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"I just saw Avatar" Thread

Peter Jackson stopped by RED a week or so ago and took the time to inspire the RED troops. One of the things he said was "make sure you all go see Avatar. It is one of those milestone movies that changes everything". I haven't seen it yet, but if Peter and Ace say to go see it... :-)

Jim
 
Jannard said:
Peter Jackson stopped by RED a week or so ago and took the time to inspire the RED troops. One of the things he said was "make sure you all go see Avatar. It is one of those milestone movies that changes everything". I haven't seen it yet, but if Peter and Ace say to go see it... :-)

Jim
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Please thank Peter for making this artistic marvel possible!

And yeah, stop all work and take the entire team to see it... RED and Avatar go hand in hand as we will see in the coming years :)
 
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Shawn Nelson said:
If it's not like getting your eyeballs fucked then i'm going to haunt this thread :-)
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I really don't want my eyeballs fucked though...

I'm kinda disappointed I didn't go see it at midnight, but I'm broke so alas.

I'm sure I'll see it soon. It looks insane, and by the sound of everyone here it sounds pretty insane. I can't wait.
 
You gotta be kidding me.
400 million dollars( reportedly) and they come up with this crap?
 
There are a lot of "Avatar" options in the L.A. area. Any comments on XpanD 3D technology? The Hollywood Archlight Cinerama Dome has installed XpanD in time for "Avatar." I enjoy watching movies there; the audience seems more respectful and the screen is immersive even in 2D. Would XpanD compromise the 3D experience of a movie made for RealD?

And just out of curiosity, why would the movie premier at Grauman's and not play there, but play at the Archlight instead? Anything to do with the 3D technology?
 
Avatar isn't made for RealD, that's just sponsor related marketing hype.

All 3D movies can be coded for any of the 3D systems.
XpanD's active polarized shutter-glasses system is by many seen as the best 3D solution with no modulation of the light-path before the light reaches the glasses.
Both RealD and Dolby3D modulate the light-path +uses polarized (passive) glasses.
The XpanD system most resembles the system we will have in our homes for 3DBD and gaming in the future.

But everybody has the opportunity to see Avatar several times and decide which system works best (or if there are much difference).

It would be interesting to hear from people, who has seen the movie several times on different 3D systems, their impression of the difference. Remember that lumens on the screen have a great impact on how the 3D quality/system is perceived.
To illustrate;
The pre show opening of Avatar in London for press and Industry used 4 Barco 3000 projectors to give the best impression.
The regular shows for paying patrons only use one.
 
Finnkino (owner of Finland's largest chain of theaters) did extensive tests before deciding on XpanD for all their 3D theaters. I had a chat with their technical director who said the decision was almost solely based on the quality of 3D image; they wanted the best one and it turned out to be XpanD. He admitted that XpanD costs a lot more than competing systems when it comes to glasses, but it doesn't need a special silver screen like RealD, which in turn saves quite a bit of money per installation.
 
Story was boiler plate, certainly above average, well performed and extremely well excecuted but..

OMFG! HOLY SHIT! Unfreaking believable. I had to pull myself out of the film several times just to remind myself what I was watching and how amazing it is that it just worked.

The only reason I ever felt let down by the story was because it was good but the movie is such an indescribable achievement it would be almost impossible to live up to.

I saw it in a full IMAX3D and the 3D was better than any I've ever seen before. That being said there is certainly room for improvement. 1080p just isn't enough resolution. The depth was so incredible and immersive but I could never quite find the focus point because the image was slightly soft, I felt like the resolution or ghosting or something was holding me back from it being real. After about an hour I was completely immersed without any thought to the 3D, it was just taken as a given. But there was an adjustment period as you relax into it. But the 3D isn't a gimmick, well, ok it is a gimmick, but so is music and so are sound effects. It's a gimmick that brings something substantial to the experience.

When Sam Worthington's Avatar holds up his hands and looks at them through his POV I experienced a slight out of body experience myself. I felt like I was actually viewing my hands and I could feel my brain trying to understand how it could be seeing my hands but not be moving my hands. Who knows maybe a little sleep deprivation helped grease the gears as well.
 
The film feels to be of a magnitude maybe similar to The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars. A big, big film that will go down in history as some kind of important landmark. The possibilities with all of this are endless. The technology here is stunning... stunning. And it's in the service of something beautiful. Imagine if someone turned Terrence Malick loose in the middle of a huge James Cameron film, with the whole thing being digitally drawn with crystal clarity in three dimensions by the brain of Hayao Miyazaki...
 
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The film feels to be of a magnitude maybe similar to The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars. A big, big film that will go down in history as some kind of important landmark. The possibilities with all of this are endless. The technology here is stunning... stunning. And it's in the service of something beautiful. Imagine if someone turned Terrence Malick loose in the middle of a huge James Cameron film, with the whole thing being digitally drawn with crystal clarity in three dimensions by the brain of Hayao Miyazaki...
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You summed this up perfectly Tom. There's a few friends at Weta I had to congratulate as soon as I got home after watching it. I had to say to my best friend/regular DP sitting next to me "It's 1977 and we're the schlubs that didn't work on Star Wars"...I don't care how flat some of the lines were. It was like the best fever dream I ever had...
 
Visual poetry.

Visual poetry.

Flawless! Felt like something i dreamt or something which is stuck in my memory from a vivid imagination.Definitely a surreal experience .Stunning visual form & texture . Outstanding VFX with a harmonious blend of underlying real elements .Captivated from start to end .A rare creative inspiration .What i felt it may have lacked or could have done without in the script was counter balanced with sheer visual purity & clarity.​
 
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Christian Edwards said:
Felt like something i dreamt or something which is stuck in my memory from a vivid imagination.Definitely a surreal experience .Stunning visual form & texture . Outstanding VFX with a harmonious blend of underlying real elements .Captivated from start to end .A rare creative inspiration​
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Didn't it just? I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I dreamt about Pandora last night...the thought of watching the film in 2D makes me shudder. I don't want to experience that. The thought of watching anything else at the moment just doesn't agree with me...
 
Eren Ozkural said:
Didn't it just? I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I dreamt about Pandora last night...the thought of watching the film in 2D makes me shudder. I don't want to experience that. The thought of watching anything else at the moment just doesn't agree with me...
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Yup, wont be long and I can stop reading books:)
 
I am considering taking my 8 year old son to see it. But, I'm wondering if it would be too much to deal with at his age. He just got his first "real" camcorder and has been shooting everything non-stop for several days. I'd like to share this experience with him if there isn't too much bad stuff for kids. I think he has a passion and interest in story telling and technology. What do those of you who have already seen it think? Is 8 too young for this one?
 
Eren Ozkural said:
The thought of watching anything else at the moment just doesn't agree with me...
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Yeah, I saw another movie tonight. It just isnt the same anymore. The entertainment bar has been raised a notch. Scratch that, 20 notches.
 
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