3-D becoming hindrance on film industry

3-D film is a movie or motion picture that gives the illusion of having a depth of field.

Are films better because of that luxury? The key word in that question is that 3-D film is a luxury. It serves no major purpose in the film industry than to make money.

A Real D 3-D film after 6 p.m. is $14.75 and an IMAX 3-D film is $16.75 at Rave Motion Pictures in Manchester, Conn.

3-D film and 3-D images started in 1853 by Wilhelm Rollman. He created the anaglyph image. It is two pictures of the same image, one seen through the perspective of the left and one from the right eye. Then they are shown through red or a type of blue or cyan filter. That same method with some slight variations started the 1950s 3-D film craze.

The most successful films from that craze were “Dial M for Murder,” which people say is the best from that era, “Creature from the Black Lagoon” and “Cat-Women of the Moon.” The craze died out because of factors from patrons saying it hurt their eyes, movie theaters saying that it was too difficult to operate 3-D films and the film companies themselves who decided to turn their eyes towards the Cinemascope technology.

There was another era of 3-D in the 1980s with films like “Jaws 3-D,” “Amityville 3-D” and “Parasite”: Nothing more than schlocky, stupid horror movies with cheap thrills.

Today with technology getting better, 3-D has once again exploded. Films like “Avatar,” “Tron: Legacy,” “Toy Story 3,” “Resident Evil: Apocalypse” and “The Final Destination” have been made using the several types of 3-D technology over the past couple years.

There are a variety of ways to make a 3-D film. Several formats include actually shooting the film using a 3-D camera, like “Avatar” or “Tron: Legacy.” What most films do is 2-D to 3-D conversion. A 3-D converted film is just as bad as the films from the 50s and 80s. They hurt your eyes, they are dark, and the 3-D serves no real purpose to the film.

Those films include “The Last Airbender,” “Clash of The Titans,” “The Green Hornet,” “Piranha 3-D” and way too many other films to mention. Films like “Ghosts of the Abyss” or “Space Station 3-D” are extremely cool to see on the gigantic IMAX screen.

“Avatar” and “Tron: Legacy” are the best that I have seen that use the 3-D technology correctly. The 2-D to 3-D conversion should stop because it never looks good. Spending $20 for one person is way too much money to see a film that will look pretty bad.

If a 3-D film is done right it can look really spectacular and it will be well worth the money spent. Production companies really need to get off the 3-D bandwagon and create a 3-D film only when it is necessary for the film.

Let’s not even get started on 3-D televisions.

Source: http://hartfordinformer.com