Aziz Ansari is on the show Parks & Recreation and has lots and lots of friends, including me. Apparently the manager at the AMC Theatre in Burbank didn't realize that when he screwed with Aziz. It all has to do with the nationwide scam that movie theatres are perpetuating against customers by claiming you are getting an IMAX experience even though you really aren't. The picture above is part of it. The rant by Aziz is the rest.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Helping Out A Friend - Aziz Ansari Lays Into IMAX, AMC & Regal
Aziz Ansari is on the show Parks & Recreation and has lots and lots of friends, including me. Apparently the manager at the AMC Theatre in Burbank didn't realize that when he screwed with Aziz. It all has to do with the nationwide scam that movie theatres are perpetuating against customers by claiming you are getting an IMAX experience even though you really aren't. The picture above is part of it. The rant by Aziz is the rest.
Good for him for calling them out!
ReplyDeleteMore on this at Gizmodo:
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OMG, This crap happened to me, the Lincoln Square IMAX is truly an IMAX so when I went to the AMC 25 in times square and paid $18 for Star Trek's IMAX experience I was toooo pissed to see that what Aziz said is true, the damn screen was albeit a bit larger than a regular screen but far from the massive IMAX size.
ReplyDeleteAziz you got my vote
I'm was planning to see StarTrek on IMAX at my local theater tomorrow night. I just checked and it's on a fake IMAX screen. Now I can go over to the next town and see it on a screen I already know is a real IMAX. That's Aziz!
ReplyDeleteAnd may I be the first here to say...Aziz, light!
ReplyDeleteSaw STrek Sunday on a fake Imax at the AMC Promenade in Woodland Hills, CA. Several years ago saw something on a true Imax at one of the Smithsonian museums. Big difference.
ReplyDeleteAs for ST, it's better on a regular sized screen. No need to pay Imax prices.
bigmoviezone.com lists the screen size of real and fake IMAX theaters.
ReplyDeleteI KNEW IT!
ReplyDeleteWhen Monsters & Aliens first came out, I went to see the 3D version on IMAX with some friends.
We walked in, and I said, "This isn't an IMAX screen". And, they all said, "Of course it is". I wasn't so sure at all.
There WAS the IMAX "surround sound" bullshit presentation before the show, but I just KNEW that the screen seemed puny compared to other IMAX movies I'd seen.
Aziz, I like your style. I say someone starts a blog devouted to outing all the fakery: Fake tits, fake IMAX, fake investors, fake fuckers all 'round. I'd read that damn site everyday. There is something so fulfilling about saying, "Ah ha! I KNEW it!"
ReplyDeleteCineplex pulled the same shit with Monsters vs Aliens. I wanted to see it on IMAX. Was prepared to drive an hour or so to Montreal to the IMAX theatre. When I checked the Cineplex website, it claimed IMAX was on Ste Catherine Street. The IMAX theatre is not there, so we went to the one closest to us. The cashier told me it was $3 more for the 3D experience. I asked why. "It's the special projector."
ReplyDeleteI agree with Aziz. I saw Watchmen on a new so-called Imax screen. It was so much smaller than I was expecting. I have to drive an hour away to get the real Imax experience.
ReplyDeleteI'll read his rant (and the rest of his site) another time, but I just have to say Human Giant was one of the funniest shows ever!
ReplyDelete"Illusionators" was F-ing hilarious!!!!!
Actually, Shakey, if the movie was in 3-D, the new 3-D projectors are very expensive. (I think $100,000 each?)
ReplyDeleteThat's fine, but it was the fact that they were trying to pass off a theatre as an IMAX when it wasn't.
ReplyDeleteI see, I didn't know they were claiming it was IMAX too.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I thought I was crazy when I took my kids to the new "Imax" theater in town. It was just like all the other rooms in the theater, yet they charge an extra fee for the Imax.
ReplyDeleteGlad to know it wasn't my imagination, I thought I was imagining my prior Imax experiences. It's bee a while since I went to a real Imax, but it just felt "wrong" and totally ordinary in the new Imax room the other day.
What a rip. Assholes.
I WON'T be paying extra again.
THANKS AZIZ!!!
ReplyDeleteIf you don't experience total sensory overload, it ain't a real IMAX.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should call it IMIN instead of IMAX.
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