Ant-Man 3D Blu-ray (2015) [Region Free]

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

OK, obviously opinions may vary about that, but if you're watching at home, you could just zoom the picture so it fills up the entire screen.

So, essentially, any movie can be watched at home in 16:9 if that's what floats your boat

But doing that does the opposite of what should be happening - you're just cropping the image and losing a ton of image information, and throwing off composition, rather than the 16:9 frame opening up the image to how it was seen in IMAX.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by mar3o

But doing that does the opposite of what should be happening - you're just cropping the image and losing a ton of image information, and throwing off composition, rather than the 16:9 frame opening up the image to how it was seen in IMAX.

Well then I guess people shouldn't do it, right?

[Jlardonio]

Originally Posted by mar3o

But doing that does the opposite of what should be happening - you're just cropping the image and losing a ton of image information, and throwing off composition, rather than the 16:9 frame opening up the image to how it was seen in IMAX.

It depends on the movie. There are movies that you just lose black bars over and down the picture, others that the director just didn't think that the studio would cut the picture and doesn't film for a 2.35:1 zoom cropped footage to fit on a 16:9 frame.

[gentle_wookiee]

This movie was amazing in 3D, absolutely loved it. Some of the best with the size changes especially.

[Freakyguy666]

Originally Posted by gentle_wookiee

This movie was amazing in 3D, absolutely loved it. Some of the best with the size changes especially.

Size changes? You mean the ant man changing size or the aspect ratio (imax scene) size changes?

[Jlardonio]

Originally Posted by Freakyguy666

Size changes? You mean the ant man changing size or the aspect ratio (imax scene) size changes?

This movie is 16:9 aspect ratio, he must be mentioning the change of sizes of the characters and surrounding environment.

[osmos512]

Just screened Ant-Man 3D for some friends. They all agreed this is top-shelf 3D. As the end credits rolled, one of them immediately pulled out his phone to buy IMAX 3D tickets for Quantumania.

[emailking]

Originally Posted by osmos512

Just screened Ant-Man 3D for some friends. They all agreed this is top-shelf 3D. As the end credits rolled, one of them immediately pulled out his phone to buy IMAX 3D tickets for Quantumania.

That is one smart dude. Everyone knows Quantumania could be the biggest 3D movie of all time!

[spider-neil]

Originally Posted by osmos512

Just screened Ant-Man 3D for some friends. They all agreed this is top-shelf 3D. As the end credits rolled, one of them immediately pulled out his phone to buy IMAX 3D tickets for Quantumania.

Every time someone says they hate 3D I just show them reference quality 3D and they always change their minds.

[spider-neil]

Originally Posted by emailking

That is one smart dude. Everyone knows Quantumania could be the biggest 3D movie of all time!

This is where Marvel’s Phase 3 reference quality 3D returns with a bang. I’m sure of it.

[3dblurayofsunshine]

Originally Posted by spider-neil

This is where Marvel’s Phase 3 reference quality 3D returns with a bang. I’m sure of it.

Doctor Strange 2 already fulfilled that though. And I have a feeling people are going to be pleasantly surprised by Wakanda Forever on disc.

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by 3dblurayofsunshine

Doctor Strange 2 already fulfilled that though. And I have a feeling people are going to be pleasantly surprised by Wakanda Forever on disc.

DS2 was helped because the terrible CGI compositing added a strong 2D depth effect that, as a happy accident, enhances the 3D. I'd like to see a better effort from Ant Man 3.

Quadruple the effort of the mild, milquetoast 3D in Ant-Man 2, that'd be a good start and it's alliterative.

[3dblurayofsunshine]

Originally Posted by Just_Discovered_3D

DS2 was helped because the terrible CGI compositing added a strong 2D depth effect that, as a happy accident, enhances the 3D. I'd like to see a better effort from Ant Man 3.

Quadruple the effort of the mild, milquetoast 3D in Ant-Man 2, that'd be a good start and it's alliterative.

Mild 3D in ant man 2?

[cdx47]

Originally Posted by Just_Discovered_3D

...the mild, milquetoast 3D in Ant-Man 2, that'd be a good start and it's alliterative.

It's been a while since I watched it but I don't remember the 3D being milquetoast so I had a quick look. It might not have a prolonged flashy 3D scene like Ant-Man but the 3D is mostly medium-strong and the way it is used reminds me a little of GotG 2.

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by cdx47

It's been a while since I watched it but I don't remember the 3D being milquetoast so I had a quick look. It might not have a prolonged flashy 3D scene like Ant-Man but the 3D is mostly medium-strong and the way it is used reminds me a little of GotG 2.

A while back I rewatched the SanFran chase sequence and I was left underwhelmed. No "dodging" shrink darts zipping out of the screen, no fun had with strong 3D to really play with the size differences with the shrinking cars etc.

This is not the kind of 3D that had the power to make Pandora seem real to people in 2009. This is the sort of 3D that is nice to have, but I would understand normal folks questioning if it were worth the surcharge

Tons of CGI in this and, looking back, the now widely acknowledged VFX woes that Disney is having look like they've been going half a decade.

[cdx47]

Originally Posted by Just_Discovered_3D

A while back I rewatched the SanFran chase sequence and I was left underwhelmed. No "dodging" shrink darts zipping out of the screen, no fun had with strong 3D to really play with the size differences with the shrinking cars etc.

This is not the kind of 3D that had the power to make Pandora seem real to people in 2009. This is the sort of 3D that is nice to have, but I would understand normal folks questioning if it were worth the surcharge

The best 3D here is probably the Quantum Realm. I would say that the rest is "very" nice to have. I think having more fleshed out people and objects on a large screen increases the immersion.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by Just_Discovered_3D

mild, milquetoast 3D in Ant-Man 2

I am so, so glad I don’t have this A/V setup, yikes

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

I am so, so glad I don’t have this A/V setup, yikes

If you aren't Neil then you probably owe the man an apology at this point.

You are the reason why 3D fails to gain ground by word of mouth and private showings, you are why we're a minority. Not that you could change it as you cannot make these movies have stronger 3D, but by going around claiming that they have strong 3D, when they most certainly do not, anyone who could be brought into the fold thinks that either they cannot properly see 3D, or that 3D is the gimmick for crackpots that it has been roughly painted as by critics.

[Todd3D]

Pay no attention to WaverBoy: he's just of the opinion you can never say anything bad about anything in 3D, ever. He's very enthusiastic--I'll give him that--but has no sense of discrimination or taste. Best to just shrug and move on.

As to Ant-Man 2, it's been a while since I've seen it in 3D but I myself didn't find it appreciably any better or worse than many conversions. I think it's a bit better than Thor: The Dark World and Solo, but that's a pretty low bar.

In general, I think that most conversions, no matter how well done, just don't look the same as the Golden Age 3D movies. The only one that really and truly floored me was The Walk. This is especially aggravated if you watch a conversion after watching a Golden Age title. I one time watched The Avengers--generally considered a really great conversion--right after watching House of Wax and as far as I was concerned, The Avengers looked a little flat to me, a problem I never had in prior viewings.

[Jlardonio]

Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp are almost the same level 3D. The only difference being that Ant-Man is fully widescreen as Ant-Man and the Wasp is 2.35:1 with changes to 1.90:1 IMAX aspect ratio. People tend to devaluate 3D movies when they have less up and down picture because 3D works better with 1.77:1 aspect ratio. It's a vicious circle that people can't get rid of.