Channel hopping today we came across an ad from Comcast touting that the upcoming Masters golf tournament was going to be broadcast in 3D for the three people on the planet who are already hooked up ready to go. We had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn’t April 1st because who in their right fucking mind wants to watch four hours of guys standing around finely manicured lawns hitting a ball in three dimensions. Seriously?
Anyway, this rant is going somewhere because Deadline revealed today that David “I insist you use my middle initial” R. Ellis is going to helm “Shark Night 3D” continuing the run of shitacular films in the format that by this point must be angering James Cameron to Incredible Hulk-like levels (though, in his case, he would be blue with rage, right?) In case you want to know what it’s about, just watch the trailer for the upcoming “Piranhas 3D” and substitute killer fish with killer sharks and that’s probably about right. Ellis recently helmed the 3D installment of the “Final Destination” franchise, so its firmly in his wheelhouse of crappy projects. Walt Conti, who created the oh-so believable animatronic animals for films like “Anaconda” and “Deep Blue Sea” (which has the best Samuel L. Jackson death scene ever) will be doing similar duties here.
The film will be shot in Louisiana this summer, and then released to numb our brains sometime next year.
You guys should be thrilled about the race to release 3D movies, even if they're crap movies. It'll only tire audiences out sooner and go away sooner(hopefully).
It makes perfect sense that these studios are trying to cash in on the novelty as fast as they can, because the bad movies at higher prices put out so far can't possibly last for more than a couple years. So they might as well make the cash they can for now. Before it all goes away. $13 for Clash of the Titans? Come on, that can't last. We'll wait for the 65% drop off in week 2.
Does Cameron actually think studios will spend the extra tens of millions of $ to actually film in 3D rather than just spend a few million $ to just convert it?
It looks like a stupid movie released for the sake of 3D.