Age of Extinction Transformers 2 filmed in IMAX (poll)

[luca_frontino]

10K resolution and no more shaky-camera-on-shoulder. I want to see the TFs at the best.

 

[Bumblebee1983]

YES!!! The budget is there.....and I loved the first one in IMAX, but I want it LONGER with more 'bot action!!!!

 

[blueboy]

If I'm not mistaken, it would be wayyy tooo expensive to shoot a whole film in the IMAX format...

 

[luca_frontino]

No, the first have been remastered in IMAX DMR. I'm talking about shooting the next one directly with IMAX cameras, 'cause it's a lot better than DMR.

 

[hitpehoaos]

yeah but its too expensive. If you want transformers 2 to be filmed totally in Imax than forget about having bigger and better transformers action because they will have to make a compromise to keep under budget.

 

[luca_frontino]

Oh, come on! The first was shot disgustingly and it made $700 million. Imagine what can earn the first action movie entirely filmed in IMAX. At least $1 billion. It's not Aliens of the Deep. It's Transformers 25th anniversary movie!

 

[Avangarde]

I don't think it works like that.

 

[Bumblebee1983]

No, the first have been remastered in IMAX DMR. I'm talking about shooting the next one directly with IMAX cameras, 'cause it's a lot better than DMR.

I didn't even think about that! *slaps head* Of course!

But the IMAX redux was pretty good in my opinion.

 

[rsonbie456]

I agree with those who say NO. It's gonna cost too much if you use IMAX cameras because of their HIGH quality things. It might delay the original date that it will come out. Probally you need to wait a few months or a year 0_o

 

[That'ssuper!]

It needs to be in Imax, how do you expect to sell tickets from an action movie without makinging it as intense as possible?

 

[rsonbie456]

Maybe your right But i'm sure it will still be in normal theaters right? Not just IMAX theaters?

It needs to be in Imax, how do you expect to sell tickets from an action movie without makinging it as intense as possible?

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[deathshead2]

Oh, come on! The first was shot disgustingly and it made $700 million. Imagine what can earn the first action movie entirely filmed in IMAX. At least $1 billion. It's not Aliens of the Deep. It's Transformers 25th anniversary movie!

You do know those shots are Bay's style right?

 

[WarBlade]

Here's a Dark Knight article, but quite relevant to the discussion about filming feature films in IMAX. Maybe after reading there might be a few less people who think it's a good idea.

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LOS ANGELES — All directors promise that their sequels will be bigger and flashier than the predecessors'. But Christopher Nolan doesn't mess around.

The director's sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, will become the first feature film to be partly shot in the IMAX format, an expensive and cumbersome process that typically is the province of documentaries and short films.

Nolan will shoot four action sequences — including the introduction of the Joker, played by Heath Ledger — on IMAX.

The move is one of Hollywood's most pronounced steps yet in its embrace of IMAX theaters, which are increasingly showing commercial fare on their giant screens.

"There's simply nothing like seeing a movie that way," Nolan says. "It's more immersive for the audience. I wish I could shoot the entire thing this way."

Typically, the feature films that play in IMAX theaters are simply stretched out to fill the enormous screens. That can dilute the picture quality and give the movie a wide, squat look.

Shooting on IMAX, Nolan says, will have a twofold effect. The four scenes will fill the IMAX screens, some of which are eight stories high. And in traditional theaters, the scenes will appear more vivid (think high-definition television over standard).

Don't expect many movies to follow suit. Only 280 IMAX theaters are in operation worldwide, and fewer than 100 show feature films.

And shooting in the format is difficult. IMAX film, which is 10 times the size of standard film stock, is costly and must be shot using bulky cameras.

And "they're loud," Nolan says. "We had to figure a way to eliminate the sound so we could shoot dialogue."

In a rarity for Hollywood, the payoff isn't primarily financial, so far. "It doesn't have a huge effect yet on the money you bring in," says Chris Aronson, a distribution chief with 20th Century Fox, which carried Night at the Museum on IMAX. "But it does help make your movie more of an event."

For Nolan, IMAX makes the moviegoing experience unique again.

"You can't do this on any home theater," Nolan says. "Batman has some of the most extraordinary characters in pop culture. We wanted the Joker to have the grandest entrance possible.

"I figured if you could take an IMAX camera to Mount Everest or outer space, you could use it in a feature movie."

 

[esparza_will]

I seen the prolouge with I am legen for the dark knight and it was so awsome. i heard it was a clear picture but its something you have see to understand how "clear" it is. transformers 2 should def. shoot some scenes in IMAX in my opinon.