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Matrix Sequels To Get the IMAX Treatment

Posted by timothy on from the even-bigger-screen dept.

hondo77 writes "As if the two sequels to "The Matrix" weren't a big enough event already, it has been announced that both films will also be showing in IMAX theaters. "Although "The Matrix Reloaded" will open in Imax theaters two or three weeks after its general release May 15, "The Matrix Revolutions" will open Nov. 5 in both conventional and Imax cinemas..."."

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  1. It is about gosh darn time! by confused+philosopher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been waiting years for feature length films to show up in IMAX. Now that they've overcome the technical difficulties of it all, people can start to enjoy films that are worth the $10+ we shell out to see them on BIG screens.

    I bet this won't be part of the Museum of Civilation IMAX in Hull though, where you can see all the IMAX movies shown in a year for only $35 Canadian.

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    Why slashdot? Why not?
  2. WARNING! IMAX vs Omnimax by StefanJ · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I've seen and enjoyed many IMAX features, including a few 3D titles ("Across the Sea of Time," a NYC travelogue, was just amazing).

    Last fall, a local (Portland, Oregon) science museum advertised a super-large screen version of Attack of the Clones. WOW! I wanted to see the movie again, and here it was being presented in 70mm format on a BIG SCREEN! Golly, how could I lose? I gladly paid the ten dollars and . . .

    Cripes . . .

    It turns out that the Portland OMSI theater had an OMNIMAX screen. Not IMAX. The latter is a gently curved, huge, conventional movie screen. The former is basically hemispherical.

    There was NO correction for the curvature. Everything was BENT. Ships travelled in curved lines.

    It was SUCKY experience. To rub things in, it was a CUT version of the film. Nothing crucial was cut, but it was noticiable.

    My experience might have been totally different in an IMAX theater.

    So . . . beware.

    Stefan

  3. er, other uses for imax theatres by Pyrosophy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A friend and I once had what tycoons describe as a shining glimpse of outrageous fortune:

    IMAX Porn

    "Like-you're-there", motion enhanced nakedness. The perfect format, the only route porn can take other than virtual reality. Theaters all across the country and after a tricky patent, the profits in hand. One might say with the gnomes:

    1. Invent IMAX Porn.
    2. Profit.
    3. Profit.
    4. Profit.

    No question marks needed. But I have come to realize that the gains would be ill-gotten, so I hand the idea to you, oh world.