![]() They just know a giant, immersive screen when they see one, and they def saw one. They don't know anything about IMAX, aspect ratios, etc. Just a cute video about the Museum of Science and their employees' love of science fiction, then the IMAX countdown, then the movie. Of the three formats in which I've seen Dune (1.43, 3D, Dome) the Sandworms looked most impressive in Dome. When their circular maws fill the entirely of a circular image, I felt like I was going to fall in. Add in the curved screen, it creates an illusion where the top of the screen feels like it's directly above you, while the bottom of the screen is directly below you. I felt much more vertigo here than I've ever felt at Citywalk (where the seating's shallow and the screen is placed too high). The steep incline of the seating is awesome. Add in the curved edges of the screen coming closer to you, it produces a 3D-like effect where I felt like I was in the movie. The biggest benefit is that the circular image fills your entire field of view, dare I say more accurately than a square or rectangular screen does. The center of the screen looks accurate, but the left and right thirds are stretched, though not so much that you couldn't tell what was going on. Call me crazy, but I ended up digging the curvature of the screen. Dome or no Dome, this is an IMAX theater. The 2.35 footage alone looked 40 ft high, and the 1.43 was overwhelming, filling my entire field of view and then some. But having already seen the full 1.43, I wouldn't say the Dome lost any essential visual info. For 1.43 scenes, the image on the screen is not a square, but a circle, so there's probably around 20% of the 1.43 image cut off at the corners. For 2.35 scenes, the bottom right and left corners are cut off, perhaps 5% of the total image. The Dome does cut off some of the image. The curved Dome screen is made of hard material rather than a silver screen, and you can see some lines of it even while the movie's playing. I've been to Lincoln Square which is 100ish ft wide, and the latter looked less pixelated than the former. ![]() ![]() LFExaminer says the Omni Theater screen is 72 ft wide. The resolution seemed a bit lower than 4K, and there was a bit more pixelation than I'd expect from IMAX Laser. If you sneak in a bag of chips like my brother did, an usher may ask you to put it away. ![]() You can tell that this theater was designed to accommodate people for just 45 minutes at a time, and thus it's not as comfortable as it should be. The seats themselves are very comfy, but the legroom makes an airplane feel roomy. This is by far the worst legroom I've ever found in a movie theater. Without further preface, here's my cons and pros of the Mugar Omni Theater: I suffered no neck pain throughout the movie, and I overheard a group who sat further below who enjoyed the movie, but hurt their necks from craning up at the screen so much. I arrived an hour early to make sure I got these seats, though a line didn't start forming until 35 minutes before showtime. Which is fitting, because it was at the Museum of Science.Īlso, thank you to everybody on this subreddit who reported that the best seats at the Omni Theater were the last two rows. So I wasn't depending on IMAX Dome for a first or second viewing this third viewing was just for science. I found the 1.43 image superior, though as an IMAX junkie I was surprised at how legible the 2.35 frame was it contained all essential visual information, and the sandworms still looked gigantic. I booked tickets for myself and my family while I was home for Thanksgiving.įor reference, I'd already seen Dune in 1.43 IMAX at Citywalk in LA, and a second time in 2.35 RealD 3D. So when IMAX announced that Dune would be the first ever Hollywood film to screen on my hometown IMAX Dome, the Mugar Omni Theater at the Museum of Science in Boston, curiosity and nostalgia teamed up to get the better of me. I myself had only seen IMAX docs on my hometown IMAX Dome, usually on school field trips. People say IMAX Dome stretches the image, cuts off the image, it's not a good fit for anything except IMAX docs, etc. Over the years, I've heard a lot of mixed-to-negative responses to Hollywood films screened in IMAX Dome.
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