I get off work fairly early in the afternoon, so I was able to go to an afternoon showing. The theatre didn't seem very full at first, but it seemed to fill up a bit as the show time approached with a number of parents and children (which did leave me thinking about those who hadn't been born when the movie premiered...)
I don't have much of a standard of comparison, having only seen the stop-motion Coraline and the computer-animated Up as feature-length 3D movies before, but I'd have to agree the conversion went very, very well, wiping away any worries I might have had about having to "fake the second camera view." There was one single shot, I suppose, that did give me that old-fashioned feeling of "stuff right in front of the camera," when some fish swim by just as our heroes are entering the Gungan city bubble, but I went back to the Blu-Ray (and then the DVD) and realised they'd been there before. (I suppose that before doing that I'd entertained mischievous thoughts of the conversion putting in one "obvious" addition early on to freak out those who "don't want things to change"... although I still wonder about having been struck by the way the Radiant VII's landing legs flexed touching down.) Still, there were other interesting small details I noticed; as you said, the holograms were interesting, but I was also intrigued to finally see that Darth Maul's "macrobinoculars" appeared to give a 3D image themselves.
I suppose one of the highest compliments I can think of giving was that after a while, I wasn't thinking so much "Star Wars with added 3D" but just "a Star Wars movie back on the big screen." However, I do feel a little ambiguous about admitting I had a headache by the time the podrace was starting; it does somehow feel like one of those calculated "rain on the parade" comments. I don't remember that happening with Coraline and Up... It might have had to do with feeling tired from work, or with the screening getting in the way of when I usually eat dinner.
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I don't have much of a standard of comparison, having only seen the stop-motion Coraline and the computer-animated Up as feature-length 3D movies before, but I'd have to agree the conversion went very, very well, wiping away any worries I might have had about having to "fake the second camera view." There was one single shot, I suppose, that did give me that old-fashioned feeling of "stuff right in front of the camera," when some fish swim by just as our heroes are entering the Gungan city bubble, but I went back to the Blu-Ray (and then the DVD) and realised they'd been there before. (I suppose that before doing that I'd entertained mischievous thoughts of the conversion putting in one "obvious" addition early on to freak out those who "don't want things to change"... although I still wonder about having been struck by the way the Radiant VII's landing legs flexed touching down.) Still, there were other interesting small details I noticed; as you said, the holograms were interesting, but I was also intrigued to finally see that Darth Maul's "macrobinoculars" appeared to give a 3D image themselves.
I suppose one of the highest compliments I can think of giving was that after a while, I wasn't thinking so much "Star Wars with added 3D" but just "a Star Wars movie back on the big screen." However, I do feel a little ambiguous about admitting I had a headache by the time the podrace was starting; it does somehow feel like one of those calculated "rain on the parade" comments. I don't remember that happening with Coraline and Up... It might have had to do with feeling tired from work, or with the screening getting in the way of when I usually eat dinner.