The problem is it tried so hard to be a 3D movie that it was lacking in all other area. The movie itself was pretty boring with everything so predictable.
Funnily nobody watches movies in 3d anymore I think? Looks like it was bust a fad.
It was a fad! And it wasn't the first time either. 3D films were all the rage in the 1950s in movies like "The Creature From the Black Lagoon", although they used the older "red & blue" filter technology. In the 1980s it was back briefly for films like "Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn" using polarized glasses, and finally in the new millennium, movies like "Avatar".
The Lumiere brothers attempted 3D films even before they properly started with 2D ones (iirc).
It's hypothesized that, with old accounts of Lumieres' enterprise being very messy, the 2D premiere of ‘The Arrival’ was conflated with the 3D showing, and that's where we get the stories of the audience panicking about the train.
Good point. 3D film wasn’t new by any means. I remember doing some of those 3D movies (or actually ’4D’ movie ‘rides’) at Disneyworld, as late as the early 2000’s that we’re still using the older ‘red/ blue’ lenses.
Avatar however, took us to a whole new level. The modern CGI, along with the incredible amount of effort that went into planning out the cinematography to integrate with the 3D, is truly unmatched.
Many big ‘Blockbuster’ still have 3D versions, but it’s so clearly just something they add on after the fact, and they weren’t designed with that in mind. Very forgettable.
And during the 1980s fad, Weird All released his 2nd album, titled "In 3-D", which contains the song "Nature Trail to Hell" about a fictional 3D movie.
>The problem is it tried so hard to be a 3D movie that it was lacking in all other area.
This is okay IMO. There is no shortage of great movies. I don't mind that we've got Avatar: the incredible tech demo with uninteresting plot instead of Avatar: a good movie.
Exactly. I went along to see Avatar because I hadn't seen a 3D movie and figured I'd go and watch the best version of the technology. I enjoyed the experience, and also didn't bother seeing any other 3D movies and haven't seen Avatar a second time.
I don’t disagree. I’m sure I’m not the first one to make the comparison, but the plot line was almost like a modern rip-off of ‘FernGully’. Nothing crazy. But the 3D visuals were so mesmerizing I didn’t care haha. Another comment compares it to a ‘tech demo’, and that’s probably a good way to look at it :)
Funnily nobody watches movies in 3d anymore I think? Looks like it was bust a fad.