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Opinion: IN AMAZING 3D

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Mark Kermode|10:35 UK time, Thursday, 21 August 2008

The extra dimension every movie needs is a killer line.



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Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    Wow, censorship on the website as well.

    And to think Joss Whedon made is musical for the web exactly to avoid censorship.



    As for 3D, people will just download it and see it in 2D on their home screen ;-)

  • Comment number 2.

    Whenever I have been dragged, it takes that to get me there, to a 3D movie I just can't help but giggle. No matter what the subject matter.



    But maybe that is just me.

  • Comment number 3.

    I have just never been bothered by 3D - I'm sure that if it is done well it's great, but so is normal cinema, especially if you're not watching the latest summer blockbuster.

  • Comment number 4.

    Dear Doctor K,

    I saw the preview for Avatar on BBC News the other night, and was left completely underwhelmed by it. It's not just because the news images were in 2D, but the animation was so pneumatic and pumped-up, it felt like you were watching someone playing World of Warcraft.



    It seems to me that James Cameron has forgotten how to use technology to enhance his films. His early work, whether in Aliens or the Terminator series, took cutting-edge technology and used it to enhance or compliment an already complex storyline with proper emotions and 'three-dimensional' characters (no pun intended). But since the hype of Titanic, he seems to have spent twelve years playing with a digital toybox for his own amusement, and the result looks rather underwhelming



    Obviously I'll wait until your reviews to pass proper judgement, but at this stage Cameron seems to have lost his touch. Robert Zemeckis, on the other hand, is a director who has understood right from the start how to use technology to enhance his films; I love all his work and have high hopes for his version of A Christmas Carol.