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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
2D films are here to stay, just like we still have books and paintings that don't need to be replaced with instructional videos or photography. 3D will remain a specialty market for a very long time, at least until we discover a way to make true holographic movies. 3D TVs look like utter shit and I don't believe the hype. Cameron making those pronouncements is just trying to psych out the competition and drum up business for his products. Fuck him. Fuck Peter Jackson too-- Lord of the Ringworms was fucking boring! Del Toro is a much more imaginative director-- Pan's Labyrinth used effects and technology to a great end.
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2D will remain, but as an exception, much like some art movies are still made in B/W. I'm sure Tokolosh was speaking more generally and, whether we like it or not, I suspect Cameron and Jackson represent mainstream cinema's future more than anyone else. Hollywood is increasingly targeting a quite specific youth audience for the bulk of its profits, most of whom appear to have no interest in 'classical' cinema whatsoever. I teach a class on animation and every year I'm astonished at how each new year of students' have a lesser set reference points compared with the last, to the extent that most of this year's intake are treating Toy Story as their 'year zero', not even being that aware of Disney. (I'm starting to feel a nostalgia for the year of students who thought cinema started with Akira). These people are cinema's future as much as Cameron and Jackson in that they're the very demographic Hollywood makes movies for - not you, or me or anyone else who's yet to be seduced by the prospect of seeing cinema reduced to an endless cycle of bigger, more life-like explosions.But as a market we're increasingly irrelevant.