Super!

Yesterday I was treated to an IMAX 3D Experience and the premiere of Superman Returns. Definitely worth seeing anywhere, but the 3D aspects of the movie that were part of the IMAX show added just that much more interest.

Today's 3D technology is sophisticated and precise. Not at all like the schlocky B-list horror films of the '50s where you had to wear those wonky red/blue lens glasses. Remember Creature from the Black Lagoon? You still get glasses but they're cool.

For me, of course, as a technical writer, I was just as thrilled by the explanation of the IMAX technology as by the movie itself. "Light from the 15,000-watt lamp of some IMAX projectors is so bright that, if one were operated on the moon, people on Earth could see it with the naked eye."

And this is Canadian technology. I remember seeing it first at Expo '67 in Montreal.

About half the installed IMAX theatres are within museums, planetariums, and maritime centres. The other half are in commercial venues.

If you haven't seen an IMAX 3D film, put that on your list of things to do. Near the top.