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athelind

The Hoard Potato: How To Train your Dragon

Mar 28, 2010 09:35

Yesterday, quelonzia and I went to see How to Train Your Dragon.

Magnificent.

I enjoyed it almost as much as I did Kung Fu Panda, and, in fact, if we hadn't seen it in 3D, I probably would have enjoyed it more than KFP-I mean, dragons, right? Alas, I find wearing 3D glasses over my regular glasses to be too distracting for the movie to pull me in quite as ( Read more... )

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wingywoof March 28 2010, 17:20:02 UTC

A heartwarming tale of vikings, dragons, and prostheses.

tombfyre March 28 2010, 17:37:18 UTC

Yep, it was definitely one hell of an enjoyable movie. ^^ I liked all the ample body language and whatnot they put into the non-vocal characters. I too would have likely preferred to see it without the 3d glasses. Glasses over glasses tend to make the film sort of fuzzy, plus they're in the way.

cpxbrex March 28 2010, 19:33:51 UTC

I can't imagine that they don't make 3d clip-ons for glasses that would probably work about ten thousand percent better than those paper things they had out in the theaters. As, y'know, a solution to this dilemma.

athelind March 29 2010, 07:29:35 UTC

Oh, the ones in theaters these days are full-on polarized shades, with sturdy plastic frames, large enough to fit over my current pair of glasses.

That doesn't mean they're not DISTRACTING, though.

cpxbrex March 29 2010, 07:57:38 UTC

Wearing glasses over your glasses is distracting, yeah. But I had clip on sunglasses for years and that wasn't distracting at all! *shares the wealth of my experience, hehe*

bfdragon March 28 2010, 21:13:42 UTC

I gave HTTYD a B at first, but I've since softened up a little and am going to give it an A.

See, Pixar has gotten me used to animation with good, grown up stories that kids can still enjoy a great deal. HTTYD is a kids movie but with still a good story and well made enough for adults to enjoy; and that's OK.

I made sure to see it in 2D and I'm glad I did. I find it distracting and the quality of the lenses is not very good. Plus theaters are bad enough about running things too dark, it's only worse when you have to cut that light down by 1/4.

stalbon March 28 2010, 22:05:38 UTC

I likewise avoided it in 3D. I'm healing up a corneal ulcer on my right eye, and coupled with how most 3D gives me headaches, I thought it best to watch it in the standard format. Loved the movie, and much as you said, it ranks up there with Kung Fu Panda as a serious type of flick meant for kids. I still adore Shrek and it's following sequels (the second sequel being a...let's just not mention that one) but yes, it seems they're moving forward from that. Another thing I quite liked about this movie was the post-climax ending and how it played out. Without revealing any spoilers, I'll say they could have easily gone the easy route there, but I'm quite proud to see them show a somewhat shocking consequence to it all.