[HPFGU-Movie] IMAX

[katherine.coble at crgibson.com]

For those who have seen both versions (as I intend to do...)

Is the IMAX print the full version of the film, or have they had to cut it
to 120 minutes to fit the IMAX projection system?



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> From: 	clshannon at aol.com
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> Sent: 	Wednesday, June 9, 2004 10:16 PM
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> Subject: 	[HPFGU-Movie] IMAX
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> I went to see POA at an IMAX theater and I can't recommend it more highly.
> 
> Although I absolutely adore the movie, one of my minor quibbles with it
> after 
> the first viewing in a regular theater was the almost too washed out,
> murky 
> scenes in the Leaky Cauldron at the beginning and the somewhat grainy
> texture 
> to the film - also the problems I had hearing it sometimes. 
> Well, I am happy to say it is not the film, it is just the screen or even
> the 
> prints that are sent to regular theaters - the IMAX version is incredibly 
> clear and much brighter. You can see minute details on faces, backgrounds,
> etc. 
> And the colors in the Cauldron scenes aren't as washed out as I thought.
> My friend Cindy and I kept commenting on    this while watching. We
> noticed so 
> many more things and even heard more things than we did the first and
> second 
> (for her) times.
> I was afraid that the big screen would give me vertigo in some scenes, but
> I 
> think that's only films made especially for IMAX, like skydiving or race
> car 
> driving or other things where the camera follows people off cliffs or
> something 
> ;) 
> I never experienced that queasy feeling while watching the IMAX version - 
> just the pure pleasure of an immense screen and incredibly clear picture. 
> So, if you can get to an IMAX theater, do so!
> Cindy
> 
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