Corey_O
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Ted your contagious positive energy is a breath of fresh air in a world which at times seems to feed on negativity. Thank you and your team. Safe travels.
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It's so great reading all these stories of first contact and various moments that set the course in motion for the company that is RED. keep em coming!
Here's my story of today. July 23rd 2013 while it's fresh in my mind.
I just came from seeing Pacific Rim at the Century City Cinema in 3D IMAX. I have to tell you, I think it's the perfect movie. I so thoroughly enjoyed it on so many levels!
So heres the story part… after a super fun but very long and strenuous day at camp RED on the Paramount lot shooting EPIC with lots of insanely motivated and talented kids and screening their dailies in our ad-hoc theater on the sound stage we are using, I realize I have a big meeting at Warner Bros tomorrow morning to talk about and prep the Pacific Rim event we are doing along with the Filmlight folks next week (which we are all really excited about)
So after traveling in Russia for past couple weeks, I still hadn't seen the movie, and I have this meeting tomorrow to talk all about it - so I drag my weary body back into the car and over to the theater for the 745pm show.
Man was it worth it! The movie is totally awesome. If you haven't seen it yet, go see it on the biggest screen in your city! I felt like I was 15 years old again watching every frame of that thing in all it's IMAX Digital Giant screen glory!
Now the fun starts for me before the movie even begins, when the IMAX version trailer of Enders Game and Elysium play back to back (both shot all on EPICs if you weren't aware) they looked fantastic on that big screen - no other camera other than 8/70 or 15/70 film can do images like that, so proud that EPIC footage not only holds up on that giant sheet, but excels at it!
Then Pacific Rim starts up. 3D glasses on, big full on movie experience… ready, set, go.
The first 10 minutes of the movie - awesome!
The story arc of the movie - fantastic!
The character development, acting and direction - spot on perfect!
The EPIC cinematography - every frame totally rock solid and wonderful treat for the eyes! and man does it hold up great on the big screen. totally pulls you in and won't let go - that's what real cinema is all about and this lands the big prize over and over again in every scene!
The Visual FX and compositing and the use of the EPIC footage in the VFX universe they created - totally all world - among best I've ever seen! The 3D post work to is spot on and really adds to the experience (I'm sure it's great in 2D as well, but they did a really nice job with the 3D creation and geometry for the big screen experience)
and there's a lot more great things about this movie, there is totally wonderful story telling, perfect sexual and comradery chemistry between the two protagonists, classic character bonding, genius hero among heroes story creation, all things that are really hard to manage in a big tent pole movie.
There is amazing action all the way through, fantastic comic relief, stunning set design and production design, and the sound is off the hook as well, just super big and wow to support the visuals! The movie has incredible scope and scale. and it just keeps getting better and better till you think it's over, and then its not, there's a lot more movie to go.
I'm not sure what the reviewers have said about this movie, I haven't looked yet, but if they don't think it is a totally great summer movie going treat, they are total idiots. This movie rocks - hard. it is a true Epic movie… and handy for us they picked a pretty great camera to shoot it with.
I was tired going in to the theater, fully energized coming out a few hours later. as I was driving home, I was thinking how cool it was that I got to meet and talk to Guillermo Del Toro at CinemCon a few month ago, and how nice he was, how much of a big kid he was and what nice things he had to say about RED and the EPIC cameras they used on the movie. after seeing the work, I can see why he was so jovial and fun to hang with for a bit at CinemaCon… he's the biggest kid in the world, getting to play in the best possible sandbox! Way to go Guillermo, I wish everyone could see the world like you
I was so proud to think that our RED team has a small but important part in bringing this movie to life. it truly defines the word EPIC and it's a great showcase to the power of a brilliant movie making team with all the right tools and talent at their disposal.
OK, that's it for my story for the night… can't wait to go to Warners tomorrow and hang with some of the creative team and Maxine the grading artist… so much fun I can hardly stand itIf you haven't seen it yet, Go see Pacific Rim on the big screen, and see if you like it as much as I did!
+ Ted