might have been left of his reputation and threatens to call his entire career into question. That is the way to do it. He may take a good percentage of his cast with him.

 

Wasn't that the point of Jack, though?

 

I think it would be worse if he did something generic and boring like a Marvel movie.

Sorry, Chris Hemsworth. Didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

 

I am getting a little tired of the "boring bad Marvel movie vs weird bad movie" positioning of the argument, though. Like can I get a good movie? Killers of the Flower Moon came out, I know they exist.

 

Yes, I would rather have a good movie, but that's something I expect from Scorsese, who's had a pretty consistent decades-long run of good movies. Can't say the same about Coppola.

 

Um... 1979?

 

I think the last one where people mostly landed on “Yeah that was good” was Tucker: The Man and His Forgotten Biopic. Then you get a couple of extremely controversial films in The Godfather Part III and Dracula. And then… Jack.

 

so I got some VHS tapes with IMAX labels on 'em.

So, good to go.