When you watch LOTR:TTT in imax do you see it the way it is supposed to be seen? I'm hoping its just like regular theaters but on a much bigger screen. What I'm not hoping for is that it won't be shown at the correct ratio.

Well, I think Imax can only show movies that are 2 hours long, so they'd have to cut an hour of the movie. I know they cut out about 20-30 mins. of Star Wars Episode II when it was released in IMAX format.

It is being released eventually, actually I think he said Return of the King will have a simultaneous Imax/theatrical release. PJ said it would have an intermission in lieu of cutting footage. That is one film born for Imax. I am a huge Star Wars fan, but I am skipping the Imax release, but I will see LOTR on Imax.

TTT Big but not W/S sounds kind of cool but like AOTCs W/S is really important to the film.

I might go see it but I'll have to think about it.

AOTC on IMAX was cool but the Non-W/S really bothered me.

I'm sorry, but WIDESCREEN is the way I want to see TTT. the battle scenes alone demand for the widescreen shot. AOTC suffered from this in the IMAX. first cutting the scenes down (Which if TTT has an intermission it would be ) and second the battle scene in AOTC really needed to be whole and not chopped if you ask me. Fullscreen is just not gonna do it for me I suppose with TTT if it hit the IMAX because I don't want any of the nice battle scenes cut to the side.

I have seen The Two Towers at an IMAX theatre, as well as The Fellowship of the Ring when it was released. Unlike Star Wars, which was transferred and presented in the IMAX format, The Lord of the Rings movies are shown as 35mm prints. It’s the same theatrical presentation in its original aspect ratio, and as such, the film only fills about the middle height of the screen vertically but stretches to the full horizontal width (think of it as “letterboxed” on a 4:3 TV set). To further clarify, this is the IMAX flat screen type of theatre, not the IMAX Dome format. It is well worth it to me to see it on the bigger screen, which is five stories tall and seven stories wide, with the superior 40-speaker system. I was even able to use my MovieCash at the Cinemark IMAX in Dallas.

i saw FOTR on imax. sound was AMAZING. like standing next to a 747 about to take off.

I would see this type of presentation several times!

W/S All the Way!!!!

I find that releasing SW: ATOC in IMAX is very misleading. Although the film has been cut down to two hours (capacity of the projection platters), there is nowhere in the ads that suggest that this is an edited version.

Instead, they say something like "digitally presented for IMAX" without a word about the fact that this is a cut print of the theatrical version.

Does anyone care?

I saw it in IMAX. The sound was great, but I found the picture to be a bit dark and blurry compared to the regular screens. I'd prefer to just see it in a really large regular theater.