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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
The fact is that we've had access to 3D film and stereoscopic images for over 50 years. It was a fad in the 50s and it went away. I think this fad will also pass because it brings nothing new to the table-- it's the same old shit in a brand new package. Once the novelty wears out there is nothing behind it.
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Okay, that's true. But you have to admit this new RealD shit produces a MUCH clearer image than the old-school red/blue glasses.
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I teach a class on animation and every year I'm astonished at how each new year of students' have a lesser set reference points compared with the last, to the extent that most of this year's intake are treating Toy Story as their 'year zero', not even being that aware of Disney. (I'm starting to feel a nostalgia for the year of students who thought cinema started with Akira). These people are cinema's future as much as Cameron and Jackson in that they're the very demographic Hollywood makes movies for - not you, or me or anyone else who's yet to be seduced by the prospect of seeing cinema reduced to an endless cycle of bigger, more life-like explosions.But as a market we're increasingly irrelevant.
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Damn... how old are these kids?
It blows my mind how naive/ignorant some filmmaking students can be. People who are still under the impression that film started, and ended with Tarantino. I don't even understand how they (your examples and mine) could even be all that interested in the art-form.
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Originally Posted by Tokolosh
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Wow, thanks for that link dude!
I've always been in favor of digital over film. I have no nostalgia for the older medium, and find it a much larger pain in the ass (and pricier) to shoot and edit with. I love having the ability to hook my Canon VIXIA HFM31 directly up to my laptop, and literally drag and drop any take I want. It's marvelous, and I'm spoiled with it! I wont even work with DV tape - ha!
And that's just a pissy-ass camcorder in the grand scheme of things. With the RED cameras, and abilities to shoot at 4k, even 5k..... why anyone would give a damn about film is beyond me. I'd bet my entire DVD collection that every single one of the world's earliest filmmakers would've chosen digital over film had the technology been available in the day.
But yeah, I have no interest whatsoever in The Hobbit as a film (I adore Jackson's early works...but find LOTR painfully boring), but if it is being projected in 48fps... I may just have to buy myself a ticket to see the difference first-hand. Same reason I ever sat/fell asleep through Avatar.