#3d films

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello (2005)?

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Voting ended onSep 12, 2024

[thefugitivesaint]

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) A film that was almost instantly forgotten when it was released just days before ‘Return of the Jedi’ hit theaters. It was the one of the last movies to use 3D as a marketing gimmick to get audiences into seats. I was 9 years old when I saw it and I loved it. Adult me? *shrugs shoulders* It’s ok.  The stills I took (from a digitized VHS copy) where meant to give you a flavor of what the movie is like. The plot is as bare bones at a plot can get and the world building is severely undercooked. It all goes something like this: a luxury space ship suffers from some catastrophic space event that forces passengers to abandon ship. Three of those passengers land on Terra XI, a planet that was devastated by some kind of virulent plague and has become a kind of post-apocalyptic hellscape. Bounty hunter/mercenary Wolff (Peter Strauss) receives a “broadcast” about the stranded passengers and sets out to retrieve them and collect the reward of “3,000 Mega Credits.” Soon after arriving on Terra XI, while trying to rescue the three passengers, they are abducted by agents working for the local tyrant Overdog (Michael Ironside). Wolff decides to head off to free the women from Overdog and, along the way, runs into Niki (Molly Ringwald) and Wolff’s former colleague Washington (Ernie Hudson).  The story is a loose narrative of episodic action sequences involving strange creatures and weird people that are given almost no clarification as to who they are or why they do what they do. It is briefly mentioned that Overdog was once a scientist named McNabb who was sent to Terra XI to combat the plague (with two other scientists) but no explanation is given as to why they became tyrants or why they started experimenting on the Terra XI’s population. I guess that’s all the narrative the creators thought was necessary (this movie did come out in the wake of ‘Mad Max II: The Road Warrior’ and that movie is almost purely action with hardly a plot to drive it so..) This was Molly Ringwald’s second film and the score was composed by Elmer Bernstein (who also composed the music for ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘The Magnificent Seven’ to name two). The 3D-effects are as clunky as one might suspect. The overall effects (some of the miniature work is by legendary ‘Terminator’ animator Pete Kleinow) and production design (which is doing most of the heavy lifting here) are a mixed bag of competent execution and outright jankiness. Overall, it’s one of those modestly budgeted science fiction films from the 80s that didn’t hit it big, barely raked in a profit, and quickly faded into obscurity. It’s worth one watch if you’ve never seen it.  And, should you have any desire to put this movie into your brain, you can do so here (this might be a better quality copy than my digital VHS transfer). Oh, what folk have gabbed about the movie over at letterboxd. 

[pixeljade]

You know you never see 3D films anymore and frankly im glad theyre dead. But what the fuck happened to them, they were EVERYWHERE for a hot minute???

[myhollie1911]

3D alternatives. who wants to play mix n match? :p

There are way more characters than this i just chose some of the characters id like too see used. Also i stuck to Human-ish characters so didn't use films like zootopia and Monsters inc xx

[thetalks]

Director Ang Lee on 3D films: "I think multidimensional filmmaking is a format. It’s a cinematic language."

[macdailynews]

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[anotheruserwithnoname]

Avatar Producer Jon Landau Reflects on the 3D Trend in Films

Avatar producer Jon Landau offers his thoughts on the previous 3D trend in movies, and where several of them may have gone wrong.

The original Avatar has a lot to answer for. While it, thankfully, didn’t lead to a permanent change in this regard (as many in 2009 predicted), it still led to a period of several years where every major film, it seemed, had to either be made in 3D or converted to 3D (the 2000s equivalent of colourization). Despite the fact that, unlike the advent of colour or sound, and even higher-resolution imagery (to an extent), 3D in 99% of the cases adds nothing to the storyline (I’ve successfully argued that point in the past).

The above article has the producer of the Avatar films -- the long-delayed sequel is coming soon -- pontificating on why the 3D trend didn’t stick (and he nails it, in my opinion) and ends with the reporter expressing the hope that Avatar 2 doesn’t actually lead to a new 3D wave. I agree with both Jon Landau and the reporter in their views.

For me, 3D is an utter waste that I’ll remember for headaches and watching movies with one eye closed (I have an eye condition that makes it nearly impossible for me to actually see any 3D effects through the glasses). For a couple years nearly every movie had to be 3D (and many cinemas never bothered bringing in the 2D versions because they could charge extra) there was one year I pretty much missed out on seeing most new films in the cinema. I ended up watching them on 2D DVD/blu-ray instead. Including Avatar which I found more enjoyable and better-looking without the 3D (an opinion that, remarkably, James Cameron himself expressed in an interview promoting the home release of the film). And there was also the phenomenon of what few 2D releases there were ended up having muddy, dark pictures because they were played through projectors intended for 3D (Deathly Hallows Part 2 was rendered almost unwatchable when I saw it).

On those rare occasions when I did endure a 3D movie, I was left rolling my eyes at things like Star Trek Into Darkness actually doing a “Count Floyd” (when Khan points his forearm at the camera for no reason). I mean, were these meant to be multi-million-dollar modern movies or throwbacks to the era of William Castle, king of the movie gimmicks (google him).

Fortunately, just like The Tingler and Smellovision the 3D fad died. My guess as to why is because they couldn’t get 3D TVs to sell and without 3D TVs that makes streaming 3D rather pointless, so why go through the extra expense. (Oh sure, if you have 3D glasses at home you can still watch in some cases but that assumes everyone in the household has them.) 

Of course 3D films other than Avatar 2 are still being made, but now consumers have a choice again and it’s been a number of years since I’ve left a cinema disappointed that a 2D version of a movie I wanted to see wasn’t being shown. As such I’ve been able to enjoy movies like Endgame, Alita: Battle Angel (made by the same people as Avatar), Free Guy, No Time to Die and numerous other films in the cinema, whereas eight or nine years ago I would probably have had to wait for the Blu-rays. Ironically, Avatar 2 is coming out at a time when theatrical release of films is not a guarantee so for all the effort of making it 3D 2.0 if people end up streaming it on Netflix or watching it on their phones, it might not matter. 

[schlockdefense]

Schlock Defense of the film Drive Angry 3D.