Saturday, August 28, 2010

What? No Fake Three Dee?

I've enjoyed a bit of the current flurry of Dimensional Cinema, but much of movie 3-D seems mostly designed to separate audience members from their dollar bills. So this is encouraging:

... Warner Bros. announced that Zack Snyder's upcoming action movie Sucker Punch would be converted to 3-D ... Considering the movie is described as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns" ... 3-D seemed an appropriate format. The one sticking point is Snyder, however ...

"It’s a definitive no. Maybe it’s Guardians‘ fault a little bit, because I’ve seen what really awesome 3D looks like. We talked about it at first, but I’ve been kind of broken by Guardians to the point that I said "Guys, there’s no way that we can do something that’s remotely close to Guardians, let’s not every try." ...

Snyder, of course, recently completed The Legends of the Guardians, the CG owl picture, in genuine Three Dee, and so knows what the real article vs. the post-production, tacked-on version looks like. And he's telling his fine, entertainment conglomerate "Na-ah."

I'm sure Warner Bros. is thrilled about his artistic integrity.

As for myself, I think I'm pretty much through with the moving View Master, as it makes my retinas ache. But everyone has to seek his own pathway through the carnival of life, therefore if you enjoy goggling at objects floating off the big, silver screen, by all means goggle.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alice in Wonderland was fake 3D. It looked like it, too--although the movie was just as bad as the "3D."

Good news, though:
http://www.slate.com/id/2264927/pagenum/all

Anonymous said...

But still earned a billion dollars.

Anonymous said...

What, Zach didn't think he could make it look as fuzzy or blurry as the "Guardians" trailer?...C'mon, this is Warner, they can do it!

Elite Medium said...

If they rush it, the 3D looks like crap. Just like "Titans" was.

But there is some good stuff coming out. I've seen a good twenty or so minutes of "Priest" and it rocks. The 3D was converted, but no one would know if you didn't tell them. It's kick ass and the opening by Genndy is awesome. It looks like this decades "Blade."

Anonymous said...

steve you are slipping, no post about TS3 passing the Billion dollar mark at the box office globally?

execs must be salivating in their seats trying to figure out how to tap that box office CG gold...I heard a remake of Quest for Camelot was in the pipes, this time CG...!

Anonymous said...

LOL. Maybe they'll get failed director frederick dachau to "direct" it, and frank gladstone to "produce" it.

Anonymous said...

Good news, though:
http://www.slate.com/id/2264927/pagenum/all


So, that would be from THIS week's mainstream deluge of 3D-Obituary articles after Piranha, as opposed to the ones two weeks ago from Cats & Dogs 2?
Guess if Guardians doesn't deliver, then we'll officially start getting the "Death of Animated 3-D" in the press...

(Well, studios, you wanted 3-D to be "common" in the theaters--Now it's so common, the audience is back to avoiding crap movies again and getting nitpicky over brands. Enjoy.) :)

Steve Hulett said...

steve you are slipping, no post about TS3 passing the Billion dollar mark at the box office globally?

And you're not reading the posts.

TS3's billion-dollar plateau was covered in Thursday night's linkfest.

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/end-of-week-linkage.html

...featured as a sparkly gold Add On. (Or are you saying you want me to post about it multiple times?)

Anonymous said...

It's kind of like the myth of "anti incumbency" in the political primaries. OF 304 primaries held so far, 297 incumbents won.

Anonymous said...

Oh no, no multiple post are needed, just missed that one. I forgot how perfect you are. I'll never question again. I'm so sorry. I can't wait for you next enlightening post. Please hurry!

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