Sector 7 3D Blu-ray (2011) [Region A Locked]

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by Telegram Sam

I picked this one up a few days ago after positive words from old cdx47 on the “Last 3D Blu-ray you watched thread”. His positivity was contagious as it also encouraged a couple of others to buy a copy, including WaverBoy, who subsequently had good words of his own to say about the 3D.

A quick search found HighDef Digest saying it “made excellent use of 3D, with extraordinary dimensionality”. And there’s a quote from Fangoria on the box saying, “This is 3D done right!” My favourite YouTube 3D reviewer, Go Find Fun, thought the 3D was good too. Finally, I dig up this ancient (albeit brief) thread and find glowing words from old Levcore himself too.

Man, is my thumb not on the pulse of the 3D crowd with this one: For all but a total of about two minutes’ worth (which I thought were genuinely very nice), I thought the 3D was hopeless, amongst the weakest/shallowest I’ve ever seen, just about useless.

For an apparently natively shot film (I didn’t notice obvious conversion errors, so I assume it was native?), it looked to me like they’d set the interaxial to its absolute minimum for virtually the entire movie. But its 3D clearly has its fans, so this is one of those occasions where I’m thinking maybe it’s me…

Anyone else who’s seen this Korean oil rig monster movie have any thoughts?

I believe this is actually a conversion, isn’t it? I think it’s stated as such in the other thread where this film came up (the Last Movie You Bought Or Watched thread). I’ll agree that after the opening underwater scene, which has pretty astounding in-your-face 3D for a conversion and definitely resembles natively-shot/rendered strength, the 3D is pretty mild from what I could tell when flipping through some of the rest of it. I’m sitting down to watch the whole bloody thing right now and will return with my fully formulated thoughts! (Also, this and TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS would make good candidates for your return to YouTube, hint hint… )

Also, I gotta say the opening company logos of both CJ Entertainment and JK Film are both stunningly beautiful and effective in 3D. I do appreciate nice touches like that!