Hugo 3D Blu-ray (2012) [Region Locked / Free]

[owen2001]

Thanks for the welcome! I found the forum because I was having some difficulties w/ my setup. It turns out my Onkyo 605 was the problem. Now I've got high-speed HDMI connected directly to my TV instead of running it thru my receiver. Have to "settle" for optical audio, but that has not been a problem. My surround-sound setup sounds excellent in my small place and I'm not sure I'd notice a huge difference if I was getting optimum sound thru an HDMI cable.

Anyway, as I've stated a few time already - this site is truly a wealth of information and I appreciate all the help. I finished Hugo and it blew my mind. I'm addicted to 3D already. Went and got Bolt today (I had a Best Buy gift card leftover from Christmas). Planning on watching it tomorrow. I'll let you know what I think! - Scot

[Zivouhr]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Converged

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Etc. includes focus and lighting.

This is a rather advanced thread on 3D . In the spirit of promoting further learning about the digital tools and toolsets of 3D filmmaking, might I call your alls attention to a new book which has been recently published and is now available for purchase at a reasonable price….
http://www.focalpress.com/books/film...at=124&sub=140

On a side note, Ray is speaking at the upcoming NAB 2012… http://expo.nabshow.com/mynabshow201...ionSearch.aspx

Thanks for the info! Will check it out.

[markbr]

Watched this last night and must agree with the heading of this thread the 3D was awesome loads of depth and pop out, made you really feel part of the movie. Audio was fantastic as well I have Avatar on 3D, and this is just as good or even better ( 3D )

[dirkblack]

Watched this last night, what an outstanding film, simply didn't want it to end, wonderful.

Excellent use of 3D, would recommend this to anyone.

[steelerik]

Originally Posted by dirkblack

Watched this last night, what an outstanding film, simply didn't want it to end, wonderful.

Excellent use of 3D, would recommend this to anyone.

What he said

Stunning visuals and very heartwarming story. Scorcese has taken 3D cinematography to new levels with this in my opinion. Wipes the floor with ANY live action 3D movie out there PERIOD. What impressed me was how well the lighting was balanced via both cameras .. unlike in say Saw 3D when one camera would pick up a reflection and the other wouldn't which left odd lighting imbalances on screen.

[gjwanner]

I agree, the pop outs are awesome

[ack_bak]

I have an Acer 9500 DLP projector showing on a 125" screen and there was zero crosstalk. Just a wonderful film and best use of 3D yet for me.

[sookymonster]

This film has amazing 3D. Up there with Sammy's and Legends of Gahooie (yep I know its wrong), and the best live action 3D film I think out of any I've seen.

Seem's to re'write the so-called 3D "rules"..Love it!

[Gae]

Originally Posted by sookymonster

This film has amazing 3D. Up there with Sammy's and Legends of Gahooie (yep I know its wrong)

I admire someone who can't be ***ed looking up the title at Amazon or the IMDB. I just couldn't do that as I have this disorder...I think the medical term for it is called being a**l.

Gae

[sookymonster]

Originally Posted by Gae

I admire someone who can't be ***ed looking up the title at Amazon or the IMDB. I just couldn't do that as I have this disorder...I think the medical term for it is called being a**l.

Gae

Hi Gae, yes i admit it, it was lazy..though it was more of a matter of not being bothered going to my collection to pull out to see how its spelled properly. As long as it is understood what is meant, what is the harm? And really, at least I notice if I do a bad typo or have shocking grammar. If you notice,most people don't have these skills.

ps.I still can't work why "anal" need's to be asterixed? Is it an official swear word?

[Gae]

Originally Posted by sookymonster

shocking grammar. If you notice,most people don't have these skills.

ps.I still can't work why "anal" need's to be asterixed? Is it an official swear word?

Apparently not!

Gae

[Michael K.]

I saw Hugo again this friday and...oh my...how i love 3D in this movie! It´s absol. amazing! I can´t get enough. Hugo is the best 3D movie and full picture frame really helps. I´m so glad I got a limited steelbook, they´r really limited in my country and now out of stock.

[imdb_acc]

I'm planning on getting, especially since the price is so low at Amazon UK. But is the transfer good compared to the US version?
I hear there's a lot of foreground objects in this. This is my favorite part of 3D.
How much parallax is there? I hate how most movies (like Prometheus, Tin Tin, On Stranger Tides) have such little parallax that they're almost 2D.

