# If there was ever a reason for a 3D movie it was.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416 "2011-04-14T21:50:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/1 "2011-04-14T21:50:37Z")
The remake of The Yellow Submarine. [Disney killed it.](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/disney-kills-yellow-submarine-remake-20110315) If ever there was a movie to replace the Pink Floyd laser show this was it. Name a movie you think would fly (and why) and feel free to crap on Disney for this bad decision. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/2 "2011-04-14T22:56:34Z")
I don’t think you’re going to get a lot of support on this one. I’m pretty sure you’re the first person I’ve ever heard of who thought this remake was a good idea. And I’m not saying that as a hater: I thought there was an outside chance that a remake might not suck, and that seemed to be the most radically optimistic outlook I could find on the film’s future. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/3 "2011-04-14T23:24:38Z")
I’ll crap on Disney, but not about TYS. From the link: > [@](#): > > but when the [**Mars Needs Moms**] only gross $6.9 million in its first week with a budget of $150 million, Disney backed out of its Yellow Submarine commitment due to budget concerns. Maybe I’m out of the loop, but with a title like **Mars Needs Moms** , what _were_ they thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/4 "2011-04-15T01:00:25Z")
**Vertigo**? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/5 "2011-04-15T01:38:38Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I don’t think you’re going to get a lot of support on this one. I’m pretty sure you’re the first person I’ve ever heard of who thought this remake was a good idea. And I’m not saying that as a hater: I thought there was an outside chance that a remake might not suck, and that seemed to be the most radically optimistic outlook I could find on the film’s future. crap, I thought I could find the trailer for the new one but I can’t. It really was spectacular and I was ready to dig my heals in on the blasphemy of doing a remake. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/6 "2011-04-15T01:42:53Z")
I think confidence in Zemeckis’ Imagemovers motion capture tech is rightfully shaken. By now, most people have noticed that it sucks pretty hard. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/7 "2011-04-15T02:00:29Z")
I liked _Monster House_, which was a Zemeckis motion capture film that did decent, though not spectacular, Box Office. It was stylised enough to work. It appears they didn’t learn any lessons from that one, and continued to head in a mostly realistic direction, which works against the technique. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/8 "2011-04-15T03:01:34Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > I’ll crap on Disney, but not about TYS. From the link: > Maybe I’m out of the loop, but with a title like **Mars Needs Moms** , what _were_ they thinking? Ask Berkeley Breathed. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/9 "2011-04-15T03:42:14Z")
[Porn?](http://gizmodo.com/#!5544449/heres-the-first-3d-porn-movie-at-last) > [@](#): > > It’s done. Game on, broheim, because 3D is here to stay. The first 3D porn full feature film made for modern stereoscopic TVs—those that use shutter eyeglasses—has arrived. It’s called Kama-Sutra, and even Woody Allen will like it. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/10 "2011-04-15T05:23:40Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > I think confidence in Zemeckis’ Imagemovers motion capture tech is rightfully shaken. By now, most people have noticed that it sucks pretty hard. The trailer for Yellow Submarine was extremely creative. Disney needs to stop commissioning treacle and expecting it to sell. If the original movie was rated a 7 on a scale of ten, this one would have gotten a 10 for imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/11 "2011-04-15T11:34:36Z")
_At the Mountains of Madness_ and/or _Call of Cthulhu_. I want to see bizarre, impossible alien geometries. I want to see monsters that [look like this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQmFWYWqTZA), and horrible enough in 2D, but when rendered in 3D appear impossibly _concave_ onscreen. I want to have a migraine, two bleeding eyes, and a liquid hydrogen chill running down my spine by the time the credits are over. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/12 "2011-04-15T13:30:27Z")
**Lamar** , you may be happy to know that Playboy agreed with you when _The Stewardesses_ came out, way back about 1970. The eviewer waxed rhapdsodic about the novelty and improved experience of 3D. And the novelty drew people in – I knew very straitlaced folks who would never watch porn who went to see that one. films that would work well in 3D: \*\*Fantastic Voyage Forbidden Planet \*\* The original **Sleuth** (Not the remake) or **The Last of Sheila**. You can you the 3D going into the cluttered rooms as a metaphor for going into the mystery. The new Sleuth, in its antiseptic set, wouldn’t work at all. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/13 "2011-04-15T21:02:12Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > The trailer for Yellow Submarine was extremely creative Are you sure you aren’t misremembering some promotion for _The Beatles: Rock Band_ or something? It doesn’t appear that the development ever got to the point that they might credibly have even considered releasing a _teaser._ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/14 "2011-04-15T21:06:54Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > The trailer for Yellow Submarine was extremely creative. Disney needs to stop commissioning treacle and expecting it to sell. If the original movie was rated a 7 on a scale of ten, this one would have gotten a 10 for imagination. Are you thinking of [this?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSLLxRmR3nY) That wasn’t a movie trailer, that was the intro to the video game _The Beatles: Rock Band_. I agree, a entire movie done in that style would be interesting, but that’s pretty certainly not what we would have gotten. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/15 "2011-04-16T05:20:28Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Are you thinking of [this?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSLLxRmR3nY) That wasn’t a movie trailer, that was the intro to the video game _The Beatles: Rock Band_. I agree, a entire movie done in that style would be interesting, but that’s pretty certainly not what we would have gotten. Yes, that’s it. I was under the impression it was going to be done by the same people who created that. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/16 "2011-04-16T13:11:30Z")
I would like to see some of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars or Pellucidar novels done in 3D. Or Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-there-was-ever-a-reason-for-a-3d-movie-it-was/578416/17 "2011-04-16T14:15:11Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Are you thinking of [this?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSLLxRmR3nY) That wasn’t a movie trailer, that was the intro to the video game _The Beatles: Rock Band_. I agree, a entire movie done in that style would be interesting, but that’s pretty certainly not what we would have gotten. Whoa! As one commentator put it, “At about 1:36, the LSD really starts to kick in.”