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If you could watch any movie again for the first time, in IMAX, what would it be? This is the question we've asked your favorite actors & directors, and now it's your turn.

Tell us the top four movies you'd love to see re-released at your local IMAX theatre. Any genre, any era - whatever your cinephile heart dreams of! You can submit your Any Movie in IMAX picks from now until December 12th.

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Akira

Master and Commander

LA Confidential

Blazing Saddles

*Honorable Mentions:

Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Hunger*

[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

LOTR: Return of the King (2003)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

The Shining (1980)

Interstellar (2014)

[–] alottachairs@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago
[–] yakko@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Redline (2009)

Gravity (2013)

Wizard People, Dear Reader (2004)

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

MFKZ (2017)

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • Dredd (2012)
  • The Long Good Friday (1980)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

North of Superior.

The OG IMAX film.

[–] notaviking@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Just have a Christofer Nolan latest and greatest hits, prestige, dark knight, Inception...

[–] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The mission impossible with the Burj Kalifa.

All the MI?

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

12 Angry Men Locke Phonebooth

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago
  • Speed Racer (2008)
  • Gravity (2013)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969)
  • The Fall (2006)
  • Akira (1988)
  • The Last Circus (2010)
  • Children of the Sea (2019)
  • The Holy Mountain (1973)
  • Sorcerer (1977)
  • Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
  • Dark City (1998)
  • Oklahoma! (1955, the ToddAO version)
  • Fall (2022)
  • What Dreams May Come (1998)
[–] ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stop gatekeeping and make this shit available for public purchase, jfc

[–] Steve 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You want to buy an IMAX theater?
I'm sure if you just talked to them they'd be happy to sell you one.

[–] ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As neat as that would be, nah I mean release the IMAX version of these movies for people to watch at home on their own devices. Disney+ already has some of these on their platform, and they work great with a latger TV, but cheap projectors are a lot more common these days, and theres also no reason IMAX couldnt work in a VR headset.

Theaters are overpriced and the quality of movies these days make the price harder and harder to justify. They also lock you into whatever situation they provide to you, so you dont control the volume, dont control if the other patrons are assholes, generally dont have good options for subtitles, and zero ability to pause to use the bathroom which is even more annoying now that movies are twice as long with less than half the narrative depth of movies that are half the length. IMAX is often the only valuable reason to see a movie in theaters anymore, but almost every theater I've been to cranks the volume so loud that I just get overstimulated and it ruins the experience. I'd much rather be able to control the environment I watch these things in so I can actually enjoy them.

I know my experience is not the same as everyone else, but it still seems stupid to gatekeep these versions of films

[–] Steve 5 points 1 week ago

Oh! You just don't like movies unless they're exactly what you want them to be. That's so booring. But okay.