Playing Hookie In Real D

A couple of days ago, I was sick as a dog and stayed home from work. As the day progressed, I developed cabin fever and decided to do something about it. Fortuntely, the feeling came over me around the time my son got out of school. So, I scooped him up for a trip to the ice cream parlor (parlor?) and a trip to the movies. I wanted to take him to see Spiderman 3; but given that he’s only 4 and neither his mom nor I have “previewed” the movie to determine if its suitable for a 4-year-old, we opted for Meet The Robinsons…in Real D.

Derrich wearing his FlippingRich.com T-Shirt.

Meet The Robinsons opened in theatres on March 31, 2007 and grossed a cool $7.1 million on just 581 3-D screens to become the largest digital 3-D opening in history. I was expecting those anaglyph paper shades with the traditional red and blue lenses. No dice. We were given special Real D glasses, which resemble those black rimmed Army-issue glasses. These were plastic and included polarized lenses with a yellowish tint. I’m keeping mine handy for the upcoming U23D film. Anyway, the movie started off with an old Chip & Dale cartoon, which wasn’t very impressive. The characters and scenery looked like raised cutouts versus 3 dimensional ingenuity. But once Meet The Robinsons began, it was a whole new viewing experience. More impressive was the attention to detail used on the scenery and background. I really liked the movie (animation and plot), and even more so in Real D. And after my kiddo flinched a few times and looked at me for approval, he was good to go with his 1-dimensional attention on the movie.

Click for larger image. Courtesy of IGN.com.

The 3-D picture in the movie was certainly worth more than a thousand words (unlike that mug above snapped by mini me…he’s getting better). According to Wikipedia, Real D utilizes a high-resolution digital projector that displays images at a higher frame rate than a typical movie — 144 images per second. The frames are divided between the left and the right eye by the following method: a liquid-crystal screen placed before the projector lens polarizes the pictures, so the audience, wearing plastic glasses with polarized lenses, sees different images in its left and right eyes, creating the illusion of depth. The result is a 3-D picture that seems to extend behind and in front of the screen itself.

I highly recommend that you find a Real D theater near you and check out Meet The Robinsons.

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