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'Dark Knight Rises' Will Feature Nearly An Hour Of IMAX Footage
There is no question that Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise has struck a fantastic balance between adept storytelling and jaw-dropping spectacle. While we can not yet comment on the storytelling quality of 'The Dark Knight Rises,' it sure seems as if the film is upping the ante on spectacle. In a recent interview with /Film, Nolan revealed that the latest installment in the Caped Crusader saga will feature 50 minutes of IMAX footage. For comparison sake, 'The Dark Knight' only featured about 26 minutes of IMAX footage. Nolan claims to have shot as much of the film as he possibly could with IMAX cameras; clearly a fan of the medium. We will be able to get a small, 7-minute taste of what nearly an hour of 'The Dark Knight Rises' will look like when the prologue plays before the 70mm IMAX screenings of 'Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol' starting next Friday.
Is Nolan going overboard with the IMAX stuff? There are going to be those on both sides of the fence on this. Frankly, and this may border on fanboyish, I trust Nolan implicitly. His Batman films are not only well directed, but also immaculately shot. He's not the kind of director who is going to jeopardize the visual integrity of his film in service of a gimmick. If he believes the film benefits from the 50 minutes of IMAX footage, then it probably does. Honestly I'm just happy that 'The Dark Knight Rises' isn't going to be in 3D, something that's becoming boringly ubiquitous anymore. The other sigh of relief here is that when I initially read the headlines for this story, for an instant, I thought they were planning to present 50 minutes of IMAX footage as a preview before some other film. I know it's absurd thought to have even for a moment, but given the preponderance of films releasing multiple clips online leading up to the release, how far removed are we from the days when entire acts of a film are used as its marketing?
What do you guys think? Are you planning on seeing 'The Dark Knight Rises' in IMAX? Do you think 50 minutes is excessive?
Source: /Film
Views: 8087
Tags: 50, Christopher, IMAX, Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol, Nolan, The Dark Knight Rises, interview, minutes
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Comment by 31 on December 13, 2011 at 2:37am -
can you really complain about IMAX footage? thats like complaining a movie is in HD when you watch it on blu ray
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Comment by John Lemus on December 12, 2011 at 10:56am -
new poster
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Comment by Happy Birthday Roboto on December 12, 2011 at 6:55am -
@Nikhil
Fair play. By the way good chatting to you about this, always good to have an intelligent conversation. :)
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Comment by Nikhil Sunil on December 12, 2011 at 2:39am -
@Roboto
Ahh, thats completely understandable. Anyway, i think once we see some actually footage from the film we should get a better idea of what it'll look like on the big screen and judge wether or not it'll be worth the extra for IMAX.
Only a few days till the prologue hits!
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Comment by Avalon xt on December 11, 2011 at 10:41pm
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Really looking forward to this movie. I saw The Dark Night at the IMAX and the IMAX scenes were spectacular. You've got to believe these will be as well.
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Comment by Jon on December 11, 2011 at 8:44pm -
I really need an IMAX theater where I live
otherwise I see no purpose for it
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Comment by Happy Birthday Roboto on December 11, 2011 at 8:22pm
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@Nikhil
I'm glad I was wrong about IMAXs not existing outside of the US and the UK.
I guess the long and short of it is, I see IMAX as an extra set of bells and whistles I feel I can do without. At £18 per IMAX ticket as opposed to the regular £11 for a standard ticket. The truth is I'll probably regret not watching this in IMAX if it's actually been shot in IMAX format, but when I do pay to see it in IMAX I'll regret paying the extra so... I'll need to think about this.
You know when I was watching The Dark Knight in IMAX at the scene where the Joker removes his mask revealing his face for the first time I remember looking at his right eye, then turning my head to see his left, it was at that second I realised that the screen is just too big! On a regular screen I can see the whole picture.
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Comment by Nikhil Sunil on December 11, 2011 at 8:09pm
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@Roboto
To address the first thing you said. There are IMAX theatres outside of North America and England. Plenty infact. Theres one in Sydney, Australia which is where i plan on watching the film.
I get what you're saying about IMAX, but i think Nolan (like the rest of us) see's the theatre going experience as the best way to watch a movie. Sitting in front of a giant screen with a few of your friends and totally getting immersed in the film. So im assuming that his thought process is basically......well, why not make it even better by filming it in IMAX and thus resulting in a better theatre going experience. The Dark Knight made over a billion dollars at the box office. Which means a LOT of people saw it and it stayed in theatres for a long time. So we can all assume the same is going to happen with this film.
And i agree, there is a step down in quality from IMAX to Blu ray. But its not just the picture quality thats the point of IMAX. Its the screen size and the sound system too. And i don't think anyone watched "The Dark Knight" on IMAX then once they bought it on blu-ray, watched it and thought "wow, this looks like crap". The picture quality is still great, just not as good.
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Comment by Matthew A. Sawtell on December 11, 2011 at 8:07pm -
Hm... real question is, how much bucks is still to be made in IMAX in this economy, and will this be enough to delay enough torrents from hitting the 'Net a day to week after initial release?
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Comment by That 1 Dude on December 11, 2011 at 7:30pm -
Niice! I didn't see TDK in IMAX but I will definitely be checking out TDKR in IMAX 4 shore!
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