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Vendaval -> "New 3-D movies more than a gimmick" (4/9/2007 4:15:15 PM)

"New 3-D movies more than a gimmick"

POSTED: 9:31 a.m. EDT, April 9, 2007

"So far, moviegoers have reacted positively to the few 3-D films that have been released in recent years.

"Meet the Robinsons" from The Walt Disney Co. debuted March 30, earning $25.1 million in its opening weekend.

More than a quarter of that revenue came from the 581 screens across the country that showed the film in 3-D, the company said. Those moviegoers were even willing to pay a few extra bucks to don special glasses and watch characters leave the screen.

A number of high-profile filmmakers have 3-D project in the works, including Peter Jackson, Robert Zemeckis and James Cameron.

Walt Disney Co. has released 3-D versions of three animated films and recently signed a deal with Zemeckis to produce more. The studio is also rumored to be making the sequel "Toy Story 3" in 3-D, a report the studio declined to confirm."


http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/fun.games/04/09/3d.movies.ap/index.html




happypervert -> RE: "New 3-D movies more than a gimmick" (4/9/2007 5:55:22 PM)

The last 3-D movie I saw was Warhol's Frankenstein.

But the real breakthrough in movie viewing was Odorama -- I still have the scratch and sniff card I got when I went to see Polyester by John Waters.

I think once we get 3-D + Odorama, we will be approaching a Brave New World type of experience that Huxley described with the "feelies".




ferryman777 -> RE: "New 3-D movies more than a gimmick" (4/10/2007 8:23:07 AM)

There was a radio show, I don't recall the name...something like 'Tales of Tomorrow'. This is going back some years. One show, which I cannot forget, dealth with a family, two children, who the parents had installed a 'Halograph' Room, an interactive room of sorts, the children imagined a situation, and they could interact within the scene, as if it were real. Well, the children started creating the most horrific scenes, murder, torture, etc. Once, they left the room, and forgot to turn the scene back to the child-like images. The parents on a whim, enter the room and are confronted with all these blood letting scenes. So, they confront the children, admonish them, and inform them the room will be dismantled. The children are really upset with this, promise never to imagine the horror blood letting; and beg the parents to see how good they are now. The parents enter, and it is a National Geographic moment, and then comes these raging starving lions, and devour the parents.

The 3D stuff, in it's infancy, were really entertaining, House of Wax, one of the first was a Jungle type of adventure film. There were some low budget Black & White films of that era. I don't know how far they will go, with this, but the medium is still being explored; and with the advances of the computer technologies, who knows. Star Trek also had a halographic episode.

Incidently, some of the Stephen King, movies and novels; are nothing but the old 'Inner Sactum' radio skits. Updated, 'Pet Cemetary' is one.




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