The 11-mile long, 600 lbs IMAX print of ‘OPPENHEIMER’

600 lbs ~ 272 kg

I didn’t realize imax was still film. I figured it went digital with everything else.

Some things to keep in mind about the theater experience.

Only a handful of theaters do film IMAX anymore. A lot of IMAX locations are just 4k DCP (Digital Cinema Package)
Most theaters in the world are digital projectors with a max resolution of 1998x1080 or 2048x858

Part of the reason these factors still exist is cost. A poorly maintained film projector with a lousy film print can ruin a movie going experience. Hollywood would sometimes release so very shitty prints. The digital projectors are much easier to maintain so the experience is often more ideal for the average movie goer.

Having said that, if a theater takes good care of their film projectors and they have a well made and well kept print, the experience can be amazing.

This obsession with the length and weight of the film is such a bizarre marketing strategy.

I'm sure I'm wrong, but it's hard to imagine this being better quality than what we can do digitally these days.

16k, it's iMAX, which is about as good as it gets.

All of this could fit on a micro SD card.

I assumed even an IMAX film would be digital now.

If I pay to see a movie in an IMAX theater, this is the film being loaded? Is this normal for IMAX?

Going to see Oppenheimer in imax soon and this post got me researching about imax and fake imax and now im a little disappointed that the imwx theater im going to is just digital imax (fake imax). Oh well :/

Me: Watching it on my phone Nolan: 🫨

This is insane. I want to go watch this in IMAX so badly, but there are no IMAX theaters anywhere near me. Maybe one day I'll get a chance. Do they ever reshow older IMAX movies? Like, I would kill to go back and see Interstellar or Dark Knight.

There are productions that still use film?

EDIT: Missed the iMAX part.

I read quite a few comments, admittedly not all. But I haven't seen this asked.

How is this 600 pounder handled? Forklift? Hoist? WTH?

Go watch the movie. A lot of people worked very hard on it. But still, remember to show your support to the strike.

Holy shit balls.

I'm so stoked for this. Just got done listening through The Last Podcast on the Left's series on the Manhattan project too

Wait, they're still printing movies O_o
I thought it was only stored on computer nowadays. This is sick !

I used to be a projectionist at an art house theater. We just did 16 mm prints. Just imagining this going wrong due to some threading issue and the film going everywhere is giving me anxiety.

The little burn mark on tape is the nuke test scene..

Don't they send them on encrypted hard drives these days

It would be more inconvenient shipping that hunk of a thing compared to a hard drive

Then again it makes it easy for the movie to be leaked early by someone since it's not encrypted

Pretty unnecessary in this digital age

It's a bit off an off-topic but, can someone explain me the difference between IMAX and iSense? I've googled it but don't fully understand it. How does iSense compare to this beast of an IMAX film reel for example? What about more standard IMAX theatres?

Thanks!

The film being that close to the edge of the platter gives me MASSIVE anxiety. I've dealt with brain wraps or film melting in the gate, but those are easy compared to film slinkying off the edge of the platter. Nothing like coming into a booth to find hundreds of feet of film in a rats nest of sadness and rainchecks.

Booked my imax ticket today. Very excited

Guessing this will beat Interstellar record for longest IMAX film. Interstellar has the record being 2 hours and 47 minutes. But looks like Oppenheimer is 3 hours long.

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/interstellar-imax/

Should be out it on a giant cassette Cut that bad boi down to 5.5 miles each roll!

I had no idea it was actual film and this thicc

I wish there was a full size imax theater near me, but there isn’t even one in my state. Going to see Oppenheimer in the biggest screen I can, but it not being imax is gonna be rough

Is there a reason that it's oblong shaped and not circular?

I'm kind of out of the loop. What is the hype around oppenheimer and barbie recently?

Super holy mackerels Batman!

Damn! Can’t wait to see it

Them titays gonna be massive

This reminds me of one of those documentaries where they show some ridiculous mechanical contraption in a scene, and the narrator says, "Before the technology became extinct, it had become vastly more complex and sophisticated, but alas, it's days were numbered..."

Man, that is one tasty burger

Dammit I was going to watch Oppenheimer in my local laser IMAX, but this picture made me buy a ticket to Prague to decide for myself if 1570mm worth it :D

Can't wait! IMAX in Providence can run the full 70mm version.

Why tho?

3d movies are twice as long as that!

I miss building up and tearing down film.

What’s the point of even doing it on film if it was shot digitally?

Or did they go through the whole process using analog technology? I don’t know much about this movie.

Seeing this tonight and cannot wait!

Guessing this will beat Interstellar record for longest IMAX film. Interstellar has the record being 2 hours and 47 minutes. But looks like Oppenheimer is 3 hours long.

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/interstellar-imax/

... while slipping from the carrier?