Sat
Feb 2 2008
08:10 pm
U2 3D
By: michael kaplan

The music and sound are great, so if you're a U2 fan, drive the 36-mile roundtrip and enjoy! As a professional 3D photographer, I had some issues with the special effects, though. It's not easy adjusting your interocular from close-up to distance and back within seconds. And a further word of caution: prepare to shell out an extra $3.50 for the 3D glasses. Mine came with a fingerprint on the left lens, suggesting that someone else may have worn them. Sure enough, at the end of the show, the ushers asked us to "Please leave your glasses here!" Not a healthy policy, Regal.

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Hayduke's picture

Didn't Devo do this 25 years ago?

Submitted by Hayduke on Sat, 2008/02/02 - 8:46pm.

Went to the Columbia, SC showing of the live 3-D Devo concert in 1982. The 3-D didn't really work, but the music was fun. The best thing that came out of the show was running into a guy I knew vaguely from high school there with his brother who was writing a review for an alternative paper. Just being there was enough to raise our opinions of the other a few notches and we ended up hanging out and even roomed together a semester in college. He's still the only person from high school I talk to on a regular basis.

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So the sound is good? I was

Submitted by Brian A. on Sun, 2008/02/03 - 12:36am.

So the sound is good? I was thinking about seeing it. I've never been to a concert and this looks like the next best thing.

Sheesh, $3.50 to borrow glasses? I'd better shoot for the 10:10 "matinée."

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

michael kaplan's picture

here's IMAX's description of

Submitted by michael kaplan on Sun, 2008/02/03 - 9:21am.

here's IMAX's description of the sound system:

Unlike conventional theatre sound systems, IMAX digital surround sound systems deliver multi-channel, uncompressed, full fidelity sound that is simply unsurpassed in depth and clarity. IMAX's amplifiers generate up to 14,000 watts of power, not volume, to provide the audience with life-like sound. IMAX's proprietary loudspeaker system delivers exacting volume and quality at every seat throughout the theatre. From a small drop of rain to an enormous clap of thunder, you'll hear every shade and subtlety, regardless of where you are sitting.

Factchecker's picture

Huh?

Submitted by Factchecker on Sun, 2008/02/03 - 6:57pm.

IMAX's amplifiers generate up to 14,000 watts of power, not volume,...

Darn, mine's got 14,000 watts of volume. Think I should have opted for the power kind? I sure want all that good sounding rain drops stuff, thunderclaps and the like.

Anonymous's picture

I went to see the U23D for

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2008/02/05 - 7:05pm.

I went to see the U23D for several reasons. I had never seen an IMAX show, & had never seen a 3D show, either. I thought the 3D was marginal, at any rate. What I don't understand are the words of caution. What is this $3.50 extra stuff? I paid $12.50 to see the show. The person at the window did NOT ask if I wanted to "rent" the glasses, or pay $9.00 to see the show without 3D glasses. As soon as I got my glasses,(out of a box of hundreds) I went to the restroom & washed them off, throughly. I went in & enjoyed the movie. The sound system was very good. The song selection was good. It brought back the time I first saw U2, in the Orange Bowl, with Los Lobos opening the show in the late '80's.

Have we come to expect everything, from everybody, all the time? I expect surgically clean things in a surgery room. When I go to a theater & borrow something, I do not expect it to be "clean" & will take steps to make it clean "enough" for my personal tastes.

My recommendation: Pay the $12.50, get the 3D glasses, clean them to your satisfaction, & enjoy this National Geographic production. It is a good movie. I just can't wait until I go to see it again.

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