Coraline

[james_davis_nicoll]

Huh. I see that in the book

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Coraline saves herself with cunning and pluck. In the movie, she gets saved by the boy next door, a character I do not think exists in the book.

The 3D option gave me stabbing pains in my right eye within about five minutes so we watched the 2D version.

Comments

[montoya.livejournal.com]

How do they do 3D on DVD, anyway? I'm assuming it's not the red/blue thing, but it's not clear what else would work.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

It's blurry and hurty. You do get goggles but I didn't look through them so I can't say how they worked.

[argonel.livejournal.com]

Could they be using LCD shutter glasses so they show left and right on alternate frames? I know that has been the most common way to do 3D displays for computer games.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

No, it's polarised plastic lenses, which is pretty common.

It worked ok for me, but the colour tones were all off.

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

It *is* red/blue 3D, which is *not* the 3D that was available in the theaters. In theaters it was a new form of 3D that relied on special projectors not available at home.

[montoya.livejournal.com]

Right, theaters do the polarized thing, which you obviously can't do with a regular TV. When I saw a commercial for Coraline, though, I thought the glasses they showed had uncoloured "lenses", which is what made me wonder.

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

I think the commercial was full of lies. It looks like some time in the unknown future we might get the polarized 3D at home:

http://www.cinemablend.com/dvdnews/Henry-Selick-Sheds-Light-On-Coraline-DVD-Details-16201.html

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

Right - the new theater 3D uses circular polarization at 120 fps. Not really possible from a TV right now.