Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by user510 (M) on December 30, 2009 at 01:10:43

In Reply to: RE: OT: Avatar + IMAX= SPECTACULAR! posted by howard on December 27, 2009 at 22:22:27

I would have to say that the new 3D technology really turned that viewing into an "experience". It is a new thing,I suppose, because of the 3D effects which were amazing at times. This movie became much more immersing than it would have been in a 2D viewing of the same. Well worn familiar story line and all. Take all of it into account; it is a well crafted movie.

re: objects floating in the space before you..... made me want to bat the flies off my face at times.

3D projection or not, the cgi animation is as good as I have seen. This movie takes the modeling of organic shapes to a new level. The Navi(aboriginal population on Pandora)are convincing in their motion and physical features. Not as-in somehow close to real looking--yet a little creepy. They -are- real. But we do know these are cgi constructs. You knew that, right! The jungle creatures, all alien to us, but somehow resembling wolves, panthers, rhinoceri, triceratops, pterodactyls, orangutangs, are the most convincing yet.

The military props, equipment, aircraft. The laboratory interiors. Much/most of it modeled in computers are all very well done. Best I've seen. Real.

Like the projection, the characters are 3-dimensional as well. If there were stereotyped characters, they were well fleshed out. These seem to be real people reacting as people, imagined primitives, real soldiers would do when put into such an extraordinary situation.


Good movie.

-Steve