We saw "Attack of the Clones" in a domed IMAX - the light sabers had a strange 90-degree bend to them. "Oooh, interesting new light sabers!" I thought. Never again!
You would think it would really be cool, wouldn't you? "Oh, boy, an IMAX!" I would have been first in line to see a Star Wars film (though not that one, sorry) at an Omnimax.
But it really stinks when the film is not in the right format for the theatre. As I explained above, Ann, the Omnimax in Indianapolis must have been a modified one. Although their screen was huge and curved, and more of a square than a rectangle, it wasn't a dome at all. The films played on their screen beautifully.
P.S., if you didn't read Sayhello's 11/26 post down there, she explains that the dome style IMAX's are the old models. The newer ones are the sort we saw the LotR films on in IN, which worked great.
That won't be a problem for me. We don't have a working IMAX theatre where I live any more.
I hope to see Goblet of Fire within the next couple of weeks (it doesn't start here until 1st December). Yes, I've finally caught up with all the books and movies!
Even with our limited viewing, I could tell it's a really, really good film, Maewyn. And, as I whined on Pearl's LJ, they even kept Harry's bath scene in it. "Where was Crickhollow?????" I demanded to know under my breath.
But the bath scene actually is very important in GoF, don't you think? Harry has to go to the prefect's bath in order to figure out his clue for test #2. They did it in a cute way in the film; all the kids in the audience were so cute, tittering like mad because Harry was naked (not in front of the camera, but under the bubbles - sorry Daniel Radcliffe swooners), esp. when Moaning Myrtle showed up.
Yes, the bath was very impressive. My daughter said, "WOW! Why can't we have a bathroom like that?"
The curved dome OmniMaxes are the originals. Very fascinating, but I totally can't watch them. Kills my neck and makes me nauseous. Neither can a lot of people. Many of the newer ones are more the "normal" one-wall screen type we were at in Indiana. The one we have here in town is the same as Indy. I need to check if GoF is still playing there next week. I saw PoA there, and the film was actually *formatted* for the IMAX screen (it filled the entire humongous screen. It was amazing.)
It never even occurred to me that they would try to show a normal movie in a domed IMAX
You *definitely* need to see it again in a better theatre. It's a marvelous film.
You *definitely* need to see it again in a better theatre. It's a marvelous film.
We are going to see it tonight, in fact. Hot diggity! Watching LotR on the screen in Indiana was fantastic. I sure wish it had been that sort of Omnimax, but it wasn't. I think it stinks that they would show a normal film in there. It is completely inadequate. As bad as if we had shown up to find out that we were to watch it on TV screens.
Hey, I just got the notice for *this* comment. LJ is *slowly* emptying out it's backlog, and I've gotten bunches of old notices, trickling in a few at a time. It's annoying, as I have to check each one to see which ones I responded to already, and which ones I hadn't.
So how did you like GoF once you saw it on a *normal* screen?
I really, really enjoyed it. I didn't bother making an LJ entry about it because I was able to say my say on the LJ's of others who already had posted about it (Pearl, Maewyn and Lady Wendy). My other Harry Potter posts were about the previous films and about reading the books
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But it really stinks when the film is not in the right format for the theatre. As I explained above, Ann, the Omnimax in Indianapolis must have been a modified one. Although their screen was huge and curved, and more of a square than a rectangle, it wasn't a dome at all. The films played on their screen beautifully.
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I hope to see Goblet of Fire within the next couple of weeks (it doesn't start here until 1st December). Yes, I've finally caught up with all the books and movies!
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It's funny how they put bath scenes in movies that don't really need them, and leave out the ones which were originally written as such!
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Yes, the bath was very impressive. My daughter said, "WOW! Why can't we have a bathroom like that?"
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It never even occurred to me that they would try to show a normal movie in a domed IMAX
You *definitely* need to see it again in a better theatre. It's a marvelous film.
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We are going to see it tonight, in fact. Hot diggity! Watching LotR on the screen in Indiana was fantastic. I sure wish it had been that sort of Omnimax, but it wasn't. I think it stinks that they would show a normal film in there. It is completely inadequate. As bad as if we had shown up to find out that we were to watch it on TV screens.
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So how did you like GoF once you saw it on a *normal* screen?
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