Re: Cinema chains dimming movies up to 85% - 3D is killing the movies

On Mon, 23 May 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> I wonder if this explains my experience with Thor.  I saw in the 
> backwoods that is Ironwood, MI and attributed the lousy picture quality 
> to aging equipment/lack of upkeep, but I wonder if they had the 3d print 
> and were showing it on a 2d projector or vice versa.

FWIW, all 3D movies these days are projected digitally, so there is no 
"print".  A lot of 2D movies are projected digitally, too.  The problem 
described in this article would only affect 2D movies that are projected 
digitally on projectors that still have their 3D lenses on.  There 
wouldn't be any 3D lenses on regular film projectors in the first place, 
because no 3D film would be projected on film in the first place.

Incidentally, another reason I'm not overly fond of 3D (though I do make a 
point of catching films in 3D when it's available) is because the only way 
to do 3D properly is to *shoot* the film in 3D (instead of converting it 
afterwards), but the only way to shoot a film in 3D is to use digital 
cameras, and a lot of digitally-shot movies look like video rather than 
film (and yes, this includes the non-CG sequences in Avatar).

Chris Nolan was asked if he would do the next Batman movie in 3D, and he 
said he wasn't fond of the format partly because he preferred film to 
video, and I agree with him.

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