Too bad they all die on Jabba’s sail barge. I feel kind of bad about that. Maybe Luke was a little too extreme in blowing up everybody. A lot of those people were probably just servants and slaves.

The name of Jabba the Hutt’s band is… Max Rebo Band!

Last spring I made a movie that’s partially in 3D.

http://vimeo.com/5217711

NSFW – Nudity

So let’s say that ten years from now, they introduce a TV that can broadcast 3D, without the need to wear glasses. People will be excited about this. They are going to want to have 3D content. And at that point I’m worried that 3D Star Wars becomes more viewed than regular flat Star Wars. Or 3D Beauty and the Beast is the Beauty and the Beast people grow up with.

I realize this scenario is so far off that it’s silly to think about. But when your kid is surprised to learn that Lord of the Rings wasn’t originally shot in 3D, don’t come crying to me.

PS: Yeah, My Bloody Valentine is a cool little slasher film, with or without 3D. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel – it’s just a nice wheel.

Would all the Disney movies get 3Dfied? That depends first on whether Beauty and the Beast is a hit, which could go either way. Even if it is, I’d be surprised if anything earlier than the little mermaid got the treatment: the golden-age Disney art style is a lot harder to reconcile to 3D than, say, Aladdin is. And even if all the old Disney movies did get this treatment, that’s a pretty small subset of the larger set of “movies in general.” By the same token, colorized versions of some old movies do exist, but Ted Turner’s “colorize the lot of them and be damned” strategy never got off the ground.

I saw ‘Up’ in 3D and I have to say that I was pretty unimpressed. Maybe that’s because they had few of the sight gags that normally come along with the type of filming. But the trailer for ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ looked pretty awesome in 3D.

Color became the “in thing” and the standard, is 3D going to be the new standard? I don’t think it’l become the new standard for everything as certain genres don’t have a practical use for it (romantic comedies and dramas come to mind). I do agree with whomever said on the podcast that 3D is going to hit the superhero genre next. It won’t surprise me next year if we see Iron Man 2 in 3D and I’m positive it’s coming, if not 2009 then definitely 2010.

I’ll admit though, I haven’t seen any recent films in 3D, partially because very few theathers in my area have been carrying them. Captain EO at Epcot was the last 3D film I’ve seen and that was nearly 20 years ago.God, I’m getting old.

@Riderlon: Your argument about why color replaced black and white doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. You say that it went away because they weren’t making good movies in black and white. It makes a lotmore sense to say that, by the time they stopped making good movies in black and white, it had already gone away! And the later black and white movies that most people would call good were in a very real sense either “subpar” (super low budget, i.e. Night of the Living Dead or Clerks) or “incomprehensible art student films” (the result of an oddball aesthetic choice by the director, i.e. Psycho, The Fly, The Good German, The Man Who Wasn’t There, etc). Pretty much any “normal” movie is color by default, and has been basically since the technique was perfected. In other words, color became the status quo, which is the same as being the “in thing” except it’s permanent.

I agree with you on Treehouse of Horror V, though. Straight-up brilliant.