This new IMAX film opens Saturday, December 11 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, out by Washington Dulles Airport.
I can't wait to see it.
I love IMAX films, especially when they're shown at the Smithsonian's IMAX theaters, the finest arenas for IMAX cinema on the planet.
I remember watching a movie about the Apollo Moon Missions there: the sound was so awesome that the seats vibrated and the whole theater shook when the Saturn rocket lifted off.
Man, that's as close as I want to get to lighting that candle.
The new movie should be just as intense as well: it's as close as you or I will ever get to experiencing speeds above Mach 1.
Bet people toss their cookies in the theater when the plane rolls.
Wait and see.
Wonder if they hand out barf bags along with the tickets....
Even if this movie's not your cup of tea, if you're ever in Washington, D.C. make sure you visit the Air and Space Museum and watch one of their other movies: they've got ones about volcanoes, animals, the ocean, all manner of great subjects.
The clarity and richness of color of these movies, shot with immense cameras and lenses and special 70mm film, is not to be believed.
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1 - Cadet X
I got the chance to see this movie on the 10th, where John Stratton and the guys from Boeing were presenting it to a bunch of us cadets who were conned into seeing it. Never heard of it before in my life. This film, though on the short side, blew my expectations out of the water. The dogfights were real and in your face. Its everything about topgun that you liked, only real and in IMAX clarity and size. To be critical, the film wasnt all dogfights, and that aspect was a tease. Capt Stratton is followed too closely and It seems like the stuff he does is too scripted (like a search and rescue mission with him as the only downed pilot). His story seems somewhat generic and well... not tearjerking or in anyway dramatic in a buildungsroman sense of the word. This film greatly makes up for any flaws with its clear and awesome shots. It really puts the viewer in the heart of the action, from within an AWACS, chasing an f16, inside the briefing rooms, and racing across the nevada desert...Mad Max style. Go see this movie. It makes me damn proud to be in the Air Force. No lie.