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[norcumi]

Fern Gully meets Dances with Wolves, with pretty that the 3D tried to keep me from seeing as much as possible. Watch in 2D, but I suspect I'd recommend one wait for video and watch on a large screen.

Yes, yes I did go to see a movie. I'm just as shocked as you are.

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[lynati-1.livejournal.com]

I've taken to calling it, "Dances with Pocahontas in Fern Gully" myself, but lovingly so. I saw it in 3-D yesterday morning myself. And...Wow! The plot may not be the most original, but you really don't CARE while watching it. (Or at least, I didn't, and given the reviews I'd seen, I was expecting to.)

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

::shrugs:: I couldn't get the glasses to work with my glasses, and thus had a headache for most of it. And I like looking at the strange fiddly bits in the background rather than the "WHOA in your FACE! sparkly things!" that they were forcing my eyes to focus on, and not being able to get the detail on the plants and animals and ect. just drove me nuts. It was the little things in the movie that irked me. I want to see it in standard 2d at some point, and I suspect I would dislike it less.

(just... gotta ask. Why were you not going a little bonkers about the fact that all the critters were 6 limbed, and the main species 4 limbed? Just going with it? Or am I being silly again?)

[lynati-1.livejournal.com]

Not all of them were 6-limbed. Some had four limbs and a pair weird tendril-tentacle type of things. And the "lemurs" had a single humerus that deviated into two sets of arms at the elbow. So I think their world just plain has more diversity when it comes to body structure.

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

Fair enough! /salute

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

The thing that really set the Na'vi apart from everything else on their world, as someone pointed out to me, is not the four-limbs-plus-tail as opposed to six-limbs-plus-tail, but the fact that they breathed through human-type noses, as opposed to having those breathing ducts on their chests, like the horses/dragons/etc.

Probably something to do with the fact that you can only make an alien so different before a human audience has trouble sympathizing with/understanding Sully falling in love with one of them.

But like you said, you don't really care while you're watching it(I wasn't expecting much out of the plot, and at least it's not, y'know, horrible *coff*Transformers:RotF*coff*). XD Because ~dang~ is Avatar a shiny movie. I especially loved the parts where the avatars/Na'vi interacted with humans, just, how different and how similar and, I dunno. Just. Yeah.

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

::nods:: I've since come to the conclusion I wasn't near the center row enough of the theater, and thus nothing was aligning the way it was supposed to, and thus some of the eye strain, but I might just be making that up. It is pretty!

.... and they should've been breathing through their armpits. There should've been deodorant jokes. Dammit! Why did I not catch this??! ;)

[brooklynx.livejournal.com]

I do want to see this one, but probably will wait for the 2D release on video. Same problem as you; regular glasses and 3D glasses just don't mix.

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

::blinks:: Am I somehow near the only 2D showing of this movie? I mean, I double checked when we went back yesterday - they're showing it locally in 2D, so.... ::is baffled::

[brooklynx.livejournal.com]

The majority of the ads locally are advertising the 3D showings. I'll have to check the paper tomorrow and see who might have a regular 2D showing (of course, said paper has this nasty habit of not pointing out which is which at times).