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"3D movies are a waste of a dimension."
Blue Kitty:
I saw Coraline and thought it was pretty dang awesome without being in 3D, though my cousin was a little miffed. Every time something came at us he would say, "Now, that could have been in 3D!!
Lines:
Dang kids with their 3D!
Alex C:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 30 Apr 2010, 14:35 ---The man's a curmudgeon. I haven't read the article yet, and maybe I'll like it a lot, but speaking generally he's totally a "damn kids with their rock and roll" kinda guy.
--- End quote ---
He has a point this time though. There's drawbacks to 3d and sometimes they hurt films more than they help and for various reasons it's being pushed as a standard as opposed to an option. Until very recently, for example, you couldn't really have 3-d and vibrant colors in the same film, and that's still true to an extent due to the light issue. Sometimes it's a fair trade (Coraline, for example, isn't really hurt by a muted color palette, although tbh I think the loss of 3d for moar color is a pretty fair trade even in that case), but in other cases it really can be a case of "What were they thinking?" when you see the film both ways. Granted, I'm pretty sensitive to such things; I took part in a study once that was intended to help establish/revise how good people are at distinguishing between different hues and I ended up in the 97th percentile.
Some of his reasons are kinda bullshitty though; Just because something isn't currently being used well doesn't meant that it is impossible to do so, which is why I'm somewhat annoyed by some of the clamor for 3d but not really upset about the idea of 3d in principle.
look out! Ninjas!:
I think by making sure he praises Avatar a few times, as well as the drops of Herzog and Scorsese, he's making it clear that his issue is when films do 3D purely for the sake of it in post-production. I'm inclined to agree with him there, the films that weren't filmed in 3D are generally pretty rubbish at doing the 3D thing, whereas I thought it was done very well in Avatar.
David_Dovey:
Oh hey, big surprise, 90% of [specific creative pursuit] sucks, and is done for commercial gain than for artistic reasons! Wow
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