Filmmakers Resisting Hollywood's 3-D Push 521
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."
FX always trump story. (Score:5, Funny)
Just ask Jar-Jar Binks.
Re:Finally (Score:3, Funny)
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!
No 3D p0rn! (Score:1, Funny)
Please, no 3D p0rn, the mere thought of a guy in an an aroused state pointing his thing at the 3D camera.... shudder.
Re:It's nice to see (Score:2, Funny)
Agreed, worst meme attempt ever.
Mars Needs Moms? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:entrenched people don't like new. (Score:3, Funny)
Go watch Memento.
Well, tha's more like 2.5D.
Re:FX always trump story. (Score:2, Funny)
Don't forget the thought provoking cinematic masterpiece that is Piranha 3D.
Re:Casablanca (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but the other 99% do.
You know who else doesn't like 3D movies? (Score:4, Funny)
Turanga Leela.
Re:Good (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:FX always trump story. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The brain doesn't always want/use the 3D info (Score:4, Funny)
If it's like Avatar he can write the scripts for two or three a week!
Re:FX always trump story. (Score:3, Funny)
Just ask Jar-Jar Binks.
The idle fears always at the fringe of my mind broke free of their self-subjected limitations for the smallest fraction of a moment and overwhelmed my psyche in a blaze of terror, casting my will into an endless pit of despair.
Please, if you have even the smallest drop of humanity, you will never mention that catastrophe again. Now I can not help but to imagine Star Wars released in 3D with the idiot who shall not be named injected into every second of the movies he was not before.
Now if you all will excuse me I have to go suck my thumb and piss myself while I desperately attempt to be comforted by a soft pillow and blanket.