The Martian vs The Force Awakens

[Rickyrockard]

PLEASE ONLY VOTE IF YOU HAVE SEEN BOTH MOVIES ON BD3D

Simple vote: overall, which movie for you has the better 3D experience?

[levcore]

I'd be hard pressed to choose between the two to be honest. I think they both offer very good 3D presentations. If it was just the movie then The Martian easily.

[Suntory_Times]

Martian has the best moments thanking to some nice at times strong native photography. I'd have to watch both again to compare directly. At a push i'd say the Martian (didn't vote in poll).

Both where very good 3d presentations and the way to go for both films.

[BleedOrange11]

The Martian has decent native 3D with a significant amount of flatter converted segments. It could use stronger depth, but Ridley Scott has a much better sense of how to use 3D dramatically within the story. It gets my vote with no contest.

The Force Awakens isn't planned or shot very well for 3D. Stereo D saved J.J. Abram's back with one of the best-looking conversions of all time though.

[Mobe1969]

Easily the Martian. TFA didn't handle dark very well. A lot of ghosting.

[infiniteCR]

The martian is superior in every possible way, except for one 3 second popout.

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

Easily the Martian. TFA didn't handle dark very well. A lot of ghosting.

We really shouldn't mark it down for that given that ghosting is not a source issue.

[mysticwaterfall]

Based purely on 3D, The Martian.

[Frank@Chicago]

Originally Posted by mysticwaterfall

Based purely on 3D, The Martian.

Same for me. A more interesting choice would be The Martian vs. Rogue One.

I liked the 3D in Rogue One, just saying that would be a closer contest.

[levcore]

Oh Rogue One would lose any 3D contest easily, terrible 3D. That wouldn't be a close contest with The Martian, The Martian has much stronger 3D.

[Talal86]

I didn't know The Martian was good on 3d. wanted to buy it, but it's $30 on amazon

[the13thman]

For what it's worth, I watched both films in 2D before watching them in 3D and of the two, the 3D made more of a difference to The Force Awakens.

I just can't get excited about Ridley Scott's use of 3D.

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by Rickyrockard

PLEASE ONLY VOTE IF YOU HAVE SEEN BOTH MOVIES ON BD3D

Simple vote: overall, which movie for you has the better 3D experience?

Nice poll. For 3D, I enjoy both films very much, though for the most consistent 3D in the high medium to strong 3D layer range, I choose Force Awakens.

With Ridley Scott's mostly filmed 3D in The Martian, he sometimes opts for low medium and mild 3D during the dialog shots. The mars landscapes are awesome though, with a number of impressive 3D shots. My favorite 3D shots are in the plant garden from the ground view, and the shard dust storm. Had he offered a more consistent experience in his films (especially Exodus 3D, which was all over the place with the 3D range), it would be a tougher choice.

Now here's hoping his next film gets back to 3D!

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by Suntory_Times

We really shouldn't mark it down for that given that ghosting is not a source issue.

I really truly wish I knew how to fix it then. And why I don't get it in other dark 3D movies.

[BleedOrange11]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

I really truly wish I knew how to fix it then. And why I don't get it in other dark 3D movies.

Unfortunately, you'll need a different TV or projector to fix it. DLPs have no crosstalk. Most passive models and various newer active displays have reduced crosstalk in comparison to older, problematic active displays.

[Suntory_Times]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Unfortunately, you'll need a different TV or projector to fix it. DLPs have no crosstalk. Most passive models and various newer active displays have reduced crosstalk in comparison to older, problematic active displays.

Yeah I get some mild crosstalk on my plasma, but on my projector (which is a dlp) I can in games even put black on white and no matter what I do I cannot get any crosstalk.

To be clear, active and dlp link dlps displays have no crosstalk (polarised dlp's can though due to how polarisation works, this is what cinemas use). Things like the psvr will also have none as each eye essentially has it's own screen entirely.

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Unfortunately, you'll need a different TV or projector to fix it. DLPs have no crosstalk. Most passive models and various newer active displays have reduced crosstalk in comparison to older, problematic active displays.

I have an active Sony set. I in theory understand it, but I can't quite understand why I can watch two discs and see it in one (repeated) but another with similar range of brightness etc, not see it opn another title.

I might play about with the settings, see if there is something I have wrong on it. I did some checks this morning and noticed that when I'm in 3D mode it had some motion flow on, which I normally don't have on. It was daytime when I checked (I closed the blinds) and I rechecked some of the early dark force Awakens dark scenes (like early Rey in the Star Destroyer, scrounging) and it didn't seem to ghost.

Anyone have any experience with the Sony SXRD projectors and 3D? I'm seriously considering one of those, for 4K and 3D.

[Rickyrockard]

Mobe, to reproduce/find the problem on different discs I think you'd be looking for a shots with a lot of parallax and white on black contrast (such as a spacesuit in space).