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“Avatar Day” was just Friday, August 21st for some but there was definite anticipation in the air for a select few people in theaters across the country. When the giveaway site launched Monday I had a choice between Albany and NYC as my two options and chose Albany has it’s half the distance. I registered enough for myself and some guests for both show times with the plan of giving away anything I couldn’t use. I planned on attending the 6:00 pm feature and doubted attending the 6:45 showing because ‘Inglourious Basterds’ started at 7:00 pm but that all changed when the theater changed it to 8:00 pm.

We poured into the IMAX screen (the smaller digital type that Aziz Ansari notoriously hates as do I) and were seated in the middle section. The glasses we were given seemed like your regular pair of of digital 3D glasses but they were cheap and didn’t even have hinges. Also worth noting was that the lenses were like plastic film, and not hardened plastic, basically they made the glasses we got at Pixar’s ‘Up’ look like designer frames. They did seem darker than any other I have seen or used so there was most definitely a shading effect when you looked through them and this may have led to a better outcome. The lights dim and onscreen comes the talking head of James Cameron with an intro to the film and a disclaimer about it being first half shots so there’s no major spoilers. I’ve included some screen grabs from io9.com and their breakdown of the trailer in order to help:

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