P3D Re: New 3D movies

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998
>From: Marvin Jones comments:
>...............
>*****  Is there some special reason that he is NOT putting the already 3D
>films into 3D video? If he needs the 2D circulation, that's fine, but to
>not
>get 3D when it is already 3D would be a shame... There aren't enough 3D
>videos yet by a long ways...<<<<<<
>
>I suspect it's a matter of economics. Band is smart enough to know that an
>anaglyph tape would be as big a disaster as the others that have been put
>out. The only REAL way to go would be AF. How many AF viewers are currently
>in the hands of potential buyers/renters of a tape? Alas, there is a
>classic chicken/egg problem going on. No major commercial video
>distributors are going to go to the expense of releasing a major AF video
>which virtually no one (in numbers that mean anything to commercial
>distributors) would be able to watch. And there will be no major rush to
>buy equipment until there is something TO watch.

****  Yes, and there are ways to get that egg to incubate and hatch, and
those ways involve use of existing 3D movies as 3D...

>
>>>>>>>>>....... but his plans
>>for other 3D films was put on hold
>>with the end of the 1980's 3D
>>boom. 
>
>****  Can it really be considered a boom? ;-)<<<<<<<<<
>
>It probably produced as many movies as the "boom" in the '50s. Comedies,
>action films, sci-fi, horror, even a feature-length cartoon. As long as
>even 3D buffs feel it necessary to turn up their noses indiscriminately  at
>everything that is produced, it will be pretty hard to get producers to
>take the medium seriously.
>

****  I don't see folks *turning up their noses indiscriminately*, it's
really the opposite. Such behaviour is standard throughout the entire movie
industry. That's what makes or breaks a movie at the theaters. The reason it
appears that people keep turning up their noses at 3D movies in particular
is that *generally speaking* only the kinds of movies worth turning up your
nose at seem to get produced in 3D. When that production trend ends, 3D
movies might be more acceptable to more people. Give us a good 3D movie to
enjoy and we won't turn up our noses. It's really quite simple. (I watch
them anyway, on the very extremely rare and scarce occasions they become
available, for the 3D aspects alone...)

I lived in Southern California for part of the 80's and was not aware of any
kind of 3D movie boom... The few I heard of weren't enough to call a boom.
The rest must have been under-advertised, or were only showing somewhere in
Borneo.

Larry Berlin

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