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Just saw it, in 3D. The 3D was sorta gimmicky, and kept giving me a headache and slight motion sickness. Too much strobing in the animation, too many sudden major divergence changes, WAY too much depth of field. It's also a bit dumb that 3D movies have been around for over 50 years and still the best anyone can come up with is SHARP POINTY THING COMING OUT THROUGH THE SCREEN. Much of the time I ended up just closing one eye so it looked like a normal movie.

Story-wise it was alright, in the done-to-death modern-day fairy tale way. It reminded me a lot of Pan's Labyrinth, only more formulaic.
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I meant to make a thread about this a couple of weeks ago but totally forgot.

I waited all week to see it on the first night it came out. Took my former neighbor with me and we had a nice dinner a couple of drinks at a nearby bar, and then proceeded to go to the movie.

We got kicked out of the theater about halfway through, then off the whole Channelside District's property after I dare question why we were getting kicked out. They said that we were talking through the movie and received complaints. I have no idea what that was all about. We weren't talking any more than anybody else in the place and no more than what is an acceptable amount of whispering here and there. I think it was something else but I can't even begin to speculate. I think it was some misunderstanding or something. Still perplexed about it.

So, that following Monday I decided that I was going again. (Mainly because my association with each commercial for the movie afterwards.) So I figured if I was going to watch it again I'd go see the 3D version this time around. Unfortunately it wasn't playing in 3D anywhere close so I called a friend to meet me across the bay in St. Pete.

There I finally saw it all the way through and in 3D. I too thought the 3D effects were a bit gimmicky but I loved it anyway. (Maybe I'm biased but I loved the boy's boney gloves... ha, just short of wearing them myself, I love to see folks wearing those at shows.) I thought that giving TMBG a song that was to represent improvisation on part of the character was a stupendous choice. I was thinking 'who better' for that.

The movie was very dark, but yet very pretty. I loved some of the envelope that was pushed as a rated PG flick and those parts were cute. I laughed my butt off. (Maybe THATS why we got kicked out the first time, who knows)
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Damn Hobz, kicked out of a theater? It can only happen to you, dude. :lol:
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You, Hoblit, are why I don't go to movies.
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Spud wrote:You, Hoblit, are why I don't go to movies.
Oh, that hurts.
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