Star Wars Episode 1 in 3D anyone?

[Rum]

Even good 3d is crap.

The modern kind, with the polarized glasses rather than the two color kind, is not half bad... big problem is that the technique is applied to movies that are such lemons that not the most spectacular visuals in the world could save them.

'Up' and 'Hugo' are amazingly good exceptions to Hux's statement in my view. Brilliant movies made all the better by 3D.

[Svartalf]

I know neither... or maybe I know them under different titles, or they never crossed to this country, or came by making no noise and I never was aware of them.

[Azathoth]

Saw it yesterday. The CGI bits were OK. It works very well with the space scenes. It was horrible in the acted parts though. 3-D is acceptable for the new 3 but it will be sacrilegious when they bollocks up the real star wars films

[Robert_S]

3D irks me in movies and I sometimes wish it had never been reinvented, but then I remember I once got to play Quake, among other games, in one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_autom ... nvironment

If they set these up for general public consumption, I'd gladly pay money to game in it.

[The Curious Squid]

I bought a 3D TV forgaming and love it.

Thoug, I'm all for 3D in general, I honestly think it's the next natural progression. As Ian said though, I can't wait for the fad aspect of it to fuck off.

You had the same thing when HD was introduced, people moaned that it didn't make a difference, you probably had the same thing with DVD, Technicolor and sound back in the day!

Luddites will be luddites...

What's not to like about extra depth in movies? It takes nothing away from the film and adds a bit to some others.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Episode I is chock full of spectacular action sequences
Pod racing, darth maul light saber battle, space combat scene, the robot army war, submarine sequence..... Tons of good stuff in the movie even though it had it's weak points.

It also has one of the best nerd jokes in movie history. If you listen to the bad guy's pod racer, you will hear what a V-1 "Doodle Bug" flying bomb sounded like.

You mean that
a) they managed to record V1s during WWII?
b) somebody used that sample for that noise effect?

The sound is well known. Brits used to listen to it as they came over. When the engine sound stop it would be coming to earth shortly after. So a buzzing "Buzz Bomb" was a good thing, for you at any rate. Some other poor bastard would have a bad day, of course.

And they captured some samples after the war and studied them. Very good footage there. The first "missile" launched from a USN submarine was a redesigned V-1.

[amused]

My Mom was a WW2 war bride and all of her family emigrated here from Birmingham, England. They told stories of the buzzbombs, which were the main threat to them because the German planes couldn't quite make it to Birmingham and back to the mainland. So they bombed as far west as Coventry. My Grandparents said they could see the lights of the Coventry bombings at night on the horizon.

[Mr P]

The Plinkett review nails The Phantom Menace perfectly.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star ... om-menace/

[Clinton Huxley]

Retrofitted 3d is an even greater crime than colourisation. All you are doing is going back and pissing on the way the cinematographer lit and shot the film.

Films designed to be 3d from the start are more acceptable but it is still just a gimmick and encourages the worst directors to simply add lots of pointless pointy-pointing.

I don't find 3d films one jot more immersive, I find them dark, annoying and headache inducing.

[Clinton Huxley]

3D TV?!? Oh, look! Dot Cotton's right arm appears to be slightly nearer to me than her left arm (if I wear these silly glasses, sit right head on to the TV and don't move). It's like BEING in the Queen Vic!!

2D TV is shit. 3D TV is shitter.

[The Curious Squid]

3D gaming is the shit! So there

[Twoflower]

2D 3D couldn't care less about it.

[Clinton Huxley]

3D gaming is the shit! So there

What's bloody wrong with Manic Miner?!

[Rum]

3D gaming is the shit! So there

What's bloody wrong with Manic Miner?!

Actually not a lot. Some of those 8 bit games are hard to beat for gameplay, and Mario 64, now pretty old stuff, is possibly the best game ever. What we get now is super duper flash and bang, often with not much behind it.

[Clinton Huxley]

3D gaming is the shit! So there

What's bloody wrong with Manic Miner?!

Actually not a lot. Some of those 8 bit games are hard to beat for gameplay, and Mario 64, now pretty old stuff, is possibly the best game ever. What we get now is super duper flash and bang, often with not much behind it.

Hear, hear! One post-apocalyptic first person shoot em up is much like another.