Hugo - Best 3D Movie Till Date ? - Review

[gjwanner]

I agree, the pop outs are awesome

[ack_bak]

I have an Acer 9500 DLP projector showing on a 125" screen and there was zero crosstalk. Just a wonderful film and best use of 3D yet for me.

[sookymonster]

This film has amazing 3D. Up there with Sammy's and Legends of Gahooie (yep I know its wrong), and the best live action 3D film I think out of any I've seen.

Seem's to re'write the so-called 3D "rules"..Love it!

[Gae]

Originally Posted by sookymonster

This film has amazing 3D. Up there with Sammy's and Legends of Gahooie (yep I know its wrong)

I admire someone who can't be ***ed looking up the title at Amazon or the IMDB. I just couldn't do that as I have this disorder...I think the medical term for it is called being a**l.

Gae

[sookymonster]

Originally Posted by Gae

I admire someone who can't be ***ed looking up the title at Amazon or the IMDB. I just couldn't do that as I have this disorder...I think the medical term for it is called being a**l.

Gae

Hi Gae, yes i admit it, it was lazy..though it was more of a matter of not being bothered going to my collection to pull out to see how its spelled properly. As long as it is understood what is meant, what is the harm? And really, at least I notice if I do a bad typo or have shocking grammar. If you notice,most people don't have these skills.

ps.I still can't work why "anal" need's to be asterixed? Is it an official swear word?

[Gae]

Originally Posted by sookymonster

shocking grammar. If you notice,most people don't have these skills.

ps.I still can't work why "anal" need's to be asterixed? Is it an official swear word?

Apparently not!

Gae

[Michael K.]

I saw Hugo again this friday and...oh my...how i love 3D in this movie! It´s absol. amazing! I can´t get enough. Hugo is the best 3D movie and full picture frame really helps. I´m so glad I got a limited steelbook, they´r really limited in my country and now out of stock.

[imdb_acc]

I'm planning on getting, especially since the price is so low at Amazon UK. But is the transfer good compared to the US version?
I hear there's a lot of foreground objects in this. This is my favorite part of 3D.
How much parallax is there? I hate how most movies (like Prometheus, Tin Tin, On Stranger Tides) have such little parallax that they're almost 2D.

[sookymonster]

Originally Posted by imdb_acc

I'm planning on getting, especially since the price is so low at Amazon UK. But is the transfer good compared to the US version?
I hear there's a lot of foreground objects in this. This is my favorite part of 3D.
How much parallax is there? I hate how most movies (like Prometheus, Tin Tin, On Stranger Tides) have such little parallax that they're almost 2D.

In my opinion this is parallax city!

Incredible depth as well as strong negative parallax with lots of stuff flying around or protruding into your viewing room.

Can almost garauntee you will love it!

[Gae]

Originally Posted by imdb_acc

I'm planning on getting, especially since the price is so low at Amazon UK. But is the transfer good compared to the US version?
I hear there's a lot of foreground objects in this. This is my favorite part of 3D.
How much parallax is there? I hate how most movies (like Prometheus, Tin Tin, On Stranger Tides) have such little parallax that they're almost 2D.

Here's my take on both the movie and the 3D.....Hugo

Gae

[Red's got the Blu's]

Just noticed this story at the Slashfilmcast website, thought some here might find it interesting.

When Hugo opened late last year, critics and audiences were bowled over by its masterful use of 3D. But it’s doubtful even the most diehard Martin Scorsese fan was as impressed as neuroscientist Bruce Bridgeman, who quite literally saw the world differently after watching the movie.

The 67-year-old man had lived his entire life “stereoblind,” or unable to perceive depth correctly. In the first moments of watching Hugo in 3D, however, something clicked. Bridgeman was surprised to notice the characters leaping out from the screen, in a way he’d never seen before. And better yet, the effect stayed with him long after he walked out of the theater. Read on after the jump.

Most people see the world in 3D because each eye sees a slightly different image, and the brain naturally combines the two pictures to allow us to perceive depth. (Try looking at something with one eye closed, then the other, to get an inkling of how this works.) Bridgeman, however, had a condition known as lazy eye, which prevented him from properly developing binocular vision.

“When we’d go out and people would look up and start discussing some bird in the tree, I would still be looking for the bird when they were finished,” he explains to the BBC (via Geeks are Sexy). “For everybody else, the bird jumped out. But to me, it was just part of the background.” Instead, he relied on other visual cues or physical methods to gauge depth.

When Bridgeman went to the theater in February to watch Hugo with his wife, he paid the premium 3D surcharge even though he assumed the effect would be lost on him. Then the film started. “It was just literally like a whole new dimension of sight. Exciting,” he says. The thinking is that Bridgeman’s brain already had the capacity to understand the world in 3D, but something about Hugo‘s particular 3D may have flipped a switch.

