Disneyland POTC - On Stranger Tides Sneak Peek!!

[Capn_Jack_Savvy]

Just got back from Disneyland Resort here in Anaheim, CA. We got to see an exclusive sneak peek at about 2 1/2 minute segment from Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides in 3D! Not anything ANY of us has seen unless you were at Disneyland! W-O-W!!!! Folks this will NOT disappoint!! It was AMAZING!!!!!!!!

Ian McShane as Blackbeard is CLASSIC! The 3D was well done and not campy at all. Foreground items jump out at you and even rings on the pirate fingers have a sense of dimension!

If you are in SoCal and can get over to the park it is well worth the wait. When we exited from the second showing there were only about 25 people in line so wait to go around 8:30pm. Today was a crowded day at the park so surprising that the line was so short.

 

[Dutchman]

Personally I'm not that much into the whole 3D vibe, always feels like it alters the colours somehow. When watching Alice in Wonderland, I felt like staring through a fog...

Your enthusiasm sounds promising though, I'm sure the movie will rock!!:cool

 

[Capn_Jack_Savvy]

Well AIW was post processed into 3D and not filmed that way. I am not an expert at 3D filming but I do know that in 3D you loose about 25-50% of your brightness and your resolution as well. It varies with the technology and the filming process. AIW was definitely dark and I saw it in Real3D. I wonder how Imax was...?

OST has dark moments too onboard QAR but it was still good enough to see the true 3D effects.

The outdoor venue didn't exactly provide you with the best 3D viewing but it still looked good which made me change my mind on the 3D aspects.

Since it was all filmed in 3D with zero post processing for 3D (other than CGI stuff) the imagery was still good. No campy 3D effect but more 'depth of field' action. Plus they used the same 3D glasses they used when you go to see Muppets3D, Honey I Shrunk The Audience, or Captain EO in the parks. It wasn't REAL3D or Imax.

Even the original trailer looked good in 3D.

 

[Dutchman]

Thanks for the info, didn't know about the 25-50% loss. Now I know it wasn't me:lol!!

Can't wait to see the movie

Cheers

 

[jlee562]

All 3d movies are inherently darker than a 2D film, not only because of the glasses, but because of the projectors. From Ebert's infamous "why I hate 3d movies" piece:

Lenny Lipton is known as the father of the electronic stereoscopic-display industry. He knows how films made with his systems should look. Current digital projectors, he writes, are “intrinsically inefficient. Half the light goes to one eye and half to the other, which immediately results in a 50 percent reduction in illumination.” Then the glasses themselves absorb light. The vast majority of theaters show 3-D at between three and six foot-lamberts (fLs). Film projection provides about 15fLs. The original IMAX format threw 22fLs at the screen. If you don’t know what a foot-lambert is, join the crowd. (In short: it’s the level of light thrown on the screen from a projector with no film in it.)

The Disneyparks blog posted a short video of the sneak peak event:
Special Video from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – Sneak Peek’ « Disney Parks Blog

 

[CTF]

Cap'n Jack, what are your thoughts on the second and third Pirates flicks?

 

[Capn_Jack_Savvy]

I liked Dead Man's Chest mainly because I thought Davy Jones character was very well done and played by a most excellent actor! Storyline wasn't too hard to follow.

At World's End was sort of like Revenge of the Sith! So much to wrap up in less than 3 hours. It jumped around alot but it ended nicely. Thank goodness the Eunuch and Lizzie's love story ended albeit many out there wish it weren't so!

I possibly see Disney re-release all the movies in 3D if OST goes well....I'm just sayin' if Uncle Georgie does it and all goes well stand by for other companies to follow suit!

 

[Dutchman]

All 3d movies are inherently darker than a 2D film, not only because of the glasses, but because of the projectors. From Ebert's infamous "why I hate 3d movies" piece:

Thanks for that link, a lot to agree with...

 

[CTF]

I'm just sayin' if Uncle Georgie does it and all goes well stand by for other companies to follow suit!

Comparing Pirates to Star Wars is just plain ol' silly, Cap'n.

 

[nickytea]

I think there are some thematic echoes.
(But that's not what he was talking about, I know, I know.)

 

[Alice31]

This sounds amazing! I wish they would show it in Disneyland Paris too! I'll check it out but I really, really doubt it.
Can't wait for the film though, I just hope the plot isn't as convoluted as the third one because I'm still not sure I understand all of it (who is betraying whom and working for whom, and changing their minds halfway through...)

 

[Dutchman]

I really felt the writers painted themselves into a corner with the third one. You can almost sense their panic halfway through the movie...