Some people say film is "warmer" than digital but I can't tell. Digital projectors are quieter so you don't get the projector noise but that also means the rustlings of your fellow patrons are more obvious. After opening weekend, film begins to show wear.

I'd go with digital projection and skip the 3D. (I saw it in 3D and the conversion was pretty obvious. Not as bad as Clash of the Titans, but dark and muddy in that way that all 3D conversion jobs are.)

I'd pick digital over film because (a) film wears out, and this will be showing round the clock, and (b) it's such an effects-heavy movie that the digital print is closer to the "original" format anyway.

I liked that I knew exactly who McGonagall was thinking of when she asked Neville to find someone who was good with explosives

I hated that Harry didn't fix his wand. Good going, wizard, now you have NO wands.

I missed Grawp and the centaurs.

Damn Lav-lav. Not sure why that one really made my guts churn.

I cried pretty steadily from the scene in the boathouse on. Hey, boathouse !

(It occurs to me when the showrunner says Castiel is millions of years old, I cheer, because that's what I've always thought--but it's grey canon too--just completely unaddressed on the show, and people keep assuming 2K years for characterisation choices I think are completely unnecessary. So I guess it depends on what your preference was beforehand, or how much it snaps into place for you when you hear it. But I wouldn't try and win an argument with it, other than to say "the writers think of him that way, and nothing on the show contradicts it)

(If it had been an action taken that was later untaken after the film stopped rolling, that's a bit different. That lives in the headcanon world. Dean is doing things to Castiel right now that might not turn out to actually happen by the start of the next season, or ever)

I will go search for the site I found that questioned whether you should see any given 3D version of new movies.

To 3D or not to 3D HP7 II.

We are going to 2D. 3D always gives DH a headache. And we are going to the Arclight, which means we chose our seats when we bought our tix online and can stroll in right before the movie starts which is totally worth a higher price. Lines? We don't need no stinking lines.

The last movie I saw in 3D was Coraline, because I didn't have a choice at the time. There was a horrible acrid smell in the theater, which turned out to be from a fire in the TGI Friday's on the lower level of the mall, and we all got free tickets when we walked out (it was really that bad).

So I had a horrible headache from the smell, and then went home and started puking (which turned out to be a stomach bug, and unrelated to the smell, since Sara was fine), but my last association with a 3D movie is pretty bad. The thought of another one makes me run screaming.

I think I'm going to 3D Conan for sure, as long as it's not an upconversion.

To 3D or not to 3D HP7 II.

Oof, well, I'm seeing it in 3D, but it's free!

I'd go with digital projection and skip the 3D.

We've been having a problem with some of the big chain Boston theaters not changing the 3D projector lenses to show 2D digital movies, which means you get all the underlighting of a 3D film without the 3D effect. There have been several outraged articles in the Globe about this, given how expensive even 2D movies are, but I think the chains are crying all the way to the bank about it.

If you can see it in 2D digital at cinema you trust to do the due diligence on the projection, that would be the way to go, though.