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What is inaccurate about this size comparison?

* https://old.reddit.com/r/imax/comments/1tw4jyy/psa_70mm_and_...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KBEcjZN8io

Certainly we need to be mindful of biases, but you can also simply be falling into a tu quoque, ad hominem fallacy.

At the end of the day, are these 'fancy' theatre experiences (IMAX and the others out there) worth the extra ticket price to you? Certainly Christopher Nolan thinks so since he was willing to put up with the hassle of the IMAX gear for months on end (including airlifting them up to top of mountains), but what will you get out of it watching is something on you can answer.

Of course the largest complaint I tend to hear about Nolan films is the audio mixing, not the visuals.

>"Certainly Christopher Nolan thinks so since he was willing to put up with the hassle of the IMAX gear for months on end (including airlifting them up to top of mountains), but what will you get out of it watching is something on you can answer."

The 70MM IMAX showings at Lincoln Square are still completely sold out 4x/day for the next month. People are filling the theater at 6AM on a Saturday to see it. The market has clearly spoken.

4x a day for a month on so few screens isn’t even that many tickets comparatively.

I think that has to do with the marketing and all the memes about how much "less" of the film you see if not watching it on 70mm IMAX

Which is true. He didn't shoot in 35mm so if you want to get the full shot on the screen you must go to an IMAX theater.

It's an interesting choice as an artist to produce work for mass consumption that 99% of the population will never be able to experience as intended.

The eyepieces (and editing views) on that equipment shows the other aspect ratios so they know what will be in and out for the other 99%. Anyway plenty of art is only consumable by the 1%.

1.43 IMAX isn't exclusive to 15/70mm, it can also be screened with IMAX's dual laser projection system.

The interesting question isn't "what's biggest" but what's the best viewing experience.

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