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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 6, 2015 20:02:01 GMT
I bought a very very cheap 3D TV a few weeks ago and finally tried the 3D a few days ago. Gotta say I liked it a lot more than cinema. I watched Tangled and Antman both looked really good even from the acute angle I was sat. It remains a more or less totally pointless gimmick most of the time, but it is quite fun. Which I supopose is reason enough. I really want to watch Day of the Doctor in 3D now. I don't have a 3D TV or a 3D Blu-ray player, but I enjoy 3D cinema and am a sucker for bonus discs, and for that reason whenever I've bought a Blu-ray that had a 3D+2D set available, I've bought the 3D+2D set. I've therefore accumulated a total of thirteen 3D Blu-rays, including three extended Hobbits, two Avengers, two Caps, Iron Man 3, Ant-Man and G.I. Joe: Retaliation. I expect I'll enjoy watching them one day. Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 6, 2015 20:15:03 GMT
Until there's a version of 3d which sorts out the light loss and doesn't need glasses (try wearing 2 sets of specs on top of each other if you already need one to see properly) I literally can't watch it so 2d all the way for me.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 6, 2015 20:24:52 GMT
I bought a very very cheap 3D TV a few weeks ago and finally tried the 3D a few days ago. Gotta say I liked it a lot more than cinema. I watched Tangled and Antman both looked really good even from the acute angle I was sat. It remains a more or less totally pointless gimmick most of the time, but it is quite fun. Which I supopose is reason enough. I really want to watch Day of the Doctor in 3D now. I don't have a 3D TV or a 3D Blu-ray player, but I enjoy 3D cinema and am a sucker for bonus discs, and for that reason whenever I've bought a Blu-ray that had a 3D+2D set available, I've bought the 3D+2D set. I've therefore accumulated a total of thirteen 3D Blu-rays, including three extended Hobbits, two Avengers, two Caps, Iron Man 3, Ant-Man and G.I. Joe: Retaliation. I expect I'll enjoy watching them one day. Martin Same here, tend to buy the combo packs when the price isnt too much more. Dont know how many Ive got, but most of the Marvel films and a couple of disney/Pixar ones. Ive never had any interest in getting home 3D, had vouchers a while back that had t obe used so got a bluray player that happened to be 3D. And the TV was bought because it was so cheap, 3D didnt factor in to it, just a nice bonus. |
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 6, 2015 20:25:18 GMT
I have no interest in 3D film or TV, but it's quite difficult to buy a decent TV these days that doesn't have 3D built in. I had to buy a new TV around Easter time, but haven't ever properly used it for 3D, despite buying AoE in 3D in a fit of excitement at the time. I think all I've done is watch the opening of Prometheus, which seemed nice enough, but I only bought that because only the 3D version had all the extras.
Is the 3D version of Day of the Doctor on the boxset blu-ray release?
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 6, 2015 20:26:39 GMT
Until there's a version of 3d which sorts out the light loss and doesn't need glasses (try wearing 2 sets of specs on top of each other if you already need one to see properly) I literally can't watch it so 2d all the way for me. -Ralph I've been lucky that the 3d glasses have rarely clashed with my glasses. The Harry Potter ones I got when the last Potter film was released are especially comfortable. They perch perfectly on my new glasses I discovered the other day. |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Dec 7, 2015 7:03:55 GMT
Both are available, and it's very cheap for a newly released TV series. Martin Ah, excellent! Thank ye kindly for the info. I might spring for that in the New Year then - give me something to look forward to for after my exams. Karl Spotted Carter on DVD in Fopp yesterday. Think it was in the £10-15 region. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 12, 2015 14:13:44 GMT
1. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (extended edition) 2. Avengers: Age of Ultron 3. Game of Thrones (season 4) 4. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Sainsbury's exclusive)5. Agent Carter (season 1) 6. Ant-Man 7. X-Men: Days of Future Past (Rogue Cut) 8. Terminator: Genisys (HMV exclusive) I have mentioned that I'm a sucker for bonus discs, hence my impulse buy of the Sainsbury's exclusive 2-disc set of M:I5. No regrets. I have to say I'm ashamed of myself - I'm ashamed that my brain has been numbed by modern movies to the extent that I assume everything out of the ordinary is green-screen computer trickery, so it's nice for Blu-ray extra features to halt me in my tracks and point out that the James Bond tradition of actually having a man run across the backs of alligators (Live and Let Die) and a car turn 360 degrees while jumping a river (The Man With the Golden Gun) is not dead. And say what you like about Tom Cruise - he does his own stunts. When I saw M:I5 in the cinema it never crossed my mind for a second that the opening sequence with him clinging to the outside of a large plane as it took off was anything other than him in a studio with a wind machine, and the fields below added in afterwards. But no. It's really him clinging on to the outside of a real Airbus really taking off and flying at altitude, with real scenery in the background, and a bird strike would have been the end of him. I'd have thought there were health and safety people who would forbid somebody that valuable from doing things like that. And from learning to hold his breath for six minutes to shoot the underwater scenes. But no. It really makes you appreciate a film more when you are made aware of these things! Other things I like: - The expendable motorcycle henchmen - Alec Baldwin - The Shadow Knows! - Jeremy Renner - always plays the same character in any film I've seen him in, but I find that character more likeable with each iteration ("The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots and I've got a bow and arrow, none of this makes sense...") and credit to Tom Cruise again as producer, he doesn't hog the glory - gotta love it when the climax of the film is a chase in which the hero and heroine get separated, the hero gets chased by the evil mastermind and tricks and traps him with help from his pals, and the heroine gets chased by the toughest bad guy, has the final fight to herself and kills him on her own. Nice break from the normal action movie formula there, I thought. And my favourite thing of all, now that I'm aware of it: A scene where Simon Pegg puts on a mask and becomes someone else played by another actor. And they do it in a single shot, without any computer trickery. How? By having one actor sit in front of a mirror, which is actually a window into a mirror image room they've constructed where everything (even book titles) is reversed, and the other actor is sitting facing him, and the camera moves round to show first one actor's face and then the back of his head and the face in the mirror as he puts on the mask. It's so simple and has probably been done dozens of times on film, but it really tickles me that they're still doing it this way in the age of CG morphing. Two thumbs up from Martin. Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 12, 2015 17:26:53 GMT
1 Mad Max: Fury Road- great film. Well paced, splendid use of colour and sound design. A lot of character despite the minimal dialogue.
