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**mike1973** · 01-04-2010 10:54 PM

Going Friday to see it in IMAX 3D, can't wait!

**mike123abc** · 01-05-2010 12:17 AM

It has passed $1 billion in ticket sales. Expected to only be second to Titanic before long. At its current rate it will be #2 all time in about 2 weeks.

**Ramy** · 01-05-2010 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by mike123abc

It has passed $1 billion in ticket sales. Expected to only be second to Titanic before long. At its current rate it will be #2 all time in about 2 weeks.

At it's pace it will pass Titanic before it is through.

**yourbeliefs** · 01-05-2010 10:51 AM

Has anyone had issues with the 3D causing headaches? I haven't seen many 3d movies. I saw Superman Returns in IMAX 3d but that had about 25 minutes of 3D and didn't require much glasses viewing. Conversely, I recently saw UP (or as it was called where I saw it, The Adventure of the Flying House) in 3D and by the end I was ready to gouge my eyes out because they hurt so much. It probably also doesn't help that I wear glasses already. I've read that if you try to focus on too much (looking everywhere as opposed to just the main focus of the scene) that headaches are more common. Can anyone attest to this?

One final note with UP, I saw it in China and we saw the subtitled version, and I often found myself looking down at the symbols just to see what they looked like (and they looked kinda cool in 3d since they jumped out from the screen), so maybe it was the constant eye shifting that attributed to my discomfort?

**jayn_j** · 01-05-2010 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by yourbeliefs

One final note with UP, I saw it in China and we saw the subtitled version, and I often found myself looking down at the symbols just to see what they looked like (and they looked kinda cool in 3d since they jumped out from the screen), so maybe it was the constant eye shifting that attributed to my discomfort?

There were some subtitles in Avatar, and when they were on the screen, I noticed I had to refocus and that it caused some eye strain. That might have been what did it for you.

I really didn't have headaches or eye discomfort from Avatar, and I went in expecting it. It might be that much of the 3-d effects were jungle background, so the 3-d kind of became ambience instead of things you were expected to focus on.

**Foxbat** · 01-05-2010 11:44 AM

In the latest edition of TV Technology, one of the advances that Cameron claimed was figuring out an optimum 3D space so as to minimize the eyes jumping back and forth trying to focus on different things.

What throws off most people is the fact that parallax yields the majority of the sense of distance. However, the eyes' focus distance to the screen is always the same, leading to the brain getting confused as to the actual distance. The brain says "the eyes are tracking this angle, so the object must be X feet away. Eyes, focus to X." However, the object on the screen is still S away, so it goes out of focus. After some period of time, you might get either a headache or eye strain.

**sampatterson** · 01-05-2010 12:11 PM

Saw it this weekend and enjoyed it. I went in with a slightly bad attitude as I didn't particularly care for the trailer(s). I ended up liking it quite a bit - but not enough to see a 2nd time. I was immersed in the CGI world and 99% of the time seemed real to me. Really good CGI.

**dmendenjr** · 01-05-2010 04:38 PM

planning on catching a matinee of this with my wife tomorrow afternoon... the theater we are going to has both the IMAX 3D and RealD 3D presentations of it. Is the IMAX 3D presentation worth the extra few bucks? I'm leaning toward IMAX, but was curious what the consensus is between the technologies...

**rey_1178** · 01-05-2010 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by yourbeliefs

Has anyone had issues with the 3D causing headaches? I haven't seen many 3d movies. I saw Superman Returns in IMAX 3d but that had about 25 minutes of 3D and didn't require much glasses viewing. Conversely, I recently saw UP (or as it was called where I saw it, The Adventure of the Flying House) in 3D and by the end I was ready to gouge my eyes out because they hurt so much. It probably also doesn't help that I wear glasses already. I've read that if you try to focus on too much (looking everywhere as opposed to just the main focus of the scene) that headaches are more common. Can anyone attest to this?

One final note with UP, I saw it in China and we saw the subtitled version, and I often found myself looking down at the symbols just to see what they looked like (and they looked kinda cool in 3d since they jumped out from the screen), so maybe it was the constant eye shifting that attributed to my discomfort?

a friend of mine went through the same thing as you with avatar in imax.

**AriesGodofWar** · 01-05-2010 07:37 PM

Okay, well I saw Avatar in 3D IMAX and found it simply stunning. No headache, no eyestrain, 3D was breathtaking. I found it to be quite awesome and a completely enjoyable experience. I plan on seeing it a second time. 3D IMAX was the only way to fly I think.