Star Wars on IMAX rocks!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-11-09 03:05pm

I'm getting temped to make the two-hour drive to see it.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2002-11-09 03:16pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:I'm getting temped to make the two-hour drive to see it.

*Jedi mind trick*

"You'll go watch AOTC on IMAX"
"I will go watch AOTC on IMAX"
"You'll make a 2 hour drive to go watch it on IMAX"
"I will go drive 2 hours to watch it on IMAX"
"You will go watch AOTC on IMAX now"
"I'll go watch AOTC on IMAX now"
"You will give me the keys to your superbunker"
"I will give you the keys to my super....no....must resist....jedi....tricks...."

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2002-11-09 04:06pm

Did you guys go to the nudy bar afterwards??

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2002-11-09 04:09pm

Unfortunately not, as Ted was not of age and lacked fake ID.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-11-09 05:30pm

aerius wrote:Unfortunately not, as Ted was not of age and lacked fake ID.

That and it was pretty late, by the time I got home it was 12:15.

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2002-11-09 06:16pm

Ted wrote:
aerius wrote:Unfortunately not, as Ted was not of age and lacked fake ID.
That and it was pretty late, by the time I got home it was 12:15.

12.15 late!?! Ted, get some fake i.d. so you can see some live theater with girls greasing the brass poles!

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-11-09 06:18pm

Next of Kin wrote:
Ted wrote:
aerius wrote:Unfortunately not, as Ted was not of age and lacked fake ID.
That and it was pretty late, by the time I got home it was 12:15.
12.15 late!?! Ted, get some fake i.d. so you can see some live theater with girls greasing the brass poles!

I know I know, problem is, I'm to much of a goody goody kid to get a fake ID, dont know where to get one. And I was up at 5:45 that morning, so I was pretty well whacked.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-11-09 06:20pm

How old is Ted?

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-11-09 06:20pm

I'm 17

CmdrWilkens · Post by **CmdrWilkens** » 2002-11-09 06:21pm

Ted wrote:I'm 17

My God, singular and non-denominational, you're a young'un.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-11-09 06:25pm

Yep, that I am.
How old did you think I was?

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2002-11-09 06:25pm

I thought you were 18. I was in the ballpark.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-11-09 06:31pm

Ted wrote:Yep, that I am.
How old did you think I was?

19, plus or minus 3.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-09 08:34pm

Next of Kin wrote:
Ted wrote:
aerius wrote:Unfortunately not, as Ted was not of age and lacked fake ID.
That and it was pretty late, by the time I got home it was 12:15.
12.15 late!?! Ted, get some fake i.d. so you can see some live theater with girls greasing the brass poles!

C'mon strippers for the most part aren't that great looking. If they were they would be doing porn or modelling.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2002-11-09 09:36pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:The nearest IMAX theater form where I live is an hour's drive to Pittsburgh, adn I don't think they'll be playing it there, because it's at the Carnegie Science Center.

The Omnimax at the Carnegie is indeed showing Attack of the Clones through the 31st of December on weekends. I know this because I used to work there and still know people who get me into shows for free, AotC included.

Here is the schedule: http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/family/omnimax.asp

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2002-11-09 10:06pm

neoolong wrote:
Next of Kin wrote:
Ted wrote: That and it was pretty late, by the time I got home it was 12:15.
12.15 late!?! Ted, get some fake i.d. so you can see some live theater with girls greasing the brass poles!
C'mon strippers for the most part aren't that great looking. If they were they would be doing porn or modelling.

For the most part I'd have to agree. Most strip joints I've been to will have 1 or 2 hot stripper per night if they're lucky, and the rest of them are semi-ugly. Whiskey's however is a nudie bar with nothing but hot strippers, one after the other, it's incredible, and they do lesbian acts too. Hot lesbian action!

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-11-09 10:08pm

aerius wrote:
neoolong wrote:
Next of Kin wrote: 12.15 late!?! Ted, get some fake i.d. so you can see some live theater with girls greasing the brass poles!
C'mon strippers for the most part aren't that great looking. If they were they would be doing porn or modelling.

For the most part I'd have to agree. Most strip joints I've been to will have 1 or 2 hot stripper per night if they're lucky, and the rest of them are semi-ugly. Whiskey's however is a nudie bar with nothing but hot strippers, one after the other, it's incredible, and they do lesbian acts too. Hot lesbian action!

FUCK NO!!!!!
DON'T TAUNT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-11-09 10:15pm

Relax, Ted. Stripper joints are fun for the first fifteen minutes, then it gets kind of boring. Even if the woman is hot, you're still sitting in a room with a guy:girl ratio of about 50 to 1, and you're physically a lot closer to the guys than you are to the girls. Not cool.

Plus, the beer is overpriced and there's often a door charge. And it's not as if you're going to be able to touch any of these ladies. The only reason to go to a stripper bar is to have a night out with your friends and get a little thrill at the same time. Guys sitting in stripper bars by themselves are kind of creepy IMHO. If I'm by myself, I'm gonna go home and be with my wife.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-11-09 10:18pm

Darth Wong wrote:Relax, Ted. Stripper joints are fun for the first fifteen minutes, then it gets kind of boring. Even if the woman is hot, you're still sitting in a room with a guy:girl ratio of about 50 to 1, and you're physically a lot closer to the guys than you are to the girls. Not cool.

