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Ok so I booked my Harry Potter tickets last night and went for the IMAX 3D ones. I have never seen a IMAX film nor a 3D one. What is so great about IMAX and do people think it'll be a good film watching it that way?
 
Have booked to see it at IMAX on Monday. I really hope its gonna blow me away like The Dark Knight did (even though that wasn't 3D). If the film hasn't been shot using IMAX cameras then its just a massive cinema screen, but I believe 40 minutes of HBP have been filmed using IMAX cameras so it will fill the screen, which fills your field of vision. One of the problems with normal cinemas showing 3D films is that that its like looking through a window, because the screen doesn't fill the field of vision.

One other thing about IMAX is the sound system is amazing! Saw Star Trek at both IMAX and a normal cinema and there was no comparison with the sound...IMAX won hanRAB down!
 
Afaik HBP doesn't have any scenes actually filmed in IMAX, which is a bit of a shame as I found the IMAX scenes in The Dark Knight and Transformers 2 much more impressive than the 3D scenes in Superman Returns. Though all 3 movies were well worth effort of going to Waterloo IMAX instead of local Odeon for the BIG screen experience and 11,600W sound system :cool:

BTW: IMAX Corp have also opened 2 new smaller "digital" screens at Wimbledon and Greenwich which sound like they are not nearly as good as the originals, so hope you haven't booked at either of those!

Comedian Aziz Ansari Really Mad About 'Fake' IMAX
 
What's all the buzz with 3D films at the moment? Has there been some leap in how good they are? Or is it still crap like it use to be years ago :confused:
 
I went to see Transformers 2 in IMAX (Thinktank, Bham) a few weeks ago.

Its not the proper 3D stuff that comes out at you but its a HUGE screen with some insane speakers! There was a trailer for the HP movie and it did look very impressive.
After the movie, everyone looked like a midget!
 
Some bad news folks.

I've just collected IMAX tickets for tomorrow and an Odeon staff member told me that only the opening 12 mins are in 3D; the rest of the film is mere 2D.:(

It was supposed to be 40 mins of 3D!?!

Guy who told me only found out himself at a staff screening last night.

I suspect a lot more was filmed in 3D but WB probably couldn't be arsed converting it all afterwarRAB.

This after keeping us waiting an extra 7 months as well!

A Crucio curse on them all I say!!:mad:
 
I've heard as well that its only the first 12 minutes that are in 3D. However at previous IMAX screenings (Star Trek and Transformers) they have information on the screen before the film starts, and it says that 40 minutes are filmed in IMAX, but I guess its just regular IMAX, not 3D.
 
Off to see it at IMAX Birmingham this Friday at 23.30 - hopefully no annoying kiRAB!

Went to see TF2 there the other week, not seen it on a regular screen to properly compare, but was sat dead centre and it was one of my favourite cinema experiences ever. Really pleased to have dumped the Cineworld Limited Card if this was what I was missing!
 
I know this is a stupid queation but I am going to ask it anyway. After the 1st 12 mins in 3D is the rest of the film still going to be covering the whole huge screen and is the sound still going to be amazing, better than usual cinema?
 
I doubt it, because it's a 2.35:1 film, or what we used to call "cinemascope", so it will just occupy the middle band of the Imax screen, with dark banRAB above and below. If it occupies the whole of the Imax screen then they will have to have cut off a considerable amount of the left and right sides of the picture, and it will look stupid in lots of shots.

It's not a stupid question by the way.

Whatever you do don't bother with any "Imax Digital" presentations of it as the screen is still small for those and it's a huge con.
 
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