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So I went and saw Star Trek again, but this time I saw it in the *pseu­do* IMAX that Hoyts is push­ing hard at the moment. Its not ‘real’ IMAX. The screen is not 4 storeys tall. Its not worth an extra $5.
What I think this is what we **should** get for the over-the-top $17 *reg­u­lar* tick­et price.
So, what do we get in *pseu­do* IMAX? Well first of there is some­thing that we get less of that is a pleas­ant sur­prise, we get less ads before the fea­ture, no slide ads, no blown-up tv ads, no com­put­er game tie-in ads, no you-should-go-to-the-movies-more ads, we only get two trail­ers for oth­er movies and then we are into the fea­ture.
These two trail­ers are good, they blast onto the screen in this IMAX for­mat, the house lights go out, the image is rock sol­id and the sound it rock­ing and that is impres­sive for about 30 sec­onds.
**SPOILER ALERT**
By the time the trail­ers are over, the wow-fac­tor is gone. Sure the movie starts and it is bet­ter both visu­al­ly and audi­bly than in a reg­u­lar cin­e­ma, but not enough to keep you aware of the dif­fer­ence.
Unfor­tu­nate­ly for me, this lack of awe at the tech­nol­o­gy meant I paid atten­tion to the film. On the third view­ing it final­ly occurred to me. Star Trek is crap. And I’m not talk­ing about the time-trav­el stuff, or the warp-speed stuff, I just mean its own inter­nal log­ic. Like when the plan to get the bad guys all hinges on them get­ting the Sat­urn first, but by the time they get there its too late, but not one sin­gle char­ac­ter has a prob­lem with that and they just go ahead with the plan as if it is all work­ing out fine, all because the visu­al of the ship ris­ing out of the cloud is cool, so the audi­ence won’t notice anoth­er major plot hole.
Its a bit of fun, just be sure to put your brain in neu­tral before the film starts.
Seen @ Pseu­do IMAX @ Hoyts, Enter­tain­ment Quar­ter, Moore Park, Aus­tralia
*Tick­et cost:* $22

This movie is com­plete­ly deserv­ing of the praise it has been get­ting from the crit­ics and the audi­ence. See it on the big screen if you can. But be warned, its raw and hard going, but worth it.
Seen @ Acad­e­my Twin, Padding­ton, Aus­tralia

Seen @ Hoyts, Broad­way, Aus­tralia
With Salv

Seen @ Read­ing Cin­e­ma, Mar­ket City, Hay­mar­ket, Aus­tralia

Seen @ Verona, Padding­ton, Aus­tralia

Seen @ Acad­e­my Twin, Padding­ton, Aus­tralia

Seen @ Hoyts, Broad­way, Aus­tralia
With Salv

There are so many many things about this film that are bad… where to start.
Plot, act­ing, spe­cial effects, music, light­ing, art direc­tion, his­tor­i­cal accu­ra­cy… this movie has NONE of these things at all.
Seen @ Read­ing Cin­e­ma, Mar­ket City, Hay­mar­ket, Aus­tralia

Seen @ Read­ing Cin­e­ma, Mar­ket City, Hay­mar­ket, Aus­tralia

Seen @ Acad­e­my Twin, Padding­ton, Aus­tralia