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Explain IMAX to me, please. I'm dumb.

StoneyBrookeStoneyBrooke
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I've never seen an IMAX film b/c they don't have that many locations around here but Madagascar 2 is playing in IMAX at a theater nearby and I'm thinking of taking DS#1 on Friday. 

I looked online but all it says is that it's better, crisper etc. - is it like 3D? glasses needed?  More expensive?

He's 3 years old and is going to love the movie regardless but will it be a better "experience" in iMax? 

On a related note, I saw an ad for Shrek Goes Fourth on the imax website. :)

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  • HasteTheDayHasteTheDay
    I always thought the screen was just bigger, haha. I think it's kind of silly that they play cartoons and stuff on those huge screens. I love when they show the nerdy documentaries. I remember seeing one about glaciers or something and it was AMAZING. Gave me goosebumps.?
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  • emilykristene2006emilykristene2006 member

    The theater is a dome. The screen stretches all around, almost. I think just top to bottom and left to right like a panoramic few.

    Here they have things like "The Rain Forest" You actually feel like you are floating through the rain forest. It's cool, but gives me motion sickness. I'm weak though.

     

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  • AZ_EricaAZ_Erica member
    the IMAX theatres by us have HUGE screens.  I'm talking wrap around the room so they are half the room from floor to ceiling.  It's not really like 3D, but you kind of feel like you are in the movie.  I don't remember the price but it wasn't much more expensive, maybe 1 or 2 dollars.  I don't know if a 3 year old would get more out of the experience.  I would probably call and see the price difference for sure.  You will like IMAX better.
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  • Mrs.JDDMrs.JDD
    An IMAX might freak him out.  We take our 2nd graders every year to see an IMAX movie and then to the science museum and I always had at least one in my lap, crying.  One year three of my little boys were crying!  It's like a 2-story screen that kind of wraps around the sides of a curved room.  The ones we always saw, nature-type movies, make you feel like you are actually there, under the ocean or on the savannah or whatever.  For such a young kid I'd probably stick to a regular theater.
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  • DaiLyghtDaiLyght
    I've seen 3 IMAX movies. Two were documentary types and they were amazing. One was a "real" movie, one of the Matrix's. I do not recommend seeing a real movie on IMAX. In many of the scenes of two people talking, I was flipping my head back and forth, like watching a tennis match. It was not fun. I felt like I missed out on a lot because I was too far immersed into something that's not meant to be viewed in panorama.
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