Anyone get Venom 3D either digital or import blu? Wondering how it looks. If as bad as I’ve heard in some reviews...

This might be of interest for folks around here. 3-D Space is holding a free online version of the L.A. 3-D Film Festival
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Well, those films were.... definitely in 3D.

My short reviews of the short films:

• The Whole Picture - A very meta 3D film, transitioning from 2D B&W to color to 3D. It was good, but is more a promo for 3D than a short.
• Ghosts Of The Pastures - An experimental 3D film, heavy on the "experimental". A few interesting visuals
• Stimulation - A one-gag short. Amusing enough for it's brief running time.
• Zerynthia Expedition 2 - CGI of some nice alien landscapes from a single vantage point, apparently made for a "windowbox" art installation. Relaxing.
• Feline Paradox - Ugh. CGI narrative shot that's nominally a "comedy." It's main redeeming quality is that it's in 3D.
• Little Planet - more of a proof of concept on a particular 3D technique, and even includes a "how to" in the short. A nice effect with some interesting shots.

What’s sbs? If it’s just red/blue glasses, hard pass. Either way I’ll pass, but if true 3D then pretty cool...

It's "Side by Side," and shows the right and left images anamophically squeezed and next to each other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB_3D-TV#Side_by_side

I used the "3D' toggle on my TV to have it convert the SBS image to 3D.

There's plenty of SBS videos on Youtube you can use to test this out on your own 3D TV.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sbs+3d

Twilight Time announced today that they're closing.
https://www.twilighttimemovies.com/n...t-time-for-us/

They have a few limited edition 3D Blu-rays. It looks like they've all sold out on their site, but their partner Screen Archives seems to still have them in stock for $14.95 each

Gun Fury:
https://www1.screenarchives.com/titl...l.cfm?ID=34392

HARLOCK SPACE PIRATE
https://www1.screenarchives.com/titl...l.cfm?ID=30542

Inferno:
https://www1.screenarchives.com/titl...l.cfm?ID=33342

I actually had to work when that 3D festival was going on- I figured they would've kept it online afterwards but I guess they haven't.

Already got every Twilight Time 3D title as it came out, except for Inferno which I got earlier from Panamint in the UK. Would've double dipped if they'd found the lost stereo track for it on the later disc, otherwise no reason to have two copies of it.

Just ordered THE SMURFS 1&2. Didn’t know about them.

neither did a lot of people

Did you find them cheap somewhere?

I thought about getting one of them a while back bc it got good reviews, but then I thought, why the hell do I need this when I could care less about the movie...

Best Buy has them for $9.99 each, although they're currently out of stock of the first Smurfs
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchp...p?st=smurfs+3d

Smurfs 3, aka Smurfs: The Lost Village, is also available on Blu-ray 3D, just not in the US. I ordered my copy from Hong Kong, which is all-region.

I have the Smurfs movies and I'm definitely not a big fan, but I've turned into a 3D completist over the past couple of years (to my wallet's dismay) and the first two 3D sets can be routinely found for under $10. I got both of them "used-like new" from Amazon for under $6. each shipped a couple of years ago, and they still turn up frequently in that price range. Imported the third one from Australia at a higher price, obviously, but like the HK edition, it's also all-region (and a far superior film because it drops the live action crap).

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Some recent COVID-3D viewings:

ANT MAN 2, CAPTAIN MARVEL, AVENGERS ENDGAME. Saw all of these theatrically and the home 3D experience thoroughly measures up on all of them. Nice to have the complete Infinity saga in 3D (excluding Iron Man 1-2 and Hulk, of course). Just beautiful presentations. I do wish the special features and commentaries were more technical on all three of these. They've really reached the point where they seem to be assuming everyone knows how they're made, so all the features are geared toward praising performances (of course), explaining character details that are readily apparent on screen, and talking endlessly about all the cross-referencing and dove-tailing of the various movies. Marvel's supplements are borderline PR fluff, as if people aren't really that interested in the technological side of the productions anymore. Who knows, maybe it's true, since it's all done by sluggos on computers anyway, which hardly makes for fascinating documentary footage.

3-D RARITIES VOL. 2 - Another fantastic deep dive from 3D archive. The main feature, EL CORAZON Y LA ESPADA, Mexico's first in 3D, is pretty simplistic, obviously low-budget swashbuckler that probably wouldn't bear repeat viewing if it weren't for the 3D, which is pretty good throughout, and especially good when the characters are sneaking through the long catacombs and hallways of the castle, or swishing their swords right into the camera. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY is a lighthearted novelty in rough shape, taken from an anaglyph print, with plenty of things being thrown at the camera. THE BLACK SWAN is a short film of a segment from the ballet, in beautiful condition, with excellent depth and a few modest pop-outs of limbs. The trailer for FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOOD TRAILER makes me desperate to see the whole thing in 3D, but I suspect we're stuck with that in 2D at this point. The real curiosity in this set is GAMES IN DEPTH, an undated Polaroid corporate short that includes a hodge-podge of 3D lifestyle footage most likely designed to be shown at an exposition (even though it was apparently shelved), most likely the legendary Expo '67 up here in Montreal, the main clue being the presence of 3D behind-the-scenes footage of Burt Lancaster shooting THE SWIMMER (!) in 1966. There's a cool 3D trailer in the set for THE 3D MOVIE, which turns out to be the only 80's 3D picture I'd never heard of. It looks like a fun documentary, and one hopes a 3D print still exists somewhere. The gallery of selections from Harold Lloyd's famous stereo photography collection barely scratches the surface of his work, but offers a nice cross section of what could be done with Kodak's then-novel 3D cameras (plenty of well-staged travel shots, and quite a few famous celebrity friends), and includes one of his likewise famous 'Hollywood Nudes' glamour pics (any reference to which I feared they might leave off this collection for no good reason, but thankfully they realized its importance). For more of that, I highly recommend the Hollywood Nudes book, which has around 140 pages of Lloyd's girlie snaps, albeit in anaglyphic format. Finally, in league with the Lloyd collection is another gallery called MID-CENTURY MEMORIES IN KODACHROME STEREO which is a fascinating time capsule (with an intro and commentary by the Archive's Hillary Hess of colourful lifestyle photos taken by everyday Americans with Kodak's 'Stereo-Realist' Camera. Total run time is nearly 2.5 hours, plus another 80 minutes if you re-watch EL CORAZON with the exceedingly well-researched commentary turned on. The lenticular cover insert of the poster for EL CORAZON is a pretty cool bonus. Here's hoping that the Archive has enough material in the hopper for a Volume 3.

