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[Charles King]

Ok, thanks for the update.

[Phil Kindred]

Avatar uses the polarized glasses--much better than the paper ones

[Jon Fairhurst]

The polarized filters are from Real3D. They use circular polarizers, so they work even if you tilt your head. The shutter ones use small LCD panels and are sync'd to the screen with an IR or RF signal.

With polarized glasses, two images are projected on the screen through different polarizers. On a TV it's done with polarization altered by row or column. With the shuttered glasses, no polarization is needed. The frames alternate with left and right images.

[Charles King]

Wow! Great info Jon.

[Michele Coser]

I saw Avatar 3d yesterday and it liked a lot! The 3d effect is quite good, even if i was expecting something more “impressive”, but i realize you can’t do every small shot “impressive”… a few sequences were almost dizzy!

I liked even the CGI people, wich usually is a huge no point for me, they almost look plastic or gummy ( i.e. see the CGI shia le bouf in the new Indiana Jones swinging from the trees… this does not happen with other or not known creatures, plants, mechanichal things)… but the mouth/lips looked a bit fake a little even on Avatar (sorry but this is wat drag me out of the movie)

It also suffer from the problem i explained before, i find out of focus things or backgrounds distracting.; but maybe this is the fact that there is also a 2d version of the movie.

In the end it was a good movie, probably enjoyable in 2d as well since there are moments really great (the braveheart moment when the revolution begin)

[Charles King]

Thanks for the review Michele. Well, everyone has their own opinion about the 3D version. I will still go and see it in 3D though. Just so I can have a say in this conversation

[Patrick Moore]

I saw it, it's a love story. 3D was pretty amazing.

[Jon Fairhurst]

I saw it, it's a love story.

It's Pocahontas in space... 

[Phil Kindred]

You can actually trace the story elements back to the 17th and 18th century.  James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans is a model  as is Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.  You could also make a pretty good arguement that it is a variation on Col Kurtz's story from Apocalypse Now.  Doesn't matter--every audience I saw it with applauded at the end.  That is very rare.

[Vladimir Korshunov]

--every audience I saw it with applauded at the end.  That is very rare.

   Filmcrew is not here, but all spectators applaud. Is not it great!
I also experienced it watching Ettore Scola´s "Le Bal", Terry Gilliam´s "Brazil". That time Andrey Tarkovskij´s "The Mirror" was shown first times, some left the cinema from the very beginning, others stood in silence at the end.