What Other Films Are You Waiting For?

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Just got back from seeing Nascar 3D: The Imax Experience. Of all the professional sports out there I'd say racing is the most similar to FIRST. They even pointed out that engineers are what really drive the teams, not the sterotypical grease monkey (a future carrer FIRST could lead to).
The movie is very infromative and LOUD(you can actually feel the sound comming out of those IMAX speakers) and when you veiw racing on the track it is exhilarting. I haven 't seen many IMAX films (saw the Two Towers in the IMAX theater and was dissapointed that they basically ran it in standard fromat so all you really had was the great sound. I was equally dissapointed Fantasia 2000 wasn't in 3D) but I can readily say this is the best one I have seen. A.

I'm not sure how I missed this thread coming back to life yet again.

I had a chance to preview NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience before it opened to the general public on Friday -- such are the perks of being a geek, I guess. On the whole, I thought it was a pretty good movie as far as IMAX movies go, but it wasn't really all that amazing. As with other movies, the aerial photography is where IMAX really shines.

IMAX films are shot in the same aspect ratio as television, not feature films. However, all feature length films that are shown in IMAX undergo a process for adapting them to the larger film format so they do not lose quality as the image is scaled up.

In the future, expect Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to open in IMAX two weeks after its debut in traditional theaters this summer.