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shmokes:
The last two Harry Potter movies were by far the best of the series. What would have possessed you to go spend $75 to see sucky movies 7 and 8* when you had already seen the first 6 even suckier Harry Potter films?







* Frankly, I thought the last two films were quite good for the most part

ChadTower:

I thought they were awful and made little sense at times.  That's a different conversation for a different thread. 

nickbuol:
Chad, we don't have any *real* IMAX theaters here where I live.  The closest IMAX is 2 hours away and is a "dome" theater in a Science Center.  Not good.

There is a Century Theater there too with their "XD" setup, but I've need been to it since they added the XD setup.

I travel pretty much monthly for work, and most of the metro areas I travel are in big(ger) cities like Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Charlotte, etc...  I will admit that I ALWAYS check to see what is playing at one of the local IMAX theaters when I am traveling.  To date, after 3 years of monthly travel, I have only seen a small handful of movies at an IMAX.  It seems like some of the places are playing the new movies, or blockbuster ones for only a couple of weeks (when I am not travelling) and then when I am there, it is something stupid or a movie the just doesn't seem like IMAX would be the right format for... This happened with one of the Twilight movies.  No thanks on ANY screen, but on IMAX?  Yes, it happened to me.  The one theater was playing something worthwhile (don't recall what anymore) right up until I started my travel.  

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 13, 2012, 09:47:12 am ---
I thought they were awful and made little sense at times.
--- End quote ---

Perhaps the movies were made under the (almost totally reasonable, lol) assumption that every single person watching the film had already read the book. I never found it to be nonsensical, but I don't rule out the possibility that this is because I already had information in my head that automatically filled in any gaps in the film's narrative. I don't know that this is the case. I just know that I thought the movies were pretty good, and by far the best of the series. The first two movies, for example, are pretty wretched. And the third is only marginally better, IIRC.

ChadTower:

Twilight on IMAX does seem like a waste of time unless you're a 14 year old girl.  Then again, so was everything else about those movies.

I just looked at the full list of IMAXes.  I can't find a direct link to the map view but if you go to map and zoom out it shows there are like 300 of them in the eastern half of the US and a ton on the west coast.  There aren't as many in the midwest.  I was surprised to see that there are eight of them within 75 minutes of my house (two are museums and only show the documentary type stuff).  There are a lot more IMAXes than I thought.



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