I'm already bothered enough by regular frame rates on movies. With reports of many people noticing stuttering from panning with 3d, I'm worried that it will bother me. I'm pretty sensitive to frame rate / stuttering type effects.
I guess that depends on the type of 3d theater you go to though.
oddly enough, I didn't notice any framerate stuttering. I noticed a lot of what might be called motion blur (not sure if it was from the 3d tech or just from the filming itself), but it didn't bother me because seeing it how it had the feeling of being right in the middle of everything, the act of moving your head really fast gives you that same motion blur, so it just agreed with my sense of reality in the movie to have the motion blur during high speed camera movement.
However, some of the visual confusion I had also came from the fact I was sitting at the bottom of the theater, at the flat seats in front of the stadium seats. WAY too close to the screen, but we got there late and the theater was packed.
I'm going to try and see it again with a buddy if he hasn't seen it yet.
I haven't seen it yet either, but once it hits the Redbox, I'll probably rent it.
IMO, based on the trailers I've seen, it looks too "cartoonish" to justify all the hype and uproar we see/read here.
Believe me, I was a little worried about that too.
And is the reason I refuse to watch the movie in 2D. It seems like it will look like a cartoon in 2D.
When viewed in the theater (I watched in RealD 3D), it looks jaw-droppingly real. The disbelief comes in when realizing these are all blue creatures, but when watching in 3D... the humans, all their technology, and the alien world and it's inhabitants... all look like they belong.
The real-feeling is aided significantly by the impressive sense of depth thanks to the 3D, and it's that depth perception that helps make it feel like everything is surrounding you. And that all lends to giving weight to all the digital stuff on the screen.
I look above at what I have typed, and I realize I just cannot convey what I am trying to describe. Suffice it to say, the 3D viewing experience completely takes away all notions that anything is CGI, at least, imho.
I KNEW almost everything was CGI, but yet in the end, my eyes didn't want to believe what my brain knew. It's just impressive how everything is given weight and life when viewing in 3D. The sense of depth gives artificial images so much more life.
