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Inception: The IMAX Experience
PostedJuly 25, 2010
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from AMC Santa Anita 16, Arcadia, CA
What a disaster.
Since MovieTickets.com didn't have my tickets readily available at any of the kiosks, it was the perfect way to start off movie night. After being moved from kiosk, to kiosk, to ticket window, to guest services I finally found that my name wasn't in the computer. I guess buying tickets 3 days in advanced wasn't time enough for MovieTickets.com to get their act together.
Since MovieTickets.com didn't have my tickets readily available at any of the kiosks, it was the perfect way to start off movie night. After being moved from kiosk, to kiosk, to ticket window, to guest services I finally found that my name wasn't in the computer. I guess buying tickets 3 days in advanced wasn't time enough for MovieTickets.com to get their act together.
After giving the cashier my confirmation number, I overheard a woman asking for tickets to a different show because there were no more seats in the "IMAX" theater. See the IMAX in Arcadia doesn't allow you to pre-purchase seats...but I guess that's because calling that theater an IMAX is a bit of a stretch.
I got tickets to another showing of Inception that wasn't in IMAX and started an hour later (buying tickets online really helps, huh?). So while waiting around I walked into the IMAX theater to see how full it was. What I noticed, besides the theater being full, was that the screen was nowhere near the size of a true IMAX. Turns out, after asking Guest Services, that the "IMAX" at the AMC Santa Anita 16 is only 60 feet wide.. when standard IMAX is 72 feet wide. It also looked not even close to the 53.8 ft tall, more like 30 ft.
In line for the new theater I read an article about IMAX cheapening their brand by having smaller sized theater that give you what they now call the IMAX experience. What a rip off.. I guess in this day in age the buyer really needs to beware of the marketing BS.
Inception was pretty good, but the run around with AMC and Movietickets.com was awful, thus tainting my view of the movie. I will not go to that theater ever again and will ask about screen sizes before walking into any "IMAX" theaters in the future. I recommend you do the same.
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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