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FloridaRes

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3 HOURS? :eek: I will surely not be seeing this movie. I don't care much for movies anyway, but the right one could persuade me (along with some buttered popcorn), but not at 3 hours.I will wait till it comes to a TV near me.

PS: I need to stop posting, I am ruining my post to like ratio!
 
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jdmdisney99

jdmdisney99

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FloridaRes said:
3 HOURS? :eek: I will surely not be seeing this movie.
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rybarr87 said:
Some of the best movies made are long....
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the.dreamfinder

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spacemt354 said:
Yes absolutely in IMAX. It's well worth the extra few dollars.
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But try to see it on a real, big screen IMAX in film. IMAX tickets prices across the board are the same, but the full size IMAX is even more immersive!
List of threaters playing Interstellar in IMAX proper (US and Canada only)
https://interstellar.withgoogle.com/imax-experience-in-70mm

A more technical explanation of the differences between IMAX and LIEMAX.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...ax_experience_70mm_35mm_4k_2k_here_s_how.html

The black hole sequence is truly stunning in IMAX with the massive square frame.
 
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GrammieBee

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That's one of the most fascinating things about the Spirit threads; they keep morphing from one topic to another. Here is a thread started about expansion at the Studios and it is now focused on diet and movie length, among other things. Leave for twenty minutes or so and there will have been at least two new items posted and "discussed". Keeps life interesting.
 
Mike S

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the.dreamfinder said:
But try to see it on a real, big screen IMAX in film. IMAX tickets prices across the board are the same, but the full size IMAX is even more immersive!
List of threaters playing Interstellar in IMAX proper (US and Canada only)
https://interstellar.withgoogle.com/imax-experience-in-70mm

A more technical explanation of the differences between IMAX and LIEMAX.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...ax_experience_70mm_35mm_4k_2k_here_s_how.html

The black hole sequence is truly stunning in IMAX with the massive square frame.
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I would go to the Autonation IMAX in Fort Lauderdale since it's the closest. I saw Pacific Rim there, it was amazing. I would've seen Godzilla there too but for some stupid reason they weren't playing it and were playing Avatar again (seriously!!!!!!) :mad:
 
Tom Morrow

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Big Hero 6 is awesome, I'd easily put it up there with the best Pixar films. (and stick around until after the credits). I knew nothing at all about the film going in.

Interesting tidbit from the Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hero_6_(film)#Production
A software program called Denizen was used to create over 700 distinctive characters[46] that populate the city,[50] while a new rendering system called Hyperion offered new illumination possibilities, like light shining through a translucent object (i.e., Baymax's vinyl covering).[51] Development on Hyperion started in 2011 and was based upon research into multi-bounce complex global illumination originally conducted at Disney Research in Zürich.[46] Disney in turn had to assemble a new supercomputing cluster just to handle Hyperion's immense processing demands, which consists of over 2,300 Linux workstations distributed across four data centers (three in Los Angeles and one in San Francisco).[46] Each workstation, as of 2014, included a pair of 2.4GHz Intel Xeon processors, 256 GB of memory, and a pair of 300 GB solid-state drives configured as a RAID Level 0 array (i.e., to operate as a single 600 GB single drive).[46] This was all backed by a central storage system with a capacity of five petabytes, which holds all digital assets as well as archival copies of all 54 Disney Animation films.[46]
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So, Disney can do technical feats like this... but won't bother installing decent graphics rendering hardware for stuff like Monsters Inc Laugh Floor (there are always graphical hiccups and tears from what appears to be a lack of vertical sync). Or re-rendering Mission: Space so it doesn't have Playstation 2 graphics. Or, well, you know, a thousand other things at WDW.
 
