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Perhaps Not Quite a Public Service
Aug. 12th, 2011 06:38 pmIn the movie section of my local paper today, there was a column from the paper's "3D-disdaining" critic where he spoke approvingly of glasses that would "flatten" a 3D movie. I suppose my reaction was to think ahead to the one 3D movie upcoming I have any thoughts of seeing, namely The Phantom Menace early next year.
A part of me, I suppose, has had a sort of "I'd be just as happy seeing a 'regular' re-release" feeling, but that may have to do with being worried that disdain for 3D conversions would combine with allergic reactions to Star Wars being "changed" to add extra toxicity. At the same time, though, I can recognise some of that worry as a sort of "the safest thing to do is to do nothing" timidity. Too, I just sort of wonder if a "flattened" 3D conversion would also look "unfamiliar"; even if only one of the polarized images being reflected off the screen had been modified to work in the necessary extra slices necessary to see "around" things, there's no guarantee the glasses would block out that image.
A part of me, I suppose, has had a sort of "I'd be just as happy seeing a 'regular' re-release" feeling, but that may have to do with being worried that disdain for 3D conversions would combine with allergic reactions to Star Wars being "changed" to add extra toxicity. At the same time, though, I can recognise some of that worry as a sort of "the safest thing to do is to do nothing" timidity. Too, I just sort of wonder if a "flattened" 3D conversion would also look "unfamiliar"; even if only one of the polarized images being reflected off the screen had been modified to work in the necessary extra slices necessary to see "around" things, there's no guarantee the glasses would block out that image.