Digital VS. 35MM - who has seen both?

A friend of mine SWEARS that my opinion on AOTC would change if I saw it in digital. He says the effects are incredibly real, and it only looks 'CGI' a couple of times. Is this true, or is he just trying to get my hopes up?

I saw it on film opening day. Didn't see it again until last night, and it was digital at the Crown Theaters in Annapolis, MD. Incredible picture. The colors were so bright and vivid. Objects had so much more depth to them there were times things looked 3D. The only times I noticed digital 'problems' were with the white subtitles.

I've seen it in both, film first. The digital makes for an awesome picture on every square cm of the screen, and the special effects look, ironically, less digital.

However, it's still a bad movie and nowhere near as good as the first three no matter how good it looks.

I've seen both.

And the verdict is: no noticeable difference to my eye...

I lucked out with a very clean print when I went to see it on film. I'm sure that if I saw it on film again, after bunches of showings, the film version would have degraded some with normal wear and tear. I'd assume that the digital version would be just the same as when I first saw it.

Les

On 6/5/02 4:11 AM, in article

That's what I figured. Nothing could save it. I still would like to see it digital and at least possibly enjoy the effects, which I thought looked cheap and crummy in 35MM.

Sort of like watching a 3D movie without the glasses.

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I have seen both. Film tends to degrade over time. Digital is superior but not all digital projectors are the same.

I don't know how old the original question is, but I just saw AOTC in a digital theatre in Detroit and I can say it was an entirely different movie.

EVERYTHING was much clearer, visually. There were no glitches, grain, split-second spots to be seen. It was like going from VHS to DVD, in my opinion. Even during the action scenes, things were easier to follow. You could even make out the individual faces of the Jedi while they were fighting, not just a quick blur. Some people (who collect action figures) claimed they couldn't see the Nikto Jedi in the movie, but I had no problem detecting him this time. He was in the circle of survivors off to the right of the screen (behind Obi-Wan, I think). Even my wife, who doesn't get into the whole movie/home theater/DVD thing like I do, says she definitely enjoyed it more the second time around because everything was clearer.

If you have any way to see it in a digital theatre, please do. You won't be disappointed.

Rogue7

As did I. But apparently I'm one of the few the proud the many? That was utterly unimpressed with the whole digital experience. For the record I saw it at the Cinerama in Seattle, with the Boeing digital cinema, by Paul Allen. While some things were better, others were actually worse. The picture was bright, and more or less clear (the noise from the low light levels in the 35mm version was replaced by a background so bright, that the foreground, including the people were essentially in silhouette, those scenes would actually look better if you watched them with sunglasses. AFAIK, that's a first in film. The format is very kind to CG, but while the CG improved it still looked like what it was. But that's balanced with how brutal the anti-aliasing was, most often on text, but really on any moving edge. And right from the outset, the compression artifacts were visible (maybe even most visible) around the stars.

Over all, I liked the movie slightly less the second time. I anticipated all the unintentional laughs, so basically it was a movie with little mirth, but a whole truckload of banal dialogue. Yippee! This is Star Wars.

My first viewing was Digital and my second was 72mm.

I was utterly unimpressed with the digital. A lot of everything was 'pixilated' and reminded me of watching it at home on my computer. All the text and moving objects, even simple curved items. Hell, that is just about the whole movie. I don't think I would go see 'Digital' again.

72mm, nice and big screen. That was much better.

I didn't know it was even available in 70mm. The last movie I saw in that format was 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' I thought 70 mm was pretty much dead... It's a shame more theatres don't have that format, it's my favorite.