Bond 23D?

[Mazer Rackham]

What I do not understand is why all of the sudden the big push for 3D everything; television, movies, video games, sports broadcast

Money it is all about money. 3D for moment commands higher admission and so far isn't a susceptible to pirating as DVD, Blu-ray and 2D movies are.

[katied]

Heh... Howard Stern was just saying that they really shouldn't do a Bond movie in 3D. Yet another reason I like him.

[Dr. No]

All the push for 3d is insane. In the movies is one think but in the homes.. there will be deaths. I get sick watching 3d movies, my wife doesn't do much better. I can imagine alot of people over doing it on 3d tv and getting very sick

[katied]

All the push for 3d is insane. In the movies is one think but in the homes.. there will be deaths. I get sick watching 3d movies, my wife doesn't do much better. I can imagine alot of people over doing it on 3d tv and getting very sick

I saw an ad for 3D TV sets.That would be great, *if* they actually had some TV shows in 3D(they don't). I predict that places like Best Buy are going to have a surplus of 3D TV's before too long.

[bjmdds]

$19.50 per movie ticket in Manhattan now for a 3-D film. Bond in 3-D? $19.50 per ticket? Would ticket sales drop or increase?

[Kristatos]

$19.50 per movie ticket in Manhattan now for a 3-D film. Bond in 3-D? $19.50 per ticket? Would ticket sales drop or increase?

They might drop, but the drop would be offset by the revenue generated from more expensive tickets.

[katied]

$19.50 per movie ticket in Manhattan now for a 3-D film. Bond in 3-D? $19.50 per ticket? Would ticket sales drop or increase?

That's insane. It's not much better here, to be honest. I stick to matinees for the most part and so far I've only been to one 3D movie-I just can't justify the price. I'm sure there are fans that would see a 3D Bond film..I'm not one of them.

[Omega]

All movie prices are going up not just 3D.

[Lord Shark]

I can't imagine any CnBners wanting to look at Craig's face in 3D.

The Creature from the Craig Lagoon?

[katied]

IMAX is where it's at. I've only been to one IMAX theater(to see Shine A Light, the Stones concert movie) and it was awesome.

[carl stromberg]

I can't imagine any CnBners wanting to look at Craig's face in 3D.

The Creature from the Craig Lagoon?

I wouldn't mind if the (non-Bond) film was good. I just think he is very miscast as James Bond, and that his casting as Bond is one of the stupidist things I have ever seen.

[Omega]

As long as there is a point to it. Unlike Avatar most 3D movies are shot in 2D then converted and usually don't look that great. There need to be a point in using 3D that's not directly related to the higher ticket prices.

[FormerBondFan]

Christopher Nolan isn't a fan of 3D according to this article.

http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/06/n ... of-3d.html

June 13, 2010
Nolan 'not a huge fan of 3D'

Nolan Christopher Nolan's “Inception” could have been a 3D movie. But the director nixed the idea.

That’s one of the tantalizing tidbits that came out of a discussion between Nolan, whose mind-bending caper “Inception” opens July 16, and Geoff Boucher, whose Hero Complex blog hosted a screening of Nolan’s “Insomnia” and “The Dark Knight” on Saturday.

“I’m not a huge fan of 3D,” Nolan said when asked about his attitude toward Hollywood’s newest obsession.

His response resulted in an explosion of claps, signaling that while boxoffice numbers suggest audiences are embracing the format, a certain segment may be getting tired of it.

“We did tests on ‘Inception’ to look at the post conversion process,” he revealed. “And they worked very well. It’s quite easy to do, in fact. But it takes a little time, and we didn’t have the time to do it to the standard that I would have been happy.”

Warner Bros., the studio behind "Inception," rushed a 3D conversion for its April action pic "Clash of the Titans." Critics and some audiences complained about the quality of the 3D, but the film has grossed $486.8 million worldwide.

Nolan, whose knowledge of cameras and how the eye and mind operate when they process imagery was on full display Saturday, said he found the dimness of 3D-converted imagery extremely alienating.

And don’t get him talking about shooting in 3D. He prefers to use prime lenses and said if he does use 3D in the future -- such as on his next Batman movie, slated for summer 2012 -- it will be in the post conversion process.

“But really it’s going to be up to audiences to decide how they want to watch their films,” he said.

Nolan shared some other thoughts on visual effects. He said he likes to use practical effects, rather than CGI, as much as possible. That scene in the "Inception" trailer, where the room is slowly spinning around? Shot in an actual room.

“The audience can always, on some level, tell the difference,” he said.

When he was making “Batman Begins,” Nolan asked the visual effects guys to use CGI to re-create a scene he had shot practically. The shots looked almost identical, he said, and almost no one could tell the difference. “(But) When they had to do a shot from nothing, the quality level was far, far lower,” he said.

He also believes that actors do much better work when their performances are based in the real world.

Finally, despite the rampant dissection of his films online, Nolan revealed his lack of interest in any of it.

“I don’t really look at the Internet,” Nolan said, with the audience bursting into applause.

He said he realized early on that going on the Net wasn’t helpful to his sanity, especially when it comes to the casting rumors that fly about this Batman movies.

That led to one of his more interesting revelations: “I don’t email or use a cell. It gives me time to think.”

Other tidbits:

-- Nolan has seen “Blade Runner” “hundreds of times” and likes "the notion of it being a film that rewards multiple viewings.”

-- He screened “Pink Floyd: The Wall” to his crew before starting production on “Inception.” He likes its nonlinear nature of storytelling, using imagery to connect story lines and breaking chronological boundaries.

-- While he had no plans to tackle a Superman movie, when David Goyer told him his idea regarding the Man of Steel, “I didn’t want it to not get done.” Nolan is now producing the next movie.

-- Borys Kit

[Omega]

3D is good from some movies but it seems like the studios want the higher ticket price and not a quality film. Nolan is a big enough name to make his own way a smaller director would likely have to give in to the studios 3D obsession.

[katied]

LOLing at FormerBondFan's sig.. I dunno, with time, has come some "agreeing to disagree".

[Dr. No]

LOLing at FormerBondFan's sig.. I dunno, with time, has come some "agreeing to disagree".

I dunno it seem like the Craig fans do have a hive mind mentality but they don't really want diversity. Maybe Iam over thinking it

[katied]

I was talking more here as far as "agreeing to disagree"(with ay least one exception . No, there is no such thing as diversity at the fanboy boards.Unfortunately.