IMAX

WooPeeA · 12-07-2008 9:40pm #1

I don't know is it correct forum to post it..

I'm looking for IMAX or similar size 3D cinema somewhere in Ireland. I'm moving back to Galway next month but it can be located anywhere in Ireland. Can anyone help?

Sherifu · 12-07-2008 9:41pm

Isn't there one in Dublin? Or are you trying to buy one? Maybe contact IMax directly for prices.

Karoma · 12-07-2008 9:42pm

There's one in Belfast.

WooPeeA · 12-07-2008 9:46pm

Sherifu wrote: »

Isn't there one in Dublin?

I found one in Dublin, California..

BaconZombie · 12-07-2008 9:46pm

There was a IMax in Dublin but it closed years ago, it was located where CineWorld on Parnell St is now.

And Virgin which way taken over by CineWorld used to be located on the other edge of the square.

Sherifu wrote: »

Isn't there one in Dublin? Or are you trying to buy one? Maybe contact IMax directly for prices.

Sherifu · 12-07-2008 9:57pm

WooPeeA wrote: »

I found one in Dublin, California..

BOFH_139 wrote: »

There was a IMax in Dublin but it closed years ago, it was located where CineWorld on Parnell St is now.

And Virgin which way taken over by CineWorld used to be located on the other edge of the square.

Ah, thought there was one at some stage alright.

connundrum · 12-07-2008 10:03pm

Glad that mystery is solved.

Actually, The Dark Knight would be sweet on an IMAX screen. See www.imax.com

WooPeeA · 12-07-2008 10:11pm

connundrum wrote: »

Glad that mystery is solved.

Actually, The Dark Knight would be sweet on an IMAX screen. See www.imax.com

Not only The Dark Knight.. They're playing U2 concert in 3D and some documentary about Dinosaurs at the moment..

I wish to see those 3.

pirelli · 12-07-2008 10:48pm

:eek: There is no imax in republic of ireland.

sprinkles · 12-07-2008 10:52pm

?

af_thefragile · 13-07-2008 12:30am

They should open an imax theater in dublin.
Its brilliant watching movies on the imax!
I remember watching Matrix Revolutions in an imax theater, it was brilliantly crazy!
I wonder The Dark Night probably would be really amazing on the imax too...

Mossy Monk · 13-07-2008 12:35am

I know someone who is flying to London to watch the Dark Knight at an IMAX. Must be a pretty big deal.

flanum · 13-07-2008 1:59am

IMAX?? Imagine all extraordinary deaths to cinema audiences(in dublin)??

is that what an imax is?

L1011 · 13-07-2008 2:02am

af_thefragile wrote: »

They should open an imax theater in dublin.
Its brilliant watching movies on the imax!
I remember watching Matrix Revolutions in an imax theater, it was brilliantly crazy!
I wonder The Dark Night probably would be really amazing on the imax too...

They did, it failed. Read rest of thread...

All it ever showed at the time was educational and documentaries mind.

Overheal · 13-07-2008 2:19am

pirelli wrote: »

:eek: There is no imax in republic of ireland.

IMAX-Fail.

thats a pretty big fail.

like 4 stories of panoramic fail.

weemcd · 13-07-2008 9:43am

theres one in the oddessy in belfast, but come to think of it i've never seen it open...

af_thefragile · 13-07-2008 11:34am

MYOB wrote: »

They did, it failed. Read rest of thread...

All it ever showed at the time was educational and documentaries mind.

Why did it fail?
Like yeah, there are not many interesting movies released for the imax but like every big city in the world's got one... Dublin should have one functioning too...!

tman · 13-07-2008 11:37am

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I know someone who is flying to London to watch the Dark Knight at an IMAX. Must be a pretty big deal.

Is it their first time going to the IMAX?
Went to see the incredible hulk there last month and left feeling fairly underwhelmed... I'd say it'd be sweet for something in proper 3D, but for a regular film it's just a big curvy screen...

WooPeeA · 13-07-2008 12:44pm

MYOB wrote: »

They did, it failed. Read rest of thread...

All it ever showed at the time was educational and documentaries mind.

IMAX documentaries are not like documentaries showed on Discovery or NG. To me they are more like a fabular movies made to look like documentaries.

I've seen two documentaries in IMAX during my visits in Warsaw, they got 6 or 7 IMAXes there.. There were pretty cool, especially African Adventure: Safari in the Okavango. Both in 3D. I was really impressed by the 3D effects and atmosphere of the films.

WooPeeA · 13-07-2008 12:48pm

tman wrote: »

Is it their first time going to the IMAX?
Went to see the incredible hulk there last month and left feeling fairly underwhelmed... I'd say it'd be sweet for something in proper 3D, but for a regular film it's just a big curvy screen...

