Comment IMAX "Documentaries" (Score 2, Interesting) 191
To be fair, IMAX definitely can get a lot of things right - but I hate its films cavalier approach to "documentary" filmmaking. I just watched the fighter jet movie at the new Air and Space Museum in VA - there were insulting amounts of CGI that the film tries to pass off as authentic dogfight footage. All the films try to have some kind of narrative as well, which inevitably comes off as contrived.
I never understood why the IMAX people weren't one of the first ones on the ground after 9/11. That's a chance to do serious, historical documentary film work. I remember thinking that only IMAX could capture the kind of widespread devastation found in the rubble of the Trade Center.
And now, I think they should be sending people to New Orleans and Biloxy - it's a critical moment in American history that they should not overlook.
I never understood why the IMAX people weren't one of the first ones on the ground after 9/11. That's a chance to do serious, historical documentary film work. I remember thinking that only IMAX could capture the kind of widespread devastation found in the rubble of the Trade Center.
And now, I think they should be sending people to New Orleans and Biloxy - it's a critical moment in American history that they should not overlook.
