Teacup XXXVIII

[Midge]

I actually have decided I don't like 3D. Sure, it looks neat, but they can't do that for the whole movie, and in the meantime, you're spending an average of 2 hours staring at what is in reality a blurry screen (3 images overlaid from each other and offset a bit), only altered by a small piece of plastic in front of your eyes. I pay three extra bucks for a whopping headache every time. No thanks.

And Alice does seem quite scary. Who needs more than the book and the Disney version? Not me.

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Midge

I actually have decided I don't like 3D. Sure, it looks neat, but they can't do that for the whole movie, and in the meantime, you're spending an average of 2 hours staring at what is in reality a blurry screen (3 images overlaid from each other and offset a bit), only altered by a small piece of plastic in front of your eyes. I pay three extra bucks for a whopping headache every time. No thanks.

And Alice does seem quite scary. Who needs more than the book and the Disney version? Not me.

Three thumbs up for this post! Now back to homework...

[Acalewia]

Originally Posted by Midge

I actually have decided I don't like 3D. Sure, it looks neat, but they can't do that for the whole movie, and in the meantime, you're spending an average of 2 hours staring at what is in reality a blurry screen (3 images overlaid from each other and offset a bit), only altered by a small piece of plastic in front of your eyes. I pay three extra bucks for a whopping headache every time. No thanks.

And Alice does seem quite scary. Who needs more than the book and the Disney version? Not me.

I agree. On the 3D thing that is. Hubby and I get a head ache every time we watch a movie in 3D

[Gwaimir Windgem]

I know what you mean. There were some truly awesome moments in Alice (the fall down the rabbit hole, and the ending credits), but often it ended up just being blurry, or else everything looked too much like it was shot against a 2D background. I suspect that's because 3D technology hasn't come far enough yet, though, so hopefully it will improve.

[Jonathan]

Well, more advanced 3D technology has actually existed for years.
The 3D seen in the movies theatres today, gives you the feeling that you're looking through a large frame into a 3D world. But over ten years ago I was in London and went to this IMAX movie. I got, not these plastic glasses, but a pair of quite heavy high-tech goggles. Surely very expensive, so not for the average movie goer. Anyway, those goggles made it look like the movie characters moved around in the theatre and not on the screen itself.

[Mari]

I've only seen iMax. Most theatres here have that rather than the green and red plastic glasses. I thought the 3D was pretty good.

Gwai, I meant the Bandersnatch. I didn't like the Dormouse. Why do they make those names so hard to remember? >_<

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Because, m'dear, twas brillig, and the slithy toves were busy gyring and gimbling in the general vicinity of the wabe.

[hectorberlioz]

Two exams down, two to go!

Three actually down, but I took that one last week.

[Jonathan]

Way to go Hector!

I've got my three exam thingies left. Practical stuff tomorrow, a written exam on Thursday, and a presentation on Friday.

[Earniel]

Good luck with the exams, people.

Originally Posted by Mari

Gwai, I meant the Bandersnatch. I didn't like the Dormouse. Why do they make those names so hard to remember? >_<

I like that word. Bandersnatch. I don't know at all what it means but it has a nice ring to it. Bandersnatch. Whatever it is, it will probably not be half as cool as the name itself, so don't bother trying to tell me what it originally was. I just like the word.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

No one does; all we know about Bandersnatches is that they are frumious. That's what's so delightful about Jabberwocky.

[Mari]

I like the word too. Just can't remember it
Everytime I try to think of it, 'Jabberwocky' pops up in my mind. But then, I don't think the name 'Bandersnatch' was mentioned more than 3 or 4 times in the entire film.

[Gwaimir Windgem]

That was actually one thing I didn't like about the movie; the bandersnatch didn't fit with the general feel of Alice. It felt like it was just stealing a word from Carroll to do Burton's own thing without a sense of responsibility.

Plus, it wasn't nearly frumious enough.

[Grey_Wolf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXhXLsNJL8

Best to ya all from ur friend GW

[Mari]

I never read Alice in Wonderland actually. I saw the Disney film when I was a child and that scared me. I was a bit apprehensive about going to see Alice for that same reason, but I'm glad I did.

[trolls' bane]

ONLY number 38? Maybe I WILL be able to keep up.

[Noble Elf Lord]

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

ONLY number 38? Maybe I WILL be able to keep up.

Don't you go running anywhere now. Missed ya.

[Midge]

Yeah, yeah. It got really quiet over the past two months, but there are lots of people coming back now! Yay!

[trolls' bane]

LOL Yes, haha. I'd heard 'bout the election and stuff. Almost cried (figuratively speaking) reading the campaign statements, most of them from people I knew. Haha.

So yeah, anyway, I've got some work to do. *slams a huge stack of volumes down on the table*
I'm writing what is to be a really cool paper. Look for the following sometime down the road on my website, or (hopefully) the program list for the Archaeological Society of the Desert's speakers:

Desert Power
An Experimental Approach to Desert Anthropology
Brendan C. Helliwell, Desert Conservationist and Docent

Abstract:
For longer than recorded history, human cultures have lived and flourished in harsh, desert environments. Due to common limiting factors in all desert environments (including the scarcity of game, plants, and water), some degree of ethnographically analogous adaptations must be common to desert groups in response to the limiting factors presented. Through examination and experimentation with the technology of various desert groups, notably the Cahuilla Indians of the Colorado Desert region of Southern California, in order to understand some of the specific ways in which they adapted, as well as a number of generalized technologies; with the hope of identifying or speculating as to the commonality of cultural traits in desert peoples.


Basically, it was an excuse to show off the cool weapons I've been building -- oh, right, you don't know about my new hobbies. Well, for now, suffice to say I've gone "back to the basics" in terms of my tool usage. :P

[EllethValatari]

Originally Posted by Midge

I actually have decided I don't like 3D. Sure, it looks neat, but they can't do that for the whole movie, and in the meantime, you're spending an average of 2 hours staring at what is in reality a blurry screen (3 images overlaid from each other and offset a bit), only altered by a small piece of plastic in front of your eyes. I pay three extra bucks for a whopping headache every time. No thanks.

And Alice does seem quite scary. Who needs more than the book and the Disney version? Not me.

I don't know if I agree with you....I enjoyed Alice because of its pure whimsical impossibility. It was creative, it had amazing actors, and it was crazy....which requires alertness throughout the movie. I felt like Alice, in a way, trying to catch up with all that had happened while I was gone.