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Batman gets the very big screen treatment. Quote:
March 01, 2005 - Warner Bros. and IMAX Corp. have announced that the forthcoming Batman Begins will be simultaneously released to IMAX and conventional 35mm theatres on June 17th, 2005. It has been dubbed Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience.
"This film will be the latest in a series of fantastic Warner Bros. Pictures releases which have helped change the way moviegoers experience Hollywood movies," said IMAX Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs Richard L. Gelfond and Bradley J. Wechsler. "Warner Bros. Pictures has been an instrumental partner in establishing this trend and advancing the IMAX theatre network as the newest distribution platform for Hollywood content."
"We are extremely pleased with how our 2005 commercial film slate has taken shape and believe Batman Begins will be a perfect way to kick off the blockbuster summer film season," added Greg Foster, IMAX Chairman and President of Filmed Entertainment.
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And we cover both sides in two posts. I guess we can close this thread now.
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Don't care.
is this just an automated response to everything?
and if so... why post?
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anyway, this is very, very cool. i really hope they start releasing more movies on the IMAX screen .... as well as making more IMAX theaters.
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and if so... why post?
To make you comment about my negativity.
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I agree with Pariah (god help me) on two basis!
1)I have no idea what IMAX is
2)I hate cinemas anyway
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What is IMAX?SEE MORE, HEAR MORE, FEEL MORE -- IMAX is the ultimate movie experience. With crystal clear images up to eight stories high, and wrap-around digital surround sound, IMAX takes you to places you only imagined.
Experience the adventure, drama and emotion of some of your favorite Hollywood movies with the extraordinary IMAX visual clarity and sound quality. IMAX takes you on journeys to fantastic worlds in films such as The Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The IMAX Experience and The Matrix Revolutions: The IMAX Experience. Check out the Films/Coming Soon section of this site regularly to learn about upcoming IMAX releases of Hollywood films.
Climb the daunting heights of Everest. Experience the weightlessness of space. Dive into the undersea world of the most fearsome great white sharks. Slam-dunk with Michael Jordan. Travel into exciting sci/fi worlds. Take a look at the Films/Now Playing section of this site to see the exciting film titles available to IMAX theatres around the world.
Only IMAX lets you feel like you're really there.
More than 700 million people around the world have been spellbound by the force and beauty of The IMAX Experience. Technically advanced and visually stunning, The IMAX Experience is the world's most powerful and immersive movie experience.
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*shrug* It's not that great. It's just a huge screen. Big whoop.
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To summarize:
IMAX is pretty much the movie experience on steroids. Huge screens with clearer than clear picture (the stadium near me really is eight stories high with crystal clear quality). The picture quality is so high that most IMAX movies are shot with special lens cameras on special film.
Not only do IMAX theaters come with surround sound unlike any other movie theater, but the screens themselves have perforations for audio, so they can have certain sounds come from certain sections of the screen. When someone on screen speaks, it often sounds like it's coming straight from their mouth. Off screen sounds sound like their coming from just off screen. Etc., etc.
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Do people actually go to these IMAX theatres?
Apart from when they're on holiday somewhere that is
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I do, and it's usually pretty full.
Moreso ever since they started showing movies day-of-release.
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whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet." Our Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said: "no, the doctor's right. besides, he has seniority."
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*shrug* It's not that great. It's just a huge screen. Big whoop.
fight club was just a movie.
you're just a tool.
we'll get by, together. 
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1)I have no idea what IMAX is
wednesday summed it up well.
i'd only go on to say that it totally enhances a movie experience. "independence day" is one of my favorite movies, because of its (for the time) neat-o special effects and grandious size, etc. i saw it three times in the theater, and loved every bit of it.
a few years later, i went to an IMAX theater in baltimore, and was treated to a 30 minute special on IMAX capabilities, which featured various scenes from various movies: star wars 1, independence day, king kong, etc. ... and i was totally and utterly amazed.
instead of the standard, large movie screen featuring those huge alien space ships, it was a screen 10-20 times larger that sorta curved around towards you, on its edges, making everything appear 3D, since you're "surrounded" by this enormous screen.
in a normal theater, you can see the edges of the screen. you know its a screen you're looking at. in an IMAX theater, the screen is so huge that all of your peripheral vision, in every direction, is the movie! so, you're totally lost in the experience.
even king kong, an ancient movie, was totally thrilling. the ape swipes at a plane, knocking it from the sky. the perspective switches to the pilot, spiraling out of control to the city floor .... and everyone in the theater is dizzy and gets that "rollercoaster drop" feeling in their stomachs, because you actually feel like you're there.
and thats just the visuals!
every bit of the sound is enhanced and surrounding and involving.
its really an amazing, amazing experience.
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Do people actually go to these IMAX theatres?
not many, no. for two main reasons:
1) there aren't that many
2) they really only have discovery channel-type movies.
thats why the recent trend of putting real movies (spider man, matrix, batman, etc) on an IMAX screen is great, as it will make the theaters more popular, and hopefully more common.
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Harry Potter III was on IMAX out here, I wanted to see it but I settled for the regular big screen.
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Harry Potter III was on IMAX out here, I wanted to see it but I settled for the regular big screen.
yeah!
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Most major blockbusters (and catwoman) have been released on IMAX. I've never been to one but I might go to the one in Portland for Batman Begins and Revenge of the Sith.
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 this place is so cool......I love talking about this stuff
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If its 3-D I might see it IMAX.
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*shrug* It's not that great. It's just a huge screen. Big whoop.
fight club was just a movie.
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fight club was just a movie.
you're just a tool.
Nintendo is just a company.
Yankees is just a Baseball team.
*shrug*
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Not nearly the rant we were hoping for. 
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To Rob, it was prolly the most devastating thing he'll ever hear.
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