So over the weekend I saw “How to Train Your Dragon”, which inspired this comic. Well it was inspired by watching how tv still portrays 3d technology is still with red and blue filters, the same way they had the guy from the 50′s in back to the future portray 3d technology. The technology has improved a lot since then but not in very iconic ways. I mean the next nintendo handheld uses a 3d tech that requires no glasses to use.

I’m not a particularly big fan of 3d filmography. Its traditionally meant that the director will spend a lot of extra time having shit randomly fly at the camera to be impressive. I was told that the current process of making the whole film in 3d made it less of a gimmicky thing, and having not seen a 3d film in the newest batch using the current tech I thought I should go check it out with an open mind. After all it is the future, and seems to finally have come into its own and won’t be a passing fad this time. I got to say, I am still not very impressed with the technology. while there was a couple of places I thought the 3d really added some impact to the scene, more often then not it totally threw me out of the experience and some of the action seemed harder to follow then necessary. I didn’t enjoy the 3d in any of the action scenes really, the only parts I thought it worked was the slower scenes particularly when Hiccup and toothless were first bonding. If I had to hazard a guess from what I understand of the technology it could just be that I was having issues with the depth of field as they tend to push the limits of how far things can go in action scenes and are relatively flat during quiet scenes. All I’m sure of is that afterwords my eyes were killing me.

The film itself I really enjoyed. Its vikings and dragons, so there was lots of really great art designs. I think I enjoyed it as much as any pixar film, and while it didn’t have the same emotional impact of UP (but honestly how many cartoons have you watched that really made you tear up like UP does?) It was definitely head and shoulders above, say, every other Dreamworks movie they had coming out soon in the trailers (seriously, does the world need another Shrek movie? and even if we did do we need one comprised entirely of shitty hey look were in 3d jokes?) The dragons were great, They were all basically acted like big kittens that breathed fire and could fly. Plus one of the characters was a DnD nerd.

Most importantly though I liked the movie because the main character knew the secret to any good plan. step one, do something stupid. step two, do something crazy.