Interstellar Is Going Like Gangbusters

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Wow! Interstellar is going gangbusters, especially at Imax houses which have pre-sold all tickets...

[James Biggins]

People may well have been able to watch it at home for years, but seeing it in an IMAX film presentation is a visceral experience that every film buff needs to tick off their bucket list.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Hans Zimmer's score is visceral enough, let alone with the movie. He'll be in Nashville on Feb 2nd. I may get tickets for that as long as I don't have to sit in the nose bleed section as It's at Bridgestone arena. Main floor tickets are rather pricey though... The gray zones are already sold out...

[Mike Blakesley]

Isn't that the movie that was blowing sound systems and you couldn't understand the dialogue?

[Jim Cassedy]

Several co-workers here were talking about how hard it was trying to get tickets
to see this at the local IMAX venue here in San Francisco. I was in that area the
other day and I saw quite a few people lined up at the theater lobby. WICKED,
GLADIATOR, and MOANA, which are all very popular flicks at the moment,
were also playing at the same complex, so no wonder the lobby was packed.

[James Biggins]

Isn't that the movie that was blowing sound systems and you couldn't understand the dialogue?

I think you might be referring to TENET. If you watch it on BluRay/DVD you're advised to have the subtitles enabled in order to understand a lot of the dialogue.

[Scotty Wright]

I work at an IMAX GT Laser venue and we sold out 11 straight shows. Added 4 more evening shows for the 2nd weekend that are selling fast too. Luckily we have 2 theaters, so we could shift Kraven over without having to cancel any tickets.

pretty unprecedented tbh. We’ve brought back Nolan films before, but never been able to generate this level of interest. this is new release-level. And coincidentally, Interstellar was the last movie that played here on IMAX Film before the laser install.

[Tony Bandiera Jr]

Isn't that the movie that was blowing sound systems and you couldn't understand the dialogue?

Reminded me of "Cobra" (1986) where Stallone insisted on lots of bass, so the mixers goofed and the optical track masters were severely overmodulated, resulting in "blatting" subs in every theatre. As Joe Redifer would say, "it sounds like ass."

[Bobby Henderson]

Haha. Cobra. In 70mm Ultra Stereo.

Only 8 theaters in the US and 2 in Canada have been showing Interstellar in real 15/70mm IMAX format. The IMAX company still doesn't do squat to distinguish the differences in the digital-equipped theaters. It could be the usual dual 2K Xenon setup with 5.1 audio. Or maybe it's a single projector laser setup with 5.1 audio. The ones with dual laser projectors and 12 channel audio are still pretty rare.