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Pariah said:
*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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Nowhereman said:
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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PaulWellr said:
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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