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...gaggles of girls go for heroine and princess gear, some youngsters, like Radhika Garland, tried to be creative. While browsing at Boston Costume, she decided to dress up as "an Amazon because it's something new. I'm always a witch." An amazon? The river, perhaps, or maybe the Imax movie. Alessandra Davin initially planned on being a hippie, and then the devil, but ultimately settled on "Dracula...because...um...I just thought of it." Clever! While all frightening characters were moderately popular, the Scream-murderer attire proved to be a particular favorite. Marta Bezoari said she wanted...
...same way Kate Winslet did when she sobbed, "I'll never let go." Or maybe it won't. Even if you're long past the Titanic movie phase, this exhibit is still fascinating. Examine jewelry, furnishings, and currency removed from the legendary ship, and then scurry over to the IMAX film Titanica. First showing: 9 a.m.; last showing: 8 p.m. World Trade Center Boston...
...rain forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate and with them, the cures for just about any disease imaginable. This is taught to every second grader, and it is one of the main themes in the new IMAX film Amazon. Now playing at the Boston Museum of Science, Amazon follows two medicine men--an American ethnobotonist and a tribal shaman--on their separate quests for new plants and possible medicines, before they are gone. Although it hasn't been as well publicized as Everest, the other IMAX film currently playing at the museum, crowds of a respectable size still...
...people who have never been in an IMAX theater, or who have only seen the shows on flat rectangular screens, the five-story dome of the museum's Omni Theater is quite a pleasant shock. The screen curves and stretches upward on all sides until the panels catch up with each other and meet harmoniously in a perfect half-sphere, forming a deceivingly delicate, pearly shell that encompasses and dominates the audience for the entire show. The viewer might be tempted to complain about neck strain, but the seats do recline. Besides, when the movie actually starts, one will realize...
...special on a mediocre day, and not quite as entertaining as a decent feature film (which has a comparable admission price), Amazon still offers a fun alternative to staying home. It is worth both the time and temporary discomfort to the neck, even if only because it is an IMAX show. It might not be educational in the strictest sense, but that is not the point. Like most, if not all IMAX pictures, Amazon is all about being swallowed up by a world of vivid color and humbled by man's own insignificant size...