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No, it was never shown in the 3-strip Cinerama format. But Boston's Cinerama Theater did have such a screen, and the film was projected onto it. The ticket price when I saw it back then was the astronomical (pun intended) amount of $2.00! Makes me think about the oil embargo in 1973 causing...

OK...I got through all of the previous posts...well, rushed through them...and posted some specific comments to what others have said. To respond to the conceit of the thread... I think a lot of it depends on what you as an individual wants to get out of science fiction. What does that term...

Actually, I've heard a number of, well, rocket scientists, actually praise Gravity in being surprisingly reasonable science. There are definitely issues regarding orbital mechanics in the film, but, again, "dramatic license". Among some of the things that Neil DeGrasse Tyson picked on was why...

It's referred to as "artistic license" or "dramatic license".

2001: A Space Odyssey was what I call my transcendental movie experience. I saw it during its first run in Boston (on a three-panel curved screen at the Cinerama Theater) at the tender age of 14½. I couldn't figure out what the hell happened at the end, but I was mesmerized by it and couldn't...

12 Monkeys is another well-regarded film that I didn't like. Personally, I love La Jetée, and feel that Marker was able to accomplish in 30 minutes what it took Gilliam 2 hours to do. Marker's film was, to my mind, highly imaginative in how he presented his story. It was sui generis. Gilliam's...

I saw it on its opening day. Got completely suckered into it. A week later, an out-of-town friend was visiting, and she hadn't seen it, so I dragged her to the theater. By the end of the film, I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I had been so enamored of it the first time. Nor could I...