G.I. Joe : Retaliation 3D Blu-ray (2013) [Region Free] [Theatrical Cut only] [GI]

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Originally Posted by palmeiro

Glad 3D was great everywhere else. MY theater, however, had such a horrible crosstalk that I couldn't pay attention to the movie when I watched it last night. I watched many IMAX 3D movies at the exact same screen and sat in almost same exact seat and never had this problem. So I was annoyed with whoever messed that up at the theater. But, even with triple images my eyes were seeing sometimes, the mountain sequence was still fantastic. I want to check it out at some other iMAX 3D screen so I can watch it without any distraction but with Jurassic Park 3D coming out this weekend, I'm assuming most theater will stop playing this on their IMAX screen starting Friday. Oh well, there's always blu-ray 3D which will probably come out in about 3 months.

I saw this at a preview at Arclight Hollywood (not the dome) on Tues night, and there definitely problems with cross talk in a couple scenes. I don't think they were 3D projection issues, I believe it was the actual conversion.

There were two scenes that really stood out, and the errors were in the backgrounds. When they're attacking the missile silo, there was a shot where there's a long shot, and I think a missile is standing on the left side of the screen. To the right of it, the walkway that was going into the background looked to include 3 images. The same issue also happened during a scene where Roadblock, Flint and Lady Jaye are walking down a New Orleans street, and you can see some of the houses exhibiting the same issue.

I say this is a conversion issue because: 1. I've never actually seen this type of error, when watching any 3D film in the theater. 2. The errors were so clean, it didn't look like cross talk at all. (Whenever I've seen cross talk, theatrically or on a home system, it just a distinct offset type of error, I've never seen this triple image type error.)

The glasses being used were the X-pand shutter glasses, which seem to be less prone to cross talk errors. Usually when they drop out they go to 2D, and the whole image will be out of whack, and this was not the problem.

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