3D films

[Blueflare]

I don't really understand what an IMAX is. I've heard of it before, obviously. I googled it and I gather it's kind of a screen that wraps around you? That sounds weird. How do you know which part of it to look at? I imagine I'd be getting distracted by stuff in my peripheral vision all the time.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Blueflare

I don't really understand what an IMAX is. I've heard of it before, obviously. I googled it and I gather it's kind of a screen that wraps around you? That sounds weird. How do you know which part of it to look at? I imagine I'd be getting distracted by stuff in my peripheral vision all the time.

When you are seeing a documentary-type "museum" film, such as footage showing the majesty of a rainforest, the terrible destruction from the inside of a tornado, or point-blank footage of a space shuttle launch, you want that screen to wrap around your peripheral vision and literally submerge you inside the experience. You know how "surround sound" works? Well this is surround sight.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Blueflare

I don't really understand what an IMAX is.

I've never been to an Imax film either, but I know where an Imax cinema is. We should agree to meet up and go! That way if we find eachother odd at least we won't have to talk.

I'm thinking of the one in Waterloo. Handy for trains, the Tube and buses.
It's at the end of Stamford Street, where I spent a lot of my school hols with the G'rents.

It's been built in a pedestrian underpass that used to be a Cardboard City at night. A shameful seedy place where homeless people dossed down and hoped to be reasonably undisturbed.

During the day it was a necessary pedestrian walkthrough - planning meant you had to walk quite a way to cross the road otherwise. There were few people there during the day, but Grandad told us we could never give them money, because they would spend it on things that were bad for them. But that we should look them in the eye and shake out heads, raher than ignore them, because many of them had fought in the War (WWII) and couldn't help themselves.

On the flip side they G'rents always had a few coins for buskers or pavement artists. They pitied those who could not help themselves, but supported anyone working for a living.

Soz - back to Imax!
I'm game of you are.
Has to be after August though. I'm saving for Whitby before that.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Sundae

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It's been built in a pedestrian underpass that used to be a Cardboard City at night. A shameful seedy place where homeless people dossed down and hoped to be reasonably undisturbed.

During the day it was a necessary pedestrian walkthrough - planning meant you had to walk quite a way to cross the road otherwise. There were few people there during the day, but Grandad told us we could never give them money, because they would spend it on things that were bad for them. But that we should look them in the eye and shake out heads, raher than ignore them, because many of them had fought in the War (WWII) and couldn't help themselves.

--snip

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