Haunted Castle 3D at IMAX
Last night we (myself, the kids, Karen, and her parents) saw Haunted Castle 3D in IMAX at the Indiana State Museum. It won't win any Emmies for the writing, but it was a fun virtual haunted house experience. There's a lot of emphasis on music and sound, and that combined with the 3D effects and the huge IMAX screen did a pretty good job of immersing me in the environment. One thing Brandon and I noticed was that the first-person perspective was off just a bit as if we were strangely short, but Karen didn't notice any such thing, and Morgan thought she was strangely tall: I guess the POV has to be somewhere, and they put it at an average height. Some of the rendering was better than others (the animated characters didn't always walk quite right), but I especially liked the opening flyover sequence, and the rollercoaster ride. As Karen put it, in five years or so someone will come out with something to put this to shame, but it was still fun.
We arrived late, because our delicious dinner at Buca di Beppo took a bit longer than we'd expected, but there was only one other couple in the theater, and since we had bought tickets over the web in advance, they waited a bit for us to start the movie. Very nice of them.
UPDATE: By the way, the movie is pretty much PG throughout, but there were some grotesque images of people being electrocuted and immersed in acid. Kids maybe shouldn't look in the mirrors once you enter the opera house. They didn't seem to bother 8-year-old Morgan though (I think they bothered me more), and she slept soundly last night.
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