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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5042194" data-attributes="member: 41321">I have to agree that this name came the closest to pulling me out of my immersion, closer than the CGI, which I think was beautifully done.  As my fiance said, the fact that the only noticeable CGI was for alien creatures explained their "unrealness" as less of a "this is artificially added to the movie" thing and more of a "these are so alien they are unreal" thing.But yeah, I had to groan at the name "unobtainium" because I was unaware of the joke in the scientific community.  My fiance's comment on this was, "It sounded like a name they used at first as a placeholder and forgot to change for the final script."  Now that I know the history of the phrase I guess I can kinda see its place in the movie, but I think I might have been happier if they had called it "space rock" or even "this stuff" or really anything other than what sounded like a meta joke.How did they do the floating mountains?  If that was CGI it was some of the most impressive CGI I've ever seen.This was the first 3D movie I've seen since... let me think... probably since I went to Universal Studios ten years ago and saw the Terminator attraction.  I thought it was okay in Avatar.  I forgot about the glasses a half hour into it or so until somebody stood up in the theater in front of us and put a big black in-set appearing blip on the screen or when things got slightly out of focus, which made me think my own prescription glasses were on crooked.  It was a little awkward wearing two pairs of glasses like that at first, but like I said, I did get used to it.  My fiance got a headache from the 3D, but said he'd give it one more try before he decides whether the headache is worth it or not.I was not terribly impressed overall with the 3D, though.  After a while I stopped noticing it unless it did something "wrong", like go out of focus in my peripheral vision or I tried to focus on something close to the camera which was out of focus.  If I stopped noticing it then in theory it wasn't adding much to the movie.  I suppose I'd need to see the same movie in 2D before I could make a sure comparison on whether the 3D was worth the extra couple bucks.Actually, there was one effect that made me notice the 3D in a good way.  The most impressive 3D parts were the flying ash or bugs in a few scenes, anything small like that which was close to the camera.  They weren't hit-you-in-the-face 3D, but I actually lifted my arm to try to swat away the flies at one point.  Big things that pop out in 3D tended to annoy me (especially when they were out of focus), but those little tiny bits floating through the atmosphere really made me feel like I was there.</blockquote>

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