My IMAX experience

[laurenmcoakley]

FINALLY, my hubby has gone with me to see GoF in IMAX.  I thought we 
were going to go 2 weeks ago, but Brian (aka hubby) was feeling very 
tired of Harry & my obsession on that particular day, so we put it 
off.  Until, however, I started to panic about it leaving the 
theaters.  My beloved was so good to indulge me in my last movie 
viewing (until, at least, the DVD comes out!), that we went 
yesterday, and braved 2 trains and a subway to get to the Lincoln 
Square Theater in Manhattan.  We got there an hour and a half before 
the show, and after reading everyone's posts about their IMAX 
experience, I was determined to get a good seat by getting there 
early.  We went up to the 4th floor (where the entrance of the 
theater was) and sat by the window and people watched for a while.  
(It actually felt good to sit down, we had walked many blocks and 
had to stand for the second train ride and the subway ride.)  
Finally 45 minutes before the show was to start, they opened the 
doors, and 10 of us went inside.  The theater there is HUGE.  The 
science center where I worked only sat 240 people and seemed "cozy" 
by comparion to this theater.  I would dare guess it was at least 
double that, capacity-wise!  We found our perfect seats, and waited, 
chatting about all our favorite scenes and how much we looked 
forward to seeing them on this humongous screen.  Hubby even 
mentioned how he thought their wouldn't be too many people viewing 
this movie on this day, because he felt the film had been out long 
enough that the interest might "be running out of steam".  How wrong 
he was!!  At 30 minutes 'till showtime, the stream of people filling 
the theater seemed unending.  How grateful he was, telling me later, 
that we got there as early as we did.  The place was PACKED.  

And to see GoF on such a large screen, and the surround sound- 
AMAZING.  Just a truly wonderful experience.

And to hear GoF has broken IMAX records- well, I can hardly say I'm 
surprised!