ChainsawAsh said:
zombie84 said:
ChainsawAsh said:
Bingowings said:
it had a nice editorial comparing the 3Dising of classic 2D films to Ted Turner scribbling pastel shades over monochrome classics
That's good. That's pretty much exactly how I feel about it.
That's not the same. Ted Turner bought the films and changed them against the wishes of their owners. This is totally different--the owners are changing them on their own will.
Yeah, but I don't really care. It wasn't shot that way, so I refuse to see it that way. Even if a director chooses to colorize his own movie, as in your example, I'll never watch the colorized version, and I'll continue to wish it didn't exist, despite what the director says.
The same thing applies to 3D.
This seems to me to be a rather rigid mode of thinking.
For example, editing. Often the craftiness of editing is to make things that weren't shot one way seem like they were in fact shot a certain way. You can manipulate a performance, create a camera move, or disrupt a camera move, you can even move around scenes and create a whole new story line.
The fact is, a film can be successfully re-shaped to take on characteristics it wasn't intended to have at the outset. Scoring brings the same thing. Maybe a director never intended a scene to have music, but the composer made music for it and suddenly the scene took on a quality and life that was completely different from what he was going for but liked it so much he used it.
This whole knee-jerk reaction against 3D perplexes me. It's a tool, just like editing, sound, music, colour and everything else in a movie. You can use these tools after the fact to enhance a movie very satisfyingly to achieve effects that you didn't have in mind at the time of shooting, or you can use them to screw up a movie that would have otherwise been fine. But its not the use of 3D itself, any more than the use of certain editing tricks to artificially manipulate the film can be blamed on the art of editing, or that films should be edited faithfully to the way they were written and shot. Bad 3D films ruin films, like Alice in Wonderland and Clash of the Titans, but good 3D is incredibly effective, like Avatar. I think it is a bit simplistic to write off 3D wholesale on the grounds of some "purist" argument.