I saw this Imax presentation in the cinema close to the Canyon itself on either May 31st or June 1st 1988, when it was still relatively fresh and new. Imax technology was not yet that familiar either. They billed this as seeing the Canyon as you will never see it in real life, and that was no lie, so that counters other reviewers' remarks about why have this film playing so close to the actual site...
And I must say that I did plenty of different things at by and in the Canyon on that trip - including seeing the sun rise over it as the only person around for miles, and (first!) seeing it in the pitch dark (there was just one light on way down below, and that was it) - and the fact that I had seen the film did not detract from anything I experienced at those times.
The film was tremendously exciting in my memory, though I also loved the quiet scenes of the gardens the native Americans had cultivated way down below, as well as those historical recreations as the Spanish first encountered this great gash in the Earth's surface. But most of all I of course remembered the boating and flying scenes, and I did indeed leave the cinema basically thrilled and exhilarated to the point where I could not catch my breath. That has - perhaps thankfully - never happened to me since, and had never happened before.
It was thus an EXTREME, earth-shattering experience for me, a little scary, but I was utterly overwhelmed by the majesty and beauty of this place that Danny Glover spoke about in the 1991 Lawrence Kasdan film "Grand Canyon". You know that human beings can do nothing about the Canyon. Even if they turned it into one big reservoir, it would go on and re-establish once the dam eventually fell down. Even if it was nuked it would just grow bigger and go on.
We need that in our lives, and - to my mind - the Imax "Hidden Secrets" gave me everything I needed to see and know about the Canyon overall, in a way that did not blunt the actual experience.
I salute the daring and imaginative/visionary makers for those reasons.
And I must say that I did plenty of different things at by and in the Canyon on that trip - including seeing the sun rise over it as the only person around for miles, and (first!) seeing it in the pitch dark (there was just one light on way down below, and that was it) - and the fact that I had seen the film did not detract from anything I experienced at those times.
The film was tremendously exciting in my memory, though I also loved the quiet scenes of the gardens the native Americans had cultivated way down below, as well as those historical recreations as the Spanish first encountered this great gash in the Earth's surface. But most of all I of course remembered the boating and flying scenes, and I did indeed leave the cinema basically thrilled and exhilarated to the point where I could not catch my breath. That has - perhaps thankfully - never happened to me since, and had never happened before.
It was thus an EXTREME, earth-shattering experience for me, a little scary, but I was utterly overwhelmed by the majesty and beauty of this place that Danny Glover spoke about in the 1991 Lawrence Kasdan film "Grand Canyon". You know that human beings can do nothing about the Canyon. Even if they turned it into one big reservoir, it would go on and re-establish once the dam eventually fell down. Even if it was nuked it would just grow bigger and go on.
We need that in our lives, and - to my mind - the Imax "Hidden Secrets" gave me everything I needed to see and know about the Canyon overall, in a way that did not blunt the actual experience.
I salute the daring and imaginative/visionary makers for those reasons.