Avatar 3D Review - Liverpool One Odeon Cinema

This is not going to be one of those hyper-critical reviews about the story-line. I thought there were an immense amount of original content around a central theme that has been duplicated many times in the past.

There's a love interest, there's the outsider becoming part of a new clan and then risking their existence and there's the military tit that just wants to nuke everything. It's all been done before. But Avatar 3D has so much original and poignant that it truly is exceptional.

At this point you'd have noted that I haven't mentioned the visuals. The 3D on this was absolutely amazing. James Cameron could have gone down an ego trip and offered stuffing 3D effects in every scene, but they were wisely used. And when you found yourself on top of a rock are a branch with nothing for miles below you you felt the adrenaline course through your body - it was that lifelike.

There was only negative point to this film. And that was Sigourney Weaver's acting at the beginning - not the best I've ever seen!

And if you wanted to see what the 3D glasses look like? Well remember those old NHS glasses?



Cool huh? Well seeing as this is the only film where I've not had a little oik try and spoil then you'll realise that everyone is too busy to take the piss out of you for looking like one of the Two Ronnies!

If you haven't seen it already, then what's wrong with you? If you have seen it, what did you think?

Odeon 3D Cinemas

If you wanted to watch a 3D Movie at an Odeon 3D Cinema then you can here:

Aylesbury
Basingstoke
Bath
Beckenham
Belfast
Birmingham
Blackpool
Bournemouth (ABC)
Bracknell
Braehead
Bridgend
Brighton
Camden
Cardiff
Chelmsford
Colchester
Covent Garden
Coventry
Derby
Dudley (Merry Hill)
Dundee
Dunfermline
Edinburgh Wester Hailes
Epsom
Esher
Exeter
Glasgow Quay
Greenwich
Guildford
Harrogate
Hatfield
Holloway
Huddersfield
Kensington
Kettering
Kilmarnock
Kingston
Lee Valley
Leeds-Bradford
Leicester
Lincoln
Liverpool ONE
Liverpool Switch Island
London - Leicester Square
Maidenhead
Maidstone
Manchester
Mansfield
Marble Arch
Metrocentre
Norwich
Nuneaton
Oxford George St
Port Solent
Preston
Richmond
Rochdale
Salisbury
Sheffield
Silverlink
South Woodford
Southampton
Southend
Stoke
Streatham
Surrey Quays
Swansea
Swiss Cottage
Tamworth
Taunton
Telford
Trafford Centre
Tunbridge Wells
Uxbridge
Warrington
Whiteleys
Wimbledon
Wrexham Eagles Meadow

Found out more here.

Avatar 3D Film Trailer - Release Date 18th December

If there's one film that I've been looking forward to this year then it has to be James Cameron's 3D movie Avatar! If you thought his previous film Titanic was a blockbuster then consider that Avatar took 4 years to make whilst Titanic took 2.5 years, Avatar has over 3,000 special effects shots whilst Titanic only had about 500. This film is going to be "mental"!

The Mail On Sunday has a great review of the film and the technology - you should check it out.

And if that isn't enough, check out the trailer:

3D Movies Out In 2008 & 2009

Journey to the Centre of the Earth is out in the States, but also being released in 2008 are:

• Fly Me To The Moon (8th August)
• Bolt (28th November)

The studios are demanding something different in the light of home entertainment. Many of us have HD TVs, Blu-Ray and high-quality surround sound and the studios know that we need a reason to go out and spend £15-odd on cinema tickets rather than stay in and watch a movie on demand. The studios see 3D cinema as being the answer.

3D cinema has been around since 1952 when Arch Oboler released "Bwana Devil" and there have been many mainstream 3d movies such as the MGM production "Kiss Me Kate"; Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder"; and "Hondo" with John Wayne, but now it's going mass-market.

In 2009 there are a good number of movies due out:

• My Bloody Valentine
  
• Coraline
  
• Monsters vs. Aliens
  
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
  
• Up
  
• G-Force
  

and an these movies have unknown release dates:

• Piranha
  
• Final Destination 4: 3-D
  
• Avatar
  
• Toy Story 3
  

Journey to the Center of the Earth Leads To Increased 3D Demand

Fox Business reports that the release of the film Journey to the Center of the Earth has led to cinema owners calling for inhanced 3D technologies.

It appears RealD and NECare working together to provide top qaulity displays for the next generation of movie-goers.

Read more about the movie at Film Threat.

Avator Movie To "Blow You To The Back Wall Of The Theatre"

Well that was Cameron's comments about his new movie called "Avator" which started filming in New Zealand (again) recently and will star Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and Giovanni Ribisi.

He Told The Hollywood Reporter that his goal is to "o rekindle those amazing mystical moments my generation felt when we first saw '2001: A Space Odyssey,' or the next generation's 'Star Wars.' It took me 10 years to find something hard enough to be interesting."

If you want to read more go to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Media website.

The BFI IMAX London

The BFI IMAX cinema is a 477-seater, all singing, all-dancing cinema on the South Bank in London and came about because of £15 million of funding froming from the Arts Council of England's Lottery Fund.

The screen is the largest in the country at 20 meters high and 26 meters high. IT also has a 11,600-watt digital surround-sound system.

Find out more about the BFI IMAX here.

Win tickets to Sharks 3D at the Science Museum

Scare yourself silly watching a 3D film of sharks at the Science Museum for free.

The Science Museum IMAX 3D Cinema and This Is Local London have teamed up to give away four family passes to see Sharks 3D.

With astonishing 3D effects which allow amazing up-close encounters with this ultimate predator, Sharks 3D provides an unforgettable experience.

Visit www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/imax for more information.

World's first 3D digital cinema advert

A graphic design and animation studio company called BUG have created the world's first digital 3D cinema advert fro Mitsubishi's new range of cars D Cinema Today reports.

Digital 3D is viewed as the next major step forward in cinema technology and follows on from the release of Disney's "Chicken Little" in the new stereoscopic digital format which doesn't require the red-blue glasses or the large IMAX-style glasses.

At the NAB conference in Las Vegas this year 'Titanic' director James Cameron predicted that Digital 3D would be the saviour of cinema with most major blockbusters released by the Hollywood studios in digital 3D.

Directors George Lucas and Peter Jackson have also announced plans to re-release the 'Star Wars' and 'Lord of the Rings' trilogies in stereoscopically re-rendered digital 3D versions within a few years.