Avatar: IMAX 3D vs. Theater

[Conebone69]

Super pumped for this movie and I want to experience it in all of its glory, but is anyone else slightly dissapointed they're only showing it in IMAX 3D and not regular IMAX? Idk if its just me but 3D kind of takes away from the experience. I cant take a movie seriously/get into it when objects and such as coming out of the screen, and into my face. Maybe im just weird. But like the only films I've seen in 3D were cartoon movies or documentories. So, the question is, are you going to see Avatar in regular theaters or IMAX 3D?

 

[Rishi]

The reason you don't like those 3D movies is cause theyre gimmicky. avatar wont have **** flying at the screen just for the effect

 

[Conebone69]

The reason you don't like those 3D movies is cause theyre gimmicky. avatar wont have **** flying at the screen just for the effect

Oh really? I thought it would be something of that sort

 

[Deaths Head II]

I never saw a 3D movie before, and I'm sure Cameron will be one to do 3D right. I will see Avatar in 3D.

 

[Aurume]

I never saw a 3D movie before, and I'm sure Cameron will be one to do 3D right. I will see Avatar in 3D.

Same thing here.

What kind of glasses you need use in 3D?

Aurume

 

[Conebone69]

Same thing here.

What kind of glasses you need use in 3D?

Aurume

They are just black glasses. Kinda look like black shades

 

[dark_b]

Oh really? I thought it would be something of that sort

is this a joke or what Conebone?

for one whole year they said that they are trying NOT to make it a gimmick with flying things to your face. and you ask this question here?

just so that we are clear. IMAX 3D is not the only way to watch this movie in 3D in US. you can also watch it in a digital regular theater. its called real-D or dollby-3D.

 

[Aurume]

They are just black glasses. Kinda look like black shades

Ok, thanks for info. I also read something about some glasses which had cameras to transfer movie or something like that to your eyes(3D?). Have I read something totally wrong or is there some glasses like this?

Aurume

 

[dark_b]

 

[dark_b]

LCD shutter glasses are the best. IMAX has LCD shutter. real-d are also very good but take away a lot of brightnes and color. but its next to imax the best in US.
dolby 3D is the worst. not because it takes away the image quality. but there is a bigger chance that your eyes will start to hurt.

and dont worry about the colors from the dolby 3D. it doesnt tint your movie. its just to extract the left and right image.

 

[Aurume]

Do they normally(?) give glasses for free before the movie and you need give them back after the movie?

 

[Tanin]

The Theatre I go to (Potomac Mills) uses the RealD glasses and you give them back.

 

[SamuraiSon6]

my theater uses realD, you pay extra to watch the movie (like $3-4 extra for you ticket, and you have to give them back...)

 

[Hound55]

Super pumped for this movie and I want to experience it in all of its glory, but is anyone else slightly dissapointed they're only showing it in IMAX 3D and not regular IMAX? Idk if its just me but 3D kind of takes away from the experience. I cant take a movie seriously/get into it when objects and such as coming out of the screen, and into my face. Maybe im just weird. But like the only films I've seen in 3D were cartoon movies or documentories. So, the question is, are you going to see Avatar in regular theaters or IMAX 3D?

Read into how they made it more if you can.

I didn't start off real interested and thought to myself I'd likely only go see it because I "owe it" to Cameron to keep going til he starts pumping out crap...

But the more I read on the work that was put in the more intrigued I get... the twin cam thing in the green room and the rig Cameron's got to shoot his arse from up high to close to the ground really quickly and smoothly, right to the collapsible modular "set" they used to make pretty much any kind of terrain imaginable...

This thing is going to be real impressive.

I'll just say "Don't come in with any pre-conceptions about 3D movies, because its pretty damn unlikely they'll apply here".

For an alleged 500 mill plus you'd bloody well hope not...

 

[dark_b]

its true.Cameron threw any 3D rules out of the window and started from scratch.

 

[Hound55]

its true.Cameron threw any 3D rules out of the window and started from scratch.

Could you imagine if Cameron just threw in some baffling gimmicky scene right in the middle of it for no reason like when Andre De Toth threw in that guy playing with a paddle and ball on a string shooting back and forth the camera in House of Wax...?

The looks on Fox executives faces in a preview of it...

"We gave you over $500 million bucks for this?!?" *Choking Cameron*

 

[dark_b]

but it will still have some shots where soemthing is flying in teh screen.

like every movie. but it wont have them every 5 seconds. what people need to understand is that almost every action movie has some shots where something is flying in the screen. the difference is how you see it. in 2D it looks the same like every other shot. in 3D it stands out a little.

some people said that toy story 1 and 2 had gimmick 3D when it was realesed 2 months ago. how the f... .does this even make sense? the movies were made in the 90s without 3D in mind. they were re-rendered

 

[dark_b]

anyone remember this shot from batman begins? its an explosion. and a big part flys in the camera. at us. noone cared right? noone complained right?it looked normal.

but if it was realesed in 3D people would complain how this shot was used only for 3D. a gimmick.

 

[Hound55]

Very good point.

I can see people b****in about that when it comes out, too...

 

[Dark Victory]

I'll be seeing the film twice in IMAX 3D and at least once in digital 3D. My closest theater recently just added a digital theater(Extreme Digital) and it's fantastic.

 

[xwolverine2]

there's no real advantage in watching it in imax 3d vs a 3d theater.....

AVATAR WAS NOT SHOT IN IMAX FORMAT.

 

[dark_b]

there's no real advantage in watching it in imax 3d vs a 3d theater.....

AVATAR WAS NOT SHOT IN IMAX FORMAT.

the advantage is the bigger screen.

 

[Sarg92]

the advantage is the bigger screen.

And superior sound and picture quality.

Avatar is gonna be the first IMAX film I have seen and first 3D film so I cannot wait till I watch it! Shame that I cannot watch it on the opening weekend!

 

[dark_b]

And superior sound and picture quality.

Avatar is gonna be the first IMAX film I have seen and first 3D film so I cannot wait till I watch it! Shame that I cannot watch it on the opening weekend!

how is this possible? how can they make it better?

3D theaters are using digital projectors. so shouldnt then this be as clean as possible?

 

[xwolverine2]

exactly and on top of that... the imax screen isnt really bigger (since the top and bottom are being cut off due to it not being shot in imax), however the screen is closer and the seating is more vertical.

its a shame if this is really the first movie your seeing in imax... cause its not.