Did You See Trek in IMAX? Think again....

[T'Paul]

You buy a cheap ticket and go to an expensive screening, thats fraud, burglary and theft of services. That you think your argument has any legitimacy makes me giggle.

If you think that is burglary then you are wrong.

Burglary is entering a building with the intent to commit a crime. Breaking in is not required. You don't even have to steal anything. If you go in with the intent of committing a crime - any crime - you are by all legal definitions a burglar.

You're leaving out half the definition of burglary.

 

[Jon1701]

You know, as much as I enjoyed my IMAX experience (in a proper IMAX theatre I might add) - there were a couple of problems with the print.

At one point, a piece of dirt flicked onto the screen. Right in the middle of the "shuttles escaping from the Kelvin with the sun in the background" shot.

The piece of dirt was magnified to be as large as one of the shuttles.

Bit distracting. I'm glad it was my second viewing.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

I lucked out and saw it on a true IMAX screen. The theatre I saw it in was an IMAX that had been built as a multiplex anyway, but the IMAX theatre built first, then the other screens built after that.

I don't quite get the idea of billing it as IMAX when it isn't really that at all. Kind of misleading.

 

[M'Sharak]

By the way, if you see an "IMAX" showing at a multiplex, just buy a ticket for a non-IMAX movie around the same time and save some money.

Yeah, because fraud and theft are good things.

I didn't say that you should steal the theater, just go into the wrong viewing.

Only if you enter without authorized access. Last time I checked, movie theaters like it when you go into them and give them money.

You buy a cheap ticket and go to an expensive screening, thats fraud, burglary and theft of services. That you think your argument has any legitimacy makes me giggle.

If you think that is burglary then you are wrong.

If you think that is burglary then you are wrong.

Burglary is entering a building with the intent to commit a crime. Breaking in is not required. You don't even have to steal anything. If you go in with the intent of committing a crime - any crime - you are by all legal definitions a burglar.

You're leaving out half the definition of burglary.

And you're spamming. So warned.

Dale, it would be better not to play along when someone keeps posting off-topic. It only gives him an excuse to keep going.

 

[clint g]

I saw the movie on a decently sized imax screen up in Buffalo New York. What I really want to do though is see it in the NYC IMAX. That thing is GINORMOUS

 

[T'Paul]

Yeah, because fraud and theft are good things.

I didn't say that you should steal the theater, just go into the wrong viewing.

Burglary is entering a building with the intent to commit a crime. Breaking in is not required. You don't even have to steal anything. If you go in with the intent of committing a crime - any crime - you are by all legal definitions a burglar.

You're leaving out half the definition of burglary.

And you're spamming. So warned.

Dale, it would be better not to play along when someone keeps posting off-topic. It only gives him an excuse to keep going.

I like how Dale was equally off-topic, but he doesn't get a warning.

 

[Peter the Younger]

Yeah, there is a pseudo-IMAX in Emeryville, here in the Bay Area. I was suckered into seeing something there a few months ago. I think it's really slimy for them to bill it as IMAX, and ultimately hurts the brand.

 

[Cakes488]

http://consumerist.com/5250698/does-your-local-cinema-have-imax-or-just-imax-lite

Basically, IMAX corporate is licensing the name to the theaters, who build under-IMAX size screens, and still charge the higher ticket price.

Guess I gotta watch Abrams' Trek all over again...wait, thats not so bad .

I did, it was in a giant dome.

I saw it in a dome too out here in Long Island...I wonder if that was a real Imax theater now! Yeah it musta been...they had a HUGE dvd like thing which was the Imax movie I guess and you were able to see them changing it...
I saw it twice in Imax...but me and everybody I went with all felt we'd like to see it on a flat screen too. It was just so up in our faces that I need to see the movie with some perspective.

 

[archeryguy1701]

I'm so disappointed... one of the guys I went with this weekend said I picked the "wrong" Imax- that there was a much bigger one on the south side of Denver. So, I realised that I got a smaller screen, but I didn't realise that my screen was that much smaller. Damn psuedo-Imax.

 

[setacourse]

At one point, a piece of dirt flicked onto the screen. Right in the middle of the "shuttles escaping from the Kelvin with the sun in the background" shot.

The piece of dirt was magnified to be as large as one of the shuttles.

My piece of dirt stayed on the left side of screen for most of the movie. It didn't ruin the movie, thank God, but it was a bit distracting until I tuned it out. Sometimes it would fly off and back on after a few seconds.

