Terrific case for seeing Interstellar in IMAX

M. G. Siegler:

All the scenes in space? IMAX. All the exterior scenes on different worlds? IMAX. Most of the scenes inside the spaceship? Regular film. Interiors on Earth? Regular film. Scenes out in the corn fields of Earth? Largely IMAX.

The effect is profound. Traditional film suddenly feels very small and almost claustrophobic. Those black bars at the top and bottom of the screen become horizontal railings that while perhaps not trapping us in, are clearly guiding us along. When the screen opens up to IMAX format though, you’re set free. I kept moving my head up and down trying to make sure I wasn’t missing anything.

One scene that stuck out in particular is when Matthew McConaughey’s Cooper is driving away from his farm. The shot goes from inside the truck, shot in film, to a shot from the back of the truck as the farm recedes, in IMAX, to a shot of a rocket launch, still in IMAX, to a shot of Cooper in a space shuttle, back in film format. You just couldn’t do something like this before this movie.

And:

I’ve seen the question asked a lot on the internet this past week: is it worth seeing Interstellar in theaters? In my view, absolutely yes. But if you’re going to do it, you simply must see it in IMAX. You will quite literally be missing out on aspects of the film if you do not.