IMAX movies

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#1

I think of this category as somewhat separate…

Does anyone have particularly memorable or favorite IMAX movies?

My all-time favorite is Ring of Fire. I saw it in the IMAX when I was a kid and I loved the part where you fly over the San Andreas fault in a helicopter. For whatever reason, the DVD version (yes, I have the DVD :o) doesn’t feature that as prominently. Yet I doubt I made it up. Either way, I thought it was really cool. I mean, the other IMAX movies can be cool, too, but Ring of Fire was the best.

#2

Spiderman 3 was great to watch in imax. Never saw any of those 3D imax movies.

#3

I have a soft spot for To Fly, the original imax movie at the National Air and Space Museum…

#4

I saw that on IMAX in Kansas City a few years ago on its anniversary. Wow, it was pretty amazing, when you think back to cinematography at the time. I really enjoyed the one about the space station that was narrated by Tom Cruise, and also the ones about the coral reefs are always fun.

#5

Oh, BTW, probably my least favorite is T Rex: Back to the Cretaceous. I saw it at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum a few years back. Its pretty much a paleontologist’s nightmare…

#6

I work at an OMNIMAX/IMAX theatre, and the first few months I was there, we ran Spiderman 3 twice a day all summer. I wanted to beat emo-Peter silly. Did I mention I didn’t like the movie either?

Yeah, rough summer.

#7

Definitely not a movie I’d want to see over and over again. The Imax experience was worth the ticket price though.

#8

So far, Transformers was the best IMAX experience. I’m still waiting to get to see The Dark Kight in IMAX (I’ve already seen the regular version in the theater).

#9

There’s an imax screen in Belfast, but for some reason they never get any regular movies. It’s usually just educational stuff. I think it would do quite well if they would screen slightly more mainstream movies. I know I would have loved to seen Transformers or Iron Man in an imax screen

#10

It’s funny for me to see how everyone else is listing ‘regular movies.’ I’ve never seen those in an IMAX, just the education films.

#11

We’ve got an IMAX in the NY Planetarium that plays all those educational films and one inside a big multiplex which shows all those mainstream commercial films. Both are very cool, but I make it to the multiplex one more often.

I also get into the multiplex for $7.50 (regular IMAX price is $15 and $11 for non-IMAX screenings) by buying tickets through my job, so I go there more than the Planetarium.