• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

STAR TREK: The IMAX Experience

Keith1701

Rear Admiral
Rear Admiral
Last night, I went to see STAR TREK for thrid time but for FIRST TIME at IMAX THEATER.

Synopsis: Star Trek, which chronicles the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members, has been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® through proprietary IMAX DMR® technology. With crystal clear images, laser-aligned digital sound and maximized field of view, IMAX provides the world's most immersive movie experience. From director J.J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible III, Lost and Alias) and screenwriters Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci (Transformers, MI: III) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, Star Trek, featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before.

The IMAX® 3D projector actually projects two separate images onto the screen and special polarized 3D glasses allow your brain to fuse the two images together to make a single, pristine, larger-than-life three-dimensional imageA typical 45-minute IMAX large format film is three miles/4.8 km or 15,840 feet/4,828m long.In 1997, IMAX won an Oscar®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ highest honor, for scientific and technical achievement The IMAX screen has a slight curvature that extends beyond the field of geometric recognition incorporating some of the audience’s peripheral vision. Light from the 15,000-watt lamp in an IMAX® projector is so bright that if it were on the moon people could see it from Earth with the naked eye The IMAX® 3D projector actually projects two separate images onto the screen and special polarized 3D glasses allow your brain to fuse the two images together to make a single, pristine, larger-than-life three-dimensional image. The IMAX 3D projector flashes 48 individual images onto the screen every second! The IMAX 3D screen is covered with a special silver paint that reflects twice the amount of light as a regular movie screen. IMAX cameras have been everywhere from the bottom of the ocean, to inside a NASCAR racecar, to the International Space Station. It takes a phenomenal 259,200 IMAX film frames to make a 90-minute IMAX 3D film. A 90-minute IMAX film is about six miles long. The average person blinks between 12 and 20 times per minute. An IMAX 3D projector flashes 48 individual images onto the screen every second. To create the best images possible, the IMAX projector moves film horizontally instead of vertically like other projectors. The light beam of an IMAX projector would cause a gigantic log to burst into flames. The IMAX® 3D projector actually projects two separate images onto the screen and special polarized 3D glasses allow your brain to fuse the two images together to make a single, pristine, larger-than-life three-dimensional image. The IMAX 3D projector flashes 48 individual images onto the screen every second! The IMAX 3D screen is covered with a special silver paint that reflects twice the amount of light as a regular movie screen. IMAX cameras have been everywhere from the bottom of the ocean, to inside a NASCAR racecar, to the International Space Station. It takes a phenomenal 259,200 IMAX film frames to make a 90-minute IMAX 3D film. A 90-minute IMAX film is about six miles long. The average person blinks between 12 and 20 times per minute. An IMAX 3D projector flashes 48 individual images onto the screen every second. To create the best images possible, the IMAX projector moves film horizontally instead of vertically like other projectors. The light beam of an IMAX projector would cause a gigantic log to burst into flames.

Go SEE STAR TREK at IMAX Theater near you. You will not be disappointed. Go www.fandango.com or 1-800-FANDANGO or mobile fandango.com

J.J. Abrams did an "OUTSTANDING JOB" in picking a new cast and giving new birth to STAR TREK yet again. Thank You, so much, J.J.
 
Last edited:
I enjoyed the IMAX Experience:techman: so much, that I took the wife for her first time seeing the new STAR TREK movie. This was now my fourth time watching the new movie, but my second IMAX Experience.:techman: IMAX really makes the everything so much BIGGER, AND THE SOUND IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!!:techman: I highly encourage the IMAX Experience not only for STAR TREK, but for all movies that offer the IMAX FORMAT. Even previews are better in IMAX and during STAR TREK it didn't seem to that many previews that were in IMAX format. {which was a good thing as well} Also, There is no bad seats in a IMAX theater....trust me!!!!:):techman::vulcan:
 
We saw it eight times in IMAX: the only way to fly. :)

So sorry it's gone from IMAX now around here.
 
We saw it eight times in IMAX: the only way to fly. :)

So sorry it's gone from IMAX now around here.

If and when it opens at the "sloppy seconds" IMAX in my neck of the woods (they are showing The 300 now, also showed The Watchmen), I'll definitely see it 2-3 more times.

But EIGHT TIMES?

Mother Theresa!
 
Ours is a multiplex IMAX, but it was wonderful. So big you had to turn your head to see everything and such massive sound. I'm going to keep a lookout to see if they have a return engagement in June, like some places.

I've been to the IMAX at the Museum of Science and Industry, and it made me queasy, so I had to leave early.
 
We saw it eight times in IMAX: the only way to fly. :)

So sorry it's gone from IMAX now around here.

If and when it opens at the "sloppy seconds" IMAX in my neck of the woods (they are showing The 300 now, also showed The Watchmen), I'll definitely see it 2-3 more times.

But EIGHT TIMES?

Mother Theresa!


