Who’s Got DARK KNIGHT Imax Tickets?
By Norm Schrager at July 18, 2008 | 6:25 pm | Print
When you have the opportunity to see a movie in an IMAX theater, you do it. No questions asked. The sheer magnitude of an IMAX presentation can make an okay movie better (Poseidon), a decent movie very good (I Am Legend, Superman Returns) and a great movie astounding… Enter The Dark Knight.
I’m lucky enough to live in a town with an IMAX theater. It’s two miles from my house. (Stop slobbering.) So, on Wednesday, for kicks, I tried purchasing an IMAX ticket online for The Dark Knight. Let’s just say “event movie” is an understatement in this case…
Thursday at midnight?
Keep dreaming. Gone.
Friday?
Hope you like a 9am start time. Every other showing is sold out.
Saturday?
Same as Friday. Breakfast with Batman, and nothing else.
Sunday?
Wow, there are tickets for a screening later than 9am! Yeah, 10am.
There’s no doubt the higher priced IMAX ticket will help feed the bottom line for The Dark Knight. And the experience is definitely worth the bonus bucks. But talk about a movie that won’t need the help…
When the choice is there, is it IMAX or nothing?
Tell us your opinion
Like this post? DIGG IT
chris, 2 years ago
Beyond IMAX is something called IrisMAX which gives Micheal Bay direct access to your optic nerve (and puts Hans Zimmer on the inside of your ear drum as well).The technolgy raises “Barb Wire” to “Lawrence of Arabia” quality and each screening is followed by a surgeon general mandated period of darkness and silence.
Norm Schrager, 2 years ago
- Chris –
Wait, doesn’t Michael Bay already have control of my optic nerve? I would swear that’s why I liked Armageddon. (Which I did.)
I can never tell when you’re being serious…
-Norm S. (Meet In the Lobby)
nanio, 2 years ago
OccipitalMAX skips the optic nerve and goes straight to visual cortex. I’m doing IMAX on Wednesday – it seemed worth waiting for.