 

[donners22]

I saw it on the third-largest screen in the world, so I think I'm safe.

 

[shapeshifter]

I tried to warn people but noooooo. You had tickets to "IMAX" and that was all that mattered.

 

[Klaitu]

http://consumerist.com/5250698/does-your-local-cinema-have-imax-or-just-imax-lite

Basically, IMAX corporate is licensing the name to the theaters, who build under-IMAX size screens, and still charge the higher ticket price.

Guess I gotta watch Abrams' Trek all over again...wait, thats not so bad .

The only theater where I live that purports to be IMAX (it does use IMAX film) is a freaking dome. You can't make a square frame go into a dome without serious distortion, and it sucks.

I prefer the regular cinema with digital projection over a primitive film drive projection any day of the week.

 

[NCC-1701-B]

I am going to see it on a full size imax theatre in Manchester, england

 

[trekker670]

The only theater where I live that purports to be IMAX (it does use IMAX film) is a freaking dome. You can't make a square frame go into a dome without serious distortion, and it sucks.

I had the same problem, but I wasn't sure if it was just the theater I went to (ordered the wrong film or something), it got really annoying seeing all these upward-curved saucers. It also didn't help that there were 2 walls in the middle of the theater and I was sitting 2 seats away from one of them, which inhibited my visual range.

I'm really thinking about going to another IMAX this weekend, but I'm trying to debate whether or not it's worth it.

 

[backstept]

the only IMAX near me is in the Museum Of Science and Technology, and they usually play only educational films

 

[Ro Boat]

I'm so disappointed... one of the guys I went with this weekend said I picked the "wrong" Imax- that there was a much bigger one on the south side of Denver. So, I realised that I got a smaller screen, but I didn't realise that my screen was that much smaller. Damn psuedo-Imax.

I'm surprised this IMAX issue is new for people. The IMAX process requires expensive cameras and film. Very few Hollywood films are shot in IMAX. Sometimes, as with the Dark Knight, some scenes will be shot in IMAX, but even this is rare. The IMAX projection equipment is gigantic and will not fit in a typical multiplex. If you are going to a multiplex, it is almost certainly a high-res digital presentation and not the 15/70 IMAX you might find in a museum.

The reason to go to the IMAX digital presentation is not the picture, but the sound. Most of the IMAX Digital theaters have been outfitted with the same sound system as traditional IMAX and are using it in a much smaller space.

The Regal 9 at Colorado Center is also IMAX Digital, but the screen is bigger than the Orchard. The only true IMAX in Denver is at the museum and doesn't have ST.

 

[archeryguy1701]

I'm so disappointed... one of the guys I went with this weekend said I picked the "wrong" Imax- that there was a much bigger one on the south side of Denver. So, I realised that I got a smaller screen, but I didn't realise that my screen was that much smaller. Damn psuedo-Imax.

I'm surprised this IMAX issue is new for people. The IMAX process requires expensive cameras and film. Very few Hollywood films are shot in IMAX. Sometimes, as with the Dark Knight, some scenes will be shot in IMAX, but even this is rare. The IMAX projection equipment is gigantic and will not fit in a typical multiplex. If you are going to a multiplex, it is almost certainly a high-res digital presentation and not the 15/70 IMAX you might find in a museum.

The reason to go to the IMAX digital presentation is not the picture, but the sound. Most of the IMAX Digital theaters have been outfitted with the same sound system as traditional IMAX and are using it in a much smaller space.

The Regal 9 at Colorado Center is also IMAX Digital, but the screen is bigger than the Orchard. The only true IMAX in Denver is at the museum and doesn't have ST.

The only reason it's "new" for me is because I've never done an Imax movie before, and the only thing I had ever seen in Imax was the nature films years ago. The Orchard is the one we went to this past weekend.

 

[Captain Fine]

They should call this new, smaller IMAX...drumroll pleaes....SEMIMAX (or QUASIMAX)

As for the size of the theatres. I saw it at Coliseum Mississauga. It's billed as a 3D IMAX screen on IMAX's website. And it's part of a multiplex, so I'm guessing it's not as big as the other ones. The ones I know are big (at the Ontario Place Cinesphere and Ontario Science Centre OMNIMAX) are both not playing Star Trek at all, only educational films. So either way, we lose.