Diet Coke 3D

With all this 3D movie craziness going around, since studios believe it’s going to be the savior of Hollywood (HINT: making good movies will be the savior of Hollywood), I’m already hearing negative things from hard core film buffs that it’s a temporary fad, lasting as long as Hollywood’s last great craze for 3D movies, back during the early 50’s, which started around 1953, and quickly died out a year and half year. Studios got so burned by the 3D craze back then that, in the end, they started releasing films originally shot in 3D like Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder and the MGM musical Kiss Me Kate, “flat” or 2D, because the fad was stone cold dead and people were tired of it.

Unlike today where studios are rushing to convert 2D movies into 3D. Case in point, which I wrote about on S & A a few months ago, is Warner Bros’ Clash of the Titans, coming out April 2, which the studio decided at the last minute to convert the action sequences into 3D. However, this has caused problems, namely, a crappy looking 3D film since you can’t truly get the same 3 dimensional effects from a film that was originally conceived and shot in 2D. No wonder Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland is unimpressive in 3D since it was shot 2D, and converted into 3D, when the studios decided to ride on Avatar’s coattails.  But getting back to Clash and its problems. According to Obsessedwithfilm.com