ALERT: How to make sure you are getting the REAL IMAX experience...not fake LIEMAX

[HHR]

List Of FULL-SIZED IMAX Theaters | Entertainment Geekly

AZ
Tempe – Harkins Arizona Mills 25 IMAX – 412 seats, opened 3/5/1998

CA
Cathedral City – Desert IMAX Theater – 279 seats, opened 4/2/1999
Dublin – Regal Hacienda Crossings 20 & IMAX – 385 seats, opened 5/5/2000
Fresno – Edwards Fresno Stadium 21 & IMAX – 273 seats, opened 6/28/2006
Irvine – Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21 & IMAX – 492 seats, opened 11/27/2002
Los Angeles – Rave 18 IMAX – 350 seats, opened 01/2002
Monterey - Cannery Row IMAX Theatre – 290 seats, opened 4/4/2008
Ontario – Edwards Ontario Palace 22 & IMAX – 480 seats, opened 4/11/2003
Sacramento – Esquire IMAX Theater - 407 seats, opened 7/8/1999
San Francisco – AMC Loews Metreon – 600 seats, opened 6/16/1999
Universal City – AMC Loews Universal City – 422 seats, opened 4/14/2000

CO
Colorado Springs – Cinemark Carefree Circle & IMAX – 263 seats, opened 12/15/2000
Denver – UA Colorado Center 9 & IMAX – 360 seats

CT
Manchester – RC Buckland Hills 18 – 230 seats, opened 11/10/2004

FL
Orlando - Regal Pointe 21 & IMAX - 424 seats, opened 05/2007

GA
Buford – Regal Mall of Georgia 20 & IMAX – 400 seats, opened 8/13/1999

IA
Council Bluffs – AMC Star Council Bluffs IMAX – 346 seats, opened 3/21/2008

ID
Boise – Edwards Boise Stadium 21 & IMAX – 268 seats, opened 4/30/1999

IL
Chicago – Navy Pier IMAX Theatre – 440 seats, opened 1995
Lincolnshire – Regal Lincolnshire 20 & IMAX – 260 seats, opened 12/21/1998
Woodridge – Cinemark Seven Bridges & IMAX – 260 seats, opened 2/25/2000

IN
Indianapolis – Indiana State Museum IMAX – 404 seats, opened 12/19/1996

KY
Louisville - RC Stonybrook 20 IMAX – 211 seats, opened 11/10/2004

LA
New Orleans – Entergy IMAX Theatre – 354 seats, opened 10/1995

MA
Natick – Jordan’s Furniture IMAX – 279 seats, opened 8/22/2002
Reading – Jordan’s Furniture IMAX – 465 seats, opened 10/29/2004

MI
Dearborn – The Henry Ford IMAX – 440 seats, opened 11/19/1999
Grand Rapids – Celebration! Village IMAX Theater – 270 seats, opened 11/16/2001
Ypsilanti – RC Ann Arbor 20 IMAX – 422 seats, opened 5/12/2006

MN
Apple Valley – Great Clips IMAX Theatre - 600 seats, opened 4/5/1997
Duluth – Duluth OMNIMAX Theatre – 260 seats, opened 4/18/1996

MO
Sappington – Ronnies 20 Cine IMAX – 270 seats, opened 11/18/2005

MT
West Yellowstone – Yellowstone IMAX Theatre – 356 seats, opened 6/15/1994

NJ
Atlantic City – Tropicana Casino IMAX – 287 seats, opened 11/24/2004

NV
Las Vegas – Brenden Theatre Corp IMAX – 183 seats, opened 8/15/2003

NY
New Rochelle – Regal New Roc City 18 & IMAX – 392 seats, opened 9/24/1999
New York - AMC Loews Lincoln Square IMAX – 600 seats, opened 11/1994 — largest screen in country
Rochester – Tinseltown & IMAX – 253 seats, opened 11/9/1999
West Nyack – IMAX Theatre at Palisades Center – 361 seats, opened 9/25/1998
White Plains – City Center 15: Cinema de Lux IMAX – 329 seats, opened 11/10/2004

