Open Season 3D Blu-ray (2006) [Region Free]

[spider-neil]

Originally Posted by the13thman

No, they were 2D only.

Thanks.

[Zivouhr]

While the movie takes some getting used to, the 3D gives it a lot of immersion with consistently strong 3D throughout, and I'd say on par with many of the NWave 3D titles. If you haven't seen Open Season 3D yet, it's a must-have for animated CGI 3D movie fans in my opinion. 10/10 3D.

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by Oboler

I’m going to have to give this a watch soon now that you reminded me. I got open season in a Columbia/Sony box set along with monster house and cloudy with a chance of meatballs. All have excellent 3D, but this is probably the best of them.

Yes, Open Season with the bear and deer has the strongest 3D for sure, enjoy!

Open Season 3D: Strong 3D layers and pop outs.

Cloudy with Meatballs: Medium layers, some mild.
Monster House: Mild to medium layers of 3D.

[emailking]

I should rewatch. It was my first 3D at home title and through that I discovered cross talk and spent the whole time worrying about cross talk and adjusting settings to try and fix it. But now I have a tv with much less cross talk and I'd be able to enjoy this a lot more. I didn't realize this was considered one of the best 3Ds.

[celluloidboy]

... found me a pristine used copy last week for 10 bucks ...
... can't wait to check it out ...

[Jlardonio]

Originally Posted by celluloidboy

... found me a pristine used copy last week for 10 bucks ...
... can't wait to check it out ...

A bit dated animation, but its 3D is great and full IMAX for an Sony Animation movie.

[Zivouhr]

Open Season is an amazing animated CGI 3D showcase with mostly strong 3D, all the way back from 2006, around the start of the modern Theatrical and Home 3D blu ray Era we're lucky to have experienced in recent times. (2006 through 2019, plenty of theatrical 3D and blu ray 3D releases).

I'd say Open Season's strong 3D is compared to some of NWave's 3D films. NWave seems to have eased up on the 3D intensity in their newer films to some degree. Compare the 3D in them to the Turtle's Tales films' 3D for example. Not as strong.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

Open Season is an amazing animated CGI 3D showcase with mostly strong 3D, all the way back from 2006, around the start of the modern Theatrical and Home 3D blu ray Era we're lucky to have experienced in recent times. (2006 through 2019, plenty of theatrical 3D and blu ray 3D releases).

I'd say Open Season's strong 3D is compared to some of NWave's 3D films. NWave seems to have eased up on the 3D intensity in their newer films to some degree. Compare the 3D in them to the Turtle's Tales films' 3D for example. Not as strong.

nWave’s glory days are gone. Chickenhare showed that they no longer care about 3-D; it was mild-to-medium at best, and not implemented with any imagination at all. It was set-and-forget. Luckily they put out six absolute classics with phenomenal and brilliantly staged 3-D before they lost their mojo:

A Turtles Tale: Sammy’s Adventures
A Turtle’s Tale 2: Sammy’s Escape from Paradise
Thunder and the House of Magic
Robinson Crusoe
The Son of Bigfoot
Bigfoot Family

I haven’t seen Come Fly with Me, and The Queen’s Corgi has amazing 3-D but the story is a total trainwreck.

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

nWave’s glory days are gone. Chickenhare showed that they no longer care about 3-D; it was mild-to-medium at best, and not implemented with any imagination at all. It was set-and-forget. Luckily they put out six absolute classics with phenomenal and brilliantly staged 3-D before they lost their mojo:

A Turtles Tale: Sammy’s Adventures
A Turtle’s Tale 2: Sammy’s Escape from Paradise
Thunder and the House of Magic
Robinson Crusoe
The Son of Bigfoot
Bigfoot Family

I haven’t seen Come Fly with Me, and The Queen’s Corgi has amazing 3-D but the story is a total trainwreck.

Thanks Waverboy. Sorry to hear that about Chickenhare. Ben Stassen I think was in charge for awhile there. Not sure what the story is now at NWave.
He really pushed to break into the US theatrical 3D market back with Wild Life/Robinson Crusoe 3D, which I supported that one weekend it was in 3D theaters at Cinemark back then, and saw it, but it didn't earn much of an audience and I've never seen another NWave film in theaters at all since then unfortunately. They were the kings of animated CGI 3D for a good run there.

Fly with Me I have on DVD anaglyph 3D, and it's got strong 3D for much of it if I recall, the one about the Martians flying to the moon or something. It's been a few years now. I'll have to give it another run, but I remember the movie is in color and the anaglyph red/cyan affects the results unfortunately. Anaglyph 3D works best with black&white/gray scale movies IMO.

[emailking]

I should rewatch Open Season, the first 3D I saw at home but haven't watched since.

[panman40]

Originally Posted by emailking

I should rewatch Open Season, the first 3D I saw at home but haven't watched since.

It’s my wife’s favourite 3D animation move.