Re:Real 3D or Fake 3D
by classichasclass on Saturday January 18, 2020 @11:15AM
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Yes, the Slo-Mo effects were mesmerizing. In 2D they were pretty (despite depicting sometimes extraordinarily violent scenes, though I think this was a deliberate commentary by the filmmakers). But in 3D they had the uncommon quality of being hyperreal and hyperunreal at the same time, some weird appeal to your addled occiptal lobe - case in point where Dredd flings Ma-Ma out a window and the shards of glass twinkle like a gentle rain of thousands of diamonds. If someone watched those scenes purely in 2D they missed that experience entirely.
I remember going to see one of the Abrams Star Trek movies in 3D and at the start on some technicolour planet someone throws a spear at the screen and I’d say most of the audience tried to physically dodge it. Thereafter I forgot about the 3D effect and my brain adjusted.
In Dredd, every time there is a scene where someone inhales the slow-mo drug the brightness of the scene increases dramatically. It restarted that part of the brain that made me want to dodge that spear.