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Last weekend Laura and I went to see the latest CGI film, Beowolf. It was a daft but entertaining film, but what made if particularly interesting is that we saw it in 3D at the BFI IMAX screen in London. Not only is it the largest cinema screen in Britain (so they told us :), but the film was shown in 3D. Now, to people of my age and over this invokes images of those cardboard glasses with a green lens and a red lens (and by lens I mean acetate…), but these are based on polarised light (for details, see wikipedia), which have no colour tinting on the lenses, so you get a full colour 3D experience, and you get to look very trendy:

I’m quite late to the IMAX party, but I was very impressed, and can’t recommend it enough. At times you really did feel like you could reach out and touch things, even though the screen was 50 meters away. I’m told it helps if you have more central seats, and luckily we did. Beowolf worked quite well in 3D, and probably makes a good film to go see at the IMAX if you’re quick enough (it’s near the end of its run at the BFI). It takes advantage of the medium without playing too heavily of the 3D aspect – it’s there, but they’re not chucking things at the screen every two minutes to make you remember it.