Who went to see Sign 'O' The Times in IMAX? I didn't get to go here in Seattle (despite the theater being less than 2 miles away), but those who made it to their local theater have raved about it in every regard (sound, seeing it on the big screen again, etc).

Related (and still active) thread: https://prince.org/msg/7/471652

Seen it here in Brussels on the opening night, was blown away, again.

Venue was half full.

To me, the non-live storyline-recordings with Cat seemed very unpolished and grainy, while the rest looked pretty good.

Or maybe it's just me.

Saw it here in the Bay Area on opening night. Saw at my local AMC Theatre where we got a collectible concert ticket. Great sound and picture quality. Nice seeing prince fans wearing shirts and clapping after each song. 2025 was a great year to see Purple Rain and Sign "O" the Times on the big screen

I LOVED it ! Never saw in theater but made it a point to go . The bass was thumping,sound was great. The very beginning of IIWYGF,was.....GLORIOUS.

This has probably been covered ad nasuem but ,wasn't a lot of the movie re-shot at PP ?

I could not help but feel how dated this movie/concert somehow is.

Great concert movie!

Don't get me wrong.

But as time moved on, concerts these days are very different, and not necessarily worse or less.

Prince's live performances from 1987 have something James-Brown-Live-ish to it, that's what I felt when it was done. More than ever before.

Now I see more clearly (after all these decades. ) that Prince was mainly an absorbing collection of everything that came before, but more compact and with better execution and looks, and with a (thin) sauce of its own style.

Bash me if you want. It's just a feeling I was left with when I came out of the theater. It didn't give me the overwhelming magic it gave me in 1987.

But again, fun to see once more.

Vannormal said:

I could not help but feel how dated this movie/concert somehow is.

Great concert movie!

Don't get me wrong.

But as time moved on, concerts these days are very different, and not necessarily worse or less.

Prince's live performances from 1987 have something James-Brown-Live-ish to it, that's what I felt when it was done. More than ever before.

Now I see more clearly (after all these decades. ) that Prince was mainly an absorbing collection of everything that came before, but more compact and with better execution and looks, and with a (thin) sauce of its own style.

Bash me if you want. It's just a feeling I was left with when I came out of the theater. It didn't give me the overwhelming magic it gave me in 1987.

But again, fun to see once more.

I always thought the movie was just one big music video after seeing a couple of the shows for real and was a bit disapointed, but I unsderstand it was just to promote the albumn in the US. now it's just a nostalgia watch. It's annoying we still don't have a real full SOTT tour show on video.

JorisE73 said:

Vannormal said:

I could not help but feel how dated this movie/concert somehow is.

Great concert movie!

Don't get me wrong.

But as time moved on, concerts these days are very different, and not necessarily worse or less.

Prince's live performances from 1987 have something James-Brown-Live-ish to it, that's what I felt when it was done. More than ever before.

Now I see more clearly (after all these decades. ) that Prince was mainly an absorbing collection of everything that came before, but more compact and with better execution and looks, and with a (thin) sauce of its own style.

Bash me if you want. It's just a feeling I was left with when I came out of the theater. It didn't give me the overwhelming magic it gave me in 1987.

But again, fun to see once more.

I always thought the movie was just one big music video after seeing a couple of the shows for real and was a bit disapointed, but I unsderstand it was just to promote the albumn in the US. now it's just a nostalgia watch. It's annoying we still don't have a real full SOTT tour show on video.

We tend to forget that.

And, eactly, it's about time we have a real full show. Including an aftershow.

I saw it at the big BFI IMAX in London.

It sounded great, but U Got The Look was still just upresed and looked crap compared to the rest of the film. (Much more noticible than it was on VHS in the 80s! )

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It was awesome seeing it on IMAX but after recently seeing the spectacular remasters of Stop Making Sense and Live At Pompeii, I couldn’t help wishing this could have had some similar TLC.

Some sort of surround sound mix and a visual clean up would have been great.

daned said:

It was awesome seeing it on IMAX but after recently seeing the spectacular remasters of Stop Making Sense and Live At Pompeii, I couldn’t help wishing this could have had some similar TLC.

Some sort of surround sound mix and a visual clean up would have been great.

It was supposed to be in Dolby Atmos. Did that not happen at the theatre you were in?

