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Filmmakers Resisting Hollywood's 3-D Push
gollum123 passes along a piece from the NY Times on the building resistance to Hollywood's 3-D plans — from filmmakers. "A joke making the rounds online involves a pair of red and green glasses and some blurry letters that say, 'If you can’t make it good, make it 3-D.' While Hollywood rushes dozens of 3-D movies to the screen — nearly 60 are planned in the next two years, including 'Saw VII' and 'Mars Needs Moms!' — a rebellion among some filmmakers and viewers has been complicating the industry’s jump into the third dimension. Several influential directors took surprisingly public potshots at the 3-D boom during the recent Comic-Con... Behind the scenes..., filmmakers have begun to resist production executives eager for 3-D sales. For reasons both aesthetic and practical, some directors often do not want to convert a film to 3-D or go to the trouble and expense of shooting with 3-D cameras, which are still relatively untested on big movies with complex stunts and locations. Tickets for 3-D films carry a $3 to $5 premium, and industry executives roughly estimate that 3-D pictures average an extra 20 percent at the box office. Filmmakers like Mr. Whedon and Mr. Abrams argue that 3-D technology does little to enhance a cinematic story, while adding a lot of bother."
Just ask Jar-Jar Binks.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
That's what I said when they wanted to add sound to pictures! Heresy, I say, heresy!
Next thing you know, they'll want all the pictures with that no-good technicolor!
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Please, no 3D p0rn, the mere thought of a guy in an an aroused state pointing his thing at the 3D camera.... shudder.
Agreed, worst meme attempt ever.
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3D or not, I bet Mars Needs MILFs would do a lot better.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
Go watch Memento.
Well, tha's more like 2.5D.
Yes, but the other 99% do.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Turanga Leela.
3D was really popular in the 1950s, selling huge numbers of tickets and being used for everything from Casper, the Friendly Ghost shorts to classics like "Dial M for Murder". So of course, with such success, it became the norm, and the kids who grew up with it demanded it for the rest of their lives. When George Lucas tried releasing his Star Wars in archaic 2D, it flopped horribly and Mr. Lucas wound up working as a module designer for TSR, which became a major entertainment giant on the strength of the enduring mass popularity of Dungeons & Dragons.
If it's like Avatar he can write the scripts for two or three a week!