BY FRITZ “DOC” FREAKENSTEINI was chillin’ in the lab today, reading a national magazine (yes, I still get some of my genre news from old-skool paper pubs) and I read that 80% of Avatar’s $550 million domestic gross has come from 3-D ticket sales. Anyone who doesn’t know about James Cameron’s record-breaking science fiction film is not only living fifty feet under ground under a rock, but probably found this blog thinking it was dedicated to Gene Autry. Reading this made me recall a conversation that I had just last weekend with my fellow Genre Guardian, Professor Photon, about the recent glut of 3-D films being released. We had seen Avatar at the local cinema – in standard 2-D – partly because the theater didn’t show 3-D films, but also because I wouldn’t want to pay extra money for what I believe I referred to as “an optical gimmick that doesn’t work with my corrective-lens glasses on”. The Professor asked me what was the last 3-D film I had seen and I had to admit it had been a long time (they still used the paper glasses with the red and blue lenses). The Professor assured me that the new 3-D process was superior to the old one and that the newer plastic glasses fit just fine over his corrective lenses. The Professor also told me that I should support these technical advances in cinema projection, because in the future the virtual-reality-vision films were going to be even better! I told the Professor that as a time traveler I’d have to take his word for that, but in future I would attempt to seek out a screening of a 3-D movie: As long as it wasn’t a sequel to Friday the 13th or Saw.
How fitting you should predict SAW 3D in your post! Seriously, how hysterical is that DOC?
ReplyDeleteI have no real interest in the Saw series. I remember the first one being pretty scary/ interesting, but all in all not real interested in seeing 3D films.
I had to compliment your foresight in predicting the release of Saw 3D. Nicely done my friend.
I'm not in the predicting business, Sci-Fi Fanatic. My friend Phileas likes to act like he can predict the future, but of course as a time traveler.... he cheats!
ReplyDeleteWhen I mentioned the Saw and Friday the 13th films, I was trying to think of films that I wouldn't see in the theater regardless of what revolutionary process was used, and those were the first two films that popped into my fuzzy noggin'. So, just a lucky guess on my part, because I could just as easily have said Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween or Hostel. I'm loath to admit that I've watched most of these "slasher" and "torture porn" films; but I sometimes wonder why, because I always end up feeling disturbed, dirty or disinterested... or all three! Still, I continue to watch many genre films that I know I'm likely to dislike, because occasionally I do find that one "diamond in the rough" that makes it worthwhile.