The IMAX Experience

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What is IMAX?

The IMAX Experience

So your friend asks you if you want to check out an IMAX movie this weekend, but you have no idea what an IMAX movie is. Here's the run-down on IMAX movies to keep you in the know:

  • IMAX (which stands for Image Maximum) movies offer the ultimate movie viewing experience
  • The movie is shown in crystal clear images and the screens are typically about 72 feet long and 52 feet wide.
  • Because the screen is so big, you will not see other movie-goers, seats, or the walls of the theater. When you stare ahead you will likely see nothing but the screen. It will feel as if you are inside the movie.
  • You will hear the movie on wrap-around digital surround sound.
  • Expect to find high action, nature and space films made specifically for IMAX theaters because of the rich experience they will give you with IMAX technology
  • Though some IMAX theaters have the ability to show conventional Hollywood 35 mm films, IMAX warns they will not be shown in IMAX quality because the movies were not originally made with IMAX technology and for IMAX screens.
IMAX movie tickets will usually cost you between $6.50 and $11.

   

Comments

12/20/2008 1:12:43 PM
ANONYMUS said:

so do all IMAX screens "wrap around" you?




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