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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 9:18 am
I didnt realize Alice was going to be 3D and an Imax experience!!! Now I am even more excited for that movie! I think the next million dollar invention will be comfortable 3d glasses. I would think it would be even more uncomfortable to put them over your regular eyeglasses. Only 1 more sleep til I go see this again!
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 9:41 am
About those glasses. The IMAX 3D ones were different. We were handed a used pair, all finger printed up. Yuck. Also, they were more like goggles and one lens was green and one red. They were not the usual pair that you get in the little bag with the polarized grey lenses. And all of us wear glasses, so we had 2 pairs of glasses on. I've worn the 3D glasses both with my regular glasses and without -- it's the same level of uncomfortable. Where they bother me is on top of my ears so I usually put the arms over my hair rather than under, to act as a cushion. On a scariness level, I would say Avatar is more intense than the Narnia movies, probably because I cared about the characters more. But I'd say it's a tad less scary than Pirates of the Carribean, and much less scary than the Harry Potter movies.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 11:25 am
Anhyone know if the movie theater always provide 3D glasses for a 3D movie? I've been calling the theater but can't get a person to answer. I don't want to drive there and find out you're supposed to take your own glasses.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 11:29 am
they always provide.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 11:31 am
thanks pamy
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 12:10 pm
Yes, they will have the glasses. I figure that's why I'm paying $3 extra (for a 50 cent pair of glasses LOL)
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 1:12 pm
you have to give the Imax glasses back, I wonder what the disenfectant procedure is for them.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 4:02 pm
I'd say there was no disinfectant. Ick! they were pretty smeared up. I think they just collect the like they are going to clean them, but just dump them in a bin to be reused. Maybe at the end of the day they do something?
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 4:08 pm
That's just gross! We always get a plastic pair that is sealed in a plastic bag, after the movie you deposit them in a big barrel and they get sent out, disinfected and rebagged.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 4:49 pm
I've only been to two 3-D films in my life. UP & AVATAR, and both times we were given the glasses in a sealed plastic bag. They are recycled yes, but sanitized - I seriously doubt it. Which come to think of it, is a big ICK ICK ICK! (Interestingly enough, for UP we were given the glasses that have one red lens and one green or blue lens, but for AVATAR I think both lenses are grey.) We got lucky: Since we were the last two people out of the theatre for AVATAR, due to our hobbling along on our canes, and having found the last couple of seats together in one of the top rows, that by the time we got down to the main level, the bin for dumping the glasses had been removed from the theatre and so we got to keep them. I am going to go and use my hand sanitizer on them, and use only these glasses whenever we go to the 3D movies, so we don't have to use the dirty ones. Feh! Otherwise, I suggest using those handi-wipes to clean them.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 5:25 pm
we didnt get the glasses sealed in a bag. I am going to ask about tomorrow, if I go, been sick so not sure I am still going
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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 6:26 pm
am I the only one who really didn't like avatar? I mean, don't get me wrong, the visual effects were awesome, but I didn't care for the story line at all. btw, the glass I had...were like real glasses looking. from what it sounded like from the guy who was handing them out...they put them in the dishwasher (or something similar) after use.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 8:13 pm
Beckie, I think I am going to 3D Avatar Monday and not really expecting to like it if it is being compared to the Lord of the Rings stuff, which I absolutely found boring when everybody else was raving about them.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 8:15 pm
Jooj, I wasn't enamoured of Lord of the Rings, and I REALLY enjoyed Avatar... 
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 9:09 pm
Ditto re LOTR and Avatar. We have both regular 3D and Imax 3D screens (although it's not what I'd call real Imax, it's probably only 30% bigger I'd guess). We saw the regular one and the glasses were about the same size as big sunglasses, black polarised, came in a plastic bag and were "recycled" afterwards, which I thought was some sort of power wash thing. I think they were called RealD or something like that. On the way in there was a rack of glasses for the Imax people, which weren't in bags, came in kids and adult sizes, and had much bigger lenses. By their colour I thought they were polarised too, but I might be wrong on that. Ok, looked it up, RealD uses circular polarisation and Imax 3D uses linear polarisation, so you'd need the correct glasses for the correct movie type. Also you can't tilt your head in Imax if it's linear (I remember that from Voyage to the Middle of the Earth (or whatever that Brendan Frasier movie was called) because I like to lean my head on dh's shoulder and couldn't).
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Saturday, January 02, 2010 - 9:34 pm
I enjoyed Avatar. I found the first LOTR to be such a bore I never have tried to watch the second and third. Interesting about the glasses. there were no kid sizes for the Imax ones we used. And I didn't notice they were red/green until I started trying to clean the smudges off the lenses and held them up to the light. When someone had them on and you looked at them, they just looked like the polarized grey. I didn't try to tilt my head to the side to see if things went bad, but I did lean over to whisper to DD a few times and didn't notice anything. I think these imax glasses were a tad bit more comfy than the realD glasses (of which I have at least a half dozen pairs at home because when 3D first was released they never had the collection bins to recycle). I've heard that if 3D really takes off we will probably be buying our own pair of glasses, for comfort, but that would do little good for the Imax 3D since they all seem to use different glasses.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 7:53 am
It will be like bowling, LOL some will bring their own some will use the facility's. I am still feeling effects of flu so not sure if I can go today, if I do I am going to ask them about their cleaning process and tilt my head to ck that out LOL
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 2:09 pm
Juju, some of the LOTR comparisons in this thread may be because of trying to help Brenda decide if her daughter would be ok seeing this movie w/o spoiling for Brenda. IMO LOTR is not similar to Avatar at all.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Wednesday, January 06, 2010 - 1:59 pm
Just wanted to update that 5 days post viewing, DD is still untraumatized. She hasn't been afraid to go to bed at night, not scared to be alone, etc. (nothing like after the first time she watched Harry Potter on video). So, I feel even better about having taken her to see it. She has told me several times that she wants to buy the movie when it's out on video.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Wednesday, January 06, 2010 - 9:35 pm
Can someone tell me what is the difference among digital 3D, imax 3D and imax 2D.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, January 06, 2010 - 10:29 pm
Imax 2D is just a high definition regular picture on a large screen - some Imax screens are very large (3 storeys high) some seem to be only about a third bigger than the regular screen. Imax 3D is a 3D movie shown on an Imax screen. Digital 3D is the method they show on most Imax screens (maybe all?) and most regular screens these days, but it's just the updated version of the old fashioned red and green glasses - digital picture and polarised light 3D.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 10:37 am
Thanks Kitt. So if I understand correctly, Imax 3D is the best way to see Avatar.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, January 08, 2010 - 10:54 am
I think so, just because of the larger, more immersive screen. I've read that regular 3D is slightly better quality than the Imax 3D, but I think what the large screen adds to a movie like this probably makes up for the slightly blurrier 3D. I saw it in regular 3D though, and thought it was excellent visually, so I don't think you can really lose in this case.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 10:14 pm
just saw it again, we enjoyed it even more because we were further up in the seats. We saw things we didnt remember seeing the first time when we sat in 3rd row. Sunday night 7pm show and it was packed! Ppl clapped at the end. This is first movie in years that I have heard ppl clapping at the end. I wanted to clap at the end of This is it but my theater was so quiet about that movie. Only thing this doesnt have is a strong theme song like Titatanic did.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 10:47 pm
Do you mean Titanic?
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