Cesar R M

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the.dreamfinder said:
But try to see it on a real, big screen IMAX in film. IMAX tickets prices across the board are the same, but the full size IMAX is even more immersive!
List of threaters playing Interstellar in IMAX proper (US and Canada only)
https://interstellar.withgoogle.com/imax-experience-in-70mm

A more technical explanation of the differences between IMAX and LIEMAX.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...ax_experience_70mm_35mm_4k_2k_here_s_how.html

The black hole sequence is truly stunning in IMAX with the massive square frame.
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Daaang... there is no Imax in my town.
gonna miss these feels then :(
 
Disneyhead'71

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Ok, confession time. I went to the media night for Mickey's Very Scary Christmas Party Friday night. I had not been to the MK since 9/13/13 for the media night for MNSSHP. I have stated on these very boards that I only go to Disney when I get in for free. I gave up my AP in 2010.

We (DD14 and myself) arrived at the MK at 4:05pm. Everything around the entrance and train station end of Main Street U.S.A. was disappointingly spiffy and clean and what appeared to be freshly painted. Since I haven't ridden 7DMT yet we beelined it there. On the way I noticed that those MASSIVE wreath hangers look a lot better in person than in pictures. And at least the forced removal of the beloved swag Mickey wreaths resulted in a new overall redesign of the decorations.

We arrived at the 7DMT at 4:30, 70 min. Standby. So we skipped it. We went to UtS:JotLM. 10 min. Standby (walk on, actually). I had only ridden it twice, 2 years ago and felt I may have judged it harshly. Unfortunately, big parts of it are embarressingly bad. Some bits are amazing though. The little Sebastian AA in the last scene is totally BA. Anyway, back to 7DMT, 80 min. Standby. Starting to regret my earlier impatience. Skipped it again. Off to HM.

Almost everything in the HM interactive slap and splash play queue is broken. Thank you Almighty Tiki God.

We go watch the Ice Queen and Princess Adorkable ice up Cindy's shack. The script is idiotic, the visuals are epic. Moving on to get Panko bread crumb topped Mac n Cheese at Frier's Nook for DD14. Tasted exactly like bread crumb topped MaC. She enjoyed it. Just shy of $10 for an ice cream cup of MaC hurt my head. I got a pork shank at Gaston's. Another $10. But bein' a hillbilly, Pork Fat (bacon) is part of the Food Pyramid. Just above beans and below Bourbon. So ten bucks for a Pork Shank is doable and still gets 2 greasy thumbs up from me. I washed it down with a Coke the size of my head. And thanks guys for reminding me that I failed to get a bag of apple slices as a healthy side.

Moving on, I was quite disappointed about the recent change over to LED popcorn and accent lights because I had not yet been able to photograph a burned out bulb. Although the color temp isn't the same as the old incandescents, I don't believe Joe Sixpack from Somewhere, Upnorth will be storming city hall anytime soon.

After noshing, we swung by 7DMT again. Bingo! 40 min. Standby. We queued up. The queue is quite nice. We blew past the gem sorting. Most of the barrel projections weren't working. The theming is solid through out the queue. We boarded in 20 mins. The ride was exactly what I expected content wise. But I was pleasantly surprised that the attraction as a whole is more fun than I expected. So I have to fairly say the attraction exceeded my expectations.

Off to Space Mtn. 10 min. Standby. Pretty much a walk on. My daughter wanted to ride it again. It's too rough for me. I didn't enjoy it so I watched the horrible Christmas dance party thing in Tomorrowland while DD14 rode it again.

Straight across the hub to Jingle Cruise. Loved it. After everybody saying how minimal it is, my expectations were rock bottom. I thought it was good silly fun.

Pirates was next. It's Pirates. Half the stuff doesn't work. Or worse, works half way. Please fix the fire torches in the fire scene. They're embarrassing.

Then we left. 9pm sharp. I had to work at 4:30am Saturday. We didn't see the parade, celebrate the magic, or Holiday Wishes. We did stop by the media hospitality center and had plenty of hot chocolate and cookies. And saw Olaf (we didn't wait in the line for the pic).

I can't really review the event, but we had a good time. We did what we wanted. And the park does look better than last year. I'm still a long way from considering an AP again, but the overall condition seems to be improving.
 
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