Movie Review
One of the most recent movies I have seen is The Fast Five, which is latest movie from The Fast and Furious series. After having a dilemma about seeing this movie, I finally gave in and proceeded to watch. This one is the most action packed of the series, from cars racing down the street to avoid police while dragging a safe to bullets flying in every other scene this movie kept me on the edge of my seat throughout. Having watched it in my apartment, I really lost the advantages of seeing the movie in theaters. Had I been aware of the amount of action throughout the movie, I would have spent the absurd fifteen dollars without hesitating to see this movie in IMAX. “The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX’s customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make you feel as if you are in the movie”(IMAX). This movie would have be quite the adventure in IMAX, however I still arranged my speakers to make the sound much more vivid and crisp. I watched the movie in high definition on a “50” DLP (digital light processing) television, “With BrilliantColor™ Technology, additional colors are added including Cyan, Magenta and Yellow to expand the color pallet for even more vibrant color performance”(dlp.com).
The setting for the movie takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil the landscape varies from ocean scenery to lavish skyscraper skyline cities where the cars are seen dragging a vault through the city. The scene has a vast majority of sounds coming through the speakers, the vault scraping the pavement was hinting in the background behind the car engines roaring and bullets firing off. It seemed like every other scene was showing a car being flipped over or smashing into something that would cause the subwoofer to rumble the ground. Being a fan of The Fast and Furious series, you can see how the movies have progressed over time with the help of technology. When the first movie came out it was in 2001 it was solely based on street racing with about half of the graphics that are used in the present one.
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The Fast and Furious movies have really impacted our society for the past decade. I could probably go up to any random person on the street and ask them if they’ve seen a Fast and Furious movie and the answer probably nine times out of ten will be an absolute yes. Even though they keep plugging in characters and the story line is still the same the movies are still a joy to watch and that is because of the technology used in the movies. In this last movie the graphics were so unreal it was really unreal. The effects in the movie were absolutely off the chain. Technology has most certainly affected movies in the last ten years and it’s evident in this Fast and Furious series.
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