Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

andrewtorkbaker

Hey HN! 150,000 people bought IMAX tickets to see The Odyssey the first day they went on sale. I was not one of them. So I built a site to watch every 70mm IMAX screening in the US and alert me when good seats open up. More details on Twitter: https://x.com/andrewtorkbaker/status/2078540178713629119

suho-han

great work!!

pauldavis

This is awesome - and I love the look. Can you add England/Europe listings? :)

swang

I built my own script to get a seat near the middle and towards the back at the Metreon but so far I have not seen many available. My guess is checking 15 minutes is too slow. And also I've been getting rate-limited by Cloudflare. Not sure if I want to pour more resources into getting around it. The Metreon is running IMAX 70MM showings for 24 hours straight today started at 3AM, [half hour for previews, 3 hour movie, half hour cleanup], then 7AM, 11AM, 3PM, 7PM, 11PM and one on Sunday at 3AM and all showings are basically full. It is crazy.

cinntaile

Is this a very limited release or why not just give it a few weeks and you'll get seats without any trouble?

dominotw

do i need to learn any ancient history stuff to make this more enjoyable. no rush to watch it. love exploring ancient history so can read/watch long documenatries and stuff if you have any recommendations ( hopefuly with no spoilers).

pettijohn

Please add Vancouver BC

ano-ther

I have seen a local theater advertising 70mm dual projection (but not mentioning IMAX) and another one IMAX. Will there be a difference?

globular-toast

There are only 3 screens in the UK; I've accepted I won't be going. I'm glad I got to see The Dark Knight Rises and Tenet in the BFI IMAX, though. The latter was during COVID and we had a whole row to ourselves. I don't even mind that these aren't the greatest films. IMAX is more of a spectacle in its own right and a great film will still be great on any screen.

Svoka

Can someone explain why they don't just add black bars on the side and show in filmed format?

ymir_e

What a fun website. This feels like a sort of flashback to how the web used to be in some ways.