Iron Man 3 (2013) Blu-ray 3D [Region Free]

[GamerBoy14]

Iron Man 3 3D Blu-ray

Disney announced this morning in a schedule release that Iron Man 3 will be released in 3D, keeping the original release date of 5/3/13.

[Phoenix Theory]

Can't believe this will be in 3D.Cant wait!!!

[GamerBoy14]

I was hoping, but didn't wanna get my hopes up until we had an official word. Iron Man's scenes in the Avengers made some of the best 3D shots in the movie, in my opinion, so I can't to see how this turns out.

[Lovemy3D]

Cool. I was just thinking it would be good to see another one. After Avengers I just started liking him again. Iron Man 2 kind of turned me off to the guy.

Not a surprise it will be in 3D. The question is, will it be real or converted.

[WetCardboard]

Considering the movie is done or nearly done filming, I'm sure it will be converted or we would have heard about the 3D a long time ago.

[OldPangYau]

I'm not surprised, really. I mean, since Thor, all of the Marvel-produced films have had 3D releases. Thor, Captain America, and of course The Avengers. Would've been odd for them to stop now. Of course, that makes Iron Man 3 follow the old school style of the third film being 3D, like Jaws 3 or Friday the 13th Part III

[Lovemy3D]

Originally Posted by WetCardboard

Considering the movie is done or nearly done filming, I'm sure it will be converted or we would have heard about the 3D a long time ago.

Figures. Too bad. It'd be nice to see them start doing these native.

[GamerBoy14]

Originally Posted by Lovemy3D

Figures. Too bad. It'd be nice to see them start doing these native.

I agree, but I don't feel too disgusted by hearing a movie is converted anymore since they seem to be improving.

[BozQ]

I was quite surprised with The Avengers in 3D, even though it was post converted.
Obviously, it had some issues when the action gets frenetic and the shaky camera gets around. But on the slower portions, it looked pretty good.

However, despite that, I'm still very neutral to it converted to 3D or not. These films have to go beyond just 3D effects to entertain.

[tehill]

[sookymonster]

This is really cool.

But the bigger question is...can/do they bring Coulson back in this??

It wont surprise me at all to see StereoD do this just like The avengers and others in the Marvel line and I am excited to see their progress, as they are improving immensely with each release. (Thor,Cap'n America 7 The Avengers).

[GamerBoy14]

Originally Posted by sookymonster

This is really cool.

But the bigger question is...can/do they bring Coulson back in this??

It wont surprise me at all to see StereoD do this just like The avengers and others in the Marvel line and I am excited to see their progress, as they are improving immensely with each release. (Thor,Cap'n America 7 The Avengers).

I didn't know the same team did them all with the huge jump in quality between them.

[Spaulding]

Kinda figured it would be, Nice to make it official though.

[Jack_Ryder_2012]

Every Marvel movie is 3d, why would they skip out iron man? captain america 2 and thor 2 are in 3d i think its no brainer for iron man.

[GamerBoy14]

I wonder will Ant Man be in 3D.

[sookymonster]

Originally Posted by GamerBoy14

I didn't know the same team did them all with the huge jump in quality between them.

Yeah they sure did. And the thing is, with conversions, its all computer and algorhythm based, and that is getting exponentially better.

Literally, month to month, so I would expect it to keep getting better to the point that we really cant tell the difference between native and conversion and if anything, it may be better suited for most directors.

If you read the articles I have linked to in this 3D forum you will see why we have good things (and movies!)to look forward too.

It honestly will not surprise me that in future we come to a point where virtually EVERY re-release or new release will have a 3D option on it, just because they will be able to do it and they know that it adds an extra incentive and value for people to re-buy the product.

Especially if these conversion companies come up with a great price and service which they are improving on all the time, its only a matter of time.

I swear if I had more money or investment money I would invest in a company like Prime Focus (british stock exchange I think). I think they are the only public listed conversion company.

They are the folks who did the really good Wrath of the Titans recently (and to be fair, Clash of the titans, but they were really rushed on that one.)

[Zivouhr]

I'd like every big budget movie to have a 2D and 3D option choice. Maybe we'll get to the day where we don't see separate 2D and 3D retail versions, but both in the same, single pack when most will have TVs with 3D as a standard feature whether they use it or not, the cost of 3D being just as much as a standard blu ray disc.

