I am excited about the new form of digital 3D and I am apparently not the only one. My first encounter with the brand new technology (not to be confused with the painful 3D technology of Friday the 13th Part 3D and Jaws 3 3D) was with the re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas. It blew me away and brought a whole new experience to a film that I hold dear to me. I also saw Monster House in the new 3D technology and was again blown away and think that the experience promted me to find a passion for that film. Now many are getting overly excited and touting it as the way of the future of cinema. James Cameron hopes to be remembered as the technology's godfather with Avatar and Cannes will be screening a 3D animation film, Pixar's Up, as its opening film for the first time ever.
For all my excitement I am not entirely convinced that it is the way of the future and that all films will be taking it up soon as surely as they did colour. I think the new 3D technology has an exciting place in the future of cinema but only for films that suit. Most don't and won't. I am happy with Star Wars as it is, flat and cinematic, that it is how I want it to be. I don't want it to be re-released (again) in 3D to tarnish my love (again).
But 3D can make some films better. Take Monsters vs. Aliens for an example. An ordinary film that I would have had no plans to watch, the only draw card was the 3D. And it made a dull and somewhat uninteresting film into a nice night out. The story doesn't live up to the potential that the title and tagline (Alien Problem? Monster Solution) suggests. The action is unexciting and quite frankly there is no where enough aliens vs monsters action.
I laughed very hard once.
