Wow! Thanks Jaspi for the review! I definitely wouldn't want to have seen this! Kinda glad I didn't go - though I should have, had those free tix that expired.
From the previews, I was thinking it was more of an X-men rip off. Oh well, glad I skipped it. I'll check it out when it hits Netflix. :)
As an aside, how can you stand watching non-IMAX movies on the IMAX screen?!? Just stretching a normal movie to fit the bigger screen distorts the image, throws off the focus and exagerates any camera shake. Let alone the extra cost. Icky, no wai.
It was less X-men and more Twilight, just with aliens instead of vampires.
As for watching movies in IMAX not filmed in IMAX... first off, I think its hard for you to be a purist. Most likely you have a digital TV, but almost nothing you watch on it is filmed with a digital camera. On the flip side, many times you have movies filmed digitally and is then put on film for a standard projector in movie theaters. IMAX is no different... well I shouldn't say that... see, IMAX uses an upscaling algorithm for the image, where computers are able to determine what pixels should be in-between standard resolution pixels, and thereby interpolate images of higher quality. So its not a same-quality image blown up to a bigger screen. Its still a higher quality image (although not as high as it would have been if it was filmed on IMAX) than regular theaters or home systems.
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As an aside, how can you stand watching non-IMAX movies on the IMAX screen?!? Just stretching a normal movie to fit the bigger screen distorts the image, throws off the focus and exagerates any camera shake. Let alone the extra cost. Icky, no wai.
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As for watching movies in IMAX not filmed in IMAX... first off, I think its hard for you to be a purist. Most likely you have a digital TV, but almost nothing you watch on it is filmed with a digital camera. On the flip side, many times you have movies filmed digitally and is then put on film for a standard projector in movie theaters. IMAX is no different... well I shouldn't say that... see, IMAX uses an upscaling algorithm for the image, where computers are able to determine what pixels should be in-between standard resolution pixels, and thereby interpolate images of higher quality. So its not a same-quality image blown up to a bigger screen. Its still a higher quality image (although not as high as it would have been if it was filmed on IMAX) than regular theaters or home systems.
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