The Halloween Countdown welcomes Scare Glow, a rare Masters of the Universe action figure that arrived very late in the line, and subsequently had fans blowing gaskets because they didn't know if he was meant to be Skeletor's ghost or Skeletor's...ghost. If you were wondering who that weird dude up there in the home button graphic was all season, now you know.
Saw the 3D release of The Nightmare Before Christmas last night. I've never been a devoted lover of the movie, which isn't to say that it doesn't deserve devoted love...it's just that the film and I never really crossed paths much in the past. Still a terrific movie and worth seeing on the big screen one last time. As for the 3D upgrade...well, it works, but it's definitely on the minor side considering that the film wasn't made with 3D in mind. The few times when stuff actually felt like it was flying off the screen were incidental, and by and large, I kind of sat there thinking that I would've preferred seeing the film in its original state, because it was a lot harder to successfully dunk nachos into cheese with sunglasses on.
Then again, maybe I have to take that all back, because we sat in the worst seats possible -- like three rows from the front and all the way to the right. We started off with better seats, but there was a row of little kids behind us making a ludicrous amount of noise, and by the time they began discussing which parts of the movie would make them yell the most during the previews (seriously), we zipped down to the front. Surely the effects play out better when you're not twisting your neck up-and-left Exorcist-style to see the screen.
Sadly, the glasses given out were generic and not at all done up with NBC logos or little white pumpkin graphics. At least they let us take 'em home.
Posted by Matt on 10/22/2006. E-mail me!
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