Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Just because a movies says 3-D does not mean better

I went to the movies a couple of weeks ago to see the 3-D version of Final Destination and I must say it was very horrible. Even though I already knew the predictability of the movie because there were 3 other editions, I figured this one would be even better for the simple fact it was in 3-D. I thought that making this type of horror movie 3-D was brilliant. Boy was I wrong, after the movie I was highly dissapointed due to the fact not only did it have horrible acting and the scenes were too predictable. However, the most dissapointing part of it was that the 3-D version was not effective as I thought it would have. I remember when I was child and the many trips I took to the 3-D IMAX theater. I remember watching a movie in 3-D it literally felt like you were in the movie and everything looked as if you could touch it because it was right in front of your face. Well, Final Destination seemed nothing like that, it did not pop out at you that Im pretty sure the audience would have anticipated it to. This made me realize 3-D does not always effectively enhance a movie. If I could have changed anything about Final Destination besides better actors and the predictability, I would have changed the 3-D visual effects and made it way more effective then just the characters just simply popping out of the screen. I would have made the 3-D effects literally jump out, full force in your face that it makes you jump back. The point of 3-D is to immerse the audience into the film and make them feel apart of the screen. This is what was mostly lacking in the movie Final Destination, the fact that it was not nearly immersive as it could have been.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

A Negative Look on Facebook

I remember when I first started using Facebook I was a freshman in college in 2005 back when only college students and alumni were allowed to use it. Thats when writing messages on facebook were actually exciting within itself. Connecting you with thousands of people just seemed so exciting and it still is. It didnt matter if the person was in the dorm room right next to you; everyone wrote through facebook just because it was something new and quit fun. I could tell a whole story about something exciting that happened within that day instead of calling up the person or texting them, Facebook messaging was what was hot! As fun as it was to tell a friend a story on facebook it took forever to type the story, so I found myself like everyone else shortening my words. For example LOL, OMG, wat, "nothin". Knocking a few letters off a word or not punctuating sentences when you are writing to your friend is not that big of deal, and it saves you time to write more. Doing that for so long has started to show in my school work unfortunaltly. Although I can give Facebook alot of credit of improving my typing speed skills, I find myself slipping up typing slang while Im writing my paper. It comes naturally to write sentences without a period or shortening a word so now I have to pay extra attention to what I am writing. I hope I didnt make any errors while typing this! Thank you Facebook