The Last Airbender: Sounding the Death Knell for 3D?

[Solo4114]

Interesting article on Salon.com about how crappy hastily produced "we'll do it in post" 3D films are souring audiences on 3D. You had to see this coming.

My favorite quote from the article?

A line from Michael Bay (MICHAEL BAY of all people!!) that says, "You can't just s**t out a 3D movie." Someone might want to remind him that this applies to 2D movies as well. But aside from that, he's right. When even Michael Bay is saying this, you know you've got issues.

Anyway, here's the link.

 

[rollerboi]

he IS the expert on ****ting out movies after all

 

[Raffles]

replace 3D in that article with CGI and it still has the same jist - Don't rely on a technique you haven't mastered. Something Bay should really take note of.

Putting "fake" 3D on a "2D" film (essentially all films are 2D with a percieved 3D effect but that's another rant) makes it look terrible. But any director who would commit to a 3D film with the current level of technology, either from the start or post production is a bandwagon jumping fool. This applies to directors who sign off on bad CGI too.

There has to no better way of making a movie look dated than by using substandard effects.
Sure the "3D" techniques used nowadays are the best that can be done so far, but by comparison so was the CG Jabba in the ROTJ special edition.

 

[propologist]

they call me the last airbender of gas...

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

they call me the last airbender of gas...

Wouldn´t that make you the last gasbender? Or a bean magician?

 

[wuher da brewer]

It would be great if it were the death knell for 2D movies ported to 3D in post. Films that are shot in 3D seem much sharper and more effective.

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

It would be great if it were the death knell for 2D movies ported to 3D in post. Films that are shot in 3D seem much sharper and more effective.

:thumbsup

A friend of mine just had the first request to do a commercial in 3D. Oh my...

 

[cayman shen]

Gives me a headache, so yeah, I hope it dies.

 

[Capn_Jack_Savvy]

I read an article that stated that Clash Of The Titans was the death of 3D!

 

[cayman shen]

I thought Friday the 13th 3 was the death of 3D!

All joking aside, I remember watching Freddy's Dead, and wearing the glasses the whole time, and then the 3D bit was only like the last ten minutes. I sat through the whole movie, rube that I was, wearing the glasses before I was supposed to, thinking "man, this sucks!" That movie didn't help 3D get re-lanched at all...

 

[CTF]

Films being converted will soon be over; and films being shot in stereo will slowly come to an end... but the technology will live on in gaming and TV.

It's just history repeating itself.

 

[Lord Boron]

A friend of mine just had the first request to do a commercial in 3D. Oh my...

I for one am not putting on a special pair of glasses to be bombarded by advertising!!!

 

[Robot Monster]

I really hated this movie. What wooden acting, the casting was a joke. I'm a big fan of the cartoon and they just gutted any humor right out of it. The script was so VERY bad. The CGI was so poor I thought we were watching a TV movie made 10 years ago. Even the set design was badly done. Total crap. Now I have a replacement to Meet Joe Black for my personal worst movie of all time. If not for my wife I would have walked out of the cinema and demanded my money back.

Now if I can only find M. Night's home and make "water" on his morning paper, flower garden (and whatever else I can find of his) will I consider my revenge complete.

What a total disappointment!

 

[Wes R]

I'm not a huge fan of 3D. I liked the Airbender cartoon and this just kinda does all sorts of injustice to it. And Michael Bay needs to shut his trap and quit ruining Transformers. they shoulda just got the 80s cast back for that and done a new animated film. They're using Jim Cameron's avatar gear to film the new Resident evil it seems, or they want to.

 

[GeneralFROSTY]

I remember the Imax release of Superman Returns had 3-D - a perfect example of this topic.
I was also unimpressed with the 3D in Alice in Wonderland. If you're going to have a movie feature 3D, then it should be planned that way from the start.
I'm really pumped about the 3D work we are going to see in Green Lantern!!

 

[tubachris85x]

Wouldn´t that make you the last gasbender? Or a bean magician?

He dosnt pass gas...he desimates the ozone layer

 

[Nwerke]

Gives me a headache, so yeah, I hope it dies.

The old red-green process played hell with my eyes; insta-migraine. I get enough of those as it is, so I saw very few.

The new process - no problems so far at all. Is it the new movies that you're referring to? If so, bummer.

Films being converted will soon be over; and films being shot in stereo will slowly come to an end... but the technology will live on in gaming and TV.

I'm sure the sports and games market will see a continuation of the technology this time, but I'm less sure that you're right about the movies. Post-conversion NEEDS TO DIE, and I think the kind of anger that we're seeing around the place will kill it eventually. I mean, even the non-buffs at the office are aware of the difference and complain about having seen this or that post-converted movie which they thought was shot in stereo. Post-conversion is a business risk!

But the new stereo format is just so good that I'm actually pumped about it. I'm even planning to make my first flat-screen TV, when I eventually get one, a 3D model.

 

[allosaur176]

I thought Friday the 13th 3 was the death of 3D!

That title actually goes to Jaws 3D

 

[Solo4114]

I think this is more about the death of post-conversion 3D. Clash of the Titans, Airbender, etc. are hurting the technology. The fact that people DO recognize a difference between post-conversion and "native" 3D films, though, probably means that "native" 3D will become dominant. It will, however, be slower to take hold, simply because it'll be too expensive for a lot of cheap productions to film in it.


I still, however, have yet to see any movie that's "native" 3D. Although I gather pretty much only Monsters vs. Aliens, Up, and Avatar have done this.

 

[CTF]

I'm sure the sports and games market will see a continuation of the technology this time, but I'm less sure that you're right about the movies.

Trust me, history will repeat itself for the third in fifty years.