Haxor: So in order for real life to look "3D" it had to take a step back first? Sounds like the movies to me!
Which brings me to my dream last night.
There was a new X-Men movie out (Hm, wasn't too thrilled by the first three...), and I was excited because it was doing something I liked. Something about the nature of reality and another dimension/way of seeing it that allows ultimate control...
But then when the movie was almost out the trailers started being about "Aquarius" or something, it was all water themed, standard bad-guy, standard cool powers...and I got dissapointed. But I went to see it anyways...and it turned out the whole Aquarius thing was meant to 'dumb it down' for people who didn't want to think too much, but the cool stuff I wanted was still there. The main character was another new mutant, right after his discovery during puberty etc. etc. and was going through standard teen angst. But he stumbled across this 'legend' that led him seeking 'dangerous power' and his girlfriend kept trying to convince him to stop. The bad guy was after the same power, and he ended up having to take the risk just to keep the power in 'good hands'...but was tempted himself by how much power it gave him over pretty much everything.
I remember him and the bad guy in this place that was sort of watery, sort of spacey, dark blue and desaturated with giant wierd "bubbles", and these vibrant red things that looked like DNA strands. Those were the 'fabric of reality' and messing with them changed things in real life, from events and time to constant physics to the existance of various things/people. He had to physically fight the bad guy to protect these strand things, which was kind of lame considering the circumstances...but totally hollywood.
At one time it stopped being a movie and I was there, but it wasn't supposed to be X-Men and there was no bad guy, just trying to figure out how the strands worked.
I doubt any of this plot was similar to anything X-Men canon, as I've never read the comics and don't care so much for the recent movies...but I liked it for what it was.
In some ways it did a better job than Inception, which was all 'let's take this scientific research on dreams and make it completely rigid just for gamey-ness!', but meh. Not quite as much research on messing with the fabric of reality out there.