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Toy Story in 3D

EmilyEmily Telltale Alumni
edited October 2009 in General Chat
Did anyone see this over the weekend?

I'm planning to go tomorrow. The idea of a double feature is a little daunting, but the movies are both relatively short. Together they're about 20 minutes longer than the most recent Harry Potter film, and I managed to make it through that without falling asleep. :D

I haven't seen a 3D movie in the theater before and I'm not sure if I'll like it, but I am a huge Toy Story fan...

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  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited October 2009
    Doug and David and I saw it on Friday. Good stuff. The 3D wasn't overbearing or anything. I don't know how much it added, but it didn't subtract in any way. It was just good to see both those movies in a theater again. Catch it at the Castro if you can, because movies are always more awesome there. (Show up a few minutes early and catch the organist.)
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited October 2009
    It's a shame I've already seen the original Toy Story so many times that I can recite the dialogue off by heart. I am a sad strange little man. The 3D sounds awesome though.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited October 2009
    I hate the 3D trend. I already wear glasses, what am I supposed to do with the crappy 3D glasses?
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited October 2009
    Put 'em on. They fit fine over regular glasses.
  • RawrRawr
    edited October 2009
    We were going to go see it. But then we realised the cinema would probably be full of younger kids squeling and crying, so it put us off. Ended up going to see Surrogates instead.
  • MegalomanMegaloman
    edited October 2009
    Rawr wrote: »
    We were going to go see it. But then we realised the cinema would probably be full of younger kids squeling and crying, so it put us off. Ended up going to see Surrogates instead.

    I have avoided the 3D movies too, for this reason. I really thought it was for kids only.
    Then again, those 3D glasses don't work for me anyway, or anyone that has a slight problem with seeing the correct colors.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited October 2009
    ShaggE wrote: »
    Put 'em on. They fit fine over regular glasses.

    Yeah, that'll be comfortable for 2 hours. I think I'll pass, thank you. :)
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited October 2009
    ^ Seriously, they are a very loose fit (and they don't slide down despite that). RealD glasses seem to have been made specifically so that us visually-impaired types can wear them too.

    @Emily: I haven't seen Toy Story 3D, but if it's anywhere near the quality of the RealD movies I *have* seen, you'll love it. It makes the old anaglyph 3D look laughable in comparison.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited October 2009
    Megaloman wrote: »
    I have avoided the 3D movies too, for this reason. I really thought it was for kids only.
    Then again, those 3D glasses don't work for me anyway, or anyone that has a slight problem with seeing the correct colors.

    Are you referring to red/blue 3D glasses, or the more modern ones which use polarized lenses? Modern 3D isn't color dependent -- it actually, effectively, projects one full image up on screen for each eye, and the glasses lenses filter it out.

    Red/Blue 3D glasses:
    RedBlue-Green.jpg

    vs polarized 3D glasses:
    real-d-glasses.jpg


    Any animated movie runs the risk of being full of kids, but less so if you go on a "school night," or to a later show. I think it's pretty much always worth it for a Pixar film.
  • doggansdoggans
    edited October 2009
    I went to my local double feature on Saturday. Yes, it was overrun by loud children, but even that couldn't ruin the awesomeness.
  • EmilyEmily Telltale Alumni
    edited October 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    Any animated movie runs the risk of being full of kids, but less so if you go on a "school night," or to a later show. I think it's pretty much always worth it for a Pixar film.

    Or during school hours, which is my plan. :D

    Good to hear the 3D glasses will work over regular glasses, since I need to wear mine at the movies. I'm excited. I'll let you guys know what I thought afterwards.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited October 2009
    How long is this going on? I'm likely to miss it like I always do
  • LaserschwertLaserschwert
    edited October 2009
    Were the movies actually re-rendered to make them 3D? I'll assume they were, because In-Three's "Dimensionalization"-technique doesn't really make sense with a CG-movie.

    And if they were re-rendered, were they updated in any way? Not that they would need that...
  • guitarsareboringguitarsareboring
    edited October 2009
    They're only showing the first one in the UK at the moment. Went to see it yesterday and it was as wonderful as ever. The 3D wasn't particularly special and after a while I forgot about it but it was still lovely to see it at the cinema again.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited October 2009
    I might watch it, but I hate watching alone, and all my friends jave seen both toy storys and dont think 3D will make it that good, but hey, good thing I still have relatives young enough to not have ever seen the movie and will love to see it in 3D(as long as they dont spend it on cludy with a chance of meatballs, they can wait for the dvd on that not this)
  • EmilyEmily Telltale Alumni
    edited October 2009
    The double feature was fun! (But when it ended I was definitely ready for it to be over.) These are such great movies, and it had been a while since I saw them so I didn't entirely remember what happened. There were some kids in the audience (why weren't they in school?!) but it wasn't crowded and none of them were too annoying...
    guitarsareboring wrote:
    The 3D wasn't particularly special and after a while I forgot about it but it was still lovely to see it at the cinema again.

