Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 409
bowman9991 writes "Star Wars creator George Lucas is converting all six films from his iconic science fiction saga into 3D and will re-release them in theatres in 2012. 'Episode I: The Phantom Menace' will be released first."
Again? Seriously? (Score:3, Insightful)
Fuck you, George Lucas. Fuck you.
Its a TRAP! (Score:5, Insightful)
Its A Trap!
-Ackbar
All you haters ... (Score:5, Insightful)
All you haters are just jealous that you don't have your own multi-billion dollar franchise to rape over and over and over and over and over and over again
What if... (Score:3, Insightful)
What if we just didn't go? Seriously. Don't go. Just don't. Don't do it.
INSTEAD, go to the movies that weekend, but SEE SOMETHING ELSE. Don't punish the theater owners by withholding business, but show Lucas that he is done fisting our childhoods.
Re:What if... (Score:3, Insightful)
Boycotts don't work. They are asking people to go against their own self-interest. Nobody is going to go along with your "let's all agree to do this" plan, they'll all just do what they want to do. If they are curious and feel like seeing the movie, they will.
Anyway, I just don't understand how it is hurting you that he is doing this. You can still watch it in non-3d. Nobody is forcing you to see it in 3d.
Re:What if... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Oh no. Not again. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:All you haters ... (Score:1, Insightful)
No. I think many of my fellow Slashdotter's are asking themselves "Can't George Lucas think of anything new to do?" If ever there was a case for modern day copyrights expiring, this would be it. Because if the copyrights did expire we'd be seeing an entirely new movie.
Re:Oh no. Not again. (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, yes I know you were being ironic.
Why won't he die?! (Score:1, Insightful)
I admit I'm trolling, but why won't that fucker just die already? Does he have to keep shitting on all of us?
Re:Again? Seriously? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Ya (Score:5, Insightful)
Movies that properly use the 3D format to enhance the experience, rather than simply chuck crap out of the screen are stunning. Avatar was filmed in 3D, properly, but really was just a gimmick to draw in crowds and immerse them in a spectacular alien world without much substance. The film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Coraline, on the other hand, was astounding. There were only a few instances of stuff jumping out of the screen and it never felt forced. Instead, the film allowed you to more naturally live the in the world of Coraline. For much of the movie, the 3D takes a back seat to the actual story. It only becomes apparent in some truly stunning moments. In one incredible shot, the camera follows a circus mouse on a ball down a ramp. The shot is filmed entirely through the perspective of the mouse. The subtle beauty, craftsmanship and incredible detail of that scene was definitely enhanced by the use of 3D.
I'd like to see more moving making where 3D enhances the film rather than depends on it. I can't see how the original Star Wars movies will be enhanced, other than more crap flying out of the screen. I can already see the Death Star lazer beam shot at Alderan: Interrior of death star with hokey enhanced laser beam and artificially (poorly) deepened beam chamber; cut to exterior and newly rendered death star (poorly mapped onto a sphere); cut to shot looking right into dish-of-death as the beam flies out into the audience.
Vomit.
Though, Luke's bombing run might not completely suck if they go back and re-render the whole thing so it is actually in 3D rather than 3D-ifeyed.
Re:Oh no. Not again. (Score:3, Insightful)
I agree, I don't think the older 3 Star Wars films stand up as modern sci-fi because they feel small (due to the lack of CGI)
I disagree, the effects of those are not dated enough to distract from the story.
But, hey, you can watch Avatar if CGI is your thing.
Re:Ya (Score:1, Insightful)
It seems to me if somethign wasn't shot in 3D, the conversion is going to be very bad.
Well, GL managed to make Greedo shoot first, so nothing will surprise me.
Re:We can dream. (Score:3, Insightful)
Now there is a selling point if i ever saw one..
While they are at it, they can remove the whole space-soap shit with obi wan and padme right before the finale in Ep 3 as well, just replace it with another epic space battle and everyone will be happy
Re:All you haters ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Why stop with 7-14 years? With no copyright he must create something new directly after the old one leaves the theater, plus the DVDs of the old ones would not be so horrible expensive.
Before someone comes with the stupid argument for copyright, all movies makes their money in the theaters and you can't just copy the theaters.
Hang on a sec; why would the theatres pay the distributors if this were the case?
3D is the new B&W to colour thing (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Oh no. Not again. (Score:4, Insightful)
"Spaceballs Two: The Search for More Money!" -- Mel Brooks, Spaceballs
Re:Oh no. Not again. (Score:5, Insightful)
I actually preferred the older effects, sets and model work to the shiny CGI in the prequels. The latter films looked too clean and artificial. The used, worn, slightly badly fitting look of everything in the original trilogy made it a lot more believable to me.
Re: Not as Craptacular as you may think (Score:1, Insightful)
Remember, 100% of the non-human elements in Episodes 1 thru 3 are computer-generated. Yes, he'll have to "convert" the few humans he actually filmed into 3D, and those will most likely look like flat 2D images floating in front of some other flat 2D image, like a view-master.
But literally everything else in the films are CGI. He wouldn't have to just convert those to floating flat images, he could re-generate them entirely in 3D.
If he still has all the stock footage filmed against the green-screens, he could regenerate the rest of the movie in 3D.
His re-released episodes 4 thru 6 have more filmed footage and less CGI, but with proper use of the lasso tool he could chop out the humans and regenerate everything else. I'm betting that's his plan.
My plan is to stay home.
Re:Oh no. Not again. (Score:3, Insightful)