Up Close and Personal

Out with the dinosaurs, in with tornadoes: It's time for the periodic changing of the guard at the IMAX 3-D theater at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Replacing DinoMax, Born to Be Wild and Under the Sea are the 3-D, large-screen mindbenders Tornado Alley and Flying Monsters (okay,...

By Susan Froyd

May 31, 2012

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Out with the dinosaurs, in with tornadoes: It's time for the periodic changing of the guard at the IMAX 3-D theater at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Replacing DinoMax, Born to Be Wild and Under the Sea are the 3-D, large-screen mindbenders Tornado Alley and Flying Monsters (okay, that's another dinosaur movie), which will both play several times a day at the theater in an open-ended run.

Tornado Alley, which follows Sean Casey of Storm Chasers and his fleet of customized vehicles equipped with high-tech gear and a 70mm camera, promises to be an edge-of-the-seat thriller. And David Attenbourough's Flying Monsters is certain to scare the living daylights out of you as it explores the rise and fall of the pterosaur, a little-known prehistoric flying beast with a forty-foot wing span. You know what IMAX does to even the most minuscule things; now imagine that with an airliner-sized winged reptile, in 3-D. Whoa.

The IMAX 3-D Theater, located on the second floor of the museum, at 2001 Colorado Boulevard, is open daily; for tickets, $6 to $10 (museum packages are also available), go to www.dmns.org/imax or call 303-322-7009.
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Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the "Thrills" editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.

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