Da ba dee da ba die...
Saw Avatar: 3D with my family tonight. First non-IMAX 3D movie I've seen, and it was pretty neat. The animation was gorgeous, but the added depth from the glasses was subtle enough most of the time that I wouldn't notice the difference if it were just 2D. Cameron still played with depth of field adjustments to do the whole emphasize specific areas, which works great in standard display but absolutely wrecks the 3D immersion, since it doesn't let me focus on anything I choose. He also included some of the 3D elements that stick out of the screen, but even those threw me off because most of the time, they were only partially showing at the edges of the screen, so the protruding images had flat sides.
The story wasn't anything extraordinary, just some pretty standard writing, but it was still very enjoyable. I think most of the effort was put into the visuals, and it definitely shows. Very worth watching, and even the credits were interesting to read, thanks to the way the roll was formatted. Instead of each position getting its own line (or possibly sharing with one other position), each department listed after the cast got clumped into a block of its own with different jobs separated by dots. Even though that made it harder to read while it was scrolling, it was the first time I'd seen credits shaped like that, so it kept my attention despite the interesting discussion some other audience members were holding about interpretations and whatnot.
The story wasn't anything extraordinary, just some pretty standard writing, but it was still very enjoyable. I think most of the effort was put into the visuals, and it definitely shows. Very worth watching, and even the credits were interesting to read, thanks to the way the roll was formatted. Instead of each position getting its own line (or possibly sharing with one other position), each department listed after the cast got clumped into a block of its own with different jobs separated by dots. Even though that made it harder to read while it was scrolling, it was the first time I'd seen credits shaped like that, so it kept my attention despite the interesting discussion some other audience members were holding about interpretations and whatnot.