I've seen one of the Harry Potter movies in standard cinema and IMAX. Same movie. Comparing them two I'd say that movies in IMAX uses better quality of scenes and (i might be wrong there) bit better quality of sound.

michael_d · 22-10-2008 10:50pm

no imax.. Dublin town is a hole!:D Yoy need visit London just for watch some 3d movie :pac:

ScumLord · 22-10-2008 11:04pm

Whats an IMAX? Is it like some sort of information based tampax device?

The_B_Man · 22-10-2008 11:26pm

I'm looking at the IMAX here in Sydney out my office window. They're showing The Dark Knight and some dinosaur thing and U2 3D is coming soon!

Would be interested in going to batman if i didnt see it already. Hope they show Saving Private Ryan on it!

FX Meister · 22-10-2008 11:32pm

MYOB wrote: »

They did, it failed. Read rest of thread...

All it ever showed at the time was educational and documentaries mind.

That's not true.

Overheal · 23-10-2008 12:08am

Damn I meant to go see Dark Knight in IMAX!

I lost my IMAX virginity to Harry Potter....

Ponster · 23-10-2008 6:48am

I saw the movie '300' in an Imax cinema in New York which was absolutely excellent !

KTRIC · 23-10-2008 6:58am

I seen some Dinosaur movie in the Imax in Frankfurt. Really impressive stuff, hadn't a bleedin clue what was going on though.

Mossy Monk · 23-10-2008 9:26am

michael_d wrote: »

Yoy need visit London just for watch some 3d movie :pac:

I have seen 3D movies in a cinema in Ireland so no you do not need to go to London.

WooPeeA · 23-10-2008 10:48pm

The_B_Man wrote: »

I'm looking at the IMAX here in Sydney out my office window. They're showing The Dark Knight and some dinosaur thing and U2 3D is coming soon!

Would be interested in going to batman if i didnt see it already. Hope they show Saving Private Ryan on it!

Be sure that it's in 3D. Not all of the movies shown in IMAX are 3D.

WooPeeA · 23-10-2008 10:56pm

Overheal wrote: »

I lost my IMAX virginity to Harry Potter....

My first IMAX film was some documentary about Titanic years back, in Warsaw as I remember. Sounds boring but wasn't, however I'd slept if I had to watch that film in standard 2D....

pasta-solo · 23-10-2008 11:07pm

Saw Dark Knight Imax few weeks ago in New York, was incredible! My first Imax, loved it!

FX Meister · 24-10-2008 12:05am

The_B_Man wrote: »

I'm looking at the IMAX here in Sydney out my office window. They're showing The Dark Knight and some dinosaur thing and U2 3D is coming soon!

Would be interested in going to batman if i didnt see it already. Hope they show Saving Private Ryan on it!

Saving Private Ryan came out years ago. Where have you been? In a coma?
Why not go see batman again? It's amazing seeing the imax shots in it, I was blown away and it was my third time to see it.

MagicMarker · 24-10-2008 12:13am

I saw the grand canyon thing in the IMAX, was gutted when i realized they weren't showing The Dark Knight in the one that was near me:(

The_B_Man · 24-10-2008 12:44am

FX Meister wrote: »

Saving Private Ryan came out years ago. Where have you been? In a coma?
Why not go see batman again? It's amazing seeing the imax shots in it, I was blown away and it was my third time to see it.

I know it came out years ago. But i didnt see it until it came out on DVD so never got to see it on a big screen! What better way to do that than on an IMAX!

dRNk SAnTA · 24-10-2008 2:04am

I saw 300 in an IMAX in Toronto and it was very deadly. But the problem with the Dublin IMAX was that it didn't show regular action movies, only special IMAX documentaries. I agree it would be cool to have an IMAX in Dublin again, but not if it's only going to show fish doc's narrated by Sting.

The_B_Man · 24-10-2008 2:51am

I was brought to that Dublin IMAX in school for some documentary. Think it was about a volcano or something. Anyway, we were the only people in the cinema so they probably werent doing the business.

Linku · 24-10-2008 6:30am

Not many Hollywood movies were released in IMAX back when the Dublin one was open, it would stand a better chance now, lots of the blockbusters have IMAX runs now, and some like The Dark Knight have scenes filmed especially with IMAX cameras.
Saw the second two Matrix movies in one of the London ones (there's a few I think, including one in the science museum), and they looked amazing!

FX Meister · 24-10-2008 10:03am

It's too expensive to shoot in imax for an entire film. The cameras are so much bigger, the film is so much shorter and there are other logistical problems as well. Nolan shot with two cameras, having one ready when the first ran out of film. They also broke a boom with the weight of the camera. He shot some parts of The Pretige on imax as he had it in mind for batman

Canis Lupus · 24-10-2008 10:47am

I saw the Dark Knight in the Imax here in London. Great cinema. Shame the movie was on the boring side.

FX Meister · 25-10-2008 12:45pm

you must have been looking at the projection booth mate

IMAX

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