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Just seen this over at HorrorDVD's
Some company is putting out 20 films in 3D including Night of the Living Dead. Can't see how that is going to work, but i'm curious.
Here is the brief article:
"Here’s a retro use for DVD technology. Razor3D and X3D (is there a pattern here?) have announced they will be releasing 3D versions of 20 movies, the majority of which will be genre in nature.
Of the three big titles coming, starting in September, the Zombie classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD should be stirring your interest as it is ours, along with Bruce Lee’s THE CHINESE CONNECTION.
And how’s this for incongruous: another film set for the 3D treatment is the Gregory Peck classic TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD"
:eek:
http://www.hex2001.demon.co.uk/forums/kid_3D_glasses.jpg
:p
slightly dubious as to the impact you would get from a pair of glasses that shut off one eye at a time. :/
Hmmmm.....
Only film I have ever seen in the cinema that was full 3D was Jaws 3D. I reckon I was about 14 at the time, and thought it was pretty amazing, never having experienced it before.
But, after going to Florida last year and seeing a few of the 3D shows, it became apparant that wearing those specs for more than about 15 minutes strains your eyes something terrible! It is great in small doses, but the thought of sitting through a full hour and a half film wearing them is not very attractive!
Surely NOTLD would not benefit from being in 3D, as it was filmed "flat" and was meant to be seen as that. For a film to have any impact in 3D, I'd imagine it would have be filmed with 3D in mind.
I am not a fan of 3D, and I can't imagine NOTLD receiving 3D treatment. I wouldn't even be curious - it's a classic and should remain that way - 3D would cheapen it!
Originally posted by Tiffany Bradford
I am not a fan of 3D, and I can't imagine NOTLD receiving 3D treatment. I wouldn't even be curious - it's a classic and should remain that way - 3D would cheapen it!
Agree wholeheartedly.
The only 3D film I remember seeing and enjoying was a black & white Western (I think it may have been called Tomahawk) which had some excellent used of 3D - 2 scenes which stuck out for me as a teenager were the indian throwing a tomahawk straight at the viewer, and a cowboy firing an arrow at the viewer too.
Now if only Criterion had released Flesh For Frankenstein in 3D.
Oh for a re-release. Fond memories of seeing this in the NFT's 3D season a few years ago.
Originally posted by CraigKORE
Hmmmm.....
Only film I have ever seen in the cinema that was full 3D was Jaws 3D.
Ahh, them were the days...
Jaws 3D, Parasite, Friday The 13th Part 3, Treasure Of The Four Crowns.
You've gotta love the early 80's :p
(This was just before all town centre cinemas were turned into bingo halls...)
Originally posted by BenH
Now if only Criterion had released Flesh For Frankenstein in 3D.
Unfortunately, Polaroid 3D processes such as the one used in <I>Flesh for Frankenstein</I> simply don't work on digital media, as they exploit the properties of light in a very specific way. The only way you could get it to work would be to translate the film into a different 3-D process, either the relatively primitive red-green type (which would work on all players but which would involve sacrificing much of the original colour) or a more sophisticated LCD system involving special glasses synchronised to alternating images on the screen. So it's not hard to see why Criterion felt that this was beyond them!
I'm rather keener on 3D than many of the above posters, having been lucky enough to see <I>House of Wax, It Came From Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon</I> and <I>Dial M For Murder</I> in the process, together with <I>Friday 13th Part 3, Jaws 3-D</I> and <I>Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone</I> during the brief early 1980s revival - and I think it's a crying shame that its popularity fizzled out before major talents who might have pushed 3D onto a new artistic plane managed to get their projects off the ground.
Hitchcock obviously was a major talent, but it's equally obvious from the 3D <I>Dial M For Murder</I> that his heart wasn't in it - the sheer amount of back projection rather gives this away! But rather more intriguing but sadly unmade films included <I>Tesla</I>, a biopic of the electricity pioneer by Jerzy Skolimowski (who was a rather more intriguing director in the early 1980s than his subsequent work would suggest) and <I>Little Shop of Horrors</I>, to be directed by Martin Scorsese in 3D! And at the time, both Scorsese and Skolimowski expressed their desire to do more with the process's ability to exploit depth than their predecessors had done - <I>It Came From Outer Space</I> is one of the few other 3D films that genuinely tries to use 3D intelligently.
But this <I>Night of the Living Dead</I> looks like a non-starter, for obvious technical reasons - I suspect it was only chosen because the film is notoriously in the public domain (which is why it also underwent the indignity of colorization and so-called 30th Anniversary updates with unnecessary new footage!). I'd be much more intrigued by 3D versions of some of the Pixar films, which would certainly be technically possible given the nature of the medium!
Ah those NFT 3D seasons - those were the days !
Black Lagoon
Treasure of the Frour Crowns (must be up there with Manos !)
