The IMAX experience

[deathie mouse]

There were a few more posts in this thread about the Disney IMAX releases, including the topic creator's . Hopefully he and the others will repost their IMAX experiences. I separated mine from the quoted. It's in its proper order too

But as for now, we start with Cousin Mickey :

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MickeyMouseboy
Joined: A long long time ago
Posts: About 3000!
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:14 pm

I saw all 3. watched B&B twice. i sat in the first row! omg its an experience so worth the $10! never again will we see this classics on IMAX

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Luke
Joined: 17 Apr 2003
Posts: 5425
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:51 pm


The Lion King on IMAX was fantastic. I hadn't seen the film for a few years, and never on anything but VHS before. It was already one of my favorites, but seeing it, hearing it, feeling it with everything amplified for the format was an amazing experience and one I'll never forget.

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Jake Lipson
Joined: 18 Apr 2003
Posts: 856
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:31 pm

I saw all three, as well as Star Wars II, and, yes, it was absolutely worth it.

In The Lion King, you'd better have had something to hold on to because when the wildebeast stampede came rushing at Simba, I kid you not, the ENTIRE THEATER SHOOK. It was absolutely colossal.

With Fantasia 2000, it was just amazing hearing all of the classical music in uncompressed 6.1 digital surround sound, and the visiuals were wow too. Especially the Firebird Suiete and Pines of Rome with the whales.

Beauty and the Beast was a special treat because I'd never seen it in a theater before, and it was wow. The ballroom scene with the chandelier....ohhhh, wow. Just wow. And seeing the great Human Again number finally in its proper place in the finished film was bittersweetly wonderful. I never watch the movie without it anymore.

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Maerj
Joined: 21 Apr 2003
Posts: 1553
Location: Mohnton, PA
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:43 pm


I saw Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Matrix, Star Wars Episode II and that Ghosts of the Deep on IMAX and yeah, they were all worth it. It's an amazing film format. I saw Star Wars on an IMAX screen in New York City, near Lincoln Center I believe and the screen was huge, it was def worth the trip.

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akhenaten
Joined: 29 Oct 2003
Posts: 20
Location: kuala lumpur, malaysia
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:48 pm

didn't any of u watch treasure planet on imax?

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IggieKuzco
Joined: 28 Aug 2003
Posts: 761
Location: Wonderland
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:39 pm

well.... besides fantasia i also saw troy and lord of the rings: return of the king on imax screen... and both were amazing.

so basically what im seeing from all these posts is that any movie looks good on imax... so you should go for it... apparently each movie is an experience

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Jeremy
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Posts: 46
Location: Finland, Region 2
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:50 pm

I saw all 3. watched B&B twice. i sat in the first row! omg its an experience so worth the $10! never again will we see this classics on IMAX

I wouldnt count on it! Maybe someday Disney will release some of the classics in IMAX. Or who knows, maybe all of the classics in a row. Something like that would be so great! It's a shame I live in Finland and there's long way for me to see any IMAX-film.

[deathie mouse]

Originally posted after the previous posts, on Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:59 pm:


And still some people think they're not gonna buy Blu-ray

[deathie mouse]

Now, this next post quote is special. It was this post that generated the topic reply that alerted me that something "smelly" was going on in UD. The topic title had changed. And not for the better. So this post is part on the chain of events that made several members of the UD community work together to restore what was a totally attacked forum where 100,000+ posts were affected or damaged with several members deleted, and be restored back into working order in less than 2 hours. Prince Adam was wondering why the topic didn't make "sense". You didn't miss anything Prince Adam, you sighted it . Talk about an IMAX experience

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Prince Adam
Joined: 25 Jun 2003
Posts: 1232
Location: Ontario
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:18 pm


Have I missed something, um, "poop-y"?

[MickeyMouseboy]

I saw Treasure Planet also! i forgot that went to IMAX before Lion King that year! hehe I liked Treasure Planet! The black hole explotion was awesome! if you sat on the front row you felt the air from the speakers push you on your seat! it was awesome!

[Joe Carioca]

"Beauty and the Beast" is the most flawed Disney film of the 90's as far as animation goes. Don't get me wrong, the animation of the film is wonderful, but there are some scenes in which the tight budget shows up, like the scenes in Belle's village or sometimes when the characters look off-model. Considering these flaws are quite obvious on the DVD, I wonder how bad they looked in IMAX.