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Watch Evil Dead Online That's Thor crushing a car, slamming a hammer into some bad guys, looking regal next to Natalie Portman's Jane, summoning his hammer to his mighty fist and then swinging it back out, among many other things. A lot of this action looks like any other ancient-style epic, since the visual effects haven't been able to add in the otherworldly element. But much as they look like stunt men, those are probably dark elves that Thor is doing battle against-- we assume Christopher Eccelston's Malekith will be in there somewhere in the final version. With a release date set for November 8, Thor: The Dark World will be the first effort in Marvel's attempt to set up a two-a-year schedule, testing just how often moviegoers can flock to mythologically dense superhero stories that all tie together. Given how surprisingly fun the first Thor was I'm not too worried about the dense part, but that all depends on how much new exposition Nick Fury drops at the end of Iron Man 3.
Watch Oz The Great And Powerful Online Lou Taylor Pucci is playing one of the many young people who gets victimized by all the demonic craziness going on in this weekend's Evil Dead, but he's got another, much more nuanced role coming to theaters as well. In the exclusive clip above you can get a glimpse of his performance in The Story of Luke, in which he plays an autistic 25-year-old whose life changes entirely when he's forced to move in with his distant relatives. All he has guiding him is his grandfather's final words: "Get a job. Find a girl. Live your own life. Be a man!"
Watch Evil Dead 2013 Online Last question! Was there a point where they realized that they realized they had the clout to get it made? Basically, they still had to struggle to get it made. Seth jokes that Green Hornet did well overseas. If you've been paying attention to the movie world in the last month, chances are you've heard the buzz about director Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead. The remake of the Sam Raimi horror classic opened SXSW a few weeks ago and earned an incredible amount of buzz, shocking audiences with a non-stop flow of scares, blood, blood, and more blood. And now Sony Pictures is getting set to bring that same experience to WonderCon.
Watch Warm Bodies Online In the clip you can see Luke in conversation with his uncle Paul (The Princess Bride's Cary Elwes), in which an emotional moment doesn't go quite as planned thanks to Luke's autism. The cast also includes Seth Green-- who you know from everything from Robot Chicken to the good old days of the Austin Powers movies-- and Kristin Bauer, a familiar face from True Blood.The Story of Luke opens in theaters and On Demand on April 5, just a few days after April 2's World Autism Awareness Day. To learn more you can check out the film's trailer below, or visit the official site.
Watch The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Online Based on Michael Crichton's most popular novel, Jurassic Park seemed destined for movie greatness with its imaginative premise of long-extinct dinosaurs being bred in the present for a theme park. In 1993, Steven Spielberg pushed special and visual effects to new heights, and awed audiences with sequences where mankind and dinosaur interacted with dynamic results. The film went on to win Academy Awards in both Visual Effects and Sound Effects for its remarkable full-bodied recreations of prehistoric beasts, and earned more than $900 million worldwide. So, when the trend of re-releasing old blockbusters with post-converted 3D emerged, it was only a matter of time before Universal revisited Jurassic Park.
Watch The Call Online I still have vivid memories of seeing this movie in theaters when I was a kid. That's why I went to see Jurassic Park at a revival screening last fall. 20 years later and I found this thriller as frightening, fun and deeply satisfying as ever. Having watched the T-rex scenes and horrifying raptor sequences in its original 2D, made me freshly intrigued for what 3D could add to this stupendous viewing experience. So, when I went to see Jurassic Park 3D for this column, I paid attention solely to how 3D was employed.
Watch Admission Online You'd think so. Big action spectacle and the T-Rex chase scene where the bellowing dino nips at the heels of Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) and company seems perfect for 3D. The trouble is that the cinematography of the original film fights the 3D. The angles that would make the best use of this device weren't used, because it wasn't a consideration in 1993. And while the cinematography of Dean Cundey is absolutely extraordinary, it is full of rack focus moves that are jarring in 3D. Basically, the camera focuses on a foreground element, say Ellie (Laura Dern) as she says some crucial line, then the focus shifts from her (putting her out of focus) to someone behind her, pulling focus to their reaction. This kind of camerawork is a great storytelling tool in 2D, but looks odd in 3D where having everything in focus offers a better sense of dimension. Similarly, when foreground elements or background elements are out of focus, it's a waste of 3D. And in the case of the occasional lens flare, the 3D is actually irksome and distracting.
Watch From Up On Poppy Hill Online I'm confident this was not an endeavor taken on lightly. I'm sure they "spared no expense" in making this conversion. But when a movie was shot on film in two dimensions, it is very difficult to retro-fit it to 3D in an exemplary way. Here, the planning in advance was nonexistent, but the later effort to inject the 3D device into every scene was clearly earnest. Even closeups offer a little more dimension with post-converted multiple planes. But the original lays down a lot of obstacles to making this major revision stand up to movies conceived for 3D from the start .
This is the category that gets many moviegoers the most excited about 3D. Before the Window applies to those elements of the movie that seem to protrude into the theater, urging kids to reach out and try to touch the object that seems to be just inches from their reach! One thing I desperately wanted to "see" was the sharp-teethed maws of these gigantic beasts poke out of the screen. There are a few of these moments (for instance when a raptor lunges at Ellie), but they are few and far between, and brief as they are the 3D is nowhere near as impactful as I'd hoped.
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