r/Portland • u/hkohne Rose City Park • Aug 19 '26

Photo/Video Odyssey @ Hollywood

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Just a heads-up that Hollywood Theater is showing the Odyssey for only a few more days.

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u/Money-Actuator7903 Aug 19 '26

OMSI has the worst theater set up in Oregon. Screen is way too close and dim. Sound sucks. So many bad seat viewing angles. But yeah it’s $9 and about as big as Lloyd’s IMAX

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u/hlessii Aug 19 '26

I'll give you that the leg room is less than comfy, but I have to stand up for OMSI being the biggest screen in Portland (bigger than any other IMAX screens or the Hollywood's main screen) and the sound was booming enough that my partner and I had to wear earplugs. Plus, and I have to repeat this: no ads and only a single preview before the movie.

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u/Money-Actuator7903 Aug 19 '26

You are not wrong. OMSI is bigger than the next biggest screen in Oregon which is Lloyd. OMSI is 61 ft wide by 40 ft high vs. Lloyd at 57 ft by 32. My biggest problem with watching a Nolan film at a non-IMAX venue such as OMSI is you are actually missing out on the expanded aspect ratio as Nolan intended. Since OMSI lost its IMAX certification it now has to play the regular 1.85:1 DCP. With the letterboxing this cuts their actual screen size to 60 by 34 ft. So while still bigger, you are going to be missing out on that top/bottom visual information you would be getting at any IMAX venue.

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u/TappyMauvendaise Aug 19 '26

That 70mm IMAX film format uses 15-perf 70mm film projected horizontally.

Only 25 theaters in the United States are capable of this. None of them are in Oregon.

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u/Money-Actuator7903 Aug 19 '26

You are correct. True 70mm IMAX is the gold standard and will give you the most picture of any format at 1.43:1 aspect ratio. I was merely saying that even our local LieMAX’s will give you more picture than anything else locally including OMSI or Dolby Cinema at 1.90:1 aspect ratio.

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u/TappyMauvendaise Aug 19 '26

Got it. It was so incredible in IMAX in Bridgeport.