PARASITE: Someone else here raved about this a while back, and I'll second that. The movie itself is kinda slow and (typically for Charles Band shows of that era) poorly written, but the 3D is deployed exactly the way you want it to be in a film with that title. The fence-post scene is a rewindable standout, but the show is littered with all sorts of pop-out shots like that (breasts included), that work so well because the filmmakers knew enough not to break the edges of the frame.

SILENT HILL REVELATION 3D: Saw this previously, but only in 2D, and thought it was dull, like watching someone else walk through the game. Finally got the 3D blu-ray and that opinion hasn't changed, even if the 3D effects are excellent.

SKYSCRAPER: Saw this in 2D as a rental when it first came out and found it almost insulting in its outsized preposterousness (that building . . . come ON!), balanced at least somewhat by the high-end production value and the fact that they set the entire movie in Hong Kong yet barely set foot there. The 3D makes it a LOT more bearable.

GEMINI MAN: Technologically as masterful as you'd expect from Ang Lee, but seemingly written by high-school boys trying to write what they think is grown-up dialogue and situations (and then you look at the CV's of all three writers and go "whaaa?"). The digital Will Smith is exceptionally well done, but the character is the complete antithesis of anything he would've played when he was that age, and therefore pretty dull (I know, he's a cold, hard assassin with daddy issues, but it still makes me question if they cast the right actor in these roles). It also doesn't help that current Will Smith does not look 51 years old; his head's just shaped less like his ears than it used to be. The 3D is good but not much better than any of the conversions mentioned above (especially the Marvel stuff). Still, I'll keep it because I'm a completist.

There's this "VFX artists react" video on Youtube that has a Marvel VFX artist talking about how the effects were done:

Wired put out a 20 minute VFX making-of:

There's also a lot of "VFX Breakdown" videos from each of the effects houses.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...+vfx+breakdown


Marvel released this VFX making of for Captain Marvel:


Wired did another VFX making of for Ant-Man and the Wasp:


Of course, there's also VFX Breakdowns for both of those films as well.


Youtube is picking up the slack for what studios leave off the Blu-rays. I think the studios probably found out that not many consumers watched them, or were interested in them, to justify putting them on the discs, but there's still a niche that they can service by posting on Youtube to promote the film, especially tying in with an existing channel for more attentions.

I've seen those and plenty of others in recent years, and they're generally quite good (the Corridor Crew videos get on my nerves after a while, but still), but you're right, they seem to be shuffling this stuff online – undoubtedly in part to help some of these magazine sites attract eyeballs because advertising just isn't paying the bills – instead of on the discs. But I'm not entirely convinced the people – us – who still keep the disc industry afloat (in whatever state it's in) are more interested in actors babbling about their characters or gushing over their co-stars than the technological side of the production on films like these. And some of these discs have more than an hour of "content" like that. All the chatter about "character" and "story" and how the actors "approach their roles" – which we can see for ourselves when we watch the film – is the stuff that should be online. Still, I've always got my iPhone by my side when I'm watching these movies, so its easy enough to stumble across more relevant BTS content.

You can believe whatever you want, but studios likely have numbers and polls and market testing with focus groups to figure out what gets the most people to buy the product and be satisfied with their purchase. Now, you may disagree with their conclusions, but they're not making these decisions randomly, it's based on data.

All of that stuff is also online, and on TV talk shows, panels at conventions, etc. And they still end up on the discs. That should tell you how in demand that sort of content is, how appealing it is to many.

Star Wars IX...we have a winner. "reference-quality 3 D presentation."

What?! Like all of the SW films that were converted to 3D, I found the 3D presentation of this movie to be a big disappointment both at home and in the theater. Pop out effects were nonexistent, and the only added depth I saw was while the menu was on screen and during the opening crawl. Add to that crosstalk and the dimmer picture, and I couldn't wait to watch it 2D. Still waiting for a director brave enough to make a SW film with 3D cameras that has spaceships and laser bolts leaping off the screen. Sigh.

though i don't think i have them all, i do love my Marvel 3D collection...

How are these 3-D Rarities collections? Worth multiple viewings?

They're essential.

I contributed to their Kickstarter for Volume 2 (having discovered the campaign for the first volume too late) – and commented on it back in post #1739 – and would support them again if they announced a Part 3. Assuming there's enough buried treasure left out there to fill it, of course.

but rewatchable? really?

All 3D is rewatchable for me, and personally I don't mind revisiting old oddities and one-offs. I've been reading about this stuff since near childhood, and figured I'd never see a fraction of what we have available now. But I also know, going in, exactly what I'm getting, and how creaky some of it is. I've rewatched stuff on the first Rarities volume just because the mood hits, so obviously it depends on the individual. Based on your posts in this thread, though, I suspect you might be better served sticking with the modern stuff, which is undeniably better in many ways.