The Stewardesses (3D soft pr0n !)
Dynasty (crazy Japanese epic)
:nuts:
Anyone see "Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (3D)"
Originally posted by Tyler Durden
Anyone see "Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (3D)"
Yep, the one and only film I saw in 3D at a local cinema back in my teenage years. It seemed really amazing then but having seen it again on TV without the 3D it kind of lost it's appeal.
Also, Mr Brooke mentioned it in his post just above :)
Originally posted by Analog Kid
Yep, the one and only film I saw in 3D at a local cinema back in my teenage years. It seemed really amazing then but having seen it again on TV without the 3D it kind of lost it's appeal.
It didn't have much appeal for me first time round, but it was very far from my first 3D film. If I remember rightly, I couldn't see any particularly obvious reason why it was made in 3D in the first place - at least <I>Friday 13th</I> was enjoyably gimmicky.
Heads-up. They've only gone and filmed it:
Night of the Living D3ad (2006)
Dave's (http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/) has the trailer, and a link to the official website. A warning to anyone watching the trailer - if you like horror films with a hint of subtlety, look away now...
"Comin 4 U Barb" :lol:
Looks soooooo bad it could almost be good.
there is also a day of the dead remake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObYs3q4ix2o
it actually looks better than Night of the Living Dead IN 3D remake
Notice the words that flashed up very fast at the end of the trailer...
"This is a re-imagining of the 1968 Public domain film and is no way conected to george A Romero."
Ooooh.. Motorbike Punch looks awesome!
there is also a day of the dead remake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObYs3q4ix2o
it actually looks better than Night of the Living Dead IN 3D remake
And yet still awful.
The Day of the Dead remake came as a bit of a surprise.. didn't know about that!
But how on earth they think Ving Rhames is going to fill Joe Pilato's scenery-chewing/hideously overacting shoes as Capt. Rhodes I have no idea.
"You want me to salute that pile of walking pus? Salute my ass! "
"I'm running this monkey farm now Frankenstein and I wanna know... what the **** your doing with my time? "
and of course
"Choke on 'em! "
hehehehe... seriously Ving Rhames is onto a bigger loser than the Dawn remake!
Just watched the trailer for this and it looks ******* awful, would not stop me watching it though. And what's with this crap about having 'Were coming to get you Barbara' done over a mobile phone? Punk bitches.....
Some company is putting out 20 films in 3D including Night of the Living Dead. Can't see how that is going to work, but i'm curious.
Here is the brief article:
"Here’s a retro use for DVD technology. Razor3D and X3D (is there a pattern here?) have announced they will be releasing 3D versions of 20 movies, the majority of which will be genre in nature.
Of the three big titles coming, starting in September, the Zombie classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD should be stirring your interest as it is ours, along with Bruce Lee’s THE CHINESE CONNECTION.
And how’s this for incongruous: another film set for the 3D treatment is the Gregory Peck classic TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD"
:eek:
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http://www.hex2001.demon.co.uk/forums/kid_3D_glasses.jpg
:p
slightly dubious as to the impact you would get from a pair of glasses that shut off one eye at a time. :/
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Hmmmm.....
Only film I have ever seen in the cinema that was full 3D was Jaws 3D. I reckon I was about 14 at the time, and thought it was pretty amazing, never having experienced it before.
But, after going to Florida last year and seeing a few of the 3D shows, it became apparant that wearing those specs for more than about 15 minutes strains your eyes something terrible! It is great in small doses, but the thought of sitting through a full hour and a half film wearing them is not very attractive!
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Surely NOTLD would not benefit from being in 3D, as it was filmed "flat" and was meant to be seen as that. For a film to have any impact in 3D, I'd imagine it would have be filmed with 3D in mind.
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I am not a fan of 3D, and I can't imagine NOTLD receiving 3D treatment. I wouldn't even be curious - it's a classic and should remain that way - 3D would cheapen it!
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Originally posted by Tiffany Bradford
I am not a fan of 3D, and I can't imagine NOTLD receiving 3D treatment. I wouldn't even be curious - it's a classic and should remain that way - 3D would cheapen it!
Agree wholeheartedly.
The only 3D film I remember seeing and enjoying was a black & white Western (I think it may have been called Tomahawk) which had some excellent used of 3D - 2 scenes which stuck out for me as a teenager were the indian throwing a tomahawk straight at the viewer, and a cowboy firing an arrow at the viewer too.
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Now if only Criterion had released Flesh For Frankenstein in 3D.
Oh for a re-release. Fond memories of seeing this in the NFT's 3D season a few years ago.
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Originally posted by CraigKORE
Hmmmm.....
Only film I have ever seen in the cinema that was full 3D was Jaws 3D.
Ahh, them were the days...
