What are you doing for the re-release this weekend?
I'm actually out of town for the actual release
A few weeks back I was contacted through the car club by some people who want to use the Jeep as a "taxi" to a Friday screening. I don't charge for the use of the cars, so the passengers will be donating their "fare" to the
Dinosaur Ridge museum and fossil tracks site just outside of Denver.
I had actually given up hope on doing anything with the Jeep and JP3D, as I am supposed to be out of town this weekend, meaning the Jeep was gonna sit in a garage for the whole premiere. I was pretty bummed about that. Then at the last second, I heard about the early screening and contacted the marketing company.
We hit the early screening last night, and I gotta say, this is the first movie that I've enjoyed in 3D. The picture was incredibly clear, and it seems the image was brightened up just enough to compensate for the glasses. The waterfall scene was particularly amazing, and the Explorers were phenomenal! I noticed details on the dinosaurs I had never seen before.
I'm sure some people will have complaints, or even outrage over the 3D, but as someone who normally hates 3D, I was perfectly fine with it. Also, I didn't really notice a lot of of the dinosaur sound changes. In fact, possibly due to the theater sound, I heard and understood a great deal more little bits of background dialogue. I avoided looking at anything related to JP for a long time before this, and I was pleased to get a little bit of that "seeing it for the first time" feeling. Also, watching people jump during dino attacks - since I guess they'd never seen it - was really really awesome! Cool stuff.
Plus, getting to surprise people as they walked out of the theater was a blast. Damn lotta kids sat in that driver seat tonight.
Things worked out nicely
