Dune Part Two at Dolby Cinema

After watching Dune Part Two at an IMAX theatre, I needed to watch it at a Dolby Cinema for comparison.

Compared to my experience watching Dune Part One at a Dolby Cinema and IMAX theatre, I think for Dune Part Two, the IMAX experience was better overall. The reason is the aspect ratio. IMAX has a taller screen and this time, the movie made full use of the taller screen to show a bit more. Here, the Dolby Cinema experience lost out, since it uses the normal cinema screen aspect ratio. In terms of sound, I also felt the IMAX experience had more impact. Maybe it was just this time, but I found the Dolby Cinema sound to be somewhat softer that I remember. To give it the benefit of the doubt, I would say IMAX and Dolby Cinema are on par for sound.

In conclusion, this time, for Dune Part Two, the IMAX experience was better, but only because the movie was able to make proper use of the taller screen (compared to Dune Part One, where the IMAX part felt more like an afterthought). It is nice to have a movie advertise itself as "Shot for IMAX" and actually deliver. Still, not many movie actually deliver on such an advertising promise, so I would say, to err on the safe side, the Dolby Cinema experience is usually more consistent.