Found this out recently and it’s been bugging me.
The old Boeing IMAX at the Pacific Science Center was the only screen in the city with a real GT laser, full frame 1.43:1 setup. That’s the actual format directors shoot for, the thing that makes a movie like Oppenheimer or Dune look the way it’s supposed to. The Space Needle bought it, renamed it “IMAX at the Center,” and as of this year they stopped showing feature films there. Documentaries only now.
That leaves the PACCAR IMAX (which is a Liemax), a smaller cropped screen and not the real thing. And we’ve never had a 70mm film IMAX at all.
Which is a little embarrassing for a city this size. We’ve got a film festival, an indie theater scene, and people here will happily lecture you about movies, but you can’t actually watch one in true IMAX anywhere in town. Meanwhile we keep losing theaters in general (RIP Varsity).
So my actual question for the sub: what can we even do about this? I’ve seen a couple of change.org petitions floating around, one to bring a true 70mm IMAX to Seattle and one to keep feature films at the old Boeing screen, but do those things ever actually work or is it just yelling into the void? Is there a better lever here? Who even makes this call now, the Space Needle, Seattle Center, the city? Curious if anyone knows the real way to make noise about this.
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