Elliot Shank
Todd VaziriConfused as to what “IMAX” really means? I’m here to explain it.
What Does “IMAX” Mean?
http://fxrant.blogspot.com/2026/04/what-does-imax-mean.html
Jeremy Latour
Dave Bittner@tvaziri IMAX is the "contains natural flavors" of cinema.
Anthony Sorace@tvaziri $4 more per ticket?
Marcin Juszkiewicz 🙃@tvaziri I love LieMAX name.
Cinema 10 minutes from my place (Helios network) announced last year that they will have IMAX room. I doubted cause their rooms are quite small.
Finally went there for "Project Hail Mary". It was far from the IMAX experience I had in Frankfurt, a few months earlier.
ccarlson71@tvaziri I’m more confused now than when I started reading!
Marc Robinson 
@tvaziri To me, IMAX is a viewing experience in a science museum on a ginormous dome-shaped screen that requires craning your neck to see some parts of the screen regardless of where you are sitting in the theater. Also, the projector and the film (on a platter, threaded two stories high) are on view behind a glass wall as you enter the theater. Also, it costs more than admission to the museum. None of these facts should be regarded negatively.
@marcintosh hahahah yes
I grew up in Chicago and we had an “OmnIMAX" theater at one of the museums
ChancerubbageMarc, to me, imax doesn’t HAVE to have a surround dome screen, but is nice when it does. Early true imax was flat screen as well. I think the first think I saw was ‘to Fly’ back in the 70s.
mray
chris overcash@tvaziri “I MAXimize profits by releasing in as many formats as possible…” -a marketing pig?
Jerrod Hofferth@tvaziri Thanks — a nice refresher / sanity check. Yep, my decade+ old “IMAX vs LieMAX retrofit/RPX” knowledge still seems relevant, and it seems it’s gotten even worse since.
I’m lucky to have a real IMAX with 70mm film capability nearby (Nashville Opry Mills) when the film really calls for it, but lately I’ve had a far more consistently-great experience with Dolby screens… and several of those are even closer to home.
Nothing made me more angry than when they started applying ‘IMAX’ to films I no longer considered ‘imax’, which to me meant it had a credit card sized piece of film and was shot on film negative of the same size.
I’ve never even cared to suss out the watering down and bastardization of ‘Imax’ . I think multiplexes have even applied it for anything playing in front of ‘stadium seating’
Thanks. I expect complexity in the read of your explanation
@Chancerubbage @joesteel also not always stadium seating
Manni
Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )@tvaziri You are telling me Chris Nolan used digital cameras???
@blenderdumbass when did I say that
Paul
Nathan Snelgrove@tvaziri I love this so much
@nathansnelgrove thank you i'm kinda proud of it
@tvaziri you should be. Best explanation I’ve ever seen, and it makes me so angry. Deeply love it.
Brian Grinter@tvaziri LieMAX
I like that - haven’t heard that one before