Avatar in 3D is one of those movies that should be seen in the theater. I actually wasn't planning on seeing it at all.
The previews were just not that interesting to me and I had seen 3D movies before. But, since the Blind Side was sold out, my friend and I decided to go ahead and watch Avatar instead and I'm glad we did! The movie was over 2 1/2 hours long but I never found myself asking, "When is it going to end!" I read a comment somewhere which called the movie, "Pocahontas on steroids" and that pretty much sums up what it was. Aside from the less than subtle New Age mysticism, the special effects were great, the action was well paced and the 3D was incredible (still not up to par with the T2 3D show at Universal Studios though). I later heard that director, James Cameron built his own 3D cameras for this movie.
My main gripe about the experience, as a whole, was with the stupid glasses! It's difficult to watch a 3D movie with the glasses when you already wear prescription glasses. For anyone who cares, I found it worked best to wear the perscription glasses over the 3D ones. I know it sounds weird and you do need to have rubber bands to hold them together. Yes, I actually did this. Well, I only had one rubber band so my glasses kept slipping off. Thank goodness the theater is dark! It kinda ruined the whole 3D effect but I caught the main parts and got the general idea. Anyway, the experience would have been much more pleasurable if not for the glasses.
I hope that they put a segment in their DVD release about how they filmed the movie in 3D and another segment about the special effects. I'd even love to find out about the costumes and makeup in Avatar. This might be a good Cinefx edition to purchase!
If anyone out there is reading this and has seen the T2 show at Universal Studios a few years back, I'm wondering why 3D movies aren't as good and realistic as that show was? The technology's obviously there. It's possible. Is it just not feasible? Is the technology too costly for a 90 minute movie? What's the deal?
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We were happy to watch the 2D version probably b/c we both get motion sickness. :)I like that there was ILM for the special effects and many smaller ones under the ILM umbrella. :) Hopefully, ILM is mentoring other, smaller companies.
Yes. WETA was also involved. They're the company that worked on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
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