Bridgeman was even more pleased to find that his newfound perception stuck around even after the credits rolled. “I was astonished to see a lamppost standing out from the background,” he wrote in a letter to Dr. Oliver Sacks. “Trees, cars, even people were in relief more vivid than I had ever experienced.” So much for Christopher Nolan’s earlier assertion that nobody actually likes 3D.

[keb33509]

What a great story! Just goes to show there will be medical uses for 3D as well!

[PsHayes]

I've only watched the first 10 minutes so far, but this does look very good. I'm glad I bought the movie.

[BleedOrange11]

Originally Posted by Red in 3D

Just noticed this story at the Slashfilmcast website, thought some here might find it interesting.

Originally Posted by keb33509

What a great story! Just goes to show there will be medical uses for 3D as well!

Yep, 3D is pretty cool.

Looking at 3D pictures/movies or drawing 3D anaglyphs can be used as a therapy to treat amblyopia caused by strabismus. Sometimes exercising and strengthening the intrinsic eye muscles can fix/improve "lazy eye" to restore proper binocular vision. Eye patches are another common non-surgical treatment.

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedic....com/amblyopia

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Red in 3D

The 67-year-old man had lived his entire life “stereoblind,” or unable to perceive depth correctly. In the first moments of watching Hugo in 3D, however, something clicked. Bridgeman was surprised to notice the characters leaping out from the screen, in a way he’d never seen before. And better yet, the effect stayed with him long after he walked out of the theater. Read on after the jump.

Ah, that would be the opening "Paris" shot.

(I'll have to rent it again, the 3-D was so naturalistically "real" I don't recall any standout 3-D moments except for the fish tank, or Cohen leaning out of the screen--All I remember about the opening shot was the immersive sound, and I don't have a surround system.)

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Looking at 3D pictures/movies or drawing 3D anaglyphs can be used as a therapy to treat amblyopia caused by strabismus. Sometimes exercising and strengthening the intrinsic eye muscles can fix/improve "lazy eye" to restore proper binocular vision. Eye patches are another common non-surgical treatment.

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(Admittedly, that was the first time I'd ever heard of early amblyopia, either.)

[BleedOrange11]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Ah, that would be the opening "Paris" shot.

(I'll have to rent it again, the 3-D was so naturalistically "real" I don't recall any standout 3-D moments except for the fish tank, or Cohen leaning out of the screen--All I remember about the opening shot was the immersive sound, and I don't have a surround system.)

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(Admittedly, that was the first time I'd ever heard of early amblyopia, either.)

Hugo is definitely one of my favorites. The "real" depth made every scene is a standout 3D moment for me, and it actually has a decent story to compliment--a rarity for live-action with strong 3D. That opening fly-in won "best 3D scene of the year" at the 2012 3D society awards show.

I enjoyed

[Show spoiler]the complex depth of the inside of the clock tower and the bustling train station. The moment when the train runs through the station and out the window was great. Also, the gears of the clock and the automaton and anytime that snow is falling. There's also a deep shot looking over a library balcony that I liked, as well as the moment when the kids find the old drawings, which spill out of the box and fly around the room. The conversions of the old movies were fun too.

I could go on and on.

And thanks for the cartoon.

[Nuieve]

The reviewer definitely needs to update his hardware. I have Optoma HD33 and saw no signs of crosstalk.

[Zivouhr]

I hope Martin Scorsese makes another 3D film with the 3D power of Hugo. Maybe he'll make a mafia film in 3D?

Either way, It's nice to see a big budget director care enough to make strong 3D and not settle for a wimpy 2D to 3D conversion like Star Wars I 3D...

Hugo 3D is one of the best examples of strong 3D. Looks like The Great Gatsby also has strong 3D, out later this year (Dec 25, 2012) starring Toby Maquire from Spider Man, also another dramatic film (not a special effects action movie as so many live action 3D films are).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...282012_film%29

From Wikipedia:
James Cameron called Hugo "a masterpiece" and the best film to use 3D effects, surpassing even his own acclaimed films.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_%28film%29

[Tns49]

Originally Posted by Nuieve

The reviewer definitely needs to update his hardware. I have Optoma HD33 and saw no signs of crosstalk.

I did see a little crosstalk. Very noticeable only in one scene near the end when they are showing the movies to the audiance. When they point the camera to show Hugo (Butterfield) and Melies (Kingsley) their collars had a decided crosstalk.

[boulder_bum]

Originally Posted by Tns49

I did see a little crosstalk. Very noticeable only in one scene near the end when they are showing the movies to the audiance. When they point the camera to show Hugo (Butterfield) and Melies (Kingsley) their collars had a decided crosstalk.

I see occasional crosstalk too, but I much prefer it to weak 3D. Hugo is deliberately and noticeably made with 3D in mind, and you miss it's artistry watching only in 2D.

It wins my vote for best 3D movie currently on the market.