I know, 8 times- that is truly impressive!! I just saw it for a second time in IMAX at the Bridge in Culver City. I passed up the one in my city and drove a few extra miles because it was the same price, and probably better. The announcer said," this is the biggest screen you'll ever see this movie on." But I think there are larger rectangular screens elsewhere. I read that the screen in Sydney is the world's largest. And the one at the local Science center is bigger, but doesn't show commercial releases. I saw it once on a regular screen, but the resolution, clarity, size etc of IMAX had spoiled me a bit by then and I wanted to go again. The sound was wonderful, but for me too loud in places ( but they always do everything too loud around here) so I brought ear plugs.
I admit if it were still playing in IMAX, I'd probably go one more time.
 
Last edited:
I have to say that while the first three times were great, the last two at the IMAX were amazing. But it only ran for two weeks- so there's no way I could see it eight times.

But I salute you.
 
I enjoyed the IMAX Experience:techman: so much, that I took the wife for her first time seeing the new STAR TREK movie. This was now my fourth time watching the new movie, but my second IMAX Experience.:techman: IMAX really makes the everything so much BIGGER, AND THE SOUND IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!!:techman: I highly encourage the IMAX Experience not only for STAR TREK, but for all movies that offer the IMAX FORMAT. Even previews are better in IMAX and during STAR TREK it didn't seem to that many previews that were in IMAX format. {which was a good thing as well} Also, There is no bad seats in a IMAX theater....trust me!!!!:):techman::vulcan:


Um, do you work for imax?
 
I would recommend seeing all new movies in a IMAX Theater. It's worth the extra money for the ticket, believe me!!!:techman::bolian::):drool:
 
I would recommend seeing all new movies in a IMAX Theater. It's worth the extra money for the ticket, believe me!!!:techman::bolian::):drool:

I would generally agree, but I won't see NATM2 in IMAX since I can't see the value of the $5 upcharge. I'm there for Transformers 2 and HP6 though.
 
It does depend on the movie. Star Trek was definitely "better" in IMAX.

Probably UP would be too. Terminator, not so much...
 
As an aside, theatres are going to have Friday and Saturday midnight showings in IMAX again this weekend.
 
Ours is a multiplex IMAX, but it was wonderful. So big you had to turn your head to see everything and such massive sound. I'm going to keep a lookout to see if they have a return engagement in June, like some places.

I've been to the IMAX at the Museum of Science and Industry, and it made me queasy, so I had to leave early.


I'd be afraid to see it in IMAX for that reason. I get motion sick very easily. And it would suck verily if i had to leave Star Trek because i got sick!

I had to rent Cloverfield after seeing Star Trek and i literally threw up in my mouth and got a massive headache from the camera work.

uh.... too much information much?
 
Ours is a multiplex IMAX, but it was wonderful. So big you had to turn your head to see everything and such massive sound. I'm going to keep a lookout to see if they have a return engagement in June, like some places.

I've been to the IMAX at the Museum of Science and Industry, and it made me queasy, so I had to leave early.


I'd be afraid to see it in IMAX for that reason. I get motion sick very easily. And it would suck verily if i had to leave Star Trek because i got sick!

I had to rent Cloverfield after seeing Star Trek and i literally threw up in my mouth and got a massive headache from the camera work.

uh.... too much information much?

Jeri -- why did the IMAX at the museum make you ill? What was the screen like?

Now I didn't get queasy but I felt like I couldn't really see everything or see what was going on sometimes because I felt the camera was just too close to the actors/action.......did anybody else feel this way? I felt myself wanting some spacial perpective so I could see and appreciate what was going on.
 
I did feel ill at one of the IMAXes I saw (I've seen three) but it wasn't the one at the Udvar-Hazy Natural History Museum. it was one of those generic ones. I was sitting closer to the screen than I do normally. maybe that was the reason.
 
Cakes, not sure about the specific differences in the Museum of Science and Industry IMAX and the multiplex one, but I think it might be a question of scale. The "real" IMAX is truly huge and wraps around you a bit from what I remember.
 
Ours is a multiplex IMAX, but it was wonderful. So big you had to turn your head to see everything and such massive sound. I'm going to keep a lookout to see if they have a return engagement in June, like some places.

I've been to the IMAX at the Museum of Science and Industry, and it made me queasy, so I had to leave early.


I'd be afraid to see it in IMAX for that reason. I get motion sick very easily. And it would suck verily if i had to leave Star Trek because i got sick!

I had to rent Cloverfield after seeing Star Trek and i literally threw up in my mouth and got a massive headache from the camera work.

uh.... too much information much?

Jeri -- why did the IMAX at the museum make you ill? What was the screen like?

Now I didn't get queasy but I felt like I couldn't really see everything or see what was going on sometimes because I felt the camera was just too close to the actors/action.......did anybody else feel this way? I felt myself wanting some spacial perpective so I could see and appreciate what was going on.


YES. Absolutely. Camera was in too tight in many of the action/fight (and other ) scenes.
 
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top