![]() Live-action films 4DX is not suitable for.The CJ4DPLEX technology is the leading 4D film tech for the latest Hollywood blockbusters, animations, and live concerts. This film technology incorporates on-screen visuals, environmental effects such as wind, water, rain, fog, snow, scent, and many others, and synchronized motion chairs to achieve an immersive multisensory cinematic experience. I’ll see you at the BFI IMAX for opening weekend and the Odeon West End Dolby Cinema a few days later.4DX is state-of-the-art cinematographic technology that was developed and launched by CJ4DPLEX. Or you could do what I’m doing – and book for both. The seats are always very comfortable too, whereas IMAX screens, while generally good in that regard, can be hit and miss – and at a run time of 3 hours 12 mins your posterior will thank you for choosing carefully. If you can get to a Dolby Screen it’s a tough choice as there’s likely to be an IMAX screen nearby too, but if you would pick only one, I’d say Dolby sits at the top of the pile. Ultimately then, for Avatar: The Way of Water it’s a choice between IMAX with single laser, IMAX Xenon or Dolby Cinema. These would be bottom of my list, but still a better option than “waiting for it to come to streaming”. Personally, I wouldn’t recommend it for a first viewing, as it’s likely to be very distracting, but it could be fun for a follow-up.įinally, you have your standard 2K screens with RealD 3D, or if you really have to, plain old 2D. If neither is an option, then other large formats would be a good choice, which here in the UK would include Odeon iSense, Cineworld Superscreen, Empire IMPACT, and Vue Xtreme – which all offer above-average screen sizes, 4K projection, and Dolby Atmos.įor experience junkies, 4DX could be fun – you won’t get a large screen, Dolby Atmos sound, HDR, or HFR, but you will get seats that move up and down and water and air blasted at you at key moments, which could be fun during the flying sequences – or your worst nightmare – YMMV. Either way, the richness of the Dolby image should prove a perfect match for Avatar: The Way of Water. Where it loses out to IMAX is sheer scale – as the screens aren’t as large and you’ll be seeing less overall image at 1:85:1 than IMAX 1.90:1 - except if your Dolby theater has a 2.39:1 screen - in which case, technically you'd be seeing even less of the image, despite the wider screen. Dolby Cinema will show the film in 3D, 4K, and HFR, and raise IMAX in two areas – it can do high dynamic range (HDR), giving even more contrast, deeper blacks, and color richness to the image, and also Dolby Atmos sound which delivers even more sonic precision. ![]() So, any easy win for IMAX Single-Laser then? Not quite. ![]() This will be limited to 2K resolution but can still do HFR – though whether it will or not will be difficult to ascertain – you’ll have to contact your local screen to find out. ![]() If there isn’t an IMAX laser near you then you’ll be limited to a Xenon lamp-based projector. ![]() The other advantage of IMAX Laser is that these screens will also come with 12-channel sound – so you get even more impact and overhead action – it’s always thunderously impressive. This means that while single laser IMAX will net you 3D, 4K, and HFR, but dual laser will be limited to 2K, HFR. The issue then is that while all IMAX projectors can display HFR, dual laser can only do so at 2K resolution rather than 4K (allegedly due to overheating). For the Avatar remaster and Way of Water, Cameron has used a clever system that only increases the frame rate for fast action sequences, so you get all of the benefits of clearer motion, without any of the downsides. However, its use has proved divisive, due to creating an unnatural-looking image. This is where the movie frame rate is increased over the standard 24 frames per second and has been used in the past on films such as The Hobbit series and Gemini Man. The wrinkle is down to high frame rate or HFR technology. Avatar: The Way of Water is framed at 1:90:1 in all IMAX screens. ![]()
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