[Movie] Avatar (2009) - BZ wants your nub

How about we don't post a giant block of Twitter posts about the movie because Twitter fucking sucks. Thanks.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

How about you act like you're older than 13 by not calling me a nub.

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I'm reasonably sure it's a knowing nod to the engineering term rather than a really unoriginal stab at a name of something.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The thing about the 3D was they deliberately did NOT go for shoving the 3D in your face. The 3D just became part of the movie, and about 20 minutes in you're easily able to just treat it as a part of the movie. It made it more like you were there without constantly having a "WOOOOOOOAH THEYRE SHOVING THE SPEAR IN MY FACE THIS IS SO COOL" moment every 5 minutes to remind you.

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Feel free to correct me here, but it seems to me like that comes from an issue with what people expect from 3D movies versus what actually physically can happen.

In the real world, you can focus on whatever you want to because everything exists in 3 actual dimensions.

In a normal movie, cinematographers use changes in focus to draw your eye to what they want you to watch, and just like an eye, a camera can't focus on everything all at once (well, it CAN, a technique called deep focus, but it's not a popular method these days. Citizen Kane used it extensively.) This was one of the big advances that WALL-E nailed, actually, because they spent a lot of time focusing on depth of field and having focus on specific objects. The temptation when you CAN focus on everything is to do it, but most people expect the selective focus that other movies use.

Anyway, a 3-D movie only APPEARS 3-D because of a combination of how it's being displayed on the screen and the glasses you're wearing. It tricks your eyes into seeing things as closer or farther away than they actually are. In the end, though, it is still a 2 dimensional image, and just as you can't willfully focus on the background in a 2-D movie if you don't want to see Harrison Ford staring wistfully in that new movie he's in that sucks, you can't willfully change the focus on this "3-dimensional" image because in the end the choice was made for you and it's on that flat screen in front of you.

I was speaking idiomatically.