It's Brad Bird's live-action directorial debut. A little more optimism please.

This post has been edited by kobe8byrant: Aug 8 2010, 07:43 PM

It's Digital IMAX. It's not Real IMAX.

simply put, what u are paying for is a screen that is bigger than normal cinema screens but no where near as big as the five storey tall screens you are expecting - that is only applicable with a Real IMAX screen. With digital IMAX, think of it as paying for an 'original' anime DVD with fansubs - not the real thing but with a stamp of approval that costs money.

for the record, it's a great action film - i just wouldnt watch another movie on IMAX again.

I can't be sure but I am told that select scenes are filmed in IMAX and yet we aren't able to view the difference in aspect ratio for certain scenes ala in The Dark Knight, leading me to believe that some of the scenes may be cropped!

There is no way there has been any readjustment, I would have noticed - it's as jarring as the readjustment on Blu-ray. When you have watched the film, it's easy to spot which sequences are in IMAX (the tallest building in the world set-piece) and it's been cropped. I thought it looked weird seeing some of the scenes looking out of frame at first but now it makes sense...

I disagree that this and the third are similar in tone. While I agree that Hoffman is a far superior villain (the best in the series) but there is very little doubt in my mind that Bird is a far superior action director. The time he takes to allow his set-pieces to 'breathe' and escalate such as the sequence at the skyscrapper and the car factory is something Abrams has never been good at (not a knock at Abrams).

Don't blame the format, blame the mall. Times Square is a horrible place to shop in. Getting from one floor to the next is a chore and there is very little worth visiting in between walking from one floor to another.

I too won't see another film in LieMax with the exception of Dark Knight Rises.