3-D or Not 3-D
That is the billion-dollar question–maybe. With 3-D movies, even without first-rate projection, making bundles of dough-re-mi (even a clunker like the “final” Final Destination pile of merde, has 3-D made itself legitimate? While ersatz movie critics seem to think 3-D is all about things being flung at the audience, it’s simply not all there is. As James Cameron, now putting the finishing touches on his 3-D Avatar, keeps trying to tell us.
A positive example, you say? The IMAX Galapagos was a first-rate movie, in which depth, scale, and visual perspective gave more information than 2-D could…way more.
The already-flat-converted-to-3D double-feature release of the Toy Story is cleaning up at the box office. So, what movies could be converted to 3-D and then released. How about On Golden Pond, Driving Miss Daisy, and My Dinner With Andre? (Just kidding about Andre…)
A movie I recently had a writer’s hand in, and which is now in post-production, is up for the possible conversion. The conversion cost has not been announced, but it must be in the low millions. Should they convert or not? Stayed tuned. But, know this, a half-billion dollars has been raised to put new state-of-the-art 3-D movie projectors in U.S. Theatres.
