Recommend some good 3D Movies!
Watching 3D movies on the Oculus Rift (or alternative headset) in your virtual cinema of choice is AWESOME, as anyone who has gotten it to work will tell you, and there's clearly a common interest in the experience judging from the number of threads asking HOW to get them to work..
But this thread isn't about how to watch 3D movies on the Rift (just look up any of those other threads for that) This thread is about what to watch! In other words, recommend movies that you think look awesome in 3D, ones where the filming / effects were done really well and where the 3D adds significantly to the movie experience. Feel free to write up a mini-review or link to someplace the film can legally be acquired.
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So far, I've tried two different films myself, Zootopia and Mad Max: Fury Road, both ripped from 3D BluRays I own. Both were phenomenal!
Zootopia is of course one of Disney's newest blockbusters, a computer-animated movie about a world where animals are civilized and humans never existed. Let me reassure you, this is a very well-written Family Film, not a dumb, low-standards Kids Movie, so even a full-grown adult like myself can enjoy it without shame or fear of awkward musical numbers. The CG-animated world is ultra-detailed and vibrantly colorful and really comes alive with the depth of 3D added.
Mad Max: Fury Road may be a gritty live-action post-apocalyptic action film where most of the world is dingy and brown, but it looks equally amazing in 3D, thanks to being originally filmed in 3D and done almost entirely with practical effects. That's right, almost all the flying car wreckage and explosions (which make up like 80% of the movie) are real, not CG post-processing! Even the flame-thrower guitar was a real, 100% functioning prop (although it weighed about 100lbs and iDTA, the musician playing it, is on record for saying it was the worst-sounding guitar he's ever played). There's just one scene I can think of with a really obviously fake jump-out-of-the-screen type 3D effect added, and it's (a borderline comical) icing on the cake of the most climactic part of the film.
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I'm thinking of adding James Cameron's Avatar, or Coraline to my 3D collection next, because I've seen both in 3D before and they were great (Avatar in the theaters, with polarized glasses, and Coraline on a DVD that included an Anaglyph mode and the appropriate glasses right there in the DVD case). I'm also thinking of getting Tron, Pacific Rim, and maybe Paranorman ... all movies I really enjoyed but have only seen in 2D so far. Anyone here seen the 3D versions of those already, who would recommend them?
But this thread isn't about how to watch 3D movies on the Rift (just look up any of those other threads for that) This thread is about what to watch! In other words, recommend movies that you think look awesome in 3D, ones where the filming / effects were done really well and where the 3D adds significantly to the movie experience. Feel free to write up a mini-review or link to someplace the film can legally be acquired.
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So far, I've tried two different films myself, Zootopia and Mad Max: Fury Road, both ripped from 3D BluRays I own. Both were phenomenal!
Zootopia is of course one of Disney's newest blockbusters, a computer-animated movie about a world where animals are civilized and humans never existed. Let me reassure you, this is a very well-written Family Film, not a dumb, low-standards Kids Movie, so even a full-grown adult like myself can enjoy it without shame or fear of awkward musical numbers. The CG-animated world is ultra-detailed and vibrantly colorful and really comes alive with the depth of 3D added.
Mad Max: Fury Road may be a gritty live-action post-apocalyptic action film where most of the world is dingy and brown, but it looks equally amazing in 3D, thanks to being originally filmed in 3D and done almost entirely with practical effects. That's right, almost all the flying car wreckage and explosions (which make up like 80% of the movie) are real, not CG post-processing! Even the flame-thrower guitar was a real, 100% functioning prop (although it weighed about 100lbs and iDTA, the musician playing it, is on record for saying it was the worst-sounding guitar he's ever played). There's just one scene I can think of with a really obviously fake jump-out-of-the-screen type 3D effect added, and it's (a borderline comical) icing on the cake of the most climactic part of the film.
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I'm thinking of adding James Cameron's Avatar, or Coraline to my 3D collection next, because I've seen both in 3D before and they were great (Avatar in the theaters, with polarized glasses, and Coraline on a DVD that included an Anaglyph mode and the appropriate glasses right there in the DVD case). I'm also thinking of getting Tron, Pacific Rim, and maybe Paranorman ... all movies I really enjoyed but have only seen in 2D so far. Anyone here seen the 3D versions of those already, who would recommend them?
