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Originally Posted by Locke
3D sucks. What, its supposed to be so awesome because some of the foreground scenery is in 3D? Who cares? 'Ooh, that fence and hedge look like they're closer to me!! Whoo!' I could have very easily done without it and it's pretentious 'Buddy Holly' glasses!
You call it '3D,' I call it 'out of focus.'  |
Pop-out (generally) sucks (typically because its done completely wrong), but depth behind the screen is awesome. One of my other pet peeves with 3D movies is that the shallow focal planes that are used in 2D to show depth become redundant in 3D, but they're still there. A movie would have to be 3D-only to avoid this. Whereas 3D photographers often make their photos sharp front-to-back, and it's fantastic.
Even Avatar was guilty of sticking out of focus tree branches (for example) right in front of your face. It adds nothing and isn't even technically "correct".
For another perspective on 3D, here's Joe Johnston (who directed Captain America):
http://www.earthsmightiest.com/fansi...a/news/?a=7530
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"Conversion has gotten a bad rap," he differs, "because of pictures that have done it badly. If you shoot the movie and decide at the 11th hour to convert it to 3D, you don't have the necessary information to process what we call the 'left eye'. We're shooting a whole separate pass on every setup to record the information necessary to convert to 3D in a seamless and undetectable way. When conversion is done right, you can't tell the difference between it and full 3D. Everyone touts Avatar as the new standard for 3D. It's beautifully done to be sure, but it wasn't entirely shot in full 3D. The filmmakers wisely chose to shoot about 30 to 35 percent of the picture in 2D and convert. I challenge anyone, myself included, to watch the picture and spot the 2D conversions.
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I didn't notice parts of Avatar were conversions (did notice some flaws in the CGI though, which might have been conversion-related), but I did note some conversion errors in Captain America, despite Johnston's supposedly "undetectable" technique.