Peter Jackson is back in the Shire and working hard making The Hobbit. Turns out the director is gearing the classic novel toward a 3D release. While that may make some people cringe at the thought of sitting through a 3.5 hour movie while wearing 3D glasses, just know that unlike most movies being churned out in 3D, The Hobbit won’t be taking any shortcuts.
Not every film can blatently have fun with 3D like A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas and most just are not worth the extra money. Hollywood, of course, loves the upcharge they get from dishing out a movie in 3D theaters and that’s why a bulk of the movies showing in the format are not really that good.
They’re not made for 3D. They’re not thought out and rather just filtered with a few gimmicks to pass off with the 3D technology.
The success of 3D, which I think will last as long as it did in the 50′s and 80′s, is only as successful as the artists making it and not the studios. That’s why Peter Jackson’s version of The Hobbit in 3D might be worth the trouble because he’s going to put the correct effort into the process.
Jackson is detailing the process online via The Hobbit Blog which has some great gems like this 10 minute look at the production of the movie with a focus on the 3D aspect. Cool stuff for movie nerds.
Peter Jackson is making a complete video blog of his filming of The Hobbit in 3D. It’s really quite interesting, not only to see the film being made and all the characters and costumes… but to see all the effort that they are putting into the 3D processes. Jackson seems to be doing it right. adjusting for the 3D from the get-go and taking extra effort at every corner to make ure that the 3d is really worthwhile.
If you are like me you watched the animated Hobbit movie when you were young and the thought of Peter Jackson making this movie is very exciting. What I’m not very excited about is that it’s in 3D. 3D has left a terrible taste in a lot of people’s mouths as of late because just about every movie that isn’t a chick-flick is either filmed in 3D or retrofitted into even worse 3D.
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