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Bent over the coffee table, Lyinar Ka`Bael squealed:
Made it blurry in camera pants

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So are those like parachute pants?

At least the trailer was cool.

Anything under 20% on rotten tomatoes is considered abysmal.

The Last Airbender is notable in that it managed to get an 8. In fairness, this is the same rank as Uwe Bowl's most successful movie, Postal.

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Lyinar Ka`Bael attempted to be funny by writing:
Friend of mine said the 3D addition just killed it. Made it blurry in camera pants during big fights. And he said the story was disjointed, since they were trying to fit like 11 hours of story into 2.

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I refuse to go to anything that has a 3D option. I was halfway excited about Airbender, then heard it was in 3D and took it off my list. If I want 3D gimmicks I'll go to Universal Studios thank you very much. At least then I can get sprayed with Fozzy's flower thing.

you'd probably send more of a message by going to the 2D showing than not going at all

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Naimah had this to say about Robocop:
I refuse to go to anything that has a 3D option. I was halfway excited about Airbender, then heard it was in 3D and took it off my list. If I want 3D gimmicks I'll go to Universal Studios thank you very much. At least then I can get sprayed with Fozzy's flower thing.

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So just see the 2D option. Nothing says you have to go to the 3D option.

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Naimah spewed forth this undeniable truth:
I refuse to go to anything that has a 3D option. I was halfway excited about Airbender, then heard it was in 3D and took it off my list. If I want 3D gimmicks I'll go to Universal Studios thank you very much. At least then I can get sprayed with Fozzy's flower thing.

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tbh we don't want you in our theatre anyway

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Naimah stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
I refuse to go to anything that has a 3D option. I was halfway excited about Airbender, then heard it was in 3D and took it off my list. If I want 3D gimmicks I'll go to Universal Studios thank you very much. At least then I can get sprayed with Fozzy's flower thing.

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Avatar spent a crapton of money dealing with new technology and came out with amazing results. Old 3d tech feels like one of those old children books where the pictures pop up. Avatar made it look smooth and natural - an entirely different experience.

If movies are going to tout 3d, they should use new technology. Alice in Wonderland was a good example of this - the 3d looked like a bunch of cardboard cutouts. When done poorly it really detracts from the movie.

It's feels the same as a movie using modern CGI and doing well followed by a bunch of others using mspaint on a 386 to follow the CGI craze idea while entirely missing the point.

Ghost of Forums Past fucked around with this message on 07-04-2010 at 10:08 AM.

But Avavtar made infinite dollars so now every studio on earth figured 3d = insta super profits. So god help us.

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Vorago thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
The problem are movies like The Last Airbender, Clash of the Titans and the upcoming part 1 of Deathly Hallows. None were filmed in 3d, unlike Avatar, instead the studios showhorned in a 3d effect afterwards for MOAR MONEYZ. So it looks like ass and does nothing.

But Avavtar made infinite dollars so now every studio on earth figured 3d = insta super profits. So god help us.

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The resurgence of 3D films is also an effort to bring some sort of advantage back to seeing a movie in theatres as opposed to waiting for a DVD/BR release. Until the major roll-out of Sony 4K projectors (your primary 3D projector), most home HDTV units offered a better quality viewing experience than a standard 35mm print.

Some companies are trying to make sound quality be The Next Big Thing, but that's a damned mistake and I hate Regal for it. Ninety percent of your audience can barely tell the difference between mono and stereo sound anyway.

And a pet peeve of mine that just made me cringe everytime someone spoke was the odd way they said names and such. Aang wasn't An-ing. It was Aaaahung. Avatar was Av-AHHHHHHHHHHHH-tar. So on and so forth.

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Vorago's fortune cookie read:
The problem are movies like The Last Airbender, Clash of the Titans and the upcoming part 1 of Deathly Hallows. None were filmed in 3d, unlike Avatar, instead the studios showhorned in a 3d effect afterwards for MOAR MONEYZ. So it looks like ass and does nothing.

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When I saw Alice in 3d it did something for me. Gave me a fucking headache and ruined a possibly passable movie. Can't watch it without the glasses, can't wear the glasses with my glasses and given that I have counter set astigmatism, wearing the 3d glasses without my glasses basically makes it look like a pop-out version of the movie when I wasn't wearing the glasses at all.

Never did see Avatar in theaters. It got way too much hype and then everyone was telling me about it. Figure I've seen at least half of it for free in word-of-mouth.