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[--Pete]

Hi,

Slight disclaimer, I couldn't watch this all in 3D, because it gave me a severe eye strain and headache.

So I wound up watching it for free in a Walmart one day. It's the 2d version obviously, but that lack of technomarvelousity aside.

I can't get out to see movies, so I watched it on my TV. No 3d there. However, more and better effects wouldn't address the issues I had with this movie.

I had high hopes for this when it first came out. After watching it, I was kinda like, meh. It reminded me of one of those demo CD's hardcore audiophiles have lying around to show off the power of their stereo equipment. Except this is the visual effects \ 3d tech version.

Yeah. It reminds me of This is Cinerama and Scent of Mystery. Nothing movies made to showcase a new technology. Since you and I didn't experience that new technology, we seem to have missed everything the film was trying to do.

As for Cameron, IMO his earlier works (Terminator, T2, Aliens, directors cut Abyss) still holds up relatively well.

I'll give him Terminator and True Lies, they were both good and original. But I see nothing else on this list that's particularly good.

--Pete