As IMAX technology has become a more popular filmmaking process over the past few years, we’ve tried to keep up with it as much as we can in this place at /Film. Just this past week, I wrote about how the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen IMAX experience compares unfavorably with The Dark Knight from last year. I’ve also urged people to see Watchmen in regular format before you check it uncovered in IMAX. On this week’session episode of The Totally Rad Show, /Film friend Dan Trachtenberg opined that the Transformers IMAX experience rendered the action scenes virtually unwatchable. This raised the question on the side of me: With ticket prices already high considered in the state of they are, is the IMAX experience really worth it?
There is a sense of awe to be had when walking into an IMAX theater, and it still washes over me each time I eye the enormity of the screen. I love the ink-fish and the clarity of the picture, on the other hand at too close a distance, I feel like one needs to work likewise hard to comprehend what’sitting on the protect. Your eyes emergency to dart from one side to the other and you occasionally need to crane your neck just to portray in the whole image. In my opinion, there are only between 5-10 rows of seats (out of several dozen rows) that in truth offer a slightly pleasurable viewing experience. In other words, it can be hard work to enjoy the IMAX experience.
That being said, when you own the punctilious unswerving dapple in the theater and the impress of the movie is excellent and the state-of-the-art unimpaired system is firing on all cylinders, it can be definitely magical. But for 80% of the people in the theater, it may be too much trouble for an experience that doesn’t measure up to a sincere old regular theater cloak with some good surround. But what do you guys think?
Discuss: In your experience, have you found the IMAX experience worth it? Where do you usually like to sit when you see a film in IMAX, and how does that affect your viewing of the film? What have been some of your favorite/least favorite IMAX experiences in the past?
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