Let me just say that digital 3d was absolutely amazing!

If you're old enough to remember the 3d movies where you had to wear cheap glasses which had a red and a green lens, then you probably remember that they didn't work, at least not well.

Well, they fixed it.

Yesterday I had taken a day off to recover from the Foo Fighters concert, which was delayed BTW, and I we decided to go see "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in 3D.

I rarely ever go to movies anymore. In the past 7 years, I've gone to see about 6 movies in the theater. Ever since we had kids, it's just so much harder to arrange.

I have a feeling that I'll be going back to the movies much more often now.

The new digital 3d uses a polarized image instead of the color saturated images of the old movies. You can read a full explanation here. The short version is that it works insanely well. There were 3 times where something was coming "towards me" that I involuntarily dodged. It was that good. Even the credits were floated out of the screen.

Even for average scenes, the depth of the image was amazing.

I was so amazed at the 3D effects that later in the evening I found myself wondering if the movie itself was any good. I think it was, but I was that distracted by the effects.

If you haven't seen one of these movies, I highly recommend going to see one.