I have been holding my breath because one of my best childhood friends is the special effects supervisor for Avatar and invented some of the technology to make it work. He just posted a big sigh of relief and pride on Facebook and I e-mailed him a congratulations even though I obviously haven’t seen it yet but I will soon. I was skeptical about the idea because I am not a big sci-fi fan but it sounds like they did something groundbreaking.
The opinion of a person who can’t capitalize and uses “lol” non-ironically means so much to me.
The point, which you seem to have missed, is that these two technologies have increased the number of people who can enjoy movies in a theater. Prior to them, the blind and deaf were left out of enjoying the communal experience. The push for 3D is the opposite, because it reduces the number of people who can enjoy a film in the theater.
3D proponents would have more credibility if they would acknowledge this fact.
Let’s put this in perspective. There is currently a formal embargo on movie reviews for the film, which means they’re going to tolerate positive “leaks” but come down hard on naysayers who pipe in earlier than they agreed upon.
Not really lifted, just ignored. Those with raves can do what they want, but dollars to donuts we won’t be seeing many bad ones until a day or two before it opens.
Someone at The Guardian has been ballsy enough to provide a moderately damning review of Dances with Smurfs… I mean Avatar. I hope he’s got good lawyers.
You would have more credibility if you gave up this line of argument.
3D has absolutely no effect on the number of people who can enjoy a film in the theater so long as 2D screens exist in large numbers. And there is absolutely no evidence that 2D prints are being shelved in favor of 3D. Seriously - show me one theater in the country that used to show 2D movies but no longer does. And don’t try that slippery slope “I can feel it coming in the future” crap. Give us some concrete evidence that 3D is actually overthrowing 2D.
This thread is about Avatar, the film Jim Cameron wanted to open exclusively in 3D. I want to see this film.
OK. The Mainstreet theater, AMC’s “flagship”, the template for their future theaters, is fully capable of showing films in either 2D or 3D on all of their screens. And, since opening, they have never shown a film that is available in 3D in 2D. Not once. Right now they are showing Disney’s A Christmas Carol. It’s down to one showing a day in their smallest theater. And every single showing has been in 3D since it opened! They have not had one 2D showing.
At AMC’s prototype for future theaters, 3D has exclusively overthrown 2D. They don’t offer both.
And he… didn’t. So there goes your argument, in fact it bolsters the opposite of what you are saying.
Their tickets are also $25 each because they include dinner. How you could *possibly *interpret that to mean normal theaters are only going to show 3D movies is beyond me.
But never mind, the sky is falling, no one is ever going to see 2D films again. :rolleyes:
