I Have Just Seen... III -

T-nex · #**241** 07-05-2010, 03:36 AM

Ok I'm getting really confused.... I keep confusing 3D with cg animated movies, and not the goggle-movies...

You're talking about goggle-movies, right?

***Nate*** · #**242** 07-05-2010, 03:49 AM

Yes, the goggles movies.

abe is now! · #**243** 07-05-2010, 03:56 AM

I've just seen Marley & Me, I cryed at the ending ç.ç

MA · #**244** 07-05-2010, 08:40 AM

is that the one where the dog dies?

Josh · #**245** 07-05-2010, 08:43 AM

In a film about a loveable dog, what the hell else is going to happen?

MA · #**246** 07-05-2010, 08:48 AM

i believe that was the point.

i'll stop the large text now.

Sekto Springs · #**247** 07-05-2010, 09:36 AM

When they criticized the 3D, they meant adding it as an afterthought as opposed to shooting it in 3D. Naturally the effect isn't as good when you do it this way, and the film will also lack elements worth making 3D in the first place.

However, I still don't know what people mean when they say the 3D didn't "add" anything. Do you mean you expected there to be parts of the movie where something comes out at you? I honestly find that completely novelty and cheesy, and it looks weird as fuck when you watch it in 2D. A fine example would be the infamous Beowulf spear.

I don't think making a movie 3D is entirely a gimmick anymore. It's simply adding more visual plains to the image so you feel more engaged with the film. The 3D for Alice in Wonderland, based on what I saw, was fine. Nikki said the 3D sucked when she went to see it, so perhaps you guys overseas just got a crappy deal.

T-nex · #**248** 07-05-2010, 12:39 PM

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Nikki said the 3D sucked when she went to see it, so perhaps you guys overseas just got a crappy deal.

Yea, I think it was a technical problem on the movie theater's side. The images werent completely aligned, meaning I saw like double when I watched it. It was only subtle, but enough to annoy me at times.
This is why I don't really trust that theater with 3D anymore.

Mac Sirloin · #**249** 07-05-2010, 03:22 PM

I heard the 3D in Alice in Wonderland was terrible. Like, remarkably bad.

Sekto Springs · #**250** 07-05-2010, 05:42 PM

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I heard the 3D in Alice in Wonderland was terrible. Like, remarkably bad.

Seemed fine to me. Once again, I don't know what defines bad 3D. It certainly didn't have the blurriness/split image issues that Nikki mentioned, nor was it too dark or anything.

ziggy · #**251** 07-05-2010, 06:10 PM

The mad hatter fudderwucked vigorously.

***Nate*** · #**252** 07-05-2010, 09:53 PM

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However, I still don't know what people mean when they say the 3D didn't "add" anything. Do you mean you expected there to be parts of the movie where something comes out at you? I honestly find that completely novelty and cheesy, and it looks weird as fuck when you watch it in 2D. A fine example would be the infamous Beowulf spear.

I meant that the experience of watching the film in 3d (and paying the extra money and putting up with the inconvenience of the glasses) was actually improved by watching the film in 3d.

Films that were improved by 3d:

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs - gave it a fantastic spectacle and a sense of scale in the bigger scenes
How To Train Your Dragon - gave it a huge, epic feel and exhiliration in the flying scenes

Films that were not improved by 3d:

Alice in Wonderland - I found the 3d kinda distracting; like I was looking at the fact that the flowers were coming out of the screen rather than what was going on at the time
Up - It was pretty, but didn't feel like anything special. I mean, what was good visually about that film was in the design and animation, the 3d effect didn't make it any better than it would be in 2d.
Pretty much every other 3d film I've seen for similar reasons

Sekto Springs · #**253** 07-05-2010, 10:24 PM

I'm clearly missing the majesty here. When I go to see a film in 3D, I forget it's there after a while, and very rarely do I go "Oh, that looked neat". *shrugs*

Strike Witch · #**254** 07-06-2010, 12:29 AM

I found the 3D good in Avatar, but barely there (but distracting when it was) in Clash of the Titans.

***Nate*** · #**255** 07-06-2010, 02:29 AM

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I'm clearly missing the majesty here. When I go to see a film in 3D, I forget it's there after a while, and very rarely do I go "Oh, that looked neat". *shrugs*

So, therefore, those films were not improved by being in 3d.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

Mac Sirloin · #**256** 07-06-2010, 04:13 AM

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Cloudy, With A Chance of Meatballs

Take that god damn comma out of there this instant.

***Nate*** · #**257** 07-06-2010, 04:53 AM

Yes, sir!

OANST · #**258** 07-06-2010, 07:28 AM

I watched El Topo, last night. Very interesting film. I don't quite know how to describe it. Is it a Western? Well, sort of. Is it a surrealist look at the nature of man? Sort of. Is it all kinds of fucked up and disturbing? Shit yeah.

ziggy · #**259** 07-06-2010, 05:24 PM

I have that movie! It's got a lot of religious metaphorical jibber jabber. I like the visuals. It's a really eye catching film. All the deformed people were a bit creepy though. I read that when El Topo was raping the girl in the desert, he was really raping her in real life. I think they might have been on acid too.

OANST · #**260** 07-07-2010, 05:47 AM

El Topo didn't rape anyone in the desert.

MA · #**261** 07-07-2010, 11:54 AM

just remembered i watched Shooting Dogs not long ago. similar to Hotel Rwanda, and a true story with a few of the survivors portrayed in it. overall a brilliant film. difficult to watch.

Bullet Magnet · #**262** 07-10-2010, 09:35 AM

Moon. I figured out what was going on pretty damn early, but only because that's how I'd run a moon mining operation.

Mac Sirloin · #**263** 07-10-2010, 10:44 AM

I also saw Moon, but it was halfway in so the suspense was kind of broken.

I still immensely enjoyed it, however. Apparently the director is planning a trilogy of films that take place in the same Universe.

OANST · #**264** 07-12-2010, 06:16 AM

I saw Moon in the theatre, and I fucking loved it.

Mac Sirloin · #**265** 07-12-2010, 08:56 AM

It was a gorgeous movie, and for movie made on a budget of 5 Million that takes place on a giant monochrome dust ball, that's out-fucking-standing. The director deliberately made it as a love letter to all of those Sci-Fi movies from the mid seventies to the early eighties, and it still came out genuinely unique on its own. I'm impressed all over the place over here.

Dixanadu · #**266** 07-12-2010, 09:11 AM

Predators.

It was pretty good, I'm glad the original score was in the movie, it brought back the feeling that it was a a proper sequel.

Not good in the sense there was no "you're an ugly motherfucker" reference.

Ridg3 · #**267** 07-12-2010, 09:25 AM

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Predators.

It was pretty good, I'm glad the original score was in the movie, it brought back the feeling that it was a a proper sequel.

Not good in the sense there was no "you're an ugly motherfucker" reference.

Here you go then... you're an ugly motherfucker!

Josh · #**268** 07-12-2010, 10:31 PM

Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice. Always nice to see Winnona Ryder before she went all crazy.

Sekto Springs · #**269** 07-12-2010, 11:52 PM

Not to mention pre-TNBC Burton. Those were the days.

I watched The Fourth Kind. It was loud and made no sense. Some bits were kind of creepy, I guess. I also just watched almost every iconic Ren & Stimpy episode back-to-back on Nicktoons.

Good stuff.

MA · #**270** 07-13-2010, 04:15 AM

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I also just watched almost every iconic Ren & Stimpy episode back-to-back on Nicktoons.

Good stuff.

now you're talking.