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Pacific Rim (1 Viewer)

Picked up the 3D blu ray.  Barnes and Noble has it for $7.99.   Easily worth the money.

I was surprised just how much better it was in 3D.  It wasn't even the jaegar-kaiju fights, so much as the entire rest of the movie just really popped in 3D. 

I've also never seen a movie that used inclement weather to such great 3D results.  I never noticed seeing it normal, but most outdoor scenes there is rain, snow, sleet, smoke and debris, splashing waves, etc... and they really used it well to enhance that feeling of depth you get from 3D.

 
GregR said:
Picked up the 3D blu ray.  Barnes and Noble has it for $7.99.   Easily worth the money.

I was surprised just how much better it was in 3D.  It wasn't even the jaegar-kaiju fights, so much as the entire rest of the movie just really popped in 3D. 

I've also never seen a movie that used inclement weather to such great 3D results.  I never noticed seeing it normal, but most outdoor scenes there is rain, snow, sleet, smoke and debris, splashing waves, etc... and they really used it well to enhance that feeling of depth you get from 3D.
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Part one or two?  I didn't mind the first.

 
GregR said:
Picked up the 3D blu ray.  Barnes and Noble has it for $7.99.   Easily worth the money.

I was surprised just how much better it was in 3D.  It wasn't even the jaegar-kaiju fights, so much as the entire rest of the movie just really popped in 3D. 

I've also never seen a movie that used inclement weather to such great 3D results.  I never noticed seeing it normal, but most outdoor scenes there is rain, snow, sleet, smoke and debris, splashing waves, etc... and they really used it well to enhance that feeling of depth you get from 3D.
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The extreme foreground rain drops, which catch glints of the neon lights in Hong Kong, for example. Pushed it til it was uncomfortable in 3D and then backed off a bit to get it right in your face. Also, all of the lens effects (flares, water drops on lens) were pushed all the way forward too. 

 
joey said:
GregR said:
Picked up the 3D blu ray.  Barnes and Noble has it for $7.99.   Easily worth the money.

I was surprised just how much better it was in 3D.  It wasn't even the jaegar-kaiju fights, so much as the entire rest of the movie just really popped in 3D. 

I've also never seen a movie that used inclement weather to such great 3D results.  I never noticed seeing it normal, but most outdoor scenes there is rain, snow, sleet, smoke and debris, splashing waves, etc... and they really used it well to enhance that feeling of depth you get from 3D.
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The extreme foreground rain drops, which catch glints of the neon lights in Hong Kong, for example. Pushed it til it was uncomfortable in 3D and then backed off a bit to get it right in your face. Also, all of the lens effects (flares, water drops on lens) were pushed all the way forward too. 
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That's definitely how it felt. I noticed the flares too.  I can't recall another 3D movie I've seen that did things that way, or at least to that extent.

Was all of the 3D post processing?

 
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GregR said:
That's definitely how it felt. I noticed the flares too.  I can't recall another 3D movie I've seen that did things that way, or at least to that extent.

Was all of the 3D post processing?
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Most of the full CG shots (which were MAJOR portions of the movie) were rendered in "real" 3D and not a post-process like they do on most 3D films these days (where the VFX company delivers a single "final" version of 1 eye, and the stereo post-processing company takes that result and "dimensionalizes" it into layers and creates the other eye for a stereo pair). For PacRim, ILM delivered 2 fully rendered stereo images for all frames of those full 3D sequences.

 
joey said:
Most of the full CG shots (which were MAJOR portions of the movie) were rendered in "real" 3D and not a post-process like they do on most 3D films these days (where the VFX company delivers a single "final" version of 1 eye, and the stereo post-processing company takes that result and "dimensionalizes" it into layers and creates the other eye for a stereo pair). For PacRim, ILM delivered 2 fully rendered stereo images for all frames of those full 3D sequences.
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Know you can't say too much yet.  But are we going to be wowed by the sequel?

 
GregR said:
Know you can't say too much yet.  But are we going to be wowed by the sequel?
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ILM didn't do the effects for the sequel, so I don't know anything about it really. 

Looking at the commercials, though, the effects look...good. 

:effectssnob:

 
So what about the sequel?

It doesn't appear that del Toro is involved in any capacity.  The new director/writer Steven S. DeKnight is a Joss Whedon protege who made his name in TV as the showrunner for Spartacus.  DeKnight has no big screen resume to speak of.

The cast has fewer names as well but it's not really a character driven franchise. 

 
I enjoyed the first one, though I know it sucked.

The second one... can I be promised that neither of the scientists will be in it?  If so, I'm all in.

 
Tick said:
I enjoyed the first one, though I know it sucked.

The second one... can I be promised that neither of the scientists will be in it?  If so, I'm all in.
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The one scientist is totally in it, the nerdy one I think.  But one would think a few annoying characters wouldn't take away your enjoyment of a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters. 

 
The first wasn’t great, but it’s one of those movies I always seem to be watching parts of on HBO or Showtime at night. I will do the same with the sequel.   

 
Is that Blonde Decker girl gonna be in it again?  She didn't bring much, but at least looked like a soldier.  

 
PIK95 said:
Is that Blonde Decker girl gonna be in it again?  She didn't bring much, but at least looked like a soldier.  
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Are you thinking of Battleship?  She would be an improvement for this steaming pile as well.

 
Not a good sign when my 13 year old son and his best friend go see and tell me it was horrible. 

 
More awesomer than the first. Could tell that that started to try to have an actual story but then realized nope, robots fighting monsters. Just do that. And add robot monsters too.

 
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