Tram Town
Sunday, March 27, 2005
| Category: Cinema We went to the pitchers yesterday to see Robots at the IMAX. Others have criticised the story of being a bit light on but I think it was punctuated with enough very funny gag sequences so that this was of very little consequence. The only plot bit that I couldn't get with was that [SPOILER ALERT] Bigweld's motivation for changing his mind toward the end wasn't very clear. [UNALERT] I thought all of the voicing was terrific particularly Mel Brooks' and Amanda Bynes' characters. Some reviews say Ewan McGregor was a bit flat but I say hello! that was the character. Sound was really nice but completely lacked any dynamic edge. In these magnificent animated flicks of the new century the animators are more than happy to throw away a sight gag but never allow themselves to throw away a sound gag (IMHO). Surround stuff was very good. The world created by the animators was fantastic and probably even more so at the IMAX (I can't compare having not seen the regular cinema version). Am I the only one, though, who thinks that they either need more motion blur or a higher frame rate. Any time there was a large amount of movement the motion became stepwise. Also, there were quite a few places where we could see jaggies. Perhaps both of these problems are artefacts of the special rendering for the IMAX not being optimal. My understanding is that individual frames appear on the screen for a bit longer with IMAX than regular projectors and an adjustment for motion blur would probably have to be made; maybe it wasn't. BTW the rendering certainly seemed to be using the full screen of the IMAX 10:7 aspect ratio. 9.0/10.0 Would have been ten if I had not been distracted a few times by the technology. |