Plus, the beer is overpriced and there's often a door charge. And it's not as if you're going to be able to touch any of these ladies. The only reason to go to a stripper bar is to have a night out with your friends and get a little thrill at the same time. Guys sitting in stripper bars by themselves are kind of creepy IMHO. If I'm by myself, I'm gonna go home and be with my wife.

With the fact that I've never been one, they've got a kind of exotic attraction. But, meh, I'll always go later, probably like 19th b-day or somesuch.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-11-09 11:45pm

I have no clue what the Tech IMAX is. The IMAX in my city is at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, and in fact it's probably less than ten miles from my house. btw, the Saturn V rocket they have standing is bad ass and you can see it from most places in the city.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2002-11-10 01:01am

Ted wrote:With the fact that I've never been one, they've got a kind of exotic attraction. But, meh, I'll always go later, probably like 19th b-day or somesuch.

It will quickly lose it's exotic attraction. A bunch of friends and I went to a place in Pittsburgh called Club Elite, which is actually really upscale, for a post-birthday present for one of the guys. It was the first time I went to one. I don't know whether movies once again have lied to me or that Pittsburgh just has really crappy strip clubs, but the combination of the powerfully drunk horny guys, the overpriced food and drink (three dollars for nachos!), and the fact the reason the place are so poorly lit with pulsing lights is to disguise the fact that the women aren't all that sexy. We went in, got him his lapdance, and came to the conclusion that the general aura of nakedness in the place wasn't worth it. We actually had a better time in the car ride back to his apartment, discussing how exactly to cook up a phony nude modelling shoot so we could have actually attractive, but not too bright, woman pose for us in decent light.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-11-10 10:03am

Darth Wong wrote:Relax, Ted. Stripper joints are fun for the first fifteen minutes, then it gets kind of boring. Even if the woman is hot, you're still sitting in a room with a guy:girl ratio of about 50 to 1, and you're physically a lot closer to the guys than you are to the girls. Not cool.

Plus, the beer is overpriced and there's often a door charge. And it's not as if you're going to be able to touch any of these ladies. The only reason to go to a stripper bar is to have a night out with your friends and get a little thrill at the same time. Guys sitting in stripper bars by themselves are kind of creepy IMHO. If I'm by myself, I'm gonna go home and be with my wife.

I had a stripper fall off of the runway on top of me.

She was a wee bit drunk.

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2002-11-10 01:04pm

Darth Wong wrote:Relax, Ted. Stripper joints are fun for the first fifteen minutes, then it gets kind of boring. Even if the woman is hot, you're still sitting in a room with a guy:girl ratio of about 50 to 1, and you're physically a lot closer to the guys than you are to the girls. Not cool.

Plus, the beer is overpriced and there's often a door charge. And it's not as if you're going to be able to touch any of these ladies. The only reason to go to a stripper bar is to have a night out with your friends and get a little thrill at the same time. Guys sitting in stripper bars by themselves are kind of creepy IMHO. If I'm by myself, I'm gonna go home and be with my wife.

It does get a little boring to just sit and gawk. Get a lap dance or a rub n' tug next time.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2002-11-10 04:03pm

I saw AotC on the IMAX screen yesterday with the folks, which is why I came home this weekend.

Before seeing AotC, though, we saw/experienced a tour of the international space station in 3D on the IMAX screen, which was positively awesome.

I went to the IMAX at Navy Pier, and one of their speakers either had corroded connections or was just fucked up, because on the crescendos, I heard major scratching. It was like listening to a 96kbps MP3 on my G4's built-in speaker. To be honest, I wasn't too impressed with the sound. I was expecting it to be much louder. The bass was okay, not up to par though, and the treble just blew.

The picture quality was very good, and the fact that I could observe the more minute details more easily was just awesome. The picture alone was worth it. Bad sound really does fuck up a theatre experience, though. By virtue of being on a big fucking IMAX screen, the picture wasn't 16x9, but it was cropped. Not quite as much as a 4:3 conversion, but still noticeably. Although, I noticed that the top few feet of the screen went unused to allow for a bit more width on the sides. To be honest, though, I thought that the picture was better when I saw it on a digital projector. Sorry, but it was.

I thought that the cuts, overall, made the movie much better. However, I thought that cutting the scene where Palpatine suggests Anakin and Obi-Wan be assigned to protect Amidala was a bad decision. Similarly, so was cutting the introductory scene with Clieg, Owen and Beru. It just leaves you sitting there going, "Who the fuck are these people?" Almost all the other cuts were good decisions, though. I do think that they should have cut more of C-3PO's stuff in the arena battle out, though. The scene with Anakin and Padme in the garage ("Hold me! I'm a mass murdering sociopath!") flowed much better with Anakin's "I'm good at fixing things" shit cut out. Just goes to show you how cutting out a few lines of dialogue can drastically improve a scene. There were many examples of this throughout the IMAX version: little cuts that most people wouldn't notice that made the film better. I didn't even notice the meadow scene's absence, which goes to show you it was a very good decision.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-10 06:25pm

DG_Cal_Wright wrote:I have no clue what the Tech IMAX is. The IMAX in my city is at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, and in fact it's probably less than ten miles from my house. btw, the Saturn V rocket they have standing is bad ass and you can see it from most places in the city.

Oh, it's the Tech Museum's IMAX theater.