"...where my affairs, my affairs ain't abused."

[greygirlbeast]

I could spend days attempting to explain how surreal my life has become, but I'd fail. However, among the many ironies, I've spent my life taking every conceivable manner of shit for being a leftist, for being queer, atheist, pacifist, a humanist, transsexual, for being pro-choice, for trying to push back against every form of social, intellectual

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[vulpine137]

I've seen some 3d films that I didn't mind the effects, but I don't think I've seen one where I went 'Oh, I'm so glad they went with 3d'. It's a gimmick, it was a gimmick in the 50's, in the 80's and now today. Though it is occasionally amusing to watch a film in 2d and play 'spot the scene filmed specifically for 3d'. Usually involving axes or spikes...

[greygirlbeast]

Though it is occasionally amusing to watch a film in 2d and play 'spot the scene filmed specifically for 3d'.

This, though, is not why we watch films. Well, not why I do.

[sovay]

I do have to confess, though, that I've always found Cosette to be an insufferably useless woman and have also rooted for an alternate ending where Éponine survives (though her death, and the death of Gavroche are, of course, pivots upon which turn our sympathies with the revolutionaries of the June Rebellion).

I think everyone feels that way about Eponine. She gets the closest thing to a torch song existing in nineteenth-century Paris.

Natural human vision bears no resemblance to 3D in the cinema.

Amen.

I don't feel well, and we're going to postpone our planned visit to Narragansett and Moonstone Beach. A few days or so.

Keep me posted, and feel better. At the very least, not worse.

[greygirlbeast]

She gets the closest thing to a torch song existing in nineteenth-century Paris.

Pretty much.

Keep me posted, and feel better. At the very least, not worse.

Will do. Thanks.

[whiskeychick]

I feel much the same about 3d. It ruined my initial Avatar experience.

I push back, too. I'm tired of being labeled. Tired of pagan (a/o witch) being a dirty word. Of bi-sexual being bad. Of my parenting being judged. Being called a looney liberal. That I cuss too much (seriously?). All of it. This new year one of my goals is to try not to do the same and label my own personal "others." This does not mean that I will be tolerant of intolerance. It's quite a tightrope to walk and the exercises I plan to embark on in 2013 will either end in brilliance or utter sameness (which will be quite the disappointment).

Les Misérables is one of the films I want to see, but will have to wait until it hits the cheap seats as this time of year is fraught with time and resource restraints. But your reaction to it coupled with other's whose opinion I respect, make me want to see it NOW.

The word salt mines have me in its grips today. I'll distract the foremen for you.

[greygirlbeast]

It ruined my initial Avatar experience.

As I cannot see and loathe 3D, I saw it only in 2D and love it immediately.

I have no problem with accurate labels. Not really.

I'll distract the foremen for you.

Thank you.

[martianmooncrab]

brand me as an agent of all those ills I've tried to fight

you are still a human person, and have value to us all. If humanity becomes a monocultre, our extinction is assured.

[greygirlbeast]

you are still a human person, and have value to us all.

Thank you. But, for me, that very thing is entirely in doubt.

[alumiere]

The BBC article is incredibly interesting to me from a film history standpoint. I read similar things about early use of color, special effects (as we know them today) etc when I was in college, and now they're part of the language of film. I wonder if directors and cinematographers will get better at using 3D and technology will improve to the point that it too is part of the standard vocabulary...

Of course from my POV (limited vision) 3D as it is now is unwatchble. That doesn't mean someone won't figure it out, and I'm fine with that - as long as the end result isn't the dark, disorienting mess currently seen. And the damn glasses have to go away.

[greygirlbeast]

Of course from my POV (limited vision) 3D as it is now is unwatchble. That doesn't mean someone won't figure it out, and I'm fine with that - as long as the end result isn't the dark, disorienting mess currently seen. And the damn glasses have to go away.

As the quote says, the very idea, in any form, is anathema. Not every change is for the better, or can evolve into something positive (whether it becomes accepted or not).

[alumiere]

I understand that; it may be that I've spent too much time reading sci-fi. And I've definitely spent too much time working in theatre and trying to get the desired impact to people with that technology...

So I do still think that some innovation - maybe of what we currently call 3D - will work in a way that the current mess doesn't. Not in the same sense of the word that we mean 3D today, but in a way that allows for more immersion in the film and replicates what we see more fully than watching things on a flat screen does.

In the meantime, I'll stick with 2D, although I may go check out the 48fps Hobbit to compare that with standard. I'm slightly less of a film geek than a book geek, mainly because I stopped playing with 'film' when I finished my degree 20+ years ago, and digital was almost non-existent then.