If you’ve seen the Clash of the Titans in 3D last year you might’ve left the movie theater very disappointed, both from the movie being nothing special and the fact that the 3D was actually quite bad, so bad in fact that when talking about bad conversion to 3D of a movie most people directly associate it with that particular title. And indeed the conversion from the 2D footage that was originally shot for that movie to 3D wasn’t done good and the fact that the movie was full of special effects did not help much the conversion to 3D. And now it is time for the sequel of the movie called Wrath of the Titans (3D) and yet again it was not shot in 3D, but was instead shot in 2D and them converted to 3D in post, so are you ready for another disappointment? Haven’t seem the movie myself yet, and I’m not really sure that I’d go to see it after the disappointment from the first one and the first reviews about the Wrath of the Titans aren’t doing it any good without even mentioning the 3D of the movie. So would you go and watch it and in 3D or not, knowing that it is converted to 3D and with all the bad reviews from the previous movie?
The Pirates! Band of Misfits is an upcoming stop-motion animated (or should I say claymation instead of animation) 3D movie, and embedded here you can take a look at the official movie trailer in stereo 3D format (the audio is in Russian) and there is also a 2D version with English audio you can watch online here. The Pirates! Band of Misfits looks like a really fun movie to watch and the visual style you get in it is also appealing, especially when you couple all that with being made in 3D. The movie should be available the movie theaters in 3D starting April 27th for US and Canada (earlier in Europe) and you can also find more about specific countries’ release dates on the official website of the movie. Below you can also find a download link for the YouTube 3D trailer embedded above, you can get it in MP4 format, Over/Under with half vertical resolution, so do not forget to set 16:9 aspect ratio when opening the video in 3D Vision Video Player or the Stereoscopic Player for example. Also as usual feel free to share your feedback about the video.
Did you know that the silent classic “The Phantom of the Opera” was actually shot in stereoscopic 3D format more than 80 years ago, actually filming each and every scene with two movie cameras, was a customary technique in the silent film era, so the movie was actually unintentionally shot in 3D. Making this interesting discovery in 2010, filmmaker and author Carl Hernz went to work on matching the stereoscopic views accidentally created by this fortunate mechanical setup and soon the movie will make its first public screening in 3D. The first public screening as part of a benefit for the Florida Hospital Neuroscience Institute Parkinson Outreach Center on April 30 in Orlando, FL USA. The historic Enzian theater is scheduled to be the venue, and stereographer/producer Carl Hernz (who himself has young-onset Parkinson’s disease) will be there as well. April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness month, and the world premiere of this historical find will definitely shine a bright light so needed on many PD issues. And the film will be featured in several film festivals in the U.S. and other countries before its major release on Halloween night, October 31, 2012.
