How To Make A Bad Film Worse; Do A 2-D To 3-D Rush Job

Rating: 1/10 (13 April 2010)

Man I love movies. Out of thousands of films I've seen in my lifetime, I can honestly count on one hand the number I walked out of. This film needs to be stopped from being shown in 3-D. Not only is this a haphazard remake/revision, it contains some of the worst 2-D to 3- D conversion to date. The company that ripped Warner off was Prim Focus - charging something like $104K PER MINUTE for the conversion. But that's what happens when you shoot a movie in 2-D and then at the last minute decide to up convert it to 3-D, but only give the converters ten weeks to do it! Anybody out there wanna take a guess at why Alice in Wonderland's release date was pushed back three times? Yep, it takes a long time to convert to 3-D because the technology really isn't fully there. Try finding technical articles on how its achieved and you'll finish reading with more questions than answers. Anybody see G- Force? Love the film, but in 3-D it is painfully obvious (on repeated viewings) during the live action sequences that it was a 2-D film switched over for 3-D midway through its shoot. At least the converters did a decent enough job to where you really have to pay attention to catch that's not real 3-D. But in Clash it looks like a pop up book and thats putting it kindly. I have the advantage of knowing several theater mangers in my area and I asked one if they could screen the film for after hours with brightness turned up. This helped out with the darker sections in the film, but it made the 3-D even worse - or rather it showed how bad of a rushed job this really was. Warner Bros is gearing up to unleash the new Harry Potter in 3-D Using the same converting studio - to say I'm wary is an understatement. If you want to see good 3-D from Warner Brothers try finding a 3-D film festival (most large cities host one a year or so) and see their early 1950 efforts like House of Wax, Hondo, Phantom of the Rue Morgue. and Dial M for Murder.