Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey
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The Metreon is running IMAX 70MM showings for 24 hours straight today started at 3AM, [half hour for previews, 3 hour movie, half hour cleanup], then 7AM, 11AM, 3PM, 7PM, 11PM and one on Sunday at 3AM and all showings are basically full. It is crazy.
But I am seeing a few every day, and I'm guessing it will get better after opening weekend too. My system checks every 10 mins leading up to 24 hours before showing, then ramps up to every 60 seconds.
Re: Cloudflare - not sure if you're trying to hit AMC's site directly or an alternative. Either way, the first library I reach for in that situation is curl_cffi https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi
This feels like a sort of flashback to how the web used to be in some ways.
Can you add England/Europe listings? :)
My advice in the meantime: Codex and Claude Code are much better at correctly reading theater and airline seatmaps than they used to be. If you've got a personal plan / one via your employer, I've had good results just asking them to set a schedule to watch a seatmap directly
More details on Twitter: https://x.com/andrewtorkbaker/status/2078540178713629119
I wasn't planning to see Dune 3, but that preview made me want to see it.
Can we monitor seat availability on Dune 3 70mm as well? Maybe a beta? I think right now it's just the 4 days of early release tickets, all 100% sold out of course.
Thank god the Dune 3 movie looks like it isn't a strict adaptation of "Children of Dune".
Oddly enough, I sort of appreicated the David Lynch movie more after the recent movies because not what I'm older, I sort of undersgand how hard it would be to make a movie anyways.
(I like the first LotR movie and disliked the others btw; lost that "picturesque" quality and got too many battle scenes)
(As I wrote this I realised I could just look it up, she'll be played by 30 year old.)
Internal monologue is also a no no currently, which meant no banquet scene, which is one of the best parts of the book.
I mean, I've seen Apocalypse Now, but I suspect the movie of that would be... unique.
love exploring ancient history so can read/watch long documenatries and stuff if you have any recommendations ( hopefuly with no spoilers).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_(Emily_Wilson_translat...
There are a number in Canada: Scotiabank Chinook & IMAX – Calgary, AB; Scotiabank Edmonton & IMAX – Edmonton, AB; Cineplex Cinemas Langley & IMAX – Langley, BC; Cineplex Cinemas Mississauga & IMAX – Mississauga, ON; Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan & IMAX – Woodbridge, ON ;Kramer IMAX, Saskatchewan Science Centre – Regina, SK; Cineplex Cinemas Bayers Lake & IMAX – Halifax, NS; SilverCity Riverport Cinemas & IMAX – Richmond, BC; Cinéma Banque Scotia Montréal & IMAX – Montréal, QC
Most of these theatres are run by Cineplex:
* https://www.cineplex.com/movie/imax70-the-odyssey-the-imax-e...
* https://www.imax.com/en/ca/news/the-odyssey-in-imax-70mm-fil...
Except for one at the Saskatchewan Science Centre:
* https://www.sasksciencecentre.com/the-odyssey-the-imax-exper...
You do lose a lot of the picture as it was intended to be viewed by the director, of course. But closest IMAX was too far.
Nolan filmed in IMAX. It could just be reduced in size, as you suggested by letterboxing, for standard screens. But they won’t. They don’t want you experiencing the full size movie on a standard screen. They want you to go to IMAX because it costs more.
It’s not about the experience. It’s about money.
It’s no different than car manufacturers of the 1980s selling a base model vehicle with hand crank windows. They could have used the same assembly line to cheaply install machine powered windows for every vehicle of that model, but they intentionally did things to push customers towards more expensive models.