John Carter

[Celini]

something really odd happened at BFI tonight... I brought my own 3D glasses (the very decent one from Sky3D), and they did not work!!! It was like not wearing 3D glasses at all.

I rushed back to the projection room and got a pair of their huge 3D glasses; those worked (as I could see what was supposed to be 3D, ahem post_converted_3D_crap), but most of the movie was unfocused! I swapped with Funthing to check if it was only me; but no it was really a problem with the movie!

Apparently the director blamed the bad projection during the Q&A (yeah I did not sit through that!)

did you encounter something similar at the IMax screenings?

[canadian_turtle]

something really odd happened at BFI tonight... I brought my own 3D glasses (the very decent one from Sky3D), and they did not work!!! It was like not wearing 3D glasses at all.

In the Netherlands each cinema chain has their own variety of 3D glasses that work very differently. I have no idea how it works with prints, if they're all different too, but the chain closests to my home has 3D glasses that are mini computers that project the 3D part straight in front of your eyes (when you take them off and look at the individual glasses you can see the film in negative view projected into them )

[funthing29]

The BFI Southbank 3D glasses are quite comfy and fit nicely over normal glasses! Better than the ones at the Empire.

[elski]

something really odd happened at BFI tonight... I brought my own 3D glasses (the very decent one from Sky3D), and they did not work!!! It was like not wearing 3D glasses at all.

I rushed back to the projection room and got a pair of their huge 3D glasses; those worked (as I could see what was supposed to be 3D, ahem post_converted_3D_crap), but most of the movie was unfocused! I swapped with Funthing to check if it was only me; but no it was really a problem with the movie!

Apparently the director blamed the bad projection during the Q&A (yeah I did not sit through that!)

did you encounter something similar at the IMax screenings?

well in all the blurb about the new Imax in Sheffield it mentions that people will need special 3D glasses for that they they loan out & return so it must be something specific to Imax projections.

[Celini]

our screening was not IMax

[elski]

maybe it's the Imax print projected out at a normal screen then?

[Celini]

that would not fit the screen... it was bad, but not that bad

[elski]

MrGlass has got his hands on your glasses and turned them into 3Dto2D?

or time for an eye test?

[missgotty]

I watched JC at the IMAX Southwark premier tonight. I thought it was only me that had a dodgy pair of 3D glasses until some guy in the Q&A mentioned it. It was pretty bad. Plus Lovefilm gave me a seat right at the front and to the right, so my neck hurt throughout the entire film :0(. But then I was only bum squeezing distance from Taylor Kitsch during the intro, so it wasn't all bad ;0)

The film started off promising, but then unusually I would losing interest at certain points in the film. I kept missing bits anyway because I was trying to refocus my eyes on the screen when it got too blurry. It was'nt a bad film but it had too many similarities to Star Wars. I'll probably watch it again on DVD just to see what I missed!

[Beate]

Hum...
http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2012/03/02/jo ... er-review/