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From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 22 Dec 2009 06:28:59
Message: <op.u5b7ihg5ufxv4h@xena>
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:14:07 +0200, Zeger Knaepen  
<zeg### [at] povplacecom> wrote:

> "Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
> news:op.u493g4klufxv4h@xena...
>> I saw Avatar on IMAX this weekend. It definitely was the most beautiful
>> and realistic computer graphics I've ever seen! It was a choice between
>> IMAX and 3d. Since 3d hurts my eyes and I've never been in an IMAX  
>> theatre
>> before, I went for IMAX.
>>
>> Anybody seen it in 3d yet?
>
> I've just seen it in 3D... I would have chosen 2D, but they only showed  
> it
> in 3D...
> At the beginning, they showed an introduction explaining 3D-cinema,  
> telling
> us that technology has advanced to the point where they can give us
> 3D-cinema without any loss in image quality, yet during the movie I was
> wondering why, if they really have that kind of technology, they didn't  
> use
> it... this *certainly* was not the same image quality as a normal movie:
> brightness and contrast didn't even come close to that :(
>
> All lies, I tell ya!
>
> As for the movie itself: stunning visual effects, extremely predictable
> 'story', lousy acting.
>

I just went to enjoy the scenery :)

BTW want kind of 3d technology did they use? If they went to great lengths  
to explain it, I suppose it wasn't red/cyan glasses. Did you have to wear  
3d glasses?


-- 
-Nekar Xenos-
"The spoon is not real"


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