GONNAFISTYA wrote:So I've seen the trailer. I've seen the featurette. I've heard the buzz.
Everyone keeps talking about how this movie is "revolutionary" and will "change the way we watch movies".
So...what's the big thing I'm missing? The featurette mentions the technology not being available before to make this movie but doesn't actually state what the technology is. It mentions about the film being revolutionary but doesn't say what's so revolutionary about it.
Anyone have any clue what's so special about this film or is it just regular, everyday bullshit marketing hype with a famous director to get people to watch this thing?
Eraser wrote:
And it added fuckall to the movie experience. In fact, the glasses kept slipping off my nose which was hugely annoying.
No, I can't get excited over this whole 3D craze. I hope it fails and falls flat on it's face.
3d movies will never be good if you have to wear special glasses
Prepurchased my midnight tickets. If you're going, make sure to pick RealD 3D rather than IMAX 3D. The RealD stuff is what they just created and it supposedly blows the shit out of IMAX.
When this movie is said to be "3D" does that just mean you'll have to wear stupid looking glasses when watching it or does that refer to how it is being filmed? From what I've read in an article (I think in Time Magazine) it sounds as if it's being directed in 3D in that Cameron has this special camera that he uses to pan and zoom in an empty warehouse around the actors wearing mocap suits but the entire rendered 3D scenery is previewed though his camera in real-time. You would be tracking both actor motions as well as camera movements at the same time while giving the director a real-time render of the final product on his camera.
Edit: I think this is the one. Not much detail on the actual technique, but it sounds like they are hinting on the above...
"Why can't I see anything?" he yelled from an apparently empty warehouse floor to a small crew huddled over computer monitors in a corner. "Oh, oh, oh, I'm in the monster's head!" Cameron backed up, and a peek through his camera lens revealed blackness giving way to a thick and vivid rain forest where a tall, blue, alien version of Sigourney Weaver was battling the monster whose head had just blocked the director's view. On the warehouse floor there was no rain forest, no monster, no Weaver — just a bunch of guys and their computers. But Cameron's camera was allowing him to shoot inside a virtual universe of his own creation. He swooped in over the monster's shoulder and entered the world of Avatar.
scared? wrote:reviews coming in...apparently its ground breaking shit..u mad?...
There is nothing "ground breaking" about having to wear polarized 3D glasses (RealD 3D has been around for more than five years and has many movies utilizing the tech) and there's also nothing "ground breaking" about the director being able to see actors in real time over a digital background while actively directing actors (they've been using that for nearly 10 years).
Unless this movie supplies a hot bitch to stroke my shaft while I'm watching it I see nothing "revolutionary" or "ground breaking" about it at all.
"the viewing angel".