2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - what the TF films should be. Pleasantly surpriswd by how much I enjoyed it.
3 Lego Justice League vs Bizarro League
4 Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
5 - Batman Unlimited
6 - Lucy
7 Exodus
8 Noah
9 - Left Behind -
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Post by legios on Dec 12, 2015 20:41:49 GMT
I shall bear that in mind for a post-exam detour in January methinks.
As to the 3D thing - I am one of the small percentage of people who can't accurately integrate the 3D effect. I just get multiple images with flickering colour as my brain tries to interpret it. As a result I've never paid to see a 3D film, and most likely never will for purely practical reasons. I've no real strong feelings about it - except for when distributors decide not to release a 2D print, effectively preventing me from seeing the film at all. Then it irritates me a little. I'd have liked to see Dredd in a cinema for example, but they didn't want my money.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 12, 2015 20:43:17 GMT
£15 quid on DVD in ASDA.
Andy
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Post by legios on Dec 12, 2015 21:23:50 GMT
And say what you like about Tom Cruise - he does his own stunts. When I saw M:I5 in the cinema it never crossed my mind for a second that the opening sequence with him clinging to the outside of a large plane as it took off was anything other than him in a studio with a wind machine, and the fields below added in afterwards. But no. It's really him clinging on to the outside of a real Airbus really taking off and flying at altitude, with real scenery in the background, and a bird strike would have been the end of him. I knew about it, but only because one of the aviation magazines carried it as a news item - there only being two A-400M demonstrators flying at the time, one of them being in the UK for filming duties qualified as newsworthy. (Which I'll admit does make me smile in the context of the film - asking where seperatist forces got their mitts on VX nerve gas is a valid question, but I did think "Mr Hunt you didn't wonder where they got hold of an EU-procured military transport that wasn't even in proper production, yet alone service..." We'd best chalk that up to "a hazard of being Karl" really though :-) ) I have to say, having seen both of the demonstrators at different times, I have to give Cruise respect for being willing to be on the outside of that monstrosity when it was airborne. It definitely qualifies as falling on the other side of my "I am _not_ getting outside of a perfectly good aeroplane" viewpoint. Renner has been quite good in both of the M:I films he's been in. I usually find him quite watchable. He put in a decent shift in the Bourne Legbone and I've got "Kill the Messenger" sitting here to be watched soon and I'm curious to see what he can do with a proper drama role. They did that the old-fashioned way? I didn't realise that - it is lovely to have that kind of physical craftsmanship at work in a film. Especially when you realise that it is probably not only the hard way, but also the expensive way to do in. Karl |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 20, 2015 20:29:21 GMT
1 - Future Shock! - The History of 2000ad - a look back at 2000ad with many folks involved in it. Pat Mills on his own would get this the top spot. Such absolute honesty and utterly forthright. He's an engaging interviewee
2 Mad Max: Fury Road- great film. Well paced, splendid use of colour and sound design. A lot of character despite the minimal dialogue.
3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - what the TF films should be. Pleasantly surpriswd by how much I enjoyed it.
4 Lego Justice League vs Bizarro League
5 Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
6 - Batman Unlimited
7 - Lucy
8 Exodus
9 Noah
10 - Left Behind
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 20, 2015 22:28:59 GMT
Having enjoyed Future Shock at the cinema I must get the DVD. I tried HMV and they didn't have it.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 20, 2015 22:58:20 GMT
Having enjoyed Future Shock at the cinema I must get the DVD. I tried HMV and they didn't have it. -Ralph Snagged it from iTunes as due to shifts I knew I couldn't get the DVD quickly enough. Andy |
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Post by Benn on Jan 17, 2016 0:02:13 GMT
Do we have or need a 2016 one of these yet?
Because I've seen things, man...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 17, 2016 8:41:56 GMT
Do we have or need a 2016 one of these yet? Because I've seen things, man... Start it then! |
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