What will Hollywood do once Top Gun is re-released fully converted to 3D, as there'll no longer be any point to making films after the arrival of cinema's apotheosis? What do you mean it's a jingoistic, crypto-fascist, vapid cheesefest with homoerotic undertones!Lulz aside, doesn't it just smack f desparation, after the lacklustre performance of 3D this Summer (more people went to see the major tentpole blockbusters in 2D than 3D) that they're now turning to
More on the topic in general here.
Not that I'm personally against 3D. I actually find that 3D works well for me, although my wife says it blurs and darkens the screen for her, which sounds like she might just be wearing her sunglasses... (I've included this "joke" to check if she actually reads this, how sad).
The sublime Coraline made excellent use of 3D for the Vertigo-ish pathway-to-another-dimension sequences, Avatar was an enjoyable spectacle, and, I'm ashamed to admit it, but I rather liked the cash cow/kids film Bolt in 3D.
Also, it's worth noting that not one but two aging German art-house auteurs (Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog) elected to shoot documentaries in 3D, although I'm not sure how much they did for 3D's profile overall (General Public: - German art-house docs in 3D? Yes please! Ooh, the encounters with ecstatic truth within nature jump off the screen right out at you!).
Both Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Pina are great and looked as though they made good use of the technology. I say looked, because the only cinemas playing these two films near me lacked the apparatus!
It's also important to remember that a run of big 3D tentpole flicks are just around the corner (Spielberg's Tintin, Scorcese's Hugo, and lest we forget, Jackson's The Hobbit), which I believe are all being shot in 3D as opposed to being converted in post-prod, which is considered a no-no by 3D enthusiasts (like James Cameron). In fairness, I can usually tell the difference between the two and find post-prod conversion to be fairly crap.
Either way, they still need to sort out the ridiculous over-pricing of 3D tickets. They actually increased the price of 3D tickets after its apparent "popularity" last year; the people responsible may very well now be licking their wounds and considering a lowering of prices in order to protect their investments....
In the end, I don't really care what happens to 3D, I just thought it was funny that Goose's death will now be enjoyed in three dimensions.
Here's a blog post on why 3D is scientifically stupid.
As Walter Murch puts it:
So: dark, small, stroby, headache inducing,
alienating. And expensive. The question is: how long will it take people to
realize and get fed up?
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