March 26, 2006

  • I had my first experience watching a movie on IMAX. The screen is in fact friggin huge and you are more or less forced to sit towards the last rows if you want to have full view of the whole thing. The thing is that I did not watch an IMAX film itself, but the movie "V for Vendetta" that's been digitally remastered for the larger format. Because the movie is originally shot on film, some "sweeping motions" still look a little blurry on the screen. But then, the image quality is better, and those "motions" are minimized because of that. One thing that I didn't realize though is that an IMAX screen is more a square shape than a rectangular shape. Since V for Vendetta is a widescreen format, the movie doesn't utilize the whole IMAX screen, which makes it feel like you are just watching it on a traditional movie theater. On that note, the only "real" IMAX experience I got was the IMAX logo before the movie started, and it really did give me a taste on how "in your face" it can really be.

    Speaking of V for Vendetta, here's *that* quote that some people (like me) have been looking for...

    "This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

    Try and remember that by heart.