At the David Keighley Theater, I watched Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” (shot entirely with IMAX® film cameras) presented in 70mm IMAX® film. Rather than simply watching the screen, I felt as though I was there the entire time. It was more than watching it, I witnessed it. The impact was close to what I felt when I was in elementary school student and when I first experienced the “Cinerama” at the “Osaka OS Theater.” Back then, I was used to watching everything on a CRT television, and the sense of immersion was unlike anything I had ever experienced. It brought back those memories. In hindsight, not having Japanese subtitles may have made the experience even better. I already knew the story well, having grown up watching the 1954 Kirk Douglas version and several black-and-white adaptations, but this was an entirely different experience. For me, it was an Odyssey unlike anything I had ever experienced. Despite the enormous 1.43:1 screen, Christopher Nolan and Hoyte van Hoytema’s cinematography brings us remarkably close to the actors’ faces. Through an exceptionally shallow depth of field and elegant pull-focus shots that shifts our attention to the finest details, they relentlessly follow the characters’ anguish and fate. The cast delivers performances powerful enough to withstand every bit of that extraordinary resolution. Nolan’s signature storytelling, with its meticulously interwoven timelines, is very much present here as well. Together, these elements elevate one of the world’s best-known classical epics into an intimate, deep human drama. It was magnificent. When it opens in Japan this September, it will be shown in digital IMAX®, but I have no doubt I’ll be making the “journey back” several more times.
At this point I’m certain they have 100 clones of Robert Pattinson locked somewhere all with different voices need for a certain movie, unfrozen when needed
@L333KY@justaguy0507@MASTER_1_CHIEF I wasn’t referring to how good of a Fisk adaptation this was, I was more referring to how incredible SV and DD were, I like SM PS4 but it’s know where near the quality of the other 2. Also my pfp is the AK because I really like that game and design, never said it was a good story
@EisakuOtomo I actually really love the concept of the Court, and I even think the first half of the story is really good. But the whole Lincoln March shit is ass, and especially where this fits into Batman’s larger timeline and the world building implications is really funky.
@notfunEman Morbius & Madam Web over FFH & NWH. TASM2 over TASM1 and homecoming, SM3 in the top 5. Rami over Spider-verse. That’s a Twitter Spider-man fan if I’ve ever seen one 😭
@JamesDiMichele3 I’m ngl, kind of a shit comparison. Whether we like it or not, comics are a drop in the bucket of cultural impact compared to games or movies. And sales wise, Spider-Man has been dominating the latter for the last decade
@vanillasansa@brookstweetz It would have had to. Although the fact that there’s no word is strange. Like IW and EG were shot back to back taking 6 months each, and we knew about them both being shot at the time. DD was only shot for 6 months with no word on SW, so idk 🤷♂️