I think I'm going to see if I can find a copy of Thor to rent to reward myself for all my errand-running today. I haven't seen it yet, and you can only buy it on iTunes, waaaah.

I haven't seen a 3-D movie. So far the reports of headaches have balanced out the reports of niftiness, and the extra cost has tipped the balance toward 2-D.

Good luck with the Thor-ing, smonster. Whether or not the emotional hook works for you there's a whole lot of pretty in Thor.

I haven't seen a 3-D movie. So far the reports of headaches have balanced out the reports of niftiness, and the extra cost has tipped the balance toward 2-D.

I would definitely recommend seeing the Aardman Pirates movie in 3-D, it really makes that film.

Thor is shirtless in one scene. t edit Of Thor. That is all you need to know.

I thought it was shot in 3-D rather than being done in post-?

It wasn't shot in 3D, but it was shot with an eye for 3D, I believe, as Joss expected it to be post-converted.

I would definitely recommend seeing the Aardman Pirates movie in 3-D,

I can see where that style of animation might work well in 3-D.

Huh. I thought the 3D in Pirates was fine, but nothing special. (Kind of like the movie as a whole. I didn't dislike it, but it felt more like watching 3 episodes of a kids' TV show than a movie.)

Avatar was pretty decent in 3-D, because I think it was shot that way. I know I had to close my eyes from vertigo in some of the aerial long shots.

Speaking of....

Video: James Cameron Wants to Convert Everyone to ’5-D’

James Cameron wants everyone to adopt “5-D,” a term coined by the film and television industry to describe shooting in 2-D and 3-D simultaneously.

Broadcast 3-D is often seen as the bastard stepchild of the TV world. It’s been too expensive, and 3-D operators have mostly been unable to score prime camera positions (like, for instance, right under the hoop at a basketball game). The Avatar director’s company, the Cameron Pace Group, hopes to change things with a new line of cameras that broadcast both 2-D and 3-D signals and can be operated by a single person.

“3-D [television] would be stillborn if you had to do a separate 3-D production and a 2-D production of the same event,” says Cameron in Wired’s video interview above. “It was never going to make sense — you had to have an integrated production.”

It wasn't shot in 3D, but it was shot with an eye for 3D, I believe, as Joss expected it to be post-converted.

That's idiotic. If the movie's going to be released in 3D, shoot the damn thing in 3D.