Some movies are converted for imax, but not shot with imax film. That's why I wanted to see Batman at the imax, as noted before, portions were actually shot using imax stock. The only problem here, a local theater chain has a deal with the only full size imax theater in the valley to not run any first run movies for months.
Mike On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Michael Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been looking around our local imax theaters to go see Dark Knight > > since this is one of the few movies actually shot and not converted > > for imax. I don't know anything about the tech specs behind imax, > > just that it's big. I've been hearing conflicting stories about the > > theaters here locally, mainly that we have one what is referred to as > > 'real' imax and then a few smaller ones. Anyone know about the tech > > behind these theaters? Are there several size variations? I'm not > > speaking to the 3d ones...I don't think. > > Your post actually forced me to check the wikipedia page. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imax And, according to that, the movies > shot in that format do have a higher resolution than that of 70mm. > > Last year, I watched Harry Potter (Order of the Phoenix) in an Imax > theater just because I happened to be in the Air&Space museum and it > was available. When it began I noticed that the movie didn't use > the entire Imax screen. Still it was so huge, I didn't notice that fact > for the rest of the movie. For me, I wouldn't go looking for full-length > movies in Imax, but if I came across at a convenient place, I'd watch > (based on the movie, of course). > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
