3D Top 10 Movies That Should Never, Ever Be Converted to 3D (1 Viewer)

10. Alien - The chest-burst scene is quite scary and gory enough, without the baby coming out of the screen towards the audience, thank you very much.

9. The Pirates of the Caribbean films - Orlando Bloom is wooden enough in two dimensions. And besides, with the exception of Jack, virtually all of the characters are one-dimensional, so displaying them in three really seems like overkill.

8. The Evil Dead films - Honestly, we’re just afraid someone might injure himself running away for fear of losing an eye to Bruce Campbell’s chin.

7. The Big Lebowski - While the bowling scenes might look pretty cool in 3D, consider the scene where the thug pees on The Dude’s rug. Or the scene where Walter bites off a guy’s ear. Some things we’re better off not seeing in 3D.

6. Die Hard - We’re pretty sure we’re better off not being any closer to the bloodied, sweaty John McClane. We’re afraid that people with overactive imaginations might start to think they can smell him, which is certainly not something to be wished for.

5. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - With all due respect to the late, great James Doohan, nobody wants Scotty’s stomach any closer to them than absolutely necessary. Plus, in 3D, it would probably be pretty obvious that the closeups of the whales were done with models.

4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - If you or someone you love is the sort who gets emotional at movies, consider how much more powerful the emotions would be if E.T. weren’t just reaching out to Elliott, but to you.

3. The Lord of the Rings trilogy - It would be far too likely that all the careful perspective shots director Peter Jackson used to establish the differences in characters’ size would be lost, or at least badly screwed up, by the 3D conversion process.

2. The Muppet Movie - This is a near-perfect movie, with at most a few sour notes in an otherwise symphonic masterpiece. It works, as does anything involving Muppets, because it was meticulously filmed so that the Muppets were utterly believable as characters. Converting it to 3D would be bound to make the Muppets look more like they do in real life — that is to say, less like living beings.

1. The Star Wars saga - As though he hadn’t tinkered with the Star Wars films enough already, George Lucas has publicly stated his intentions to release 3D versions of them. It wasn’t bad enough that he made Greedo shoot first; now he wants to mess around with the whole look and feel of the movies. If we haven’t made our case yet, we have but three more words for you: 3D Jar Jar.

There are of course plenty more where those came from — feel free to add your own ideas in the comments. Interestingly, while compiling this list, a few films stuck out as ones that might actually be improved by 3D conversion.

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Originally Posted by Richard--W

Stereoscopic cinematography is not an arbitrary thing.
Movies that are conceived and executed in 3-D should be watched in 3-D.
Depth is part of the visual language and part of the story-telling; it isn't just a gimmick.

Movies that are conceived and executed flat should be watched flat.
Converting a flat movie to 3-D distorts a film, and disrespects the creative intention of the filmmakers.
Converting a flat movie to 3-D is tantamount to colorizing King Kong or Casablanca.

No flat movie should be converted to 3-D.

Sorry to rain on the parade.

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Originally Posted by Douglas Monce

[SIZE= larger]To be honest I don't know that I would shoot a 3D film all that much different than a flat film. I tend to shoot with fairly dynamic angles that emphasize the difference between the foreground and background elements anyway. Look at one of the greatest 3D films of all time, Dial M For Murder. Watching it flat, you would never know that it was a 3D film. The best 3D films are that way. Not poking you in the eye every 5 min. You are right however that seeing them in 3D is a different experience.
Doug[/SIZE]

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