Forget 'Iron Man' and 'Toy Story,' I Want These Movies In 3-D!
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I may be a movie format Luddite when it comes to this newfangled 3D technology, but I'm not totally impervious to the charm of seeing Iron Man fly the friendly skies in 3D, and I'm certainly curious to see Disney and Pixar revamp Toy Story and Beauty and the Beast into something even more tangible. But why stop there? I have a whole room of movies I'd like to see converted, and I humbly offer the five following suggestions to studio and technical bigwigs:
300
The swords, the spears, the splotchy blood, and the ripping muscles make this one a no-brainer. Just think of the repeat ticket sales from all the girls (and guys -- your cries on the Hunks of Comic-Con comments didn't fall on deaf ears), who want to see Gerard Butler's bum in full 3D. The box office is hardly flagging, but if it does, just run this one through the converter machine.
Ghostbusters
The streams would cross right before your eyes. Plus, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in 3D would be worth the price of admission, especially if they could introduce Smell-O-Vision along with it. Mmmm!
Alien
Even if you're totally prepared for the face-huggers and chest cavity bursters after all these years, having them fly at your face would make you jump out of your seat again.
300
The swords, the spears, the splotchy blood, and the ripping muscles make this one a no-brainer. Just think of the repeat ticket sales from all the girls (and guys -- your cries on the Hunks of Comic-Con comments didn't fall on deaf ears), who want to see Gerard Butler's bum in full 3D. The box office is hardly flagging, but if it does, just run this one through the converter machine.
Ghostbusters
The streams would cross right before your eyes. Plus, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man in 3D would be worth the price of admission, especially if they could introduce Smell-O-Vision along with it. Mmmm!
Alien
Even if you're totally prepared for the face-huggers and chest cavity bursters after all these years, having them fly at your face would make you jump out of your seat again.
Gangs of New York
I could warm up to this film if Daniel Day-Lewis' enormous stovepipe hat and jaunty plaid pants seemed so real that I could reach out of the screen and touch them. Just about every scene with Bill the Butcher would lend itself to 3D -- the knife-throwing, the butchering, the bald eagle eyeball, the bludgeoning.
The Bourne Supremacy
Because I'm not going to feel like I'm in the middle of the action until I have 3D shaky cam. It might make my brain bleed, but I'll be so pumped that I won't even care.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
9-02-2009 @ 1:38PM
Eric said...
Slim-o-vision would be rad. Everyone walks out with whip cream all over them at the end. Hell why is no one doing that!!!
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9-02-2009 @ 1:39PM
Eric said...
Slime-o-vision
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9-02-2009 @ 1:44PM
Jeremy said...
Yes yes YES!!!... I'll tell you what... let's go ahead and add Gremlins to this list Elisabeth!
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9-02-2009 @ 1:55PM
roguescribner said...
3-D shaky cam? *hurl*
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9-02-2009 @ 2:17PM
henryjekyll said...
Alien didn't have much in the way of monsters. It was all about mood and atmosphere. Now James Cameron's Aliens, THAT'S the one with monsters all over the place.
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9-02-2009 @ 3:09PM
beingbrad said...
The Abyss or Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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9-02-2009 @ 3:11PM
Lawrence Brian Schwartz said...
Wow! These hints of new 3D movies, 3D reissues, 3D, 3D, 3D are showing up in demand all over the place at RottenTomatoes.com, IMDb.com and even here! But I would LOVE to see my one of two favorite films of last year, WALL-E come back to the screen in a 3-D reissue sometime soon.
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9-02-2009 @ 3:19PM
NP said...
Spirited Away
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9-02-2009 @ 5:13PM
Scott K. said...
Barb Wire? C'mon, Pam Anderson in 3-D...
But realistically, I find 3D to be a novelty and prefer to watch movies in normal 2 dimensions. IMAX is an enhancement I can see the benefits of, but not 3D.
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9-02-2009 @ 5:34PM
Chupacabra said...
Jurassic Park
Star Wars
Willy Wonka
The Matrix
Speed Racer
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9-02-2009 @ 7:02PM
NP said...
The Triplets of Belleville
ExistenZ
Baraka
Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi
Beetlejuice
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9-15-2009 @ 10:18PM
henryboy said...
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Serenity
Shaun of the Dead
Jurassic Park
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