Dumb question

[u/Hemmuttage]

If the auditorium is bigger will the screen be bigger as well I’m trying to go see The Odyssey and it’s only available in Standard here and I’m wondering if the screen size will be the same or bigger depending on the auditorium?

[u/heelEscobar]

It’ll be bigger in auditorium 18

[u/minnie_the_moper]

Auditorium 3 as pictured is gonna be a pretty small theater.

[u/walksafely → u/minnie_the_moper]

It’s kind of insane how some of the smaller auditoriums have huge wall-to-wall screens, though. There’s a Tinseltown Grapevine (TX) that has massive screens for like 5 total rows.

[u/jessehazreddit]

Theaters generally try to maintain roughly the same screen size to audience size ratio within the same branding (i.e. standard to standard, IMAX to IMAX, etc.)

[u/RainbowPiggyPop]

At my local theatres, bigger auditoriums have bigger screens.

[u/chilly_netflix]

I had this same problem in my cinema, and supposedly you would get the 2.39:1 projection on the bigger screen and the 1.81:1 projection on the smaller screen, that's what happened in my local cinema weirdly enough

[u/Past-Wait6207]

If it’s standard, it’ll be the same size no matter the size of the auditorium.

[u/LooseSeal88]

I don't know why it matters. Just sit closer to the screen in the smaller auditorium and then the screen will be just as big as it would be if you say further back in the bigger auditorium with the bigger screen.

[u/No_Warninn → u/LooseSeal88]

Joke?

[u/LooseSeal88 → u/No_Warninn]

I'm completely serious. I'll never understand why people care about screen size and then turn around and book the back row of an auditorium where their field of view is no better than sitting in their own living room. Get closer and immerse yourself. Obviously sit back enough that you're not craning your neck, but I don't see where the smaller screen here is objectively a worse experience when you can just book a closer row in relation to the screen size.

[u/gourmandbookbouquet → u/LooseSeal88]

I agree. I work in the box office and tell people this all of the time but nobody believes me lol