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Auspice

@Catsmeow but we haven't heard from @coin's mom yet.

That's 'cause I've been keeping her busy.

Coin

Aw, you guys made me laugh.

Gingerlily

I remember absolutely nothing about Avatar except a lot of colors and deciding by the end that though I enjoyed the visuals, that would be the only 3-D movie I would ever see.

It wasn't, because when my friends wanted to see Gatsby (the new Leo and Jay-Z one, obvs) they wanted to see it in 3-D because they are cruel people. But now THAT was definitely the last movie I will ever see in 3-D.

@Thenomain because this is a thread about you, what's your take? 3-D movies, yes or no?

Thenomain

@Gingerlily said in Date Thenomain:

@Thenomain because this is a thread about you, what's your take? 3-D movies, yes or no?

Largely no. For the spectacle, sure; Captain Eo was certainly fun nonsense. And Avatar so far is the only movie I've seen in 3D that was produced well for 3D.

Let me expand that Avatar was also well directed, the sound effects were gorgeous, the visual direction was breathtaking, and the acting wasn't half bad either. The script was so cringe inducing that you would have to pay me to see it again.

An extremely award winning director (involved with the French original Beauty & The Beast, perhaps?) once said in an interview that no matter how good the actors, nothing can save a bad script. He directed one such movie to make that point. The interview was on Fresh Aire (Terry Gross specifically), but that's all I remember.

The kind of visual science people who design video cameras, and directors who are at that level, also complain that the glasses dim the light range and few movies, at the time I read this, bothered to adjust for it. It also diminished contrast, which is harder to adjust for. Perhaps we're better with these things now, but I still have to generally say "no" to 3D.

Not a snobby "no", just a "probably not worth it, no".

Gingerlily

@Thenomain

Captain Eo WAS amazing I'd forgotten all about that but I think I was about 12 when I saw it at Epcot so that is understandable.

It's not a movie snob for me thing either, I just get overstimulated too easily and movies already have a lot of visual stuff going on on a large screen plus a lot of sound. I don't need even more things for my eyes to process. So I'm not into it.

Thenomain

@Gingerlily said in Date Thenomain:

It's not a movie snob for me thing either, I just get overstimulated too easily and movies already have a lot of visual stuff going on on a large screen plus a lot of sound. I don't need even more things for my eyes to process. So I'm not into it.

Trust the director as you would a writer, or artist, or production company. Giving you a good experience is part of her or his job. The other part is to make money for the people paying said her or him. I am constantly surprised when any studio hires M. Night Shamalan to do anything than moody tension pieces. It'd be like hiring Tim Burton to direct, say, the movie adaptation of Mama Mia. Or Joss Wheedon to write a male empowerment movie.

Not that they can't, but I'd be worrying.