The Dark Knight So How are YOU Gonna go See the Dark Knight the First Time?

[S.D. Plissken]

IMAX OR BUSSSSST!!!!

 

[mclay18]

As much as I would love to see TDK in IMAX, the nearest one is too far away to warrant driving there. So it's regular theater for me.

... if Nolan and WB had agreed to do a IMAX 3D format for the action sequences (a la Superman Returns and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), it would be nigh-impossible to resist such an experience.

 

[Batman137]

IMAX midnight with my friend, dad, and sister :]

 

[Nathan Petrelli]

I just found out there is an IMAX in my city. I also just found it is closed

I will be seeing this in the cinema.

 

[Superman4ever]

IMAX midnight showing!

Costume party starts at 10pm!

 

[Anita18]

I got 3:15am tix to one local IMAX, but it turns out that I can get tickets to The Bridge's midnight showing from Ashkong. I might be calling CityWalk and asking for a raincheck. Or...yeah.

I'm sure I won't catch half of the dialogue or story points due to my mind being UTTERLY BLOWN by the sound and images, but.....I wouldn't have it any other way. t:

I'm still hyper from the Wally Pfister panel, so I shall repeat some of the tips he gave us today.

• See this in IMAX, at least once.
• SAY NO TO DIGITAL PROJECTIONS!!!!!

 

[DirtyDirk41]

Man I am pumped

but for the Dallas IMAX, tickets are sold out...already!!

thank god I bought mine the first day, and a handful of my friends.

 

[kyuubijavi1]

^ Damn already : 0

I better get my Imax tickets now

 

[BluePhoenix]

Henry Ford IMAX in Dearborn, Michigan opening night. Costume shindig too(maybe). Then the next day, I'm off to AMC Livonia 20 for the night showing there (I may see it twice that day. I haven't decided yet)

 

[Antithesis_SD]

Wow, Dearborn and Livonia. My family lives there. I know that it isn't surprising there are people on SHH from around there... I just always have to remember that the world isn't as big as it may seem.

Sadly, I live in Wyoming, where there is not an IMAX in the entire state... therefore, eight of my friends and myself are road trippin down to Denver to go catch the midnight IMAX showing at the Colorado Center.

The tickets are purchased and everything. I am effing excited.

 

[-rc2k-]

I'll be at The Bridge on IMAX @ 12:01am w/ my batman shirt and mask from SDCC..less than a month to go oh yea..

 

[DaddyGrayson]

I got 3:15am tix to one local IMAX, but it turns out that I can get tickets to The Bridge's midnight showing from Ashkong. I might be calling CityWalk and asking for a raincheck. Or...yeah.

I'm sure I won't catch half of the dialogue or story points due to my mind being UTTERLY BLOWN by the sound and images, but.....I wouldn't have it any other way. t:

I'm still hyper from the Wally Pfister panel, so I shall repeat some of the tips he gave us today.

• See this in IMAX, at least once.
• SAY NO TO DIGITAL PROJECTIONS!!!!!

Why is that?

 

[StillTheKing]

The drive-in could be kind of cool to see TDK, of course not for the first time but maybe the second or third or 27th time.

Hopefull Ill be able to see it in imax or ill go to a theater in az called the Cine Capri. Very nice theater, has the biggest screen in az besides IMAX.

No matter what I NEED to see it in IMAX at least once

 

[Anita18]

Why is that?

Both Chris Nolan and Wally Pfister hate digital projection. Well, not the idea of digital projection, but the way it's used.

The resolution on most of the digital projectors in movie theaters are crap (most have 2K, while film scans in at 8K) and the levels are always off. Wally said that in dark shots, the colors get all muddy, and the highlights are video-y.

Not that I would personally notice, since I don't watch enough films in the theater to gauge. They did play the trailer at the panel today from a Blu-ray disc with a 4K projector so that was acceptable for Wally, but most theaters don't have a 4K projector.

 

[-rc2k-]

What's this about a panel Anita?

 

[Anita18]

What's this about a panel Anita?

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=303283

I'm still hyper from it.

 

[-rc2k-]

Wow, how the hell did I miss this?! Haha oh well..thanks for the report Anita!! I'm not even going to read that spoiler, its too close to release .

 

[DaddyGrayson]

Both Chris Nolan and Wally Pfister hate digital projection. Well, not the idea of digital projection, but the way it's used.

The resolution on most of the digital projectors in movie theaters are crap (most have 2K, while film scans in at 8K) and the levels are always off. Wally said that in dark shots, the colors get all muddy, and the highlights are video-y.

Not that I would personally notice, since I don't watch enough films in the theater to gauge. They did play the trailer at the panel today from a Blu-ray disc with a 4K projector so that was acceptable for Wally, but most theaters don't have a 4K projector.

Hmmm, interesting. I only ask because I saw Iron Man in a digital theatre and in a normal one, and thought it looked MUCH better in the digital theatre.

 

[StillTheKing]

The spoiler doesnt really spoil much, like plot wise. It spoils how a scene plays out. If that makes sense. It also makes you appreciate what a great actor Heath was.

Just my 2 cents. Im avoiding the spoiler section at pretty much all costs.
But when I heard theres a cool new scene spoiler I had to check it out.

 

[Anita18]

Hmmm, interesting. I only ask because I saw Iron Man in a digital theatre and in a normal one, and thought it looked MUCH better in the digital theatre.

I suspect it also has to do with projectionists but...anyway. The resolution leeway is definitely more pronounced in digital, so it wholly depends on how much resolution the projector has. The trailer looked GORGEOUS on HD 4K.

Bad sound bugs me more than bad visuals, actually.

 

[Fanticon]

hA! and my vote tips the scalest:
IMAX YO! I have gladly dished out 15 bux for the midnite show and 1 more the next day at 10pm!

 

[Dr. Teols]

to answer the question, i plan to see the dark knight for the first time in a regular theater. i recently saw a movie, the matrix reloaded, at the imax dome theater at Mosi in tampa, fl. it was a cool experiance but i noticed that it was hard to follow everything visually due to the insane size of the screen.

i want to soak everything in my first time watching TDK. i do, however, plan to see it in imax afterwords.

 

[CFE]

I'll never understand wanting to see a movie for the first time on an IMAX screen...your eyes have to pull double duty to comb over the screen, which is already WAY too close...

Why would you want to do that to, at the very least, your FIRST viewing of the film? IMO, seeing a movie in IMAX doesn't really do justice to the piece as a visual whole.

That's why I'll be taking in "TDK" as a whole, the way it's meant to...in a Regular Theatre.

CFE

 

[Pennyworth]

7/18, 12:01 AM, IMAX - King of Prussia.
Taking Friday off to recover and see it again.t:

 

[Pennyworth]

I'll never understand wanting to see a movie for the first time on an IMAX screen...your eyes have to pull double duty to comb over the screen, which is already WAY too close.

Why would you want to do that to, at the very least, your FIRST viewing of the film? IMO, seeing a movie in IMAX doesn't really do justice to the piece as a visual whole.

Cause Wally says so!

I'm still hyper from the Wally Pfister panel, so I shall repeat some of the tips he gave us today.

• See this in IMAX