Let me just say that Toy Story 3 is awesome, much cooler than Amtrak, which doesn't run sufficient numbers of trains over the July 4 weekend for me to get down to Virginia. I saw Toy Story 3 a little while back and I was very pleased, movie magic and all that. It provided a nice bit of closure to a trilogy that was good through and through, and had some of the best laughs of the series. An instant classic, yada yada.
I had to see it in 3D, however, which annoyed me right off the bat, since 3D tickets are more expensive, and movie tickets in general are too expensive, since you can't know going in if the movie is even going to be worth watching. There are hints, of course. If it is directed by M. Night whatshisface or stars Gerard Butler, you are probably better off saving your money. But that was not the case, and the movie turned out to be worth the price of admission, or at least what the price of admission would have been if it weren't in 3D and the theater didn't change management to some jerks who don't give student discounts when they think they can get more money out of you (any time they are playing anything you would want to see).
But my main quibble is that 3D doesn't work for me, at least not very well, and a lot of the time, just makes it look like things on screen are surrounded by halos of light or that there are two of them. When it does work, it doesn't really add anything to the movie as such, besides sometimes a headache. So, long story short, I wish 3D would die, but it probably won't because people have always appreciated flashy crap more than a good story, and we all know which of those thing Hollywood is better at churning out, anyway.
In closing, a joke from one of my roommates:
What's the difference between a teabag and England?
A teabag stays in the cup longer. Ha ha, take that, English people.
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What people don't seem to realize is that this "advent" is essentially the same 3D technology that was being used in movie theaters in the 50's. Not exactly groundbreaking.
That is certainly odd, but pretty understandable, since the way Avatar was hyped as the coming of new technology, and all the 3D since then has been clearly a direct result of trying to imitate that box office success. I don't object to the hype so much (although it is annoying that such a horrible movie got such hype) as I do the technology itself, which costs more and actually has a negative effect for me.
thanks for pointing out that avatar was crap in a hat - I hate it for a completely different set of reasons than most people (#1: everyone wants the uber-skilled brother, but he died, so they're stuck instead with me, his "broken" clone... ponder that, to start), and to top it off, the old school red 'n' blue throwaway 3D glasses are just as effective as the "active shutter" replace-your-entire-home-theater method. ugh. +1 kilgore.
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unrelated: in 8th grade or so, we read some novel with an anti-eugenics theme, where at the end we reached the "revelation" that the people at the hospital or whatever were dumping unsatisfactory babies into the garbage/fire. err, something like that. remember the title of that awful book? it's driving me crazy.
rock.
The Giver. eighth grade was evil.
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