Jaws 3D, Parasite, Friday The 13th Part 3, Treasure Of The Four Crowns.
You've gotta love the early 80's :p
(This was just before all town centre cinemas were turned into bingo halls...)
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Originally posted by BenH
Now if only Criterion had released Flesh For Frankenstein in 3D.
Unfortunately, Polaroid 3D processes such as the one used in <I>Flesh for Frankenstein</I> simply don't work on digital media, as they exploit the properties of light in a very specific way. The only way you could get it to work would be to translate the film into a different 3-D process, either the relatively primitive red-green type (which would work on all players but which would involve sacrificing much of the original colour) or a more sophisticated LCD system involving special glasses synchronised to alternating images on the screen. So it's not hard to see why Criterion felt that this was beyond them!
I'm rather keener on 3D than many of the above posters, having been lucky enough to see <I>House of Wax, It Came From Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon</I> and <I>Dial M For Murder</I> in the process, together with <I>Friday 13th Part 3, Jaws 3-D</I> and <I>Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone</I> during the brief early 1980s revival - and I think it's a crying shame that its popularity fizzled out before major talents who might have pushed 3D onto a new artistic plane managed to get their projects off the ground.
Hitchcock obviously was a major talent, but it's equally obvious from the 3D <I>Dial M For Murder</I> that his heart wasn't in it - the sheer amount of back projection rather gives this away! But rather more intriguing but sadly unmade films included <I>Tesla</I>, a biopic of the electricity pioneer by Jerzy Skolimowski (who was a rather more intriguing director in the early 1980s than his subsequent work would suggest) and <I>Little Shop of Horrors</I>, to be directed by Martin Scorsese in 3D! And at the time, both Scorsese and Skolimowski expressed their desire to do more with the process's ability to exploit depth than their predecessors had done - <I>It Came From Outer Space</I> is one of the few other 3D films that genuinely tries to use 3D intelligently.
But this <I>Night of the Living Dead</I> looks like a non-starter, for obvious technical reasons - I suspect it was only chosen because the film is notoriously in the public domain (which is why it also underwent the indignity of colorization and so-called 30th Anniversary updates with unnecessary new footage!). I'd be much more intrigued by 3D versions of some of the Pixar films, which would certainly be technically possible given the nature of the medium!
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Ah those NFT 3D seasons - those were the days !
Black Lagoon
Treasure of the Frour Crowns (must be up there with Manos !)
The Stewardesses (3D soft pr0n !)
Dynasty (crazy Japanese epic)
:nuts:
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Anyone see "Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (3D)"
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Originally posted by Tyler Durden
Anyone see "Adventures In The Forbidden Zone (3D)"
Yep, the one and only film I saw in 3D at a local cinema back in my teenage years. It seemed really amazing then but having seen it again on TV without the 3D it kind of lost it's appeal.
Also, Mr Brooke mentioned it in his post just above :)
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Originally posted by Analog Kid
Yep, the one and only film I saw in 3D at a local cinema back in my teenage years. It seemed really amazing then but having seen it again on TV without the 3D it kind of lost it's appeal.
It didn't have much appeal for me first time round, but it was very far from my first 3D film. If I remember rightly, I couldn't see any particularly obvious reason why it was made in 3D in the first place - at least <I>Friday 13th</I> was enjoyably gimmicky.
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Heads-up. They've only gone and filmed it:
Night of the Living D3ad (2006)
Dave's (http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/) has the trailer, and a link to the official website. A warning to anyone watching the trailer - if you like horror films with a hint of subtlety, look away now...
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"Comin 4 U Barb" :lol:
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Looks soooooo bad it could almost be good.
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there is also a day of the dead remake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObYs3q4ix2o
it actually looks better than Night of the Living Dead IN 3D remake
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Notice the words that flashed up very fast at the end of the trailer...
"This is a re-imagining of the 1968 Public domain film and is no way conected to george A Romero."
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Ooooh.. Motorbike Punch looks awesome!
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there is also a day of the dead remake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObYs3q4ix2o
it actually looks better than Night of the Living Dead IN 3D remake
And yet still awful.
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The Day of the Dead remake came as a bit of a surprise.. didn't know about that!
But how on earth they think Ving Rhames is going to fill Joe Pilato's scenery-chewing/hideously overacting shoes as Capt. Rhodes I have no idea.
"You want me to salute that pile of walking pus? Salute my ass! "
"I'm running this monkey farm now Frankenstein and I wanna know... what the **** your doing with my time? "
and of course
"Choke on 'em! "
hehehehe... seriously Ving Rhames is onto a bigger loser than the Dawn remake!
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Just watched the trailer for this and it looks ******* awful, would not stop me watching it though. And what's with this crap about having 'Were coming to get you Barbara' done over a mobile phone? Punk bitches.....
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