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[Blighter]

Originally Posted by Steeps

£1.30 here. Yay for unlimited card

This!

[Kitten]

Unlimited card would be wasted for me. Just don't go to the cinema enough to warrant it.

[Will]

Ditto. I wish I went more, but I feel it's only worthwhile going if it's an epic movie that requires a big screen and amazing sound. I think I went about 4x last year!

[Greenlizard0]

Originally Posted by Will

Ditto. I wish I went more, but I feel it's only worthwhile going if it's an epic movie that requires a big screen and amazing sound. I think I went about 4x last year!

Couldn't agree more. There's got to be something to take advantage of massive sound/speakers and a giant screen.

These days I almost make it a point to not bother seeing films at the cinema without special effects. I'm also far too likely to regret the fact I paid money for it; very few movies are really good these days.

Originally Posted by Kitten

I thought the tickets were always dearer for the 3D movies. If we'd have seen it in 2D, it would have been £4.80. They ain't giving you them free mate

£7.40 up here for a normal 2D film. I bought a rubbish cheap phone and stuck and Orange PayG sim into it, I should start using it.

[Admiral Huddy]

Got to see this at the weekend.

The 3d is a gimmick and spoils what otherwise is arguably the best action film I've seen.

[Will]

I have to say I completely disagree. I thought that the 3D was absolutely incredible. It's going to be hard to watch another cinema movie without it! In IMAX and in 3D I was just completely immersed in the film. I was absolutely and completely skeptical of the movie before I went in. It took about 10-15mins to get used to the 3d effect - however you soon lose yourself in the film, and my god it was an experience. The sound quality was incredible as well, and well, IMAX is just brilliant of course. I actually found myself ducking a couple of times during some of the battle scenes when stuff came flying towards you!!

Huge success - definitely worthy of the praise. I can't see me ever owning it on DVD as it just won't do justice to the film. You need top class surround sound, a large screen and seeing it in other than 3d I can imagine would be less fulfilling although it was a very good film, though a little hollywood/god bless america at times.

Big thumbs up from me worth the £15.

[divine]

Originally Posted by Admiral Huddy

Got to see this at the weekend.

The 3d is a gimmick and spoils what otherwise is arguably the best action film I've seen.

That's pretty much the polar opposite to pretty much every other view i've seen criticising the film, most of which say the 3D is about the only good thing there is and the film itself is a pretty lacking 3 hour long cliche

[Admiral Huddy]

Well the experience is obviously clouding people judgement which is why I said it's just a gimmick. Impressive it is, I won't disagree with that, but all I could see is 2d layers giving the appearance of a 3d image.. i.e. background, mid, foreground and a few bits between plus there appeared to be no depth..

For example, when I look a across the room I'm sitting in, everything is in proportion in distance from the foreground to the vanishing point. Depending on what my eyes focus on at the time, either the foreground or background is out of focus. The screen in front of me isn't anymore emphasised than the glass on my desk, or the picture behind that.. yet in 3d film, it gives the impression that everything in between these two points is static. Hey I'm no photographer but it just looked too false.

If this film is being merited purley on the 3d element, then that's a shallow reason to rate it so highly. It's a bit like judging a game puely on the visual experiance and not the game itself.

I thought the near 3 hours went really quick.. That's always a good sign.

[Will]

I think the 3d effect adds tremendously to the film - I felt completely absorbed and almost "in" the movie. I've been to imax cinemas and some of the world's best cinemas, but they wouldn't be able to re-create that 3d effect IMO. It does immerse you completely - I agree it took me about 10-15mins or so to "ignore" the 3d "noise" that you initially get, when you stop looking for the 3d effect it becomes far more easy to enjoy the film.

I think it was cheesy and so on, and the script was paper thin, but the film would have been good even without 3D but it certainly made the film exceptional to have that added depth to immerse yourself and lose yourself in it.

[TinkerBell]

I saw it on 3D at cineworld and in 3D in the IMAX. The 3D effect in the cineworld was off putting, you could see the layers/edges for the 3D effect which wasn't very good. However when I went to the IMAX cinema it was fantastic, no edges or layers when the 3D effect was there.

I think it is an absolutely fantastic film, nothing to do with the 3D effect (it made it more real but not the only reason to see the film) It had something for everyone, the romantic side, the sci-fi, the shooting. Just Amazing.