I'm glad to hear Iron Man 3 will be in 3D, it's a great sign for 3D no doubt. Now they just need to match the 3D quality of Avengers...
I'll say Iron Man in 1 and 2 is pretty much an arrogant jerk, but his pivotal, self-less role in Avengers has given the character more depth and appeal. Hopefully they take that note and go with it for Iron Man 3.

[TM2-Megatron]

I doubt I'll pay to see the Marvel Phase 2 films in 3-D if they're all conversions.

Avengers did have a few really good uses of 3-D, but for the majority of the movie it wasn't very noticeable. To me, this only proves that while post-converting can have good results, no movie thus far has had a large enough budget to be able to pay for a consistently-strong 3-D effect from start-to-finish; and that's the only way I'll ever accept a conversion. Avengers clearly allocated most of its conversion budget towards the latter half of the film, which hung the rest of the scenes out to dry. Even though I don't agree with those who dismiss 3-D as a gimmick, when only a small handful of scenes in a movie really use the 3-D (and even then, not quite as well as a native film would) then it actually does make it feel like something of a gimmick. Just tacked on there in a few convenient scenes in order to collect those ticket premiums. It doesn't encourage any particularly creative uses of stereographic cinematography. But for effects-intensive films like Avengers, at least those CG elements will usually take decent advantage of the 3-D.

When Disney bought out Marvel, I had some hope that Phase 2 would go native, as Disney seems to be one of the studios pushing 3-D the hardest, both in theatres and on Blu-Ray. They've been involved with some well done live-action 3-D films, too. So far, though, it doesn't look as if it's going that way.

[sookymonster]

Originally Posted by TM2-Megatron

I doubt I'll pay to see the Marvel Phase 2 films in 3-D if they're all conversions.

Avengers did have a few really good uses of 3-D, but for the majority of the movie it wasn't very noticeable. To me, this only proves that while post-converting can have good results, no movie thus far has had a large enough budget to be able to pay for a consistently-strong 3-D effect from start-to-finish; and that's the only way I'll ever accept a conversion. Avengers clearly allocated most of its conversion budget towards the latter half of the film, which hung the rest of the scenes out to dry. Even though I don't agree with those who dismiss 3-D as a gimmick, when only a small handful of scenes in a movie really use the 3-D (and even then, not quite as well as a native film would) then it actually does make it feel like something of a gimmick. Just tacked on there in a few convenient scenes in order to collect those ticket premiums. It doesn't encourage any particularly creative uses of stereographic cinematography. But for effects-intensive films like Avengers, at least those CG elements will usually take decent advantage of the 3-D.

When Disney bought out Marvel, I had some hope that Phase 2 would go native, as Disney seems to be one of the studios pushing 3-D the hardest, both in theatres and on Blu-Ray. They've been involved with some well done live-action 3-D films, too. So far, though, it doesn't look as if it's going that way.

Hi mate,
respectfully Im not sure if I agree if the first half of the last Avengers was somewhat weaker due to less money or something being allocated.

I truly believe they would have a depth budget,so to speak, and each scene/shot is evaluated individually for the 3D depth/pop needed. There are good artistic reasons for it to be "flatter" and not be at a huge depth the whole time. Think of it like a song, it needs to have changes and rythym to be great, to be noticicable.

[TM2-Megatron]

There were some who said the same of this summer's Spider-Man (but I'd say more who just weren't impressed by its 3-D); and given that was native then it's more likely that really was a case of the so-called "3-D storytelling", aka "artistic reasons"... or perhaps just inexperience with 3-D and not really knowing what to do with it. But there's a difference between less depth and an image that's almost totally flat. Too often in conversions, 90% of the scenes have almost no noticeable parallax at all. Since the cost of a conversion increases as greater parallax is implemented, it makes sense to assume that the scenes are analyzed not for artistic reasons, but just in order to evaluate which scenes will look "coolest" with the strongest 3-D, and which scenes can afford to serve as sacrificial lambs, lol. In Avengers, the scenes that can benefit most from the "cool factor" are obviously the intense fights and action towards the end.

But personally, I enjoy a consistently noticeable parallax through the majority of a movie, rather than the other way around. And I like to see interesting new uses of stereographic shooting, which can't really be done if it's shot 2-D. I don't mean ridiculously strong parallax all the way through, but at least moderate levels for the majority of the film. And that's easier to do with native 3-D filming, and it's something we've rarely seen in any conversion to date, including Avengers. Alice in Wonderland was a much better conversion than Avengers, IMO; probably the best conversion I've seen to date (though the story was dull).