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

Video The Odyssey IMAX 70mm Setup

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u/jx2002 Jul 16 '26

I'm glad Chattanooga isn't, it's $25 a ticket for 70MM IMAX

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u/safetyvestsnow Jul 16 '26

$16.50 in Reading, MA. It’s a loss leader for the furniture store, but still.

Edit: Dual laser not 70mm native, still really nice at the same 1.43:1 aspect ratio

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u/IntrepidDreams Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I'm confused by the furniture store loss leader. I've never seen a IMAX or any theatre along with a furniture store. 

Are you forced to go through the furniture store to exit the theater, like a gift shop at the end of an theme park ride? Are people going to watch a movie and deciding to get a couch while they are there?

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u/HarmonicFractals Jul 16 '26

Jordan's furniture. It's very surreal; It's a massive complex with a Fuddruckers, a play park and some other appendages. And yes, you do need to go through the furniture store. It's a fantastic theater though all said and done.

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u/pichael289 Jul 16 '26

Eat some Fuddruckers, see a movie, buy a couch. Sounds like a good time

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u/titanium8788 Jul 16 '26

Fuck yeah fellow Masshole! Love Jordan's IMAX, its the only IMAX I'll go to! You gotta experience the "Butt Kickahs" to understand. 🤣 The furniture thing works too...I've bought a couch, a bed and a mattress from them so...they got my money haha!

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u/Doritos707 Jul 17 '26

I never knew i wanted to visit this place!

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u/plastic_eagle Jul 17 '26

Walking out of Backrooms, through a furniture store, would be amazing. They should build more cinemas that you can only enter via a furniture store.

There was a cinema where I like where the entrance was up some stairs next to a furniture store, and it always seemed kinda surreal after movies.

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u/pillage Jul 16 '26

Are you forced to go through the furniture store to exit the theater, like a gift shop at the end of an theme park ride?

The reverse: you go through the furniture store to enter the theater, then leave through a back door.

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u/password-is-taco1 Jul 19 '26

You only leave through the back door at night, usually they make you leave through the top of the theater and go down through the actual furniture store.

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u/ryohazuki224 Jul 16 '26

Yeah we have one theater here showing the 70mm version with the dual laser digital projectors, which is good. But theres only three showtimes for it today, and all the seats are booked up as of me writing this.

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u/FunktasticLucky Jul 17 '26

I'm going to go to this one as well. Just waiting for the hype to die down. Go see if on a weekend without a shit load of people haha.

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u/Sad_Enthusiasm_3721 Jul 16 '26

$0.25 here. 4:3 DivX rip with compression artifacts from being burned to a 650 MB CD-R.

Also, some asshat got up halfway through and walked across the screen.

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u/just_another_female Jul 16 '26

Same! Friend and I are going to see it in Dallas in 70mm. So freaking excited!

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u/n4b40m1 Jul 16 '26

Hell yeah. Chattanooga finally scores a win! I'll be there

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u/nexea Jul 16 '26

Its 25 in Dallas also.

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u/mal_guinness Jul 16 '26

I mean they just need to extend the runs of anything on 70mm and make an prestige film available in that format. They are selling out completely to the point that a 745am show on a saturday is sold out of everything but the front row.