Captain America: Winter Soldier (no spoilers)

[308Mike]

Would you prefer watching it on a regular screen or paying the extra to see it on an IMAX screen (NOT in 3D)?? Is the IMAX screen worth the additional cost (without being 3D)? I know how I've FELT about seeing movies on IMAX before, which weren't 3D, and they were AWESOME!! I don't know if the regular theater prices would be able to compensate for the loss from the larger IMAX format, with a minimal price increase.

[Rod]

Actually, I think it depends on the movie. This is so over the top, it's worth a little extra to see it on the (O.M.G. it's so big!!!!) IMAX screen. There's a new Snow White story with Angelina Jolie as the witch coming to IMAX (again, in 3-D), I probably would see it on the regular screen 2 or 3-D.

Weird thought, wonder if there'll ever be an IMAX porno movie. That'd be like a gyno exam on steroids.

Okay, off to bed after that last remark. I'm tired.

[Steamforger]

What I've noticed is that, when watching a film in 3D, if I tilt my head in a manner where one ear is touching my shoulder, the color on the screen becomes better. Once back to a normal posture, the scene looks washed out and grey.

[Aesop]

The reason is simple its done by Marvel, and not by any outside studio they still have a bad taste in their mouth from what others have done with their licensed properties, so their very careful about turning out good work.

You're aware that Marvel (like Pixar, Lucasfilm, the Muppets, etc.) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Corporation, lives on the Disney lot, and answers to Bob Iger since 2009, right?
But your gist of things is correct; Disney provides a homebase, and capital, and generally doesn't screw with the soup; Marvel returns the favor by delivering top-notch product and returning the money ten-fold.

[HTRN]

Yes I am. Marvel had been selling the rights to various characters and they're stories in the early 2000s, and then promptly watched them get shat upon(IE the first Hulk movie). Since they started their own "studio", they're now AFAIK, no longer selling the rights to outsiders, instead doing everything in house...

Of course, this is all going by memory of what I've read online - if you know more, please elaborate.

[Aesop]

Not having signed any non-disclosure agreements related to particular pictures, I can (legally!) say what I want.

Which is that currently, Marvel projects are treated as no-bullshit Far-Beyond-Top-Secret-Special-Compartmented-Information-Classified-Nuclear-Weapons-Design-Information, to the point of refusing to confirm or deny that they actually exist, using false production names, shredding call sheets and one-line production summaries, and basically making the NSA look like a bunch of pussies. (They literally have a guy cart out a burn/shred barrel to set every morning, and every evening they take it back to the office and destroy everything.)

No, really. Except it's worse than that. I know more about the Iranian nuclear weapons program.

OTOH, one of the current Projects That Shall Remain Nameless probably involves a world rather remarkably like the final Easter Egg scenes at the end of The Avengers, i.e. black swiss-cheesed rocks floating in space, and inhabited by a number of blue-skinned villains, if what one could see under the burlap sacks they wore over their heads to lunch in the studio commissary are any indication.
And that they're doing another completely separate film series that doesn't have anyone in it named Nick Fury, Thor, the Hulk, Captain America, Black Widow, Ironman, or Hawkman.

Which, in all likelihood, you could get from much better insider sites, or from background folks who leak like hell anyways (because what would anyone expect the little blighters to do for $80/day and a bologna sandwich box lunch?).

[kapikui]

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OTOH, one of the current Projects That Shall Remain Nameless probably involves a world rather remarkably like the final Easter Egg scenes at the end of The Avengers, i.e. black swiss-cheesed rocks floating in space, and inhabited by a number of blue-skinned villains, if what one could see under the burlap sacks they wore over their heads to lunch in the studio commissary are any indication.
And that they're doing another completely separate film series that doesn't have anyone in it named Nick Fury, Thor, the Hulk, Captain America, Black Widow, Ironman, or Hawkman.

Well During Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (boy is that annoying to type), there was a little deal about Marvels Defender's of the Galaxy. Had Vin Desil and Zoe Saldana that I can remember. I wasn't watching all that close. So if that's it, it isn't particularly secret anymore.

[SoupOrMan]

How close is it to the Winter Soldier storyline a few years ago in the comics?

[Jericho941]

How close is it to the Winter Soldier storyline a few years ago in the comics?

I haven't seen it yet, but I've been told by a reliable source that it is quite faithful.

[Aesop]

That probably happens a lot when the Executive Producer is Stan Lee.