No D Like 3-D!!!

Brian and I just got back from MONSTER HOUSE 3-D!!!

Well...

...that's a bit inaccurate... Brian and I got back from MONSTER HOUSE 3-D about an hour ago, then I bombed around Springfield for a while (PS2's The Simpsons: Road Rage), and then I nuked and ate some burritos while watching an episode of THE SIMPSONS...

But you get the drift: MONSTER HOUSE has been released in a 3-D version, and Brian and I saw it tonight!!!

:D

I FRIGGIN' LOVE 3-D!!!

And it's not that crappy red-blue garbage, either!!! [Allow me to clarify: Red-blue 3-D rocks... IF the film is in black & white!!! Apply the red-blue process to a color film -- like idiots recently have been doing -- and it all-but cancels out the point of using the colors red and blue to create the illusion of depth. But apparently film districutors can't comprehend the "magic" of the third dimension, and so they market films as being in 3-d even though they cheap-out to the point that the process doesn't work ;P]

In fact, it's a new process that they call Real D that uses a higher frame rate to project both the left-eye and right-eye perspective from the the same projector!!! So the theater only needs a single projector (although it's a digital hi-def projector) to shoot both images onto the screen! But we, the audience, get real, poloarized 3-D!!!

(Plus, it's a CG movie, so it's not like they had to rent 2 cameras and use 2 rolls of film for each shot; the cameras are virtual and they can simply render the image from the 2 different perspectives. It's still more expensive/time-consuming. It's like rendering 2 different movies. But you're only doing the pre-pro and production for a single movie.)

And what's PARTICULARLY exciting about seeing MONSTER HOUSE 3-D tongight is that we're going to (knock on wood) see SUPERMAN RETURNS IMAX 3-D tomorrow!!!

We were going to see it tonight, but schedules got changed.

But it's SOOO COOL: Money has been tight all summer long, but we still managed to see SUPERMAN RETURNS opening weekend, and now (again, knock on wood) SUPERMAN RETURNS IMAX 3-D opening weekend!!!

True, I didn't get to give Smith my CLERKS 2 cash opening weekend -- which sucks, 'cause it would have meant more to him and the Weinstiens than to Singer and Warner Brothers :( And Brian and I had to wait to see PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST... but we got to see that one TWICE :)

But...

As Mr. Miagi says in KARATE KID, "Buddha provide". We've been very fortunate with the cashflow... Unexpected money popping up to sort of help us out! :D

So YAY!!! :D

And MONSTER HOUSE 3-D is really cute. It takes place around Halloween, and that's just a great setting for a movie, in my book! :)

Okay, I have some serious laz-ing around to do (at least 3 more episodes of THE SIMPSONS on this disc I've started), so I'll check in again later :)