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Personally, I probalby won't see this movie because it looks just like another Star Wars episode, complete with the same crummy looking digital that made me skip Episode 3.
LOL, glad to know I'm not the only only that never bothered seeing it I and II were so bad. I honestly don't understand using a digital camera to shoot a '40s movie. I do give a few movies like "Public Enemies" a chance that are period digital "films," but they usually let me down.
I think the modern spins are so poor most of the time that they belittle the subject. I'd like to see a filmmaker with the courage to tell a history story warts and all, no glorifying the characters portrayed as God-like supermen, but rather as real human beings, flaws and all.
Anyway, will watch it at home, for free, on my hi-def. TV. After all, that's what Lucas is making it for anyway. The HBO movie would look better at the local multiplex, not that I've seen it, solely because it was shot on the right stuff, 35.
Red Tails is photographed digitally. In fact about 15% of it was shot on the Canon 7D consumer digital SLR. But it looks beautiful. Very nicely photographed. As for the digital effects, I couldn't tell the difference between the real planes and the cgi. I saw it on a 45 foot screen with 2k digital projection by the way.
As for films going digital, get used to it. Every professional motion picture camera maker, Panavision, Arri, Aaton, have stopped making new film cameras, and have put all of their R&D into new digital cameras. Rental houses have reported that rentals of film cameras are down to about 30% of their business. The rate of all digital projection in theaters has gone up rapidly because of a financing deal that has the studios paying for almost half of the installation costs, if they are done before 2013. Add to that, Kodak has just filed for bankruptcy.
My guess is that film as a medium for image capture and presentation for main stream motion pictures will be all but gone with in 5 years.
Doug
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