There’s a lot of talk about 3D films coming back. Over the weekend I went to see Journey to the Center of the Earth in Real D to see what all this noise was about.
The new 3D is going to be huge. I now know what all the noise is about; I was blown away. I always thought these were gimmick films and I didn’t bother to see one until just now.
But man, it was magic. I was like a kid. Take an unsuspecting woman to see one of these new 3D films; if the two of you haven’t seen one you will be bonded forever.
I have been wrapped up in film history films for too long. I’ve been watching French New Wave films as of late, and I couldn’t believe I let something like this pass.
The whole experience was fantastic. The glasses themselves fit over my real glasses, I forgot that I was wearing them. Everything on the screen seemed new again.
In terms of storytelling Journey to the Center of the Earth was not great, which is why you should see it. You don’t want a story getting in the way of wigging out on this new Real D.
Smoke in 3D; just imagine it.
There have been a number of animated stories in Real D, and Beowulf was also released in it, but I considered these children’s movies. I don’t see children’s movies because I’m an art snob, and there you have the reason that I’m only now getting floored by this.
I suspect that here are a number of people in this boat.
Sitting in the theater, watching this film, I realized that most of the standard continuity film edits no longer work in 3D. There was a time before Sergei Eisenstein, when one character looking at something and then the camera looking at that something, and the audience connecting the link between the two, didn’t exist.
How basic is that? Editing.
The train could be filmed pulling into the station and then what? Hitchcock would have still filmed the train going into the tunnel, the perv.
Anyway, when I was in the theater I had a feeling that something as basic and simple has yet to be done with 3D.
This will be huge. The previews for other films at the beginning of Journey to the Center of the Earth where also in 3D, there are a lot of these Read D films coming.
Go blow your mind, see if you are the genius who will come up with the new 3D Battleship Potemkin.
Here’s a tip. Get there early, so that you can sit directly in front of the screen (not off to the side). The effect is diminished as you move off to the side.
Even the freaking credits at the end in 3D were interesting.
-J Roland Kelly
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