Enjoy the OmnIMAX experience! (Destiny)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Wednesday, August 02, 2017, 10:48 (2715 days ago) @ Kermit

Okay, please share sources. I know you're in the business so you probably know stuff just because, but surely there are websites that make it easy to find out things like how different films should be viewed ideally.

In general you don't have to worry too much about it. The only one that's not in the 35mm aspect ratios that the vast majority of theaters support is the 15/70mm movies and those are pretty darn rare. IMAX.com is a decent way to find out what movies that are coming up that were filmed with those cameras. For the rest of it, you can just decide based on theater technology preference. Cody put his list, and I mostly agree (I'm assuming his list was specifically for the movie Dunkirk), but I'll make a general list of my preferences that incorporates the branding and such that you are more likely to see advertised:

1. IMAX Laser
2. Dolby Cinema / AMC Prime with Dolby Cinema /
3. IMAX Digital / IMAX 2D or 3D / The IMAX Experience / (annoyingly, the theater chains don't make a good effort to specify so you will see things like) IMAX at AMC or IMAX at Regal even though it's not using 15/70
4. AMC Prime (but not Dolby cinema) or RPX (these are the upgraded theater brands for theater chains, and the only mean whatever the theaters feel like they should mean at any given time)
5. If you can find a "THX Certified" theater anymore that's a good thing, but very rare, and at thins point might actually suggest that the tech is fairly old. Since almost lighting is distributed on film I'm putting this last.
6. ok, I guess last is actually everything else. Make decisions based on non-movie attributes like location, concessions, seating plan and such.