BLOGS
I've just seen the future, thanks to James Cameron. He talks with The Hollywood Reporter about the future of 3-D movies, and specifically about his highly anticipated Avatar. In the process, he's given me a flash of insight about the future of humanity. Just as different species of human once co-existed on the planet, so it will be again. There will be a species that can see in 3-D and one that can't.
Cameron foresees a future where 3-D movie technology and implementation become "'much more pervasive that we are thinking now.'" In a few years, he says, most computers and DVD players will be able to show stereoscopic movies. He advocates filmmakers start shooting now for such a future. Except quite a few people can't see very well in 3-D, and some can't see in 3-D at all. (And some can't see anything at all, of course, but that's for another article.) There are people with strabismus or amblyopia whose eyes don't look in quite the same direction, for starters. Then there are the cyclopses and all the kids who got frisky with a BB gun once too often, and the people who just plain get queasy when they watch 3-D movies.
So that's how it's going to happen. Everyone who can watch 3-D movies will go to certain theaters, and everyone who can't will go to others. People with stereoscopic vision will hook up with others of their kind at the concessions stand, while those of us in the 2-D theaters will hook up with other people with flat vision. Over many generations, we'll become genetically distinct. I just hope we can all live in peace together. If it comes down to a fight, I'm screwed. I don't have the depth perception to land a good punch.
Add a comment
Search thousands of recaps and more
BLOG ARCHIVES
The Moviefile
December 2008
9 Entries
November 2008
61 Entries
October 2008
102 Entries
September 2008
86 Entries
August 2008
99 Entries
July 2008
116 Entries
June 2008
95 Entries
May 2008
86 Entries
April 2008
67 Entries
March 2008
14 Entries
Blog Categories
A Festival for the Rest...ival
13 Entries
Accidents Do Happen
39 Entries
Adventures in Fakery
26 Entries
Animation Desensitization
24 Entries
Box Office Tally
47 Entries
Cool Nerds Guide
2 Entries
Director? I Hardly Knew Her!
102 Entries
For Your Amusement (Park)
6 Entries
Foreign Relations
23 Entries
Girls on Film
23 Entries
I Voted for GORE!
53 Entries
I Want My DVD
23 Entries
I've Got Two Tickets to Merchandise
30 Entries
It Came From San Diego
9 Entries
It's a Major Award!
18 Entries
Legal Eaglese
14 Entries
Let's Blame the Media!
42 Entries
Let's Go To The Video!
13 Entries
Lights, Camera... Action Jackson!
43 Entries
Little TV Shows That Done Hit the Big Time
44 Entries
Martial Artistry
4 Entries
Momentous Occasions
18 Entries
Musicalifornication
22 Entries
Obituaries Without Pity
10 Entries
Pros and Controversy
8 Entries
Reviews of Movies We've Actually Seen
27 Entries
Scary Monsters & Super Creeps
11 Entries
Sci-Fidelity
39 Entries
Script From the Headlines!
50 Entries
Separate but Sequel
140 Entries
Strike Watch
13 Entries
Stupid Cinematic Celebrity Sayings
32 Entries
Taste the Reading Rainbow
45 Entries
The Art of the Cannes
6 Entries
The Biz
96 Entries
The Casting Conch
133 Entries
The History, Booooyyyyy!
47 Entries
The Kongs of Comedy
73 Entries
Theatre With an "R" and an "E"
8 Entries
Top of the
0 Entries
Top of the MWoP
4 Entries
Trailer Trashing
22 Entries
Video Games Killed the Movie Star
13 Entries
We Call Do-Over
100 Entries
We Watches the Watchmen
22 Entries
What's Up, Documentary?
3 Entries
You Got Comic Book in My Movie
152 Entries
You Know, For Kids!
55 Entries