IMAX 3-D

IMAX: UNDER THE SEA DVD Review

by Paul Stuart    Posted: April 8th, 2010 at 7:33 am

The sequel to the second highest grossing (according to IMAX) IMAX 3-D film to date (Deep Sea 3D), narrator Jim Carrey and director Howard Hall bring a brief but spectacular look into the wonders down below into your living room. Albeit less wet, now relegated into 2-D.

Does the DVD version hold its own against its big brother, 3-D counterpart? Find out after the jump.

James Cameron’s AVATAR Is Over 150 Minutes?!

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 4th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

I know I shouldn’t be shocked that James Cameron would get ridiculously indulgent with his big 3D film “Avatar”, his first non-documentary film in 12 years.  But /Film’s report that the film is coming in at “well over two and a half hours” and possibly even at “3 hours and 9 minutes”.  The film is expected to run in 2D, Digital 3D, and IMAX 3D but /Film editor Peter Sciretta notes that IMAX could be a problem since it can only run at 160 minutes, maximum.  So even if the film isn’t 189 minutes, “well over two and a half hours” doesn’t give a lot of space between 150 minutes and the 160-minute-limit.  Sciretta’s trying to find out if IMAX will chop down the film but has yet to hear back from them.

Personally, I find a 3D film this long physically impossible.  I mean, I’m sure they’ve figured out a way to do it where optomitrists won’t be issuing warnings, but I know my eyes were worn out by “My Bloody Valentine 3D” and that’s only 100 minutes.  Unless watching the full film in 3D allows you to see the face of God, I think I’m going to pass and just see it in 2D and rely on silly things like “character” and “story” to hold my attention.

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First Image and Footage from Disney’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: May 18th, 2009 at 10:40 am

Since Walt Disney premiered some footage from “A Christmas Carol” at Cannes yesterday, the company has finally started to release some promotional stuff and the first image and footage is below. If you’ve been curious what Jim Carrey would look like as Ebenezer Scrooge, you’re about to get your first look.

While some have not been impressed with Robert Zemeckis’ motion capture movies, I think they’re very cool to see in IMAX, but they’re not the same when you take the experience home.

Will “A Christmas Carol” be the first movie that works as a conventional movie as well as something in IMAX 3-D? We’ll know this Christmas.

Anyway, here’s the first image and the footage.

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