Mighty Thor (get another thaddle)

[caddyman]

I shall be glad when this current fad for 3D movies wears off. Few if any are worth the effort of sitting in a cinema with those ludicrous 3D glasses they give you and it’s just another reason for film makers to ignore plot at the expense of fancy effects. Now I admit that the only 3D film I’ve seen since the recent craze started was the risible Alice in Wonderland and that apparently was converted to 3D in post production. I am told that other films have had better effects.

On the other hand, there are yet other films that do not have better 3D effects. I understand from a couple of reviews and from hearsay elsewhere, that Thor is one of these. Now that’s a film I want to see; the reviews of the film itself have been positive – Empire gave it an excellent 4 star rating – but apparently the 3D is a waste of time, so I want to see it in glorious 2D, which means that I shall have to search it out.

Film makers should forget 3D until the day they can make something with a good story and dialogue, good cinematography, excellent graphics and a 3D effect that does not require sitting for a couple of hours with idiot goggles perched on your nose, afraid to move your head in case the effect disappears (if it ever appears in the first place), you get a headache or motion sickness or simply neck and back strain from sitting like a zombie.

2D works. And it’s not as if most film makers can make a decent movie in traditional style.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

And they seem not to care that a significant proportion of people can't even see 3D using the systems as they are.

I can't see the point anyway,

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the 'point' is that they are harder to pirate so the studios see it as a way of forcing people to watch the film in the cinema rather than at home.

It's not something I seek out, although I agree that Avatar was very pretty.

They filmed the latest Pirates (otC) here and were doing it all in 3D which seemed to mean that they had to blank off everywhere that they were doing the filming in, probably so that they could digital effect every background. Although possibly also for secrecy reasons...

Not sure this one is going to disappear unfortunately.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Hmm, don't entirely by that as some big studios are eagerly pushing the idea of downloadable filme 1 month after release which cinemas are not at all happy as it will decimate their audiences, except for gimicks like 3d some studios don't give a fig about the big screen anymore

Amyway it's not like people aren't happily dancing into giving studios and publishers insane amounts of control by speeding up the death of physical media...I don't understand why more people don't seem to care just why publishers and the like are so terribly keen on electronic only products

*sigh* It's horrible to be sitting on the loosing side of history.