Vincent Dowd:
It's three years since audiences around the world swarmed into cinemas to see James Cameron's Avatar. It rapidly became the biggest grossing film of all time, in part because of its ground-breaking digital 3D technology.
But, in retrospect, Avatar now seems the high-point of 3D movie-making, with little since 2009 to challenge its achievement. Three years on, has the appeal of 3D gone flat?
but 3D wont be going away anytime soon, its too easy for movie makers now to make any POS movie, slap 3D on it and people will go watch it.
examples - resident evil 3D, step up 3D, glee 3D. the list goes on.
however, i do believe there is a right way and wrong way to do 3D. the examples above are the wrong way. the right way would be life of pi <to pick a recent example> reason being, the 3D wasnt the main focus to sell the movie. the story/character building was. the 3D was a nice addition to the movie though. oh and they didnt have shit flying towards the camera which i thought was good.
The only difference this time is they got television makers to introduce it as well, and Sony implemented it into their cameras.
I think there is something to be done with 3D, but Hollywood hasn't even hinted at it yet. I've got no interest in it, and the only reason I pay for certain 3D films is to support a movie more. I've yet to see anything movie wise that had me go "I've got to see that again" or "that was so awesome!" Only time I really enjoyed it was one scene in Resident Evil and a couple scenes in Spider-Man. Video game wise I've scene a few cool things, but still nothing making me want a 3D tv.
i think the general problem stems from the fact that its not being used so obviously compared to past movies using it intentionally like spykids 3 as an example where literally things were coming out of the screen within your grasps, out of the movies i seen lately only a few scenes does that.
i do not dislike 3D whatsoever but thats what i think 3D is about, if your not going to design the the entire film based on 3D experince then maybe dont do it at all if its just going to be used clearly for a few scenes
otherwise the depth perception effect like the 3DS could probably be done if you had the camera working out that without the need for glasses
The Avengers in IMAX 3D was astounding.
BTW cinema 3D can't be compared to the 3D Plasmas and LEDs