George Lucas hasn’t made enough money of the same 6 films yet so instead of moving ahead with something new, he has ordered all 6 Original films converted to 3D which may take up to 7 years to complete.
Then someone reminded Papa Smurf that he owns more than one franchise. So now Indiana Jones is getting the 3D treatment too.
George Lucas has been down in the dumps, suffering form what psychologists call “Avatar Envy.” In order to combat the crippling mental illness, the famed director ordered the entire Star Wars saga converted to 3D. Rumor has it that this treatment failed to have the desired effect, so Lucas is taking the 3D axe to the Indiana Jones films, as well.
Come on! Who doesn’t want to see a swinging monkey chase through the rainforest in 3D?
I could honestly say I would be curious to see Star Wars in 3D, but I don’t care much about seeing Indy in 3D.
What’s next? THX1138 3D? American Graffitti 3D?
Hopefully this is just a rumour.
Lets not forget also that post 3-D pretty much sucks in these cases due to the film not being shot with 3-D in mind. In other words, theres really no scene specially filmed in any of these movies that scream-out “This would be awesome in 3-D”! All we get is some added depth on screen. that alone doesn’t warrant the treatment IMO. NOW, More $$$$$$$$ for Georgie-boy and a reason to re-release is another issue all together
Well, it would be cool to see all the classic Indy films on the big screen, even if it is in 3D.
if toy story 1 & 2 can be rereleased in 3d in the same year along with toy story 3, then why are we going to get only one star wars 3d film per year?
i would like to see one trilogy per year at least
Toy Story was already in 3D animation but presented in 2d. It is a relatively simple process to apply the 3D technology to computer graphic animation.
Live people and static scenes however are completely different.
True.
I am certain Pixar has all their animation backed up in digital 3D pre-print format so that they could go back and change the films over time.
Transforming a ‘film’ that was shot in 2D into a 3D film requires creating completely new images that don’t exist. You have to somehow take each frame of the film and recreate it as it would appear if the camera were 4 inches to the left.
I haven’t seen any of these post-3D films myself, so I don’t know how well they work. I think the approach is to create layering effects, where they slice up the image into 2D layers at different perceptual depth. I imagine that it looks more like a slide viewer than real 3d.
Yeeeeah I’m not too excited about the 3D.
Hey, George Lucas, if you’re reading this, then you should realize that this is why film fans hate you nowadays. Knock it off!
Ya know, I may be in the minority, but I don’t particularly care about 3D, and I certainly don’t care about old movies being ‘converted’. Classic films should remain they way they were filmed. This just feels like ‘colorizing’ all over again.
I hope all these folks know that they are not going to recreate something like Avatar with a conversion process. Avartar looked the way it did due to how it was originally filmed by the director.(3-D camera’s etc)It was a long process too before everything lined up and a masterpiece of filming was created. To me, trying to get Avatar quality 3-D with an afterthought conversion process if like trying to get I-Max size with a view master. Just my opinion.
Meh, I guess the rolling ball from Raiders and the train car from Temple would be kinda cool in 3-D, then again…
Raiders won’t work. Its not clean enough. The other movies might.
Raiders was shot with a grainy film stock and there was heavy use of soft filters. This technique was the common style of the 70s and early 80s. All of Spielberg’s old films had very artful compositions. Back then he was known as a master of widescreen on par with David Lean. Anyway, the soft edges and grainy film stock won’t look good in 3D and the lighting is all wrong. I’m sure you can change it with post, but not without making vulgar alterations.
By the time Temple came out, Spielberg had changed his style to be more suitable and consistent with the home video market. Temple used very clean film stock and it was fairly light on filters. The one exception from my memory is the opening sequence in the Chinese lounge. That scene had soft filter overload, and there is no way that scene is going to translate well to 3D without massive changes. On the other hand, the mine car scene always struck me as being perfect for 3D.
I like Last Crusade, but its a pretty boring film in terms of visuals. There’s not really anything there that calls out for 3D.
Talk even talk to me about Indiana Jones and the Abortion of the Crystal Skull.