IMAX Poster National Media Museum - Bradford

Originally most of the films made in IMAX were like National Geographic movies. They were quite educational, with fun being perhaps a secondary aspect. I have seen many of them and I would recommend the space films like Space Staion 3D, also earth based films like Everest. I saw a screening of Everest with a talk by the director of the film Greg MacGillivray who spoke about the experience of making an IMAX film in he hostile environment like Everest.

Since 2002 IMAX has used an IMAX proprietary "DMR" (Digital Remastering) process that allowed conventional films to be upconverted into IMAX format thereby allowing blockbuster films not filmed in IMAX to be processed and then show on the IMAX screens.  The first film to be shown was Appolo 13.   I saw the The Matrix Reloaded on IMAX and I think I may have been the only person there that had not seen the first film in the series, it was really good.  The latest blockbuster to get the IMAX treatment is The Dark Knight.  IMAX Bradford is showing a double bill Batman Begins and The Dark Knight in February.