it sucks. Yesterday I went to the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey and saw and IMAX movie. I've always wanted to see one considering how big the screen was. And it was horrible. These are the cons:
It takes up a lot of space.
The picture is so big and you sit too close to the screen that reading text hurts and fast motion can be nauseating. You also have to like turn your heat in all directions, but it's not like you still don't feel like your are in a theatre. The only good thing about the entire screen wasn't the fact that it surrounded you, but that it was huge.
The screen is made up of pieces of screen and you are able to see the divisions during the movie which totally ruins the immersion.
The screen is so big that all the action seems like it's happening on the lower half of the screen while for nice aerial shots of land and vast surfaces it seems to be doing well in but you do have to move your head pretty far up, far from the action and the movement takes you away from the experience.
Seats don't have as much space as traditional theaters and that's not cool for my legs.
Now the biggest issue with IMAX. Inconsistant picture clarity. At the bottom center of the screen it had excellent as you'd expect picture quality. Moving away from the center to the sides, the image starts to curve. Anything straight will now be a bit curvy and it increases as you move further away from the center and almost looks like the image gets stretched near the end of the picture to the side. This doesn't happen when moving away from the center going up however. But other than the curving, you also get magnificent convergence issues as you move away from the center and loss of contrast although, the loss in horrible, I still feel like it's there. And when I mean center, I mean center, about 20 degrees away from the center on either side, the pic starts to curve already.
I had a horrible experience compared to all the hype that was about. IMAX is totally useless and has too many cons to ever be anything special.
It takes up a lot of space.
The picture is so big and you sit too close to the screen that reading text hurts and fast motion can be nauseating. You also have to like turn your heat in all directions, but it's not like you still don't feel like your are in a theatre. The only good thing about the entire screen wasn't the fact that it surrounded you, but that it was huge.
The screen is made up of pieces of screen and you are able to see the divisions during the movie which totally ruins the immersion.
The screen is so big that all the action seems like it's happening on the lower half of the screen while for nice aerial shots of land and vast surfaces it seems to be doing well in but you do have to move your head pretty far up, far from the action and the movement takes you away from the experience.
Seats don't have as much space as traditional theaters and that's not cool for my legs.
Now the biggest issue with IMAX. Inconsistant picture clarity. At the bottom center of the screen it had excellent as you'd expect picture quality. Moving away from the center to the sides, the image starts to curve. Anything straight will now be a bit curvy and it increases as you move further away from the center and almost looks like the image gets stretched near the end of the picture to the side. This doesn't happen when moving away from the center going up however. But other than the curving, you also get magnificent convergence issues as you move away from the center and loss of contrast although, the loss in horrible, I still feel like it's there. And when I mean center, I mean center, about 20 degrees away from the center on either side, the pic starts to curve already.
I had a horrible experience compared to all the hype that was about. IMAX is totally useless and has too many cons to ever be anything special.
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