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.

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.

By "broadcast" I assume they mean "record."

The standard way to do 2D and 3D at the same time is to simply broadcast one "eye" of the 3D camera and call that the 2D version. Sports broadcasters have been doing it for years.

The standard way to do 2D and 3D at the same time is to simply broadcast one "eye" of the 3D camera and call that the 2D version.

Yeah, I was wondering about that.

I am SKIPPING to say I have just purchased my first IMAX tix for Avengers tomorrow at 4:30 CST.

ASSEMBLE!!!!!!

(We would have gone last night or tonight, but D gets up at 3 am, so he kinda wants to be awake and screamin' through the whole show.)

And I'm outtie this thread until tomorrow evening.

Willpower: I CAN HAZ IT?!

Um, YIKES.

Have you seen the trailer for this new movie called "Hick" starring Chloe Moretz? [link]

I think it's trying to be Tarantino-esque? Edgy and provocative? But mostly I feel grossed out and in need of a shower.

Yeah, I saw the trailer for that last week and was...very confused as to what I was supposed to get out of it.

If I want to see that movie I can open a window and look outside.

Date for tonight has been postponed due to surprise final (what kind of professor decides to go out of town during finals week and neglects to tell their class about the schedule change?), but I'm going ahead and seeing the movie alone the first time. I know the crowd that will be attending Free Comic Book Day at the comics shop tomorrow, and odds of everyone there being able to shut up about plot points are nil.

Well, that might be good, so you don't have to worry about focusing on the movie during your date!