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[Pachimari]

Two days.

So a simultaneous worldwide release? Awesome.

I read your post from January 12 just today, wow did it make me hyped.
This one specifically:

I just came back from it.

I bawled like a fucking baby throughout the entire second half of this film. It was like Scorsese was whispering the deepest desires of my own heart back to me. This is no joke. It was a good thing I was wearing those polarised lenses. I haven't seen such an earnest love letter to the magic of movies since Agnes Varda's One Hundred and One Nights. It was absolutely beautiful.

Melies' entire flashback was revelatory. I pity those people naive enough to have missed watching this film in 3D. And that sequence should be proof enough for anybody the power it can have on transporting you and thus - especially in the case of this film, serving the narrative. The photography itself was gorgeous. In the innards of the train station I have to say it felt similar to the three-colour tinting effect had employed in The Aviator, only it was achieved through the lighting and set design itself, rather than seeming like anything done after the fact in post.

Kingsley was brilliant. Chloe Moretz was a joy to watch any time she was on the screen, which I'm very happy about. I wasn't convinced about her based on Kick Ass, but she really is one to watch. Asa Butterfield was okay. I might have had him under a larger microscope since I knew he had been cast as Ender, which I just don't see at all.

I agree about the first forty-five or so minutes seeming to drag, but after that it is all gravy.

I will never buy this film unless I have a 3D TV in which to watch it. I can't imagine watching it any other way.

I've yet to see The Artist, The Descendants and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but Hugo has quickly shot straight to the top of my best of 2011 list, with Tintin and The Tree of Life in tow.

 

[GCX]

This was such a masterpiece, one of my favorites from Scorsese. Going from Shutter Island to this really shows his range as a director.

 

[Pachimari]

Just found out the Scandinavian Blu-Ray 3D release is on March 26.

 

[petethepanda]

Awesome, I didn't realize this was already on BD/DVD. My mom has been wanting to see it, but I'm not too interested in paying to see it again in theaters (thought it was okay when I was at a test screening a while back but the second time I saw it I was simply bored to death), so $1.50 for the BD from Redbox is a much better option.

The 3D was well done and it makes for an interesting conversation piece (a movie looking backwards that at the same time is a digital 3D movie, etc), but it didn't actually add anything to the movie, imo. How To Train Your Dragon is still the only movie I've seen where 3D is more than simply good-looking and actually makes the whole movie better. Even Avatar doesn't lose anything in 2D. But in that "good but ultimately 'eh'" 3D category Hugo definitely has some of the best use I've seen.

 

[Red]

Awesome, I didn't realize this was already on BD/DVD. My mom has been wanting to see it, but I'm not too interested in paying to see it again in theaters (thought it was okay when I was at a test screening a while back but the second time I saw it I was simply bored to death), so $1.50 for the BD from Redbox is a much better option.

The 3D was well done and it makes for an interesting conversation piece (a movie looking backwards that at the same time is a digital 3D movie, etc), but it didn't actually add anything to the movie, imo. How To Train Your Dragon is still the only movie I've seen where 3D is more than simply good-looking and actually makes the whole movie better. Even Avatar doesn't lose anything in 2D. But in that "good but ultimately 'eh'" 3D category Hugo definitely has some of the best use I've seen.

3D adds a lot to it. It is almost essential to the theme. I don't think Hugo would have made nearly the same impact on me if I saw it in 2D. It would've been a good movie, but it wouldn't have played up the Melies magic nearly as well without some modern magic of its own.

I thought they make its importance pretty obvious through the numerous train scenes and their relationship to early cinema.

 

[Allard]

3D adds a lot to it. It is almost essential to the theme. I don't think Hugo would have made nearly the same impact on me if I saw it in 2D. It would've been a good movie, but it wouldn't have played up the Melies magic nearly as well without some modern magic of its own.

I thought they make its importance pretty obvious through the numerous train scenes and their relationship to early cinema.

I would say 80% of the movie doesn't lose much by it being in 2D, but the other 20% makes a huge difference. The swirling manuscripts and picture shot, the clocktower shot and the documentary on Melies where they showed the 3D recreation of some of his old films and sets was amazing. Not to mention the nature of the film glorifies film making past and present, that alone pushes the 3D aspect as a must see. The movie uses 3D as a part of its underlying narrative as you said after all. Can't wait to go grab this later this week; got a 3D TV waiting

 

[thirty]

picked up the 3d bluray during my lunch break. anyone know if it's full widescreen or will I be looking at top/bottom black bars? the box does say what the aspect ratio is.

 

[lacinius]

picked up the 3d bluray during my lunch break. anyone know if it's full widescreen or will I be looking at top/bottom black bars? the box does say what the aspect ratio is.

Yes, the Aspect ratio is 1.78:1

Just checking out some of the blu-ray reviews, and it looks like this transfer is "new reference disc" material... perfection achieved.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Hugo-Blu-ray/35629/


**edit... what am I doing on GAF, must watch this now!

**2nd edit... the blu-ray reviews are not overstated... this film is outstanding at 1080p... agree this is "reference disc" material. Oh, and loved watching the film again, even in 2D.

 

[cheststrongwell]

Can't wait to watch this without the shit 3D.

 

[cakefoo]

Can't wait to watch this without the shit 3D.

And I can't wait to watch The Artist when it gets colorized and dubbed.

 

[Mike Works]

They should rename this film to "Blue and Orange: The Movie"

what the fuck was with the color in that train station?

 

[i_am_ben]

I haven't been this bored since I watched "the Good Shepard"

 

[harSon]

I couldn't get over the fact that Chloë Moretz looked exactly like Michael Pitt. She even had his fucking posture, it's ridiculous.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Steady-Cam Operator's POV during the final one-shot of Hugo.

 

[Good Job Bob]

Saw that earlier, pretty awesome.

 

[Pachimari]

I'm thinking of just importing this onen 3D Blu-ray, are the 3D effects real amazing?

 

[Epcott]

I'm thinking of just importing this onen 3D Blu-ray, are the 3D effects real amazing?

It's beautiful with the Sony HMZ-T1.

It's a love letter to cinema, and the 3D effect is that little whiff of perfume that draws you in.
But seriously, out of this and TinTin, the effect is used better here IMO (especially the shower scene with Sacha Baron Cohen).