SubJeff on 14/5/2012 at 12:47
How can you not see 3D? You have two eyes and you see in 3D in real life, right?
Then you can see 3D.
SubJeff on 14/5/2012 at 12:51
Ps. Reminds me of a story.
Some people at work got a pirated Avatar dvd when it was on the cinema. I was saying how good the 3D was at IMAX and one of them piped up.
Apparently they all thought the 3D was rubbish.
Why?
They'd watched the dvd at home, on a non-3D scene, naturally, with specs from cinema, and the effect was "rubbish".
I was so amazed at the unbridled idiocy of it I started to laugh and then just felt incredibly bad for them.
Vivian on 14/5/2012 at 13:06
I wasn't blown away by the 3D effects in Avatar, and I took the proportion of getting baked beforehand. I think it's mainly due to Sam Worthington having all the screen presence (and affect on the surrounding mood) as a dead child at a pool party. Massive graphics, all sorts of exploding going on, robot trousers, you name it, then Sam Worthington moons up out of nowhere and all of a sudden you can't focus on anything else.
I actually imagine it would like pretty much as good in regular 2D (although obv not if you are watching it in retardo-vision like your colleagues). Same with Prometheus - looks pretty stunning in 2D! Not that bothered about it being in 3D.
Briareos H on 14/5/2012 at 13:11
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
How can you not see 3D? You have two eyes and you see in 3D in real life, right?
Then you can see 3D.
It can take a long time to take note of one's stereo-blindness. Lack of proper depth perception due to mild amblyopia or strabismus is not always a problematic issue, especially when you've learned to compensate since your childhood.
Hopper, next time you go to an ophtalmologist, ask for your depth perception to be checked. Some stereo-blind people just need sessions of of eye coordination training to finally see fully stereoscopic.
demagogue on 14/5/2012 at 13:15
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Ps. Reminds me of a story.
I was so amazed at the unbridled idiocy of it I started to laugh and then just felt incredibly bad for them.
On the story of unbridled idiocy, a group of me and friends were in my brother's car driving somewhere, and my brother hit the button that "skips" through the radio stations, in that it plays about 3 seconds of a station, then skips to the next station. I think anybody that's been around car radios knows about this kind of thing. Anyway my brother started snapping his fingers every time the radio switched stations. And finally a girl from the back had to ask: "That's amazing! How do you make the radio change stations when you snap??" Hahaha...
Ah, actually this story is over 10 years old now, and now they actually have radios that do stuff on voice or sound command, so maybe it's not as funny now. But at the time, totally qualified for spontaneous idiocy IMO.
nickie on 14/5/2012 at 16:18
I laughed.
I used to be able to see these things but don't seem to be able to now. My eyes keep uncrossing and I'm also being accused of drunkenness so I've given up.
I don't have a lump on my head but I do have a bit of a dent. Is that worse than a bump?
Sombras on 13/5/2012 at 19:50
Quote Posted by Muzman
I've really got to see The Warriors again.
Baseball Furies, motherfuckers. They'll give you some lumps on your head. :D
SubJeff on 13/5/2012 at 23:47
The first half of the thread was going on in tandem with a thread on the Facebook Group, since we were encouraged to not just stop posting on TTLG if we were posting over there.
What's the bets that some loser will copy what I've said and then try to expand on it?
It'll happen, you'll see.
