I have the widescreen DVD release, but I would LOVE to see the 3-D version, does anyone out there know if it's been released in any format and where to find it? Also, does anyone know whether it anaglyph(red/blue glasses) or field sequential 3-D?
I'm not sure if this was ever even released in 3D anywhere. If so, I've never been able to find out when or where. I recall, for many years, only finding this on a couple of very low quality bargain video tapes, so I'm still in shock from having found it on DVD a year or so ago. I don't recall ever reading which 3D system was used to actually film this, although sometimes home video versions of a 3D film do not always use the same system for home release...apparently some processes can be converted over into others.
The film was shot in the "Steriovision" over-under single strip 35mm process. I have seen only one 3-D copy of this film on eBay, but it's high price put me off buying it. I will look for it again...
The 3-D version was released theatrically. I saw it at the Loop Theatre in downtown Chicago in 1976. The admission was $7.00, and they wanted the 3-D glasses back afterwards.
No. The 3D process they used was just as cheap as the movie. It was one of the worst 3D films I ever saw (theatrical or video) in terms of the quality of the 3D.
Hey Hup234, I saw it about the same time you did downtown at the Chicago Theatre and it was in 3D. There was also a 3D kung fu movie called Dynasty or something also.
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They showed this in 3-D at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles during a week-long 3-D film festival in '03 or '04. I saw it, and the 3-D effect was -- like the other posters pointed out -- not done very well at all. It's easy to spot the scenes they thought would look cool in 3-D (the martial-arts fight, the log that smashes through a Jeep window, the APE throwing oil barrels, etc.), but they just don't ...
I saw it in 3-D, with the Polaroid glasses... can't remember much about it other than I laughed my ass off. The 3-D was okay, really no better or worse than many of the 3-D films I've seen.
There is a german DVD out with the film in english and a german dub, plus the 3-D version (but this one comes only with the german dub). 3D glasses are inside the DVD. what can I say? The movie is hilariously bad, and the 3-D version hurts my eyes.
Yep, the 3D is horrible but at least they had the good idea to make this version in B&W, still better than having bad colors because of the glasses.
Not sure where you saw this movie, but it was filmed in color using Colonel Robert V. Bernier's "Space-Vision 4D" process, unveiled in the 1966 science fiction film "The Bubble." As with ALL over/under 3-D format films such as Space-Vision used polarized glasses, never the red/blue anaglyphic glasses.
FWIW, I've seen the movie projected well, and the 3-D was decent, regardless of how it was used, effects-wise. It is a terrible movie, but lots of fun and I hope to see it released some day on blu-ray 3-D.
The German DVD has a 3-D version, with blue and red glasses :-) but yeah, could be better in BR3D but I doubt it will be released someday... :-/
Anaglyph is the only way to show 3-D with DVDs. Unfortunately, it turns a 3-D movie into a pale shadow of its former self. Thank goodness for the BR3D format!
If you asked me a couple of years ago, I'd be just as pessimistic, but now---never say never. We've seen "The Bubble," "Dragonfly Squadron," "The Mask," and now "Gog" released on BR3D. ANYTHING is possible!