[sookymonster]

Originally Posted by imdb_acc

I'm planning on getting, especially since the price is so low at Amazon UK. But is the transfer good compared to the US version?
I hear there's a lot of foreground objects in this. This is my favorite part of 3D.
How much parallax is there? I hate how most movies (like Prometheus, Tin Tin, On Stranger Tides) have such little parallax that they're almost 2D.

In my opinion this is parallax city!

Incredible depth as well as strong negative parallax with lots of stuff flying around or protruding into your viewing room.

Can almost garauntee you will love it!

[Gae]

Originally Posted by imdb_acc

I'm planning on getting, especially since the price is so low at Amazon UK. But is the transfer good compared to the US version?
I hear there's a lot of foreground objects in this. This is my favorite part of 3D.
How much parallax is there? I hate how most movies (like Prometheus, Tin Tin, On Stranger Tides) have such little parallax that they're almost 2D.

Here's my take on both the movie and the 3D.....Hugo

Gae

[Red's got the Blu's]

Just noticed this story at the Slashfilmcast website, thought some here might find it interesting.

When Hugo opened late last year, critics and audiences were bowled over by its masterful use of 3D. But it’s doubtful even the most diehard Martin Scorsese fan was as impressed as neuroscientist Bruce Bridgeman, who quite literally saw the world differently after watching the movie.

The 67-year-old man had lived his entire life “stereoblind,” or unable to perceive depth correctly. In the first moments of watching Hugo in 3D, however, something clicked. Bridgeman was surprised to notice the characters leaping out from the screen, in a way he’d never seen before. And better yet, the effect stayed with him long after he walked out of the theater. Read on after the jump.

Most people see the world in 3D because each eye sees a slightly different image, and the brain naturally combines the two pictures to allow us to perceive depth. (Try looking at something with one eye closed, then the other, to get an inkling of how this works.) Bridgeman, however, had a condition known as lazy eye, which prevented him from properly developing binocular vision.

“When we’d go out and people would look up and start discussing some bird in the tree, I would still be looking for the bird when they were finished,” he explains to the BBC (via Geeks are Sexy). “For everybody else, the bird jumped out. But to me, it was just part of the background.” Instead, he relied on other visual cues or physical methods to gauge depth.

When Bridgeman went to the theater in February to watch Hugo with his wife, he paid the premium 3D surcharge even though he assumed the effect would be lost on him. Then the film started. “It was just literally like a whole new dimension of sight. Exciting,” he says. The thinking is that Bridgeman’s brain already had the capacity to understand the world in 3D, but something about Hugo‘s particular 3D may have flipped a switch.

Bridgeman was even more pleased to find that his newfound perception stuck around even after the credits rolled. “I was astonished to see a lamppost standing out from the background,” he wrote in a letter to Dr. Oliver Sacks. “Trees, cars, even people were in relief more vivid than I had ever experienced.” So much for Christopher Nolan’s earlier assertion that nobody actually likes 3D.

[keb33509]

What a great story! Just goes to show there will be medical uses for 3D as well!

[PsHayes]

I've only watched the first 10 minutes so far, but this does look very good. I'm glad I bought the movie.

[BleedOrange11]

Originally Posted by Red in 3D

Just noticed this story at the Slashfilmcast website, thought some here might find it interesting.

Originally Posted by keb33509

What a great story! Just goes to show there will be medical uses for 3D as well!

Yep, 3D is pretty cool.

Looking at 3D pictures/movies or drawing 3D anaglyphs can be used as a therapy to treat amblyopia caused by strabismus. Sometimes exercising and strengthening the intrinsic eye muscles can fix/improve "lazy eye" to restore proper binocular vision. Eye patches are another common non-surgical treatment.

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedic....com/amblyopia

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Red in 3D

The 67-year-old man had lived his entire life “stereoblind,” or unable to perceive depth correctly. In the first moments of watching Hugo in 3D, however, something clicked. Bridgeman was surprised to notice the characters leaping out from the screen, in a way he’d never seen before. And better yet, the effect stayed with him long after he walked out of the theater. Read on after the jump.

Ah, that would be the opening "Paris" shot.

(I'll have to rent it again, the 3-D was so naturalistically "real" I don't recall any standout 3-D moments except for the fish tank, or Cohen leaning out of the screen--All I remember about the opening shot was the immersive sound, and I don't have a surround system.)

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Looking at 3D pictures/movies or drawing 3D anaglyphs can be used as a therapy to treat amblyopia caused by strabismus. Sometimes exercising and strengthening the intrinsic eye muscles can fix/improve "lazy eye" to restore proper binocular vision. Eye patches are another common non-surgical treatment.

[Show spoiler]


(Admittedly, that was the first time I'd ever heard of early amblyopia, either.)