THE NIGHTMARE OF 3D!

Tonight was the night that I had been waiting for all year. Since I saw the trailer during Monster House, I was dying to watch this movie. Although I own the dvd, and have it taped on VHS, I still wanted to watch it theatres, and especially 3D!!

The night began well, went out with some friends wearing our "nightmare" t-shirts, had a nice dinner and then we proceeded to the movie theatre. We walked in and too my surprise we waited in a long line. I was Suprised and kinda excited. Excited cause lines gets my anticipation up, and surprised cause I never thought a film that is being re-issued would cause a line up. Anyways. We get our seats and the lights turn down. The theatre is packed with all adults, I didn't see one kid in that theatre. Take that you people that consider animation a children's field! The Walt Disney and Tim Burton credits come up, and cheers begin to ring out, and more when the title "The Nightmare Before Christmas" appears. But to all of our surprise, THE 3D SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now I had just come off of hearing how "Amazing" and " Breathtaking" this 3d format was. Even Tim Burton himself praised it. The characters had depth, but it was all inside the screen, nothing was really in my face, as the PROMISED! Now maybe, and hopefully, the digital projection was off, because Jack and the gang never came an inch off the screen. With a film like "Nightmare", where literally every scene has something coming at you, the potential was clearly there. Either Disney just didn't take advantage of it, or the projection was off. The high point was that I was still watching nightmare in theatres, which I never got the chance to back on its initial release. The sound was top notch, the songs sounded beautiful, and more intense. All in the all the night wasn't a total bust, I still managed to start a pretty rousing applause out of the crowd at the end of the film, because as bad as the 3d was, the film itself is still a masterpiece and deserved a applause.

I hope to get the chance to see again, FOR FREE at another theatre to see if it was indeed the projection at my theatre that screwed it up, or just another Disney let down.