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Best/Favorite IMAX Movie?

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Deputy Travis Junior
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Basically, what movies do you all think made the best use of those giant IMAX screens? (Let's stay away from made-for-IMAX documentaries even though all those cosmology movies are amazing.) I think this is a very different discussion than simply "what's the best movie you've seen?" The perfect example is Avatar, which I sadly didn't see in the IMAX. That was a C- movie at best, but the visuals on that screen must have made you feel like you were visiting another planet. That is, it was a bad movie yet a fantastic IMAX experience.

My favorite is Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol. The Burj Khalifa scene was easily one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a movie. My palms literally began to sweat while Cruise was climbing with those electric gecko gloves, and I got a rush of adrenaline when he ran down the glass + did the Tarzan swing through the window. Runner-up would probably be the Everest movie based on "Into Thin Air." It served up incredible panoramas of the Himalayas again and again.
Brian Earl Spilner
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The Dark Knight
FancyKetchup14
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Dunkirk
hunter2012
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As the two above, just about any Christopher Nolan movie. He films them on the IMAX 70mm camera so you could say his movies were made for IMAX.

I'll add Interstellar in imax, it was great movie to view in IMAX.
MGS
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Avatar in IMAX 3D was fantastic.
GiveEmHellBill
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I've only seen a handful, but Gravity in IMAX 3D was absolutely incredible.
Brian Earl Spilner
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I wish I had an IMAX near me when Avatar came out. I was home in the valley for Christmas with no IMAX theater within 200 miles.
rhutton125
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3D Gravity, two months after release on a Tuesday morning in a cold theater by myself. Still my favorite theater experience.
TCTTS
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Are we talking shot in IMAX or just shown in IMAX? If we're going with shot, I'd say this my order, as I'm pretty sure each of these had a least a sequence or two (if not far more) shot in IMAX...

01. The Dark Knight
02. Avatar
03. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
04. Blade Runner 2049
05. Gravity
06. Interstellar
07. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
08. Dunkirk
09. Skyfall
10. TRON: Legacy

If we're talking shown in IMAX, but not shot in IMAX, I'd add...

- Star Trek
- Inception
- Batman Begins
- Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
- The Matrix Reloaded (the first theatrical feature I ever saw in IMAX)
- Watchmen
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