r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • Jul 16 '26

Video The Odyssey IMAX 70mm Setup

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u/hellp-desk-trainee- Jul 16 '26

This just seems excessive

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u/Dirtyswashbuckler69 Jul 16 '26

It’s not if you’ve ever actually seen a movie on 70mm IMAX. There’s really nothing like it, in my opinion.

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u/Satans_Oregano Jul 16 '26

Yep. I am not a movie person at all but I did get to see interstellar in true 70mm imax. Man. It was genuinely amazing

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u/Bragarini Jul 16 '26

Saw a few movies in IMAX (Oppenheimer, Dunkirk, Star Wars (the last one), Top Gun Maverick ) and honestly, it did not blow me away. It's a big screen, that's about it. There is a cinema in my country with top tier Dolby Atmos sound and that was much, much better.

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u/Dirtyswashbuckler69 Jul 16 '26

That’s fair. For me, besides the fact that 70mm IMAX is the highest resolution cinematic format, there’s something about the tangibility of the film print, hearing it flicker as the movie is projected, alongside the detail of the image quality that I just can’t get enough of. I also enjoy seeing films digitally projected, but the level of tangibility and texture that comes with film projection just feels magical and directly linked to the illusionary spirit of cinema history (i.e., Phantasmagoria, Zoetropes, etc.)

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u/connorpiper Jul 16 '26

So not 70mm IMAX then.

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u/Bragarini Jul 16 '26

My country literally had the only 70mm Oppenheimer in EU buddy ;)

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u/jc2046 Jul 16 '26

yep. makes 0 sense and less