What Big Jim says, goes.
"Avatar" director James Cameron said Thursday that 3-D will replace 2-D as the standard, mainstream format for film, television and online content in less than 25 years.
Viewers will soon not only enjoy films in 3-D theaters but all forms of entertainment, including sports and music shows on TVs and laptops, Cameron said at a technology forum in Seoul.
Dim screens! Eye strain! I can't wait.
(Maybe Jim will help convert Wizard of Oz to 3-D.)
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I live in Korea, and Cameron's comments are music to the ears of Koreans who have gone stir crazy as a nation over stereoscopic. With Samsung and other Korean companies spearheading home 3D screens, they would want nothing better than to be bolstered by these comments.
What about holograms? I remember reading that the "new theater experience" would be movies that are projected *around* the audience, not just to it. So you'd be maybe watching a horror movie and find yourself inside the haunted house with the action occuring all around you. Sounds kinda cool...
Holograms.
Kind of like .... live theater.
Cameron has been plenty wrong before, and he's certainly wrong about this.
The dim screen problem is temporary.
The eyestrain problem is based mostly on bad choices. Avatar was easy to watch.... and movies can be made even easier to watch than that.
Cameron can talk about HIS nice, expensive, well-planned Dee all he likes...Until Warner comes in, makes a public jackass of themselves by overindulging their conversion craze, and ruins the party for everybody.
Rule 1 of planning for the future is, always make allowances for unscheduled Incompetency.
I think the audience is going to get quite savvy to the idea that not all 3d is equal. And quite soon.
3d will be one more aspect of what gets reviewed in a movie review.
Dragons was easy to watch too
Yeah I agree with the person that said that critics are going to be judging the 3D. Titans was a horrible eye sore and my friend complained of eye sore with Avatar. But I thought that Dragon was well done. I kind of hope that bad product does kill 3D, but then I also hoped the same with computer animation and with half of Dreamworks product being bad and other companies bringing out garbage thats still around. So I don't have much hope in that.
To the first poster:
I was a little confused by your comment until I realized that you don't know that "stir crazy" is not a good thing, it's a bad thing.
"Stir" is old fashioned slang for jail. "Stir crazy" is the equivalent of, "cabin fever" like, "I've got to get the hell out of this cubicle for a few minutes!"
I would have said, "Apeshit" or something to that effect.
do any of your realize that cameron got many patents on his 3D process? So sure why wouldnt he want everyone to make 3D films, he gets a cut of anyone using his gear to make the films. smart man.
Yess. Very smart man.
But like he needs the money?
Actually, he's still playing the public "Martyr with money" (or "The Inquisition can kiss my rich Oscar-winning hinder") angle, for all the critics who he imagined were picking on Avatar for not being a "real" movie because it was in 3-D...Which's why he's trying to get the local director community going on the "3-D is an Artistic Vision, Too!" campaign, which even Spielberg and Scorsese have publicly fallen sucker to.
(Um, Jim, the 3-D thing wasn't exactly the reason we were claiming that Avatar wasn't a real movie...) ;)
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