Comments on: Avatar in 3D: What About the Plastic Glasses?

By: romeo lim

romeo lim — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:29:51 +0000

Like the sunglasses shown here http://www.topfashionshades.com/sps07hs-7ov1a1-6414120.html, I wish they can make 3D glasses with that type of design, not only for entertainment use but also a casual wear.

By: Ed Driscoll » Gee, as Opposed to Everything Else Produced by Hollywood?

Ed Driscoll » Gee, as Opposed to Everything Else Produced by Hollywood? — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:34:51 +0000

[...] Plus those 3D glasses produced en masse for theater-goers? Yup, plastic. [...]

By: James Cameron on Hollywood’s Extravagance: ‘DVDs Are Wasteful’ at Deceiver.com

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:35:04 +0000

[...] Those 3D glasses produced en masse for theater-goers? Yup, plastic. [...]

By: Lara S

Lara S — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:07:41 +0000

I saw Avatar last week and it blew my mind. I left the cinema completely stunned by the feelings the movie had caused me. I mean, yes, I agree that it has no subtlety at all, but that’s not the point of the film. It actually shows a completely extreme example of what connection to nature means, and of what disconnection to nature means. Very extreme examples. Now the point of it is: with which of them do you identify? And with which of them you want to identify the human race, your species?
I can’t express what I feel about this, but I had never felt this way with a movie since American Beauty. It simply touched my soul. It’s not because of the story about the unobtanium or what the humans want to do, it’s the part when they show the Na’vi, that makes me think “I want to be like that. I want that connection, I need it!!”. The concept of “all things in the planet are connected in a network” is simply an exageration of our own planet (I’m a biology student, I study Ecology so I can sure tell you everything is connected with everything on Earth), and yet, to see such an extreme and perfect and beautiful concept….It’s amazing.

So in my opinion, Avatar is not at all fantasy. It’s a real story, or as they say “Based in a true story”, only the true story didn’t end so well so far.
Avatar shows exactly what happened and STILL HAPPENS with thousands of ethnicities all over the world; people were and still are killed, forced to leave their homes, enslaved and treated like the most insensitive and useless beast.
The only part of fantasy in Avatar is the happy ending.

I’m watching it again this tuesday :) (In 3D, with glasses that have to be returned and will never, ever get sanitized. Hope I don’t catch anything…)

By: Joseph Condron

Joseph Condron — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:22:34 +0000

Re-using the glasses is a great idea. Excellent post. .-= Joseph Condron´s last blog ..Avatar Film Review: A Reinvention Of Cinema And A Re-Telling Of Human Insecurity =-.

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:09:14 +0000

First of all must say that I did enjoy Avatar…. It’s good that the theater where I watch the 3d avatar ask the viewers to return the glasses after watching the movie and to be use by the next viewers, well I just hope that they are really sanitizing the glass well, but just to make sure try sanitizing them yourselves just to be sure.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:42:32 +0000

My local theater cleans their glasses on-site too. When I picked up my glasses to see Avatar, they still had a couple of water droplets on them. Of course, they were starting to get scratched up. What I wonder is what happens when they no longer are easy to see through? Do they get tossed or recycled? Can they just replace the lenses?

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:24:26 +0000

Thanks, Bart. That USA Today reporter actually emailed me to find out about my Avatar glasses. I had to explain that I didn't have the Avatar glasses because I brought my own! .-= Beth Terry´s last blog ..8 Reasons Why Personal Changes Matter =-.

By: Bart

Bart — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:05:24 +0000

JUst FYI…. the plastics industry weekly trade pub’s blog: “What happens to those 3-D movie glasses?”
http://www.plasticsnews.com/blog/2010/02/what_happens_to_those_3-d_movi.html

By: Ellen in SW Ontario, Canada

Ellen in SW Ontario, Canada — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:25:23 +0000

Dear Beth thanks so much re all what you’re doing!!

On the movie… I am with Chris and Rachel. It gets people inspired, moved and informed… It’s done a great job. To move the masses is not simple. The movie might be simplistic, but it was meant for a range of ages.

In reality right now we here are fighting a 3000 acres quarry, possibly the biggest quarry of north america, destroying prime agricultural land and threathening the headwaters of many rivers. So this movie hit me right in my soul, because the similarities are uncanny.

Avatar is in some ways actually nuanced in comparison with what is going on in Real Life right here. Okay, no guns, but intimidation, bribing, ignoring laws, for sure, scary stuff. Please contact me if you want to know more, but Avatar worked for me as symbolic what the US and Western world has done to other refined other civilizations. And the gun thing.. Vietnam comes to mine, Grenada even…. it DOES happen.

I saw the “good” guy as someone pointing out what bullies do, when you’re not used to that…He first went in to spy on them, and then found they were the ones with civilization and turned it around, gave them info. Not the white (or blue) guy telling them what to do, but giving them information they needed….

Honestly, I didn’t find that derogatory at all because it’s something we hardly would believe to happen for real, but….it was actually TYPICAL of what is going on right here under our noses near Shelburne Ontario.

It is horrible but Avatar is not that far from the truth re corporate methods and violent take overs have been done in our own and in other countries. Unfortunately it’s not all fantasy. Maybe look at it again with a fresh mind. I certainly will go again, with friends.