The title of this post might sound like a subject line in a spam ad, but you know that Michael Bay is awesome, and wants to bring you the awesome… in IMAX.
Did you think that Michael Bay’s Transformers had too much humans, but not enough giant robots kicking the crap out of each other? Well then you might want to get in line for the IMAX release of the film, because not only do we already know there will be a lot more bots, but the action scenes will be a tiny bit longer on the IMAX version.
Worst Previews quotes Michael Bay’s Official production forum:
The way to see this movie is on IMAX. Never before has there been 4k rendered character animation shot on full IMAX 70 mm film. This is a first and the results are stunning. You will see Optimus Prime in a few shots where he is actually perfectly to scale on the IMAX 50 foot tall screens.
For IMAX, I created a slightly longer cut with more robot fighting. Four scenes were shot on IMAX cameras so the screen will fill the full IMAX screen for these scenes.”
I really like this idea. IMAX simply offers a bigger and more impressive presentation, so some feel it is worth it to drop the bones for the massive screens. But they are still watching the same movie, but just getting a more detailed immerse experience.
This way, Bay promises to give those IMAX viewers a little more with some extended cuts, but not adding anything to the movie that will be missed by those suckers who don’t go to the IMAX Experience. Its just a couple extended combat scenes.
People who don’t go to IMAX will still get to see the whole movie, and you know those extended scenes will be available on DVD and Blu. This is just a nicer perk for those catching the movie in the bigger format.
