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They don’t need to retcon anything from The Last Jedi, because the film doesn’t give us an objectively definitive perspective to be undone. Rey is told one thing about her parentage from an adversary who is trying to persuade her to join his side; there’s absolutely no indication given as to...

This movie had legs like nothing I've seen in probably five years or more. The huge opening was completely expected, but that it did as much repeat and long-term business as it did was a surprise in today's day and age. It probably helped that Disney was able to get such favorable terms for...

Where's that interview from? Would love to check out the rest of it.

The article on StarWars.com does state "Note: The 3D version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be available later this year." Unfortunately it doesn't specify if they mean a disc, or merely a streaming version. (Disney had also promised to do the same with a 3D release of "Frozen" in the...

I had a similar experience/recent discussion about the Ziegfeld Theater in NYC, which just closed - it was the last single screen theater in the city, and long considered a "prestige" venue - but I felt that they hadn't kept up with the times and was no longer the best place to see a movie in...

I think that's likely too. What I don't think we'll see is a full blown re-release of TFA beforehand, but I think there will be plenty of double feature showings on the Thursday sneaks. They could take a page out of the Hunger Games and Hobbit book, and show Episode VIII one day early for...

I saw it on Tuesday and I think I'm done... unless a) it takes a year to come to Blu-ray and Disney does some more screenings later on, or b) if one of the handful of 15/70 IMAX prints they made makes its way to the NYC area. I decided against traveling to Philadelphia to see it on their IMAX...

I stand corrected on TFA leaving IMAX this weekend - I had seen listings for Finest Hours at my IMAX theater a while back, but it looks like those listings have been changed and are now for TFA. Looks like one of the four NYC IMAX theaters will show Finest Hours, and the other three will...

You better hurry - it is leaving IMAX theaters tomorrow night/Friday for "The Finest Hours"

I agree that 2K seems less than ideal. I wonder if that was all that was possible given the deadlines they were up against. The movie was made pretty quickly compared to previous Star Wars films. Supposedly Abrams had even asked the studio if it could be delayed to May 2016, and the studio...

I didn't mean to suggest that it wasn't, simply that the American Cinematographer article made no reference one way or the other about it. Does a film need to be in HDR to be presented in Dolby Vision? My local AMC Prime theater advertises that it's a Dolby Vision auditorium, but just because...

I had thought I had seen that too, but apparently not. The more I think about it, the less surprised I am. All of the Marvel films have been 2K, and though they're not the same division, it's the same corporate parent. Like the Marvel movies, these new Star Wars movies are being made super...

I didn't get to the article on the effects yet (the whole issue is dedicated to the movie) but if it mentions it I will pass it on. I'm amazed at how the consumer electronics industry is pushing 4K so hard, because there doesn't seem to be much of a demand for it from anyone producing content...

I had promised to share whether this was a 2K or 4K production when the new American Cinematographer came out. It's here! All of the negative was scanned at 4K, but the actual DI work was done at 2K, and the DCP is 2K. No mention of HDR mastering is made in the article.

I didn't forget the rumored Obi-Wan movie(s) -- but I just don't want them to do anything that undoes what's been established by George Lucas about that character. I wouldn't want Darth Vader to have had another kid that we didn't know about either - I'm sure it would be easy to write that the...

On balance, I don't like the idea of her being directly related to Obi-Wan. This might be a weird reason, but it would be a retcon too far for me. Obi-Wan's life is pretty well established by the original trilogy, and then further filled in by the prequels. We know that he's going to live a...

Personally speaking, no, not really. I don't think they're going to make the chief villain behind everything an obscure character from the cartoon series. At the moment, I believe what Andy Serkis (the actor who played Snoke) has said in interviews after the release of the movie - that Snoke...

Very cool, Tony, thanks for sharing!

And for what it's worth, in interviews since the release of the movie, Andy Serkis has said that Snoke is a new character that is not related to or affiliated with or reincarnated from a previous character. It could always be misdirection, and J.J. Abrams has said that they didn't decide a lot...

I think it's likely that she's Luke's daughter too, but i had a totally different interpretation of the tears. I took it as, for years, Luke has been hidden away on his own, living like a lone monk, communing with the force and probably meditating on his failures. He was done with trying to...

Those special edition soundtracks were beautifully packaged. I remember getting each one on release week (I think they came out on the Tuesday before each movie)

It has so many cues that have just become what everyone thinks of when they think Star Wars music. That ended up being my rule of thumb in the prequel era - if there was a cue in the trailer I liked, look for it on the ESB soundtrack.

I like STID, but I definitely agree that there were parts that had a been there, done that feel… I think part of the problem is also that they repeated too many beats from the '09 movie, and covered a lot of the same ground. The first half of the movie, before John Harrison is revealed to be...

Bryan, I don't think remake or ripoff is a fair description of TFA either. I think TFA has more in common with ANH than any other SW movie has with another one, but I don't think that makes it a remake. They're all films in a series so of course they're gonna be similar - series where no two...

I'm hoping for a force ghost Yoda cameo - I don't know how realistic a hope that is, but I miss the little guy!

Thank you! I have been baffled by that criticism since the movie came out. It's one thing not to like the movie, or to find faults in it, but I just don't think calling it a "remake" is an accurate criticism. STID hits one beat from TWOK - that the Enterprise is in trouble, and someone must...

You got it. Just outta curiosity, where do you like to sit when seeing a movie? Front, back, middle? In that particular theater, I like row F for their digital showings and row G for the 15/70 stuff.

I've seen ads for "The Finest Hours" coming on January 29th, but nothing for anything before then. I'm hoping TFA sticks around until then.

Yessir. Of course it had to be the day that turned out to be 18 degrees outside :(

I'm catching it for the fifth time tonight - reserved seating in IMAX 3D. I just took a look at the seating chart and it's almost sold out. Amazing for a Monday night.