Will we ever see another movie with 3D as good as Avatar ever again? I’ve seen a couple since, and it’s obviously not the same. I’m beginning to think that no one will ever make a movie like Avatar again, and unless you saw the first run of Avatar, you never will.
I hope it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I wouldn’t volunteer to do it again.
Are you saying the 3D effects were never to be beat or the animation or the overall movie?
I saw it in 3D, in the cinema and found it very disappointing.
No. Once Avatar was made all the people in the 3D technology industry said, “Well fuck that was perfect. I guess we should all quit advancing 3D technology, quit our jobs, close our businesses and go to work for Wal-Mart.”
Just the 3d.
Well, I had crappy seats - front row right - so can’t really judge the 3D. They would have to be spectacularly better than what I saw to change my mind.
Isn’t that rather like judging “Gone with the Wind” solely on how it used three-strip Technicolor? (Disclaimer: I do not feel Avatar compares in any way with GwtW.)
Hardly. While it was a fun experience to see in 3D, I bet that people felt the same way after the first widescreen movie, or first color movie, or first stereo movie, or first surround sound movie, first digitally filmed & projected movie, etc…
I suspect that it’ll just get better and better over time- 10 years from now Avatar in 3D will be as clunky as watching those old blue/red 3D movies from the 1950s.
If 3D isn’t a short-lived fad, a movie will come out that has a huge budget, excellent visual effects, and an equally good story. That film will be the new benchmark. Avatar only had two.
I wear glasses. Until they can come up with some 3D that works with me wearing my glasses (and trying to wear those plastic theater glasses over my glasses doesn’t work well), I’m going to have to wait to be impressed.
No. It’ll be at least a thrice in a lifetime experience:
Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet.
I heard the second one will lift the plot from Titan A.E. and the third from The Road to Eldorado. They’re still in talks for a fourth film inspired by either All Dogs Go to Heaven or Fievel Goes West.
As long as they don’t get it from Treasure Planet.
I think 3D will be a fad as long as people have to keep wearing the glasses. If that’s the case, then yes, Avatar will be the flagship of 3D movies. If they develop better technology where the glasses aren’t required, then I’d say we’re in for several treats down the road.
Well we all know that media technology can never advance much beyond this point. :dubious:
I’m guessing it’s more like a first-in-a-lifetime experience. The technique is getting cheaper, so movies just like this will get more numerous because they will be able to make a profit without needing to get the epic numbers of Avatar.
In 10-20 years Avatar will look quaint and with any luck people will be asking, “Remember when you had to wear those annoying glasses to see a 3-D movie?”
For some people it was.
But the OP’s point is that there hasn’t been any 3D movies that used the technology as well as Avatar did. So apparently, so far at least, they have quit trying.
But in anycase, I suspect the lack of quality 3D post-avatar is simply because it takes a lot of time (and money) to do, and studios haven’t had the time yet to develop their own efforts. Instead we’ve had a bunch of rushed efforts to shoe-horn already existing projects into 3D, which obviously doesn’t work as well. IIRC, Cameron worked for several years on Avatar, used his own design for the 3D cameras, and was obviously very into getting the effects right. Given the success of Avatar, I can’t imagine other studios aren’t already trying to do the same thing.
Heck, could Cameron license his technology and create a company to rival ILM?