I saw this yesterday and thought it was freaking awesome. I think it's funny that in general most of the people that play FPS games did not have a major problem with the camera work, but that many other people did. Guess that goes to show my years of DP playing have not been in vain!
When I first saw the preview for this back at Transformers, I thought it was the coolest trailer ever. I remember getting into the whole viral marketing idea and checking out the sluggo.jp site and other miscellaneous hidden websites all over the web trying to get a glimpse into what the movie was about before everyone else. When I realized that there weren't any substantial clues about it I got a little disappointed and tried to put the movie out of my mind until it was finally released. Much to my dismay, when it first came out I always heard that a "friend of a friend" saw it and didn't really like it because the monster was only shown "in very short glimpses" and that there "wasn't much action." Thus, I was so disappointed at how hyped I had been about this movie that I didn't even see it until a week after it was released. Boy, were those friends-of-friends wrong... I think I found it to be even better than I had expected back in July because so recently I had my expectations lowered by the nay-saying hypothetical third parties even though so many critics were giving it rave reviews. Long story short, the movie rocked my socks off and I really hope they make a sequel.
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For those of you that haven't seen it yet and are reading this post (shame on you, you shouldn't be reading spoilers) or those of you that plan on seeing it again, I
_highly_ recommend you see it at a theater that offers DLP (digital light processing -- or maybe it's "projecting" since it's in a theater). For the last year or so I've been seeing movies almost exclusively in DLP, but when one of my friends organizes the time/theater excurions they don't really pay attention to what format the theater is using and sometimes we end up watching it on regular 'ole projection. Let me just tell you that the difference is night and day on
most movies (e.g., I saw "I Am Legend" once in each format and noticed more of a difference during the trailers than during the movie, so I dunno what was up with that movie). I equate it with the difference between watching TV and watching HDTV. It's just that noticable (to me); especially when the movie has extensive action, explosions, and/or CGI.
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