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To these eyes the IMAX screen is far too big and the audience is made to sit too close for comfort. I'm not knocking the video or audio quality, just I find it claustrophobic and do not enjoy the overbearing giddy feeling it sometimes provokes. I like big screens and have onme at home BUT there are limits to how big I like.John
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Thanks for the responses.The screen in Sydney is VERY claustrophobic but it seems others are better.
BTW we have four of the IMAX productions on DVD and we like them very much - the Grand Canyon, Mysteries of Egypt, Alaska & Antartica. Any others anyone recommends?
John
Most IMAX I have seen at Air & Space Museum in DC were quite good, some will knock you out of your seat; some were great, including The Dream is Alive re space shuttle operations following Challenger tragedy, and Science Fiction film festival some years ago (10?) with Invaders from Mars and (new) Invasion of the Body Snatchers among others...OTOH did not care for some IMAX PRESENTAIONS as too boring or simply exploitation of wide frame format, would have liked to see the Stones on IMAX, maybe will get the DVD...
I agree with Brewthunda's post- we have a "half dome" theater here in San Diego (Ruben H Fleet space theater in Balboa Park) and I don't like it at all- I've seen it another theater at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto as well. On the other hand, Fantasia 2000 at the Arizona Mills mall IMAX theater in Phoenix was a real blast, amazing picture and sound. The key is to sit as far back from the screen as you can-even the half dome theaters are more agreeable if you do this.
My limited experience with IMAX is at the Smithsonian here in Washington, which has had an IMAX theatre for quite a while (more than 10 years). What I have seen there were a film about flying, designed to give one the "you are there" feeling of flying in a hot air balloon or in a stunt plane, and a film shot from the space shuttle, with the same purpose. For those uses, IMAX was great.For watching a more conventional dramatic production, I'm not so sure. I would probably agree with you. The overwhelming physical sensation would probably be a detraction.
I've seen three IMAX shows in my life - and they were all on completely different screen setups. One was on an extremely large rectangular screen, not too different from a regular movie screen. (Yellowstone) Another was in one of those domes where you think you're going to fall down the steep rows and die and the screen is basically a half sphere (Oregon Museum of Science). And the other was about halfway between the two (USC Museum of Science and Technology).The half-sphere theater made me want to throw up, it was so disorienting - kind of like watching tv from 2 inches away while spinning in cirles. The flat screen was kind of a bummer and a waste of money. But the third setup was juuuuuust right.
I saw Fantasia 2000 on the screen in Denver that'll show "Beast", and I loved the presentaion.
I do recall becoming a rather ill when I was a kid while watching some lame ass IMAX demo at an amusment park. Fast cars and flying while standing. Ick!
Dan
The one here at the Smithsonian is just a big vertical screen, with "stadium" (steep pitch) seating.I agree with you about "Beauty" -- much more than a cartoon. But I have to say, that's one film I've seen many times on the small screen as well once or twice on the big one (the kids made me do it!); and I'm not sure how IMAX would enhance the experience for me.
I don't know that we have a commercial IMAX theatre here in DC.
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