[photo-3d] Re: Coming to a theater near you

[Greg Kintz <gkintz@xxxxxxxx>]

>   That's my major gripe with previous era's attempts
> at stereo films - they sucked.  I can think of ONE 3D movie
> that was actually any good:  Dial M for Murder.  After
> that, the best would have been House of Wax.  That's
> pretty  sad.  Can't think of a single film in the early '80's
> stereo binge that was any good.  They were all laughably
> bad in fact.  Heck, who can get too excited about a film
> format when it's almost exclusively used for garbage films?


I have to disagree about almost all of the 50's 3-D films
'sucking'. Many 1st rate films at that time were in 3-D:
"Creature from the Black Lagoon", "It Came from Outer
Space", "Hondo". "Kiss Me Kate" and others. ..These films
are becoming dated now, I'll grant you that, but so are
many other 2-D classics of that same era.

I concur that the 1980's 3-D boom were mostly gimmick
based, and this (to me) is very apparent at the video store.
All of the 1950's 3-D films listed above can be found at
most video stores in 2-D, but with the exception of one
or two titles, none of the 80's 3-D titles are easily found
at a local video store, because without 3-D there's nothing
worth seeing.

Now if one of the Star-Trek or Star-Wars films at the
time had been made in 3-D, I think it would have helped
generate more quality 3-D attempts and prolonged the
1980's 3-D boom, but I still think 3-D would have died
out again, due to the added costs that 3-D films add, from
production to exhibition. ..It seems Hollywood's always
looking at the bottom line.  :)

      Best regards,

         -Greg-