Chambers <Ben### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> *When was the last time you were impressed by the FX in a movie?

TRANSFORMERS (the first one, not the sequel--that looked like a bunch of mush,
with too MUCH detail, if that's possible.) But the first one had, to my eyes,
the most stunning integration of CG characters with their environments that I've
yet seen. Not just the lighting of the robots--which alone was quite
amazing--but how the pervasive smoke and explosions were handled. The robots
look like they are there on the set, intermingled with all the mayhem.

About those 3D polarizing glasses: The absolute best film I've even seen with
that process was in Las Vegas(!)--I forget which hotel it was in. :-p  It was
one of those 'fully immersive' ride films, a fantasy environment of some sort,
but projected onto a large dome (kind of like OmniMax, but I don't know if that
was the process used.) ANYWAY, the glasses worked beautifully--and the
interesting thing was, you could turn your head and look all around, and the 3D
effect never diminished, as far as I could tell. (That might have been my
astonishment at the beauty of the film, since I don't see how that's
possible...but that's how I remember it.) Mighty impressive!

Planning on seeing AVATAR today, in 3-D.

Ken

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