Will movies ever be in three dimensions?

[Stefen]

Do you think movies will ever be in three dimensions. Either as a very real hologram or maybe a virtual type movie where you are sitting in the bar that the scene in the movie your watching is taking place in. I bet there would be a whole new level of directing, acting, cinematography and everything if that happens.

[picolas]

see also: plays

[Stefen]

haha not like that. Thats more of a gimmick. I'm talking in an artistic sense, meaning while your watching it it almost feels like your living it. Or maybe in a alrge dome it is projected into the center and everyone sits in the corners watching the movie in three dimensions. Almost like a stage play but with big action sequences and stuff like that. Are we even capable of realizing something like that? Or does evolution need to take more steps in order for this to happen?

[picolas]

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[thedog]

Well if we ever get to the point where films turn to 3-d, to the point where you are actually in the movie, I bet this will be everyone's first reaction:

[Bruce Lee]

The director would have less artistic control.
you might be looking at a certain angle and missing a serious plot line, or seeing something that the director does't want you to see.

...i think there will be computer games like that, but films? i don't think so.
the closest will be 'the jazz playing hologram' as seen in Tom's apartment in Vanilla Sky.

[picolas]

The director would have less artistic control.
you might be looking at a certain angle and missing a serious plot line, or seeing something that the director does't want you to see.

plays

[Alethia]

lol

[Jeremy Blackman]

Why am I reminded of Total Recall?

[Weak2ndAct]

Well, according to the Schizopolis commentary, Soderbergh's already making plans to break through the fifth wall

[Bruce Lee]

Plays, you sit as if watching television. I was on about actualy being in the scene, mingling with the actors. not being on the side lines.

[grand theft sparrow]

Well, according to the Schizopolis commentary, Soderbergh's already making plans to break through the fifth wall

Best commentary ever, man.

Honestly, I don't think filmmakers are up to the challenge.  Right now, it sounds like it would make a great novelty (like 3D as we know it now) but, as for the Jetsons-style hologram, I think it would take up too much time to pre-visualize and too much money and the directors would have too much pressure to do cheap camera tricks (like 3D as we know it now).  

Unfortunately, the only two directors that would have made the best use of this are dead: Hitchcock and Kubrick.

[ono]

What about Coppola or Aronofsky?

[grand theft sparrow]

What about Coppola or Aronofsky?

Maybe Coppola but with him taking so long to do Megalopolis, I doubt he'd get to finishing one of these things before he died.  

And I love Aronofsky but his style comes more from pacing than in filling up the frame. Matthew Libatique is probably the best "indie" DP working today (him or Tim Orr... that rhymed) and Aronofsky's flicks look great but Hitch and Kubrick took full advantage of having control over every single thing in every frame in their films.

[MacGuffin]

Lucas Adds 'Star' Power to 3-D Campaign

George Lucas is such a fan of the latest 3-D technology that he is planning to remaster all of the "Star Wars" films for rerelease in 3-D.

Appearing as part of a sextet of high-profile directors promoting 3-D and digital cinema at film industry convention ShoWest on Thursday, Lucas said he hadn't yet committed to a precise schedule but hoped to have the first film ready for the 30th anniversary of the original "Star Wars" movie in 2007 and that he would then rerelease one "Star Wars" film per year in 3-D.

Lucas was joined by James Cameron, Robert Zemeckis, Robert Rodriguez and Randal Kleiser. Peter Jackson joined the group via a pretaped 3-D segment. They all implored the exhibition community to invest in digital projectors, which would allow theaters to show their upcoming movies in 3-D.

Cameron is in preproduction on the 3-D film "Battle Angel," planned for a 2007 release. Zemeckis has two 3-D features in production, and Rodriguez is readying "The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D" for release in the summer. Jackson, who is currently filming "King Kong," announced no specific 3-D plans, but according to sources he has installed a 3-D master suite in his production offices in New Zealand.

The filmmakers showed clips of their earlier work -- some of which was filmed in 3-D and some of which has been converted to 3-D -- and promoted digital 3-D during a screening sponsored by Texas Instruments' DLP Cinema.

DIGITAL ADVOCATE

Lucas' appearance in support of digital projection created a moment of deja vu for ShoWest attendees who had seen the filmmaker advocate digital cinema before the release of "Star Wars: Episode II --Attack of the Clones" when he proclaimed that the movie would screen in 1,000 d-cinema theaters.

"I'm sort of the proverbial digital penny that keeps showing up every other year," Lucas joked. "(Each time I am) saying, 'Why haven't you got those projectors in the theaters yet?"'

Lucas said he has seen many 3-D tests in the past 25 years, but because of advances in digital cinematography, postproduction and projection, the time has come for 3-D to become a more mainstream moviegoing experience.

To prove that point, he showed clips from the original "Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope" and the most recent "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones" that had been "dimensionalized," or converted into 3-D, in postproduction by the Agoura Hills, Calif.-based firm In-Three.

"It's really a beautiful system, and one of the reasons I'm promoting it today is I'm extremely anxious to reissue that old group of films I did so long ago in a galaxy far away," Lucas said. "When you see some of this test footage, it's shockingly good, and you can see how people would want to go see it. It means we can repurpose a lot of old movies, and at the same time it really gives a whole new dimension to the movies we're making now."

Jackson joined the others to lend his support to "one of the most exciting developments in cinema in a long, long time."

"It's not just the use of digital projection, which we all know is on the horizon," Jackson said. "But that the particular technology can be used to create three-dimensional movies that go far beyond the quality and the spectacle of anything we've ever seen before. Forget the old days of wearing the red and blue glasses and the eyestrain. All of that is behind us now. These new active glasses that you're wearing and seeing 3-D with are a breakthrough in technology."

Jackson screened remastered portions from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy that featured a looming Gollum and battle dust that virtually fell onto the audience.

"I'm a man on a mission when it comes to 3-D," Cameron said. "I will be making all of my films in 3-D in the future. We need exhibition to come in to own a big chunk of the (emerging 3-D) market."