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Author Topic: Piranha 3D (2010) Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 10-13-2010 09:55 PM                     I saw this at Cinemark's Egyptian XD screen and Oh.. My... God! the sound was jarring, the underwater earthquake scene had a moment where I literally thought one of the ceiling braces in the auditorium had snapped. The audio 'slice' that accompanied the shot of the embryoic piranha in the egg, was ear piercing and made me jump a mile up out of my seat.  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 09-24-2011 07:23 AM                     quote: Mark J. Marshall The edges around just about everything were off. The girl walking behind the tall grass on the island when she was on her way to call for help looked like hell. The shot in the beginning where the camera was rolling along with a chain link fence in front of it looked like shit. People's hair was out of whack. Signs in the background that were supposed to be in the background were partially in the background and partially on the plane of the actor standing in front of them. The bubbles and waves in the water looked terrible. Splashes didn't look right. The shots that did look OK looked like view-master scenes. What I saw fits Mark's description. From the 3-D conversion movies I have seen, this had the greatest number of artifacts and objects at wrong depth planes. This was not due to the projection system (Christie 2020 with Volfoni shutter glasses) because I saw CORALINE, THOR and classic 1950s stuff like DIAL M FOR MURDER and INFERNO with the same setup, and the 3-D was nothing but excellent. Seeing actors' hair separated on different planes and infinity backgrounds jump front and back is not my idea of good 3-D. Conversion seems to work well with simple shots, but when shots are cluttered with many people, objects and background structures, there is always a kind of "heat flare" contour around the characters which doesn't not belong to any depth plane at all. Nice to see Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd and Elisabeth Shue, but definitely not a film I'd watch again. Got tired of a million fake boobs in fake 3-D, but I have to agree agree the water ballet was hilarious. Oh and another "surprise ending".  |  IP: Logged

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