I waited 2+ hours in the queue and only got 1 25 & Under ticket.
I've splashed out on a couple other tickets to garuntee I have some of the festival to go to, but beyond that I've taken the financially responsible choice to wait it out.
#LFF really needs to make more 25 & Under tickets available from the outset, or make all tickets £6 to those with 25 & Under memberships.
It's not fun having to doubt and stress over every purchase because it's going to set you back way more than if you risk waiting for later.
@CasaDupre@nfl_seahawks00 Agreed! I reckon it'll get better screenings-wise moving forward to meet demand, but it'll never feel fully accessible as a cinema rather than a very nice screening room.
@nfl_seahawks00@CasaDupre BFI IMAX is the best purpose-built "IMAX as it was originally intended" cinema. It's the biggest.
The Science Museum has the next best. It's smaller but arguably better equipped.
Cineworld LSQ is a different, but still impressive, thing to those two.
@sunsetlcver111@_lanabelle Sorry but to your last point - does immersion not matter when going to the cinema? Like, the whole point of seeing a film in that darkened space is that you're looking at one source of visual stimuli. Is that not something you'd rather act to preserve?
@sunsetlcver111@_lanabelle When we're all just getting settled into a film, or feeling the effects of it's ending, and then a phone pops up in our sightlines as one individual person frantically tries to get a snap of the title card, it is distracting.
We'd rather not see it and enjoy the film together.
@Adam34321698@4Evil_Resident2 Interesting! Pottermania felt more widespread and accessible over here in England, whereas LOTR felt like something to be discovered/introduced to us by a different generation.
@Max169728863517@4Evil_Resident2 True, although Potter lasted longer. You've got the initial years of publication and the latter years of film releases + studio tours, theme parks, new media etc. that turn Pottermania into a multi-decade thing from the 1990s to the 2010s.
@artwithinpod I think people have gotten wound up in (valid) criticisms of adaptation and craft to see any of these films for what they are.
If the suit wasn't overdesigned, if the performance wasn't painted over, so many more scenes would be remembered fondly.
@kaiyashunyata I'm genuinely interested to hear how either of Nyong'o's characters fall under that reading.
Also I don't remember Travis Scott's Bard interacting with anyone.
@imPatrickT I think the only way we could ever see an IMAX film in a 1.43 container on home video would be for a very under-the-radar release "exclusive" for projectors (and the viewer who can find the wall space for it).
So maybe IMAX sells its own certified home projection equipment.
@eventualforever The insert of Heisenberg, the last we ever see of him, serving as a marker of the last time he and Oppenheimer exist as fellows rather than unwitting-opponents, with tragic fate set in motion.
"You might say that our paths crossed."
Masterfully emotional adaptation of history.
@doubledworth Perhaps the most rosy cue of Göransson's (unbelievably good) score kicking in as this new relationship forms, with Oppenheimer starting to take root in a bigger field of power and influence, setting the inevitable in motion.
This scene is a formal farewell to innocence.
@gofckapineapple A thousand things in these two minutes alone that I could go on and on about, but that brief shot of Gödel is maybe the best touch in the film.
@LookAroundCafe I have a feeling he might return to switching ratios on the next one, or maybe he'll do a few more to help IMAX along before abandoning the format and going full anamorphic again.
@LookAroundCafe For the longest time I wondered why he wasn't using 4-perf 35mm to bridge his IMAX sequences and maintain a consistent aspect ratio, until I realised it was this tension he was holding on to.
So I was surprised to hear him say he'd been always wanting to go full-IMAX.