by Emilie West

Created on: November 11, 2009

People usually go to the movies for amusement and diversion. They enjoy the way movies take them to an entirely different world, introduce them to different people and allow them live in that story for approximately 90 minutes. Movies make them feel like what they're seeing is more real than their own lives at that moment, because, unlike a book, they are completely shut off from everything else. Reading a good book can certainly transport someone to a different world as well, but it still takes that person to imagine it, before it can go there. Watching a movie creates the images for you, so you can completely shut off your brain, sit back in a dark cinema, where all your senses are forcibly directed towards the movie screen, and relax.

Nowadays, we have the computer technologies to make everything look real in movies. From explosions to monsters, we can create whatever we want. This makes these movie-worlds even more realistic, because viewers are left without a doubt that what they just experienced is as real as it gets.

But there is always room for improvement. Society is always craving 'bigger and better' and with high definition computer animation technology pretty much peaking and becoming a standard, movie producers had to start looking for new ways to improve. And they found one.

IMAX makes going to a movie an even more lifelike experience. It adds yet another dimension, making movie-goers not only feel like they are in the movie with their minds, but with their bodies as well.

Aside from IMAX making movies, if possible, even more enjoyable, it should also play a factor in one of the movie industry's biggest problems: piracy. Internet downloading is happening worldwide, hurting the industry quite effectively. People find that they can easily enjoy movies from their homes, for free. Sure regular cinema adds to a movie-experience because of the atmosphere, the lights and the size of the screen, but because of the quality of television screens and surround-sound systems these days, they can turn their living rooms into their own personal cinemas. So what would make people get up from behind their home-theaters and go to actual movie theaters again? You would have to give them something they can't get at home.

I think the future of movie industry goes wherever the people go. It depends entirely on what they want. They want real, they get real. Recently, a lot of movies have come out with the possibility of watching it in 3D, and people have been responding to it. This encourages movie producers to continue the hype, so I believe that in future more and more movies will appear in IMAX format. Movie-goers are willing to pay an extra buck for the extra experience (regular tickets are already ridiculously expensive anyways) and downloaders will go take a look for themselves, because even the most realistic of their downloaded movies can't live up to the vividness of 3D.

Pretty soon, every movie will have a possibility to be seen in 3D and who knows, in so-many years everyone will have a pair of 3D-glasses back home, so they can sit down on their own couches and watch the 3D-reality of future movies on their own TV's.

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