OH
Cincinnati – Springdale 18: Cinema de Lux IMAX – 341 seats, opened 11/10/2004

OK
Tulsa – Cinemark Tulsa & IMAX – 260 seats, opened 3/10/2000

PA
King of Prussia – UA King of Prussia 16 & IMAX – 340 seats, opened 4/11/2003
Tarentum - Cinemark IMAX at Pittsburgh Mills – opened 7/14/2005

RI
Providence – Providence Place Cinemas 16 IMAX- 424 seats, opened 6/22/2000

SC
Myrtle Beach – Myrtle Beach IMAX – 404 seats, opened 5/9/2007

TX
Colleyville – Colleyville Cinema Grille and IMAX – 276 seats, opened 8/9/2006
Dallas – Cinemark 17 & IMAX - 257 seats, opened 9/9/1999
Galveston – Moody Gardens IMAX – 403 seats, opened 1993
Houston – Edwards Houston Marquee 23 & IMAX – 409 seats, opened 4/11/2003
San Antonio – IMAX 3D Theatre San Antonio Rivercenter -320 seats, opened 05/2001
Tomball – Silverado 19 IMAX - 411 seats, opened 2/29/2008

WA
Spokane – Riverfront Park IMAX -342 seats, opened 05/1978

WI
Fitchburg - AMC Star Fitchburg 18 IMAX – 349 seats, opened 12/23/2005

Make sure aren't paying extra cash for some bullshyt....

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Yup, its a worse selling point than fukkin 3D, cause its fake.when i was a kid real imax mean you was RECLINING. Lookin at the ceiling

 

[Spliff]

But does the 25x58 screen look better due to the condensed resolution? (assuming both size screens use same resolution)

 

[calh45]

I had no idea.

 

[lachreyatarbabypits]

I'm gonna go see the Dark Knight in the Lincoln Square Imax then. I never watch Imax though but what the hey.

 

[HHR]

I mean, the fake shyt is a little better than a regular screen....but when you walk into a real IMAX theater it's fukking jaw dropping....

I'll only see movies meant/made for that kind of setting because it's an hour-plus drive for me....but Avatar, The Dark Knight and MI:Ghost Protocol were all significantly enhanced by the experience.

 

[WOAHMYGOODNESS]

imax = head tiled up watching shyt on field trips

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

This doesn't list all of them. Check this link also:

http://www.slashfilm.com/qa-imax-theatre-real-imax-liemax/2/

 

[HHR]

But does the 25x58 screen look better due to the condensed resolution? (assuming both size screens use same resolution)

No. And the parts of the film actually shot FOR IMAX with IMAX cameras (20+ minutes of MI:GP and 50-70 minutes of TDKR ) are shown standard....and you miss everything the camera should be adding....

/Film did a pretty interesting breakdown last year too....

Q&A: How Do I Know If My IMAX Theatre is Real 70mm IMAX or lieMAX (Digital IMAX)? | /Film

 

[iMajor]

I live in the middle of like 4 of them. Ima eat well

 

[Sansprix]

I got bamboozled by a fake IMAX and was mad as fukk.

I went to see This Is It expecting to see in that glorious IMAX and then went in that bytch looking like It's better than a reg movie screen....but aint nothing fukkin with the real IMAX experience.

 

[Brooklynzson]

I...I...I feel cheated

 

[Spliff]

No. And the parts of the film actually shot FOR IMAX with IMAX cameras (20+ minutes of MI:GP and 50-70 minutes of TDKR ) are shown standard....and you miss everything the camera should be adding....

http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/ZZ68ECE699-550x256.jpg


/Film did a pretty interesting breakdown last year too....

Q&A: How Do I Know If My IMAX Theatre is Real 70mm IMAX or lieMAX (Digital IMAX)? | /Film

I knew somethin was up when all the big local theaters suddenly got IMAX screens. That link explains everything.


Looks like I'm headin back up to Palisades Center.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Looks like I'm going to Lincoln Square

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

As much as tickets cost now, I'm good watching regular 2D. You paying more money to watch the same damn movie.

Its like somebody sitting in first class that paid 700 dollars for a ticket sitting next to a guy that paid 250. They going to the same destination.