01-03-2014, 04:49 PM
You already know this if you follow LCF's tweets.
We saw the 3D version, which was impressively sharp, with almost no swimming in and out of focus towards the edges of the screen.
I don't feel that my critical faculties were fully engaged for this movie. There was just too much newness and freshness to the CGI and filming technology. While in the theater, I was suitably engaged. Only afterwards, upon reflection, did I start noting all the story problems. The worst aspect was the overtly video game "feel" of the movie, where the protagonists are just slaughtering the bad guys as fast as they appear on screen, with no real danger or consequences. It's hard to become emotionally involved with such characters or their quest. You're just waiting for the next level of targets to appear.
I suppose my biggest disappointment was with the Hobbit fucks rabbit scene -- which never happened. You hear me? It never happened. I thought that's what HFR stood for (DOOM sure knows how to toss acronyms around; I hardly ever know what is really being discussed). So anyway, I got all excited for nothing when Dr. Who appeared with his sled and rabbits. Now I know that HFR stands for some new projection technology where photons are accelerated to faster than the speed of light and register in the eyes before they even appear on screen. (For our showing, the movie actually started 10 seconds before the projectionist showed up.) This is all well and good, and maybe it contributed to the sharpness of the 3D. But at the same time it tended to telegraph everything that was going to happen.
Oh dear. I think I'm blathering again. And this year was going to be different....
We saw the 3D version, which was impressively sharp, with almost no swimming in and out of focus towards the edges of the screen.
I don't feel that my critical faculties were fully engaged for this movie. There was just too much newness and freshness to the CGI and filming technology. While in the theater, I was suitably engaged. Only afterwards, upon reflection, did I start noting all the story problems. The worst aspect was the overtly video game "feel" of the movie, where the protagonists are just slaughtering the bad guys as fast as they appear on screen, with no real danger or consequences. It's hard to become emotionally involved with such characters or their quest. You're just waiting for the next level of targets to appear.
I suppose my biggest disappointment was with the Hobbit fucks rabbit scene -- which never happened. You hear me? It never happened. I thought that's what HFR stood for (DOOM sure knows how to toss acronyms around; I hardly ever know what is really being discussed). So anyway, I got all excited for nothing when Dr. Who appeared with his sled and rabbits. Now I know that HFR stands for some new projection technology where photons are accelerated to faster than the speed of light and register in the eyes before they even appear on screen. (For our showing, the movie actually started 10 seconds before the projectionist showed up.) This is all well and good, and maybe it contributed to the sharpness of the 3D. But at the same time it tended to telegraph everything that was going to happen.
Oh dear. I think I'm blathering again. And this year was going to be different....