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Thanks Imax!

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bizzie said:

Related (and still active) thread: https://prince.org/msg/7/471652

That closed in less than a week. Settle down, Bert.

Vannormal said:

JorisE73 said:

I always thought the movie was just one big music video after seeing a couple of the shows for real and was a bit disapointed, but I unsderstand it was just to promote the albumn in the US. now it's just a nostalgia watch. It's annoying we still don't have a real full SOTT tour show on video.

We tend to forget that.

And, eactly, it's about time we have a real full show. Including an aftershow.

According to LeRoy Bennett there is one.

On your knowledge which are the concerts that were professionally filmed (multicamera, post-production etc…) that can be easily released if people in charge make the right decisions?

There’s Purple Rain broadcast (not my favorite), Sign O’ The Times (which unfortunately didn’t contain what we filmed live but still gave you a feel of the show. Apparently the actual footage of the live show looks amazing. Hopefully I will see that soon), and LoveSexy. Those were the only 3 while I was working with Prince.

Vannormal said:

I could not help but feel how dated this movie/concert somehow is.

Great concert movie!

Don't get me wrong.

But as time moved on, concerts these days are very different, and not necessarily worse or less.

Prince's live performances from 1987 have something James-Brown-Live-ish to it, that's what I felt when it was done. More than ever before.

Now I see more clearly (after all these decades. ) that Prince was mainly an absorbing collection of everything that came before, but more compact and with better execution and looks, and with a (thin) sauce of its own style.

Bash me if you want. It's just a feeling I was left with when I came out of the theater. It didn't give me the overwhelming magic it gave me in 1987.

But again, fun to see once more.

I understand what you mean. When I saw this back in '87, I thought it was amazing. Then I went to see the Lovesexy tour in '88 and thought it was the greatest concert of all time.

But I think my tastes have changed. When I see watch these shows now, they seem overproduced, over rehearsed, overly theatrical.

These days, I much prefer watching/listing to his smaller venue and aftershow appearances. They're more spontaneous, improvisational and intimate.

Don't get me wrong. I still love the SOTT movie and the Lovesexy tour. It's just that I no longer consider them the best Prince could do.

There's no reason to not believe there is a full version somewhere. Prince taped everything. Was it edited for the purpose of promoting the album? Of course, but the whole show exists somewhere. At least on audio.

rap said:

Vannormal said:

We tend to forget that.

And, eactly, it's about time we have a real full show. Including an aftershow.

According to LeRoy Bennett there is one.

On your knowledge which are the concerts that were professionally filmed (multicamera, post-production etc…) that can be easily released if people in charge make the right decisions?

There’s Purple Rain broadcast (not my favorite), Sign O’ The Times (which unfortunately didn’t contain what we filmed live but still gave you a feel of the show. Apparently the actual footage of the live show looks amazing. Hopefully I will see that soon), and LoveSexy. Those were the only 3 while I was working with Prince.

actually at least 5 SOTT tour full shows have been confirmed to exist at Paisley park.

JorisE73 said:

rap said:

According to LeRoy Bennett there is one.

On your knowledge which are the concerts that were professionally filmed (multicamera, post-production etc…) that can be easily released if people in charge make the right decisions?

There’s Purple Rain broadcast (not my favorite), Sign O’ The Times (which unfortunately didn’t contain what we filmed live but still gave you a feel of the show. Apparently the actual footage of the live show looks amazing. Hopefully I will see that soon), and LoveSexy. Those were the only 3 while I was working with Prince.

actually at least 5 SOTT tour full shows have been confirmed to exist at Paisley park.

According to a previous thread, there are two proshot Lovesexy concerts in addition to the one at Dortmund.

Vannormal said:

rap said:

JorisE73 said:

actually at least 5 SOTT tour full shows have been confirmed to exist at Paisley park.

According to a previous thread, there are two proshot Lovesexy concerts in addition to the one at Dortmund.

There are more (one of the Milan and Paris shows were confirmed and screened years ago and a part of one of the london shows) I always hoped for a Rotterdam proshot but the dutch crew he wanted, that shot teh SOTT shows, weren't avaiulable for those dates, so Dortmund was shot by (a part) of that same dutch crew because they were available then.