Dean Esmay notes that when he goes to see Revenge of the Sith, it will be in a digital theatre:
While there are some detractors to the technology, I have to say that Star Wars Episode II in a DLP cinema was easily one of the most visually beautiful things I have ever seen on a movie screen. So crisp it was almost three dimensional, and so different in how it worked that it seemed almost as startling as the transition from black & white to color film. I suspect that cinematographers in coming years will have to reinvent the way they do things as this technology becomes more common, much as the move from black & white to color did. (For old-time computer geeks: remember how startling the transition from EGA to Super-VGA was? Yeah, it’s about like that. No kidding.)
According to TI’s Digital Light Processing site, the closest DLP-enabled theatre showing RotS in digital is Showcase Cinema’s Springdale 18: Cinema de Lux in Cincinnati, a distance of 110 miles. Would I really consider a 4–hour round trip to see a Star Wars movie that I can see on 70mm film transfer ten minutes down the street? Probably not, but then again {sound of drool hitting keyboard over thoughts of the Lava Planet in DLP}.
May 27th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
Get a couple of geek friends together, pretend you’re in school again, make a road trip out of it. Catch an afternoon show, get dinner afterward and talk about it, drive home.
You won’t regret it. It was beautiful and awesome.
May 27th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
Free piece of advice though: sit about halfway back in the theater. Too close and you occasionally see jagged lines around the edges of things, sort of like sitting too close to a TV.