Hugo

[jelazakazone]

Took DD1 to see Hugo this morning.  It's fantastic.  Asa Butterfield is amazing.  (Although I have one little nitpick and this is not his fault, at all.  He's just a wee bit too old for the part.  Hugo is 12.  Asa Butterfield is 14 1/2.  I could tell that he wasn't twelve.  His hands, FEET, and shoulders were just wrong for a 12 year old.)

So, if

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[ghrelin]

I heard really good things about that movie, and the 3D effects in it. My first impression without seeing it was "must be one of those movies they make from a book, where the movie doesn't live up to the book and confuses you if you haven't read the book first" (the Golden Compass comes to mind). But I'd only heard good things.

[jelazakazone]

You definitely do not need to have read the book first. You probably do need to be over 7 or 8 to appreciate it though. The timing is a little confusing. As people said previously, there are two main storylines going on and the second half of the movie really pays tribute to Georges Melies. Also, Scorcese is a genius. The movie is just really well done.

[ghrelin]

would you say one has to see it with the 3D effects or can I wait for the dvd? lol

[jelazakazone]

Oh no. You don't need to see it in 3d. I hate 3D. It never feels visually totally comfortable for me. There is one stunning scene in 3d, but the rest you can do without.

[ghrelin]

oh is that so - for the past few years I'd been thinking there's way too much 3D and why does everything need to be in 3D, but I'd heard such good things about this one I thought maybe it's worthwhile, but if you say so, I'll probably wait for it to come out on dvd.

[jelazakazone]

I loved Avatar in 3D, but nothing else has seemed that great. Granted, I only saw HP 7 (part 2) and now Hugo in 3D.

I'm with you. I don't love 3D because it usually makes my eyes so uncomfortable. Hugo was much better than HP in this regard.

[ghrelin]

I didn't even know the HP movies were out in 3D. The movies were really dull for HP after the fourth one, really. I don't remember what I thought about avatar in 3D. The first 3D thing I'd seen was Captain Eo with Michael Jackson (in Disneyland) and the effects there were so realistic nothing I'd seen anywhere else since then ever lived up to it. Also I was a kid when I saw the Disneyland one so I think it was just more interesting then, maybe at this point in life I'm just not so eager to see stuff in 3D.

[jelazakazone]

*shrug* I liked the HP movies. I missed one. I wasn't expecting them to be anything other than eye candy though.

I remember seeing something in 3D at Disneyworld and it was *amazing* Butterflies flew over us and there were other effects (they had air jets under the seats I think). I was thinking about that at the movie, how jaded I've become about 3D effects and how awesome I thought they were when they first came out in the 80s.

[ghrelin]

I don't think I'd seen that butterfly thing, though I'd never been to disneyworld (and haven't been to disneyland since I were 15). I could be wrong because it'd been so long since I'd seen it, but I could've sworn the effects I saw at the Eo thing were a lot better than what you usually see at 3D movies.

I know I sound like your typical HP fan but the books really are incredible. I only read them as an adult because I always thought they were children's books and didn't bother, but they were very worthwhile (maybe not the first two or three but afterward). You can tell Rowling is a very intelligent person and that she writes from her own life experience. I thought the movies starting with the fifth were unbelievably dull.

[princealia]

I saw the reboot of Captain EO with the same effects they had in the 80s last summer at Disneyland, and they're okay for a 30 year old attraction. It's the other effects like the rocking motion of the chairs, the air being blown in your face, the smoke, etc. that really makes it.

[jelazakazone]

You really know how to make a girl feel old.

[princealia]

Hey, hey, I'm not exactly young. I'm old enough for there to be roboots of stuff I watched as a child like Ninja Turtles and My Little Pony to be around now.

[jelazakazone]

*cough* Yeah. Those shows weren't even shows when I was a kid.

[ghrelin]

she's just a fetus, pay no heed

[jelazakazone]

But she's an adorable plot-bunny mine of a fetus and I ♥ her.

[ghrelin]

hey I wasn't h8n! She also makes amazing gifs. A very talented fetus.

okay really need to get to work now, ttyl~