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The latest Terminator is going to be released at IMAX theaters, but it will look different from the previous films in the series, hopefully, in a good way.  While the third was a bit, well, sad, Terminator Salvation is going for a darker look, all the way down to the film stock. Unfortunately, that choice will be an issue for the IMAX release.

According to McG, director of T4, "I wanted to shoot the film with this dead stock [old film that has been distressed to give the movie a desaturated look]. Therefore it wasn't conducive to shooting it in IMAX format. But we're going to bump it up to IMAX. We are going to bump it up, and it holds up very nicely, and it looks and sounds that much more impactful. But one price we had to pay for making those choices was that we didn't shoot in IMAX."

Considering the number of viewings in regular theaters and the lifetime on home screens, do you think it was wise to sacrifice IMAX film for the sake of the overall look of the movie? --Leslie Shapiro

Gizmodo