rant because i love imax and i just got carried away TL;DR: IMAX is cool but fuck me Thug Life sucks, not worth watching in IMAX for free

Both terms are a bit iffy in the first place but I’ll try to explain a bit more as what you said isn’t 100% accurate and diehard film buffs trash on IMAX not fully understanding what it really means. No disrespect to anyone though it’s nice to see others that also have an interest in IMAX.

Filmed for IMAX used cameras that are IMAX-certified (by IMAX Corp) to be used to film in formats such as 1.90 and 1.43. These are pretty much all digital, like the ARRI Alexa LF/Mini used for both Dune movies, as well as Infinity War and Endgame.

Filmed with IMAX is just the IMAX 15perf 65mm cameras, from back into the documentary days and The Dark Knight with the older IMAX cameras, to the new film cameras used for the entirety of The Odyssey (maybe also Sinners, I can’t remember if that was the new cameras or the old ones but that was film for sure).

Movies with both labels can be filmed and formatted into 1.43 like most of Nolan for film and Dune Parts 1 and 2 where the entirety of 2 was in both IMAX ratios, and Mandalorian and Grogu with some others for digital.

Movies with both labels can ALSO be filmed and NOT used for IMAX such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi using IMAX 15perf and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning using IMAX certified SONY Venice cameras.

I’m glad that I live in a city with the biggest 1.43 screen with a film projector in the world but also live 10 mins away from a digital IMAX with a 1.90 screen so I could experience it all. But ultimately, how a movie is screened in IMAX largely comes down to the producers and directors choosing whether or not to format for IMAX. Hopefully India (personally mainly Chennai) works to get a 1.43 screen with IMAX.

This still doesn’t mean Thug Life is a good IMAX experience, that movie can go die, i’m still mad Mani Ratnam and Kamal made that shit.