    This was pretty much my experience, too. There were a few parts where the 3D was really obvious, like during the chase scenes and in the Star Wars-like beginning of the second movie, but for the most part I didn't notice it. I mean, it looked great, but I wasn't sitting there going "Wow, 3D!" the whole time.

    It's neat to see how much Pixar progressed between the two movies. The first movie is wonderful but there's something kind of... simple about it compared to the second one. You can tell that with the first movie they had to convince people that this was cool, and with the second one they could be more confident and go in some crazier directions. Also the human models came a long way between the two films.

    My only real complaint is that I had to sit through the same previews twice. Don't know why they did that but it was annoying, especially the one for A Christmas Carol which seemed very gimmicky, but I guess they were going for the "ooh, ahh" factor since everyone was wearing polarized glasses anyway.

    Now I'm psyched for Toy Story 3. :D
    LuigiHann wrote: »
    How long is this going on? I'm likely to miss it like I always do

    I think only for a couple of weeks. The ads I saw on TV stressed that it was a limited engagement.
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited October 2009
    Emily wrote: »
    Or during school hours, which is my plan. :D

    I tried that once. Instead of being full of school children the cinema was filled with children who wagged from school. The kind of rapscallions who talk during the film without cease.

    I usually go for late sessions these days, and try to avoid Friday nights and weekends.
  • serweetserweet
    edited October 2009
    I went to see it on Friday just gone; was brilliant to see the film again, but the cost was ridiculous. £8.05 it cost me at my local cinema ($13) compared to the usual £5.20 ($8.50).
    3D seems a bit pointless for the extra cost, but adds a nice touch.
  • Ash735Ash735
    edited October 2009
    Went to see Toy Story earlier tonight, as mentioned already, being UK we only have the first film here at the moment, I have to say, first time I've seen a 3D film since Beowulf! I was actually impressed how they took Toy Story and just made in a more 3D perspective, I must of seen this film about 100 times, but seeing it tonight, maybe because it was on the big screen too, I was noticing a lot of small details in the background as I was looking past what was "in focus".

    There were points where I forgot about it being 3D during some scenes, but the depth perception returns in many scenes which I actually liked, any scene that was on Andy's Bed for example, or the Gas Station, or Pizza Planet, all worked well in 3D :p
  • EmilyEmily Telltale Alumni
    edited October 2009
    serweet wrote: »
    I went to see it on Friday just gone; was brilliant to see the film again, but the cost was ridiculous. £8.05 it cost me at my local cinema ($13) compared to the usual £5.20 ($8.50).

    Interesting - at the theater where I saw it, it was $3 more than usual, but I saw a matinee ($6) so it ended up costing the same price as a regular movie would. Plus there was the double feature. Not sure I'd be thrilled about the extra charge for a regular nighttime movie (which can be $10 or more in some theaters...)
    Ash735 wrote:
    I must of seen this film about 100 times, but seeing it tonight, maybe because it was on the big screen too, I was noticing a lot of small details in the background as I was looking past what was "in focus".

    Me too. I actually missed some of what was going on because I was too busy trying to read the titles of books off Andy's shelf, etc.
  • FrogacudaFrogacuda
    edited October 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    Are you referring to red/blue 3D glasses, or the more modern ones which use polarized lenses? Modern 3D isn't color dependent -- it actually, effectively, projects one full image up on screen for each eye, and the glasses lenses filter it out.
    It's not just modern 3D. Those old horror movies in the 50s were polarized 3D too. We just portray them as red/blue anaglyph 3D on television because that's more recognizable to the audience as "3D glasses."

    It's sort of amazing how much 3D has made a comeback without any technical advances, honestly. All they did was change the target audience to kids/families and now it's everywhere.
  • JakeJake Telltale Alumni
    edited October 2009
    Ah interesting. I didn't know the polarized technique had been around that long. I first saw it in Disneyland with Captain EO, and thought it was new around that point.
  • FrogacudaFrogacuda
    edited October 2009
    Yeah, in fact, it's been around since the 30s. It got really popular in the 50s, but it's old, old tech.
  • Lennie MelvinLennie Melvin
    edited October 2009
    Jake wrote: »
    Ah interesting. I didn't know the polarized technique had been around that long. I first saw it in Disneyland with Captain EO, and thought it was new around that point.

    Captain EO! I love that movie :D
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