Before transferring, I spent a year at my local university in Boulder, a year that had more of a sting than I’d care to admit. All of my closest friends and filmmaker peers were leaving Colorado, migrating out to the coasts to attend the premier film schools. Not getting into USC was a blow I hadn’t fully recovered from, lingering like a bruise through that final stretch of high school. But when I enrolled in classes at CU, there was…

I went in with low expectations and this still managed to disappoint.

The ScreenX format actively made my viewing experience worse. Not sure what Ridley was going for here. If the goal was to pay homage to the Abel Gance version’s Polyvision format, you utterly failed. If you’re not seated in the center of the theater, fucking forget it. Maybe if I saw this a decade ago, I’d be impressed by the technical achievement, but having seen Oppy in IMAX…