Fake IMAX?


Aziz Ansari is more than a little pissed off. While his new show Parks and Recreation is doing fairly well and he’s been in some of this years’s biggest comedies including I Love You, Man, Observe and Report, and the upcoming Funny People.

But Aziz is fighting for the movie going public by taking on IMAX, Regal and AMC.

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Ansari recently noticed during a viewing of Star Trek: The IMAX Experience that the screen that he was watching the movie on didn’t seem up to par with normal IMAX screens. The screen was only slightly bigger than a normal one. When finished with his Star Trek experience, he immediately complained to a customer service rep who refused to comment on the IMAX screen and only offered Ansari two free passes.

Ansari states on his blog:

“Basically IMAX is whoring out their brand name and trying to trick people. These new ‘IMAX’ theaters are really just nice digital screens with good sound, but they ARE NOT IMAX.” Ansari is now calling for a boycott of IMAX’s new digital screens, which can be found at many Regal and AMC theaters and are about one third the size of legitimate IMAX screens.

I’ve only seen one recent movie in IMAX and that was The Dark Knight and it was amazing Like its catchphrase suggests, IMAX is meant to be an “experience,” and higher quality sound and a somewhat bigger screen doesn’t really constitute that.

Check Aziz’s blog for the whole story Here


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