For this film critic, the 3-D revolution has been an annoyance at best.
“Avatar’s” three-dimensional palette teased us with what those pesky cardboard glasses could reveal, but nearly every other 3-D film has been a letdown.
Who cares if there’s slightly more depth to the picture on the screen if it means wearing uncomfortable glasses and shelling out a $5 surcharge? But a preview for the upcoming nature film “Born to be Wild” changed my perspective – if only for the length of a movie trailer.
For the first time, images on the screen truly felt like they were floating mere inches from my nose. The illusion was nothing less than remarkable. Granted, I saw the spot in an IMAX theater, so maybe that enhanced the experience. Yet the accompanying film screening, also shown in 3-D, couldn’t match the wonders of “Wild.”
Have audiences only scratched the surface of what 3-D can offer? And does it matter?
As a fellow film critic said to me after the trailer – “do you really want to spend two hours watching something like that?”
Perhaps not. But for the first time the hype of 3-D matched the reality.
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The best 3-D effects … so far
For this film critic, the 3-D revolution has been an annoyance at best.
“Avatar’s” three-dimensional palette teased us with what those pesky cardboard glasses could reveal, but nearly every other 3-D film has been a letdown.
Who cares if there’s slightly more depth to the picture on the screen if it means wearing uncomfortable glasses and shelling out a $5 surcharge? But a preview for the upcoming nature film “Born to be Wild” changed my perspective – if only for the length of a movie trailer.
For the first time, images on the screen truly felt like they were floating mere inches from my nose. The illusion was nothing less than remarkable. Granted, I saw the spot in an IMAX theater, so maybe that enhanced the experience. Yet the accompanying film screening, also shown in 3-D, couldn’t match the wonders of “Wild.”
Have audiences only scratched the surface of what 3-D can offer? And does it matter?
As a fellow film critic said to me after the trailer – “do you really want to spend two hours watching something like that?”
Perhaps not. But for the first time the hype of 3-D matched the reality.
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