you do get it to an extent with other visual media, and the jarringness is, im sure, partly the shock of the new.
just not clear what the 3d adds to the experience of a simple three-shot. there were some shots, like the first of the long chamber full of sleeping marines, that i thought were superb.
but all in all this was basically the abyss + strange days + aliens divided by shit.
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Is shit a negative number or a fraction?
partly the shock of the new
Could be. The perspective-flattening thing with long lenses is something everyone is now used to in still photography and 2D film/video but perhaps it wasn't always the case. The 3D depth of field stuff was often so jarring that it made me think that some shots (like in the helicopter with two chars + background) were composed, not with a long lens and a wide aperture, but with some sort of Photoshop blur mask, hence the sharp edges to the foreground characters. I don't know really. The cryosleep chambers were well done though.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D01072010
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
roflofloflmao
yeah i'm kinda with you there. but it's all or nothing.
― CATBEAST 7777 (ledge), Thursday, 7 January 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda agree about the depth of field thing, it makes it look like some sort of paper puppet theater and really pulls me out of it
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm kind of glad 3D doesn't work for me. the only scene it worked in was when there was some ash falling after a battle, and i found it extremely jarring and distrcting. my gf loved the 3D, though.
― richie aprile (rockapads), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
titanic was a boat
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 6:35 PM
a pred boat?
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
does the 3D have a different effect than the 3D Imax? (it really shouldn't i'd imagine) wasn't really distracted by the 3D...
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
They should glue, like, four Imax screens together and make a Super Imax screen, then charge $100 a ticket. That would be very awesome, or, barring that, at least very big.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
otm it would be huge
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
this was the first 'narrative' film i've seen in IMAX, and the first time i've been to an IMAX in basically a decade, i'd forgotten how lol hueg they are
― dome plow (gbx), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
(i don't get the predator boats/ships jokes. it seems to be a zing directed at a certain kind of hater?)
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://boards.ign.com/Sci-Fi___Fantasy_Flicks/b5083/47582986/p3
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a long running nerd debate as to whether or not the ship in alien was a predator ship
referred to at LONG LENGTH in an ilx thread i'm too lazy to find
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
so iow yes
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
the Most hilarious fanboy message board debate of all time
― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
woah that was a long time ago.
(was it a pred boat, in the end?)
― Patriarchy Oppression Machine (history mayne), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
^ For your sake and the sake of the people you are exposed to every day, I hope that post was a joke, because if it wasn't, the astonishing ignorance of that post says something really scary about you.
And if it was a joke, it wasn't funny, not even accidentally.
Now, pay attention, and tell me if you can understand this (I'll use smaller words if you need me to) -- there was no such thing as "Predator" back in 1979 when Ridley Scott made ALIEN. So, no, it is not a Predator ship.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
LeBrainBoy, ladies and gentlemen.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
But what if the Predators had time travel abilities? Ever think about that!?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
every single day of my life
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I would call the sequel "Time Predators."
"This time ... they're hunting through time!"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:23 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh predators taking on t-rexes would be pretty fun
― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
charlamagne vs predator
― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ghenghis khan vs predator vs beethoven vs freud vs joan of arc vs napolean vs socrates
― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
san dimas high school football rules
― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
no bill and ted = no credibility
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't want them to get hurt
― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Thursday, 7 January 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
My first thought was Beethoven the movie dog.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 January 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
haha well certainly he's invited if he wants to join the carnage
― latebloomer, Thursday, 7 January 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
My friend (a chef who works nights and has days off) posted on FB that all daytime showings of Avatar 3D IMAX in his area are sold out until next Tuesday... yes 5 days sold out in advance.
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 January 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
ya but even u admit he's a chef
― meryl streep post-brazilian (s1ocki), Thursday, 7 January 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
his post was illustrating his frustration about going to the theater today and not being able to get tix to the film even outside of peak hours on not just on a random weekday (which is usually not a problem for people who work nights)... but at a 5 day leadtime! my point in posting that is to suggest that the film may be gaining box office momentum which is pretty frightening.
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 7 January 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I want to see it at Imax but I'm waiting until there's actually empty seats in the theater. Sheesh.
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 7 January 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Too good to sit in a stranger's lap, are you?
― girl moves (Abbott), Thursday, 7 January 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
BTW it's now the 2nd highest grossing film of all time. And it's only been out for 20 days. Jesus.
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 7 January 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost - I prefer to provide the lap, thank you very much.
best get there early then
― .81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Thursday, 7 January 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I am not going to see this film.
― Radio Birdman Rally (King Boy Pato), Friday, 8 January 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The only Sam Worthington you ever need to see in your life btw was his performance in a rubbish Australian reimagating of Macbeth. Specifically his whispery delivery of "is that a dagger I see before me...(lengthy pause)...or a dagger of the mind?"
― Radio Birdman Rally (King Boy Pato), Friday, 8 January 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
IMAX show I went to was hell of sold out, on the way out i saw them turning away actual dozens of ppl
― into the young coconuts (gbx), Friday, 8 January 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I had to sit on the far left/up front for my IMAX viewing :|
― Player is killed, but they are resurrected, and the 45 Revolver glow gold (dyao), Friday, 8 January 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that my local imax theater has assigned seating, I was able to actually pick my seats when buying tickets
― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
still feel no desire to see this, but the figures are beginning to wear me down tbh
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been worn down, finally going to see this next weekend. We had to buy our tickets for the IMAX a week in advance.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
the sweet spot in my local IMAX (ie centre area of the back three rows) is the only assigned seating bit, and has been sold out for every showing since this opened. I've finally got tickets for next Wednesday. When we were in the same cinema to see another film last Saturday at 2.00pm all Avatar showings in IMAX and other screens were already sold out - I know there's some discussion upthread about how this "couldn't fail" with the marketing $$$ behind it, but it does seem like word of mouth after the opening week has given this huge momentum as well.
― Bill A, Friday, 8 January 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I figure this is still gonna play to packed IMAX theatres for probably a couple more months, long after it's stopped playing at regular theatres
― I regret choosing this bland user name (peter in montreal), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
To quote Crow T. Robot from a while back: "It's even better with the 3-D glasses on -- I feel like I'm really here!"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 January 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link