So what is the big deal with IMAX?
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So what is the big deal with IMAX?
Yah, the screen is taller than regular theater screens. From what I see, it is about a quarter taller. And you have to sit back further from the screen because of the way that the seats area arranged. Without doing the math, I will say that some part of the “tallness” is lost to the distance to the screen. Whatever.
Honestly, it is kind of hard to judge just by being in various theaters but it seems to me that a large part of seeing a movie in IMAX is to leave the theater and tell everyone that you “saw it in IMAX”. Pardon me but can you explain in some terms that the rest of us can understand exactly what difference that makes?
Personally, I see most of my movies on Monday matinee deals. Then the theater is usually fairly empty and I can pick my seat. Depending on the geometry of a specific theater, I tend to head towards the front of the theater. Absent a specific geometry, let me say that I tend to place myself at about 1/3 of the total number of rows. Done that way, I have a huge screen to work with.
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Aside from IMAX being "big" and has the curved screen... and better resolution... and the ability to make people nausous (some how... i never really understood why) its just the same as the regular movie theather
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Well, the first time I watched a movie on a imax, the screen was easily and noticeably at least 5 times the size of a regular theatre. I found it made quite a difference. But that was back when there were only two in all of Canada. I don't know if the commercial ones are as big as the government funded ones. It's been many years since I watched anything on imax.
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i never go to movie theaters anymore period, unless it's with my buddy and there's a decent action movie on matinee and we can sneak in a flask of whiskey and a couple rolling rocks. we saw the newest rambo movie that way, as well as open range, and we had the time of out lives, hooting and hollering and cheering as shit blew up and people got shot.
still, i remember when i was a kid we still had an old-fashioned single-screen cinema in our town and the screen was ENORMOUS. you can see the difference if you find a preserved old theater. then it was torn down to build a multiplex. most multiplexes have screens that are about a quarter of the size of the old screens with none of the classic art deco architecture surrounding them. there's just no experience to it anymore.
i went to the kentucky theater, a preserved theater in lexington, a few years ago and watched a screening of john ford's the searchers starring john wayne. it was filmed in old school technicolor and vista-vision (one of the earliest widescreen technologies) and up there on that HUGE screen that shit was impressive. it literally felt like i was in monument valley. watch it on a dvd player, even a home theater system, and it falls flat. fuck thx and hd and all that computerized, solid state bullshit. nowadays most movie theaters have screens not much bigger than the larger plasmas you can get. couple that with the fact that they're beginning to switch to digital rather than classic film reels and you really have no reason to go at all.
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IMAX screens are ginormous and curved. At least the ones I've been to. It feels a lot more immersive to me, being surrounded by the screen.
As for going to movie theaters, I always thought the whole point was to go with friends and have a good time in public.
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From my experience they also tend to have better picture quality, kinda like saying whats the difference between blu-ray and dvd....well yeah they are both a disk, but there are huge differences, especially in image quality.
Same thing with the 3-D in the regular theater. The technology still needs a lot of improvement, it just seems to make the whole experience very cartoonish. I don't believe there are many movies that can benefit from the current 3-D technology.
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The sounds like the littlest IMAX screen in the world. Perhaps your theater has a cheapo IMAX that really is inferior to the normal ones.
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