Avatar - see it in regular or 3D?

**Biciclista** · 12-21-2009, 06:17 AM

3D only works if you have two eyes in focus....

**GLC1968** · 12-21-2009, 08:47 AM

I haven't answered the poll because we were debating this very thing this past weekend ourselves. I'll be curious to see what the consensus is!

Personally, I'm leaning away from 3D because it always gives me a nasty headache. I've only experienced it in short flicks at theme parks and such, but I can't imagine how a full length feature film will affect me. Perhaps this is why?...

Originally Posted by Biciclista

3D only works if you have two eyes in focus....

Is this true for the new 3D stuff as well (the non-red/blue)?

Edited to add: YES, I just did the research and apparently it does matter. That explains the headaches. I can see 3D - it's just difficult for me. Since there is NO WAY I'm going to bother correcting my distance vision at this late in the game, I guess I'll be seeing Avatar in regular!

**channlluv** · 12-21-2009, 11:33 AM

I've seen that it's PG-13, but I'm not sure what that means. Graphic sex scenes? Violence? Language? I'd like to take my 11-year-old daughter because she loves fantasy stuff, but I don't want to take her to something inappropriate.

I also want to go see Sherlock Holmes, but just the commercials for that seem a bit inappropriate to me (the scene of him tied up in bed with a pillow in front of him) -- DD was embarrassed to see that in the previews at New Moon.

Roxy

**Irulan** · 12-21-2009, 12:09 PM

The poll needs another option.
Wait for the DVD.

I know, I know it's probably really cool and all that, but I've got a really nice home theater, can watch movies in my jammies, in HD on the large flat screen, and am not captive to commercials while waiting for the main feature. I really get bent out of shape paying good money and being subjected to advertising.

I.

**VeloVT** · 12-21-2009, 12:28 PM

I think the last movie I saw in 3D might have been "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson.

So yeah, it's been a long time.

My bf really wants to see this in the theater in 3D though. So we probably will.

**SadieKate** · 12-21-2009, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by Irulan

The poll needs another option.
Wait for the DVD.

I know, I know it's probably really cool and all that, but I've got a really nice home theater, can watch movies in my jammies, in HD on the large flat screen, and am not captive to commercials while waiting for the main feature. I really get bent out of shape paying good money and being subjected to advertising.

I.

Normally, I'd totally agree with you because, for one thing, I make better popcorn, but:

1) there are some movies which need the big screen. For instance, to this day, I regret not seeing "Dancing with Wolves" on the big screen. Big Sky Country requires a big screen. The spacecraft in the first Star Wars produces such low Hertz and is so big, it absolutely needs to fly "over your head" for maximum effect.

2) Date night: I think Bill and I went to a movie theater maybe twice in 20-some years. In the couple of years since we moved here, we've gone to the movies a couple of times and it's been fun. Just a new change of pace for us.

3) Respite from the heat during a mtb vacation: If you have to be in southern Utah in the summer, go ride at 6 am, take a shower and then go to the movies.

4) And lastly, if you do want to see it in 3D, you have to go to the theater (unless you're Donald Trump, maybe).

**zoom-zoom** · 01-11-2010, 03:35 AM

Saw 3D IMAX yesterday...DH and DS were both speechless afterwards...hubby said it took him a while to be able to string together words in a coherent pattern.

Yeah, it was that cool. Overwhelming...amazing, gorgeous. DVD is gonna suck after seeing it so big and feeling IN the picture.

**Irulan** · 01-11-2010, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by zoom-zoom

Saw 3D IMAX yesterday...DH and DS were both speechless afterwards...hubby said it took him a while to be able to string together words in a coherent pattern.

Yeah, it was that cool. Overwhelming...amazing, gorgeous. DVD is gonna suck after seeing it so big and feeling IN the picture.

We did the IMAX-3D version last night. Yes, yes, yes. Definitely worthwhile. Most definitely.

I was pleasantly surprised that I wasn't subjected to ads for 15 minutes before the show began too. That is one of my big beefs with the theatre experience.

2 of the 3 of us wear glasses, the 3D glasses worked just fine over my bifocals and DH's regulars.

SK, my original position was "wait for the dvd" but I take that back now.

Also, re IMAX. We have 2 IMAX now. A regular old school IMAX five stories tall, and the new IMAX screen in the multiplex, which is where this movie is playing. It is a regular multiplex size theater, but the film takes up the whole screen from top to bottom and side to side, which is bigger overall from the widescreen experience. I wasn't clear that we now had 2 IMAX until I saw this movie.

**divingbiker** · 12-21-2009, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by channlluv

I've seen that it's PG-13, but I'm not sure what that means. Graphic sex scenes? Violence? Language? I'd like to take my 11-year-old daughter because she loves fantasy stuff, but I don't want to take her to something inappropriate.

I have absolutely no interest in seeing Avatar, but the Washington Post reviewer that I heard on the radio the other day said that the PG-13 rating was due to a graphic violent fight, not nudity or language.

**channlluv** · 12-21-2009, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by divingbiker

I have absolutely no interest in seeing Avatar, but the Washington Post reviewer that I heard on the radio the other day said that the PG-13 rating was due to a graphic violent fight, not nudity or language.

Thanks!

**Tuckervill** · 12-21-2009, 09:12 PM

My dilemma is that I really don't want to go see it at all (I'll get it from Red Box sometime). I'm sure it's wonderful, but it's not my favorite kind of movie. But I'm always out voted on the annual Christmas night trip to the movies (since the youngest son has been old enough to see decent movies). No one would want to go see Nine or the one with Meryl Streep and Steve Martin. I have to give in every year, and usually I'm ok with it, but it's really going to grate on me if I have to wear community glasses.

Karen

**Becky** · 12-22-2009, 03:14 AM

DH and I are thinking of going to see it next week when we're off from work. I've been wondering though- what's the difference between Imax 3D, Imax Dome, and RealD 3D? Which would be best?

**Flybye** · 12-22-2009, 06:02 AM

Originally Posted by Tuckervill

but it's really going to grate on me if I have to wear community glasses.

Karen

The glasses are sent away and sanitized and repackaged. They come sealed in individual plastic bags. Completely safe and sanitized. No cootie worries.
If you have ever had a medical procedure including a pap smear, or been to a dentist, their stuff is clean and gets crammed in much more disgusting places than a pair of sanitized glasses will ever go.
For what it is worth, I do not like Science Fiction - it is never a book choice of mine - and yet I loved the movie.

**tulip** · 12-21-2009, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Biciclista

3D only works if you have two eyes in focus....

So true. With only one good eye, I'm not sure the 3D will do much for me. But I'm still interested in seeing the movie.

**copndoc** · 12-21-2009, 07:07 PM

We saw it today and the whole movie is one huge special effect and is amazing! The 3-D was really good and the glasses aren't like they used to be. No more red and blue lenses. The story line reminded me of "Dances with Wolves" and it was good, but the 3-D effects were better.

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