The 3D fad in movies…and when it will end
It’s easy to spot the new trend in movies these days: people are always kicking the back of my chair while they text on their iPhones. Besides these unfortunate occurrences, more and more studios are turning to the 3D format to make boatloads of cash.
You might not have seen it. You might not plan to see it, and you might be sick of James Cameron’s blue cat-like aliens planted all over the place, but there is no denying that Avatar blasted the movie industry like an atom bomb. To date, in the US alone, the movie has earned more than $730 million dollars. Think about that number for a minute. Yes I know the premium price of 3D tickets inflated it, but that number is still remarkable for a genre film almost three hours long.
In the wake of the explosion, more studios like Warner Brothers and Lionsgate are scrambling to rotoscope newly made movies into the 3D format. The thing is, when studios take an existing movie and then apply the 3D process over it on the back end, the results aren’t nearly as spectacular as movies that were filmed with 3D cameras. Check out this excerpt from an article entitled “The Movie Studios’ Big 3D Scam” at Gizmodo.com:
“The process of making a movie 3D after it was shot is a complicated and time consuming process but can be somewhat convincing. The problem is it will never reflect the same results as if you were filming using two cameras, simultaneously, from slightly different perspectives. Endless rotoscoping provides layers that can be separated to fake a different perspective for the second eye, but that’s what it looks like, layers. So yes, you can push things away and pull things forward and enhance the depth, but the content within each layer has no depth.”
http://www.bizmology.com/2010/03/19/the-3d-fad-in-movies-and-when-it-will-end/
Jesse James and Michelle “Bombshell” McGee Had Sex on The Queen Mary, Friend Claims
All those shots of Jesse James looking adoringly at Sandra Bullock from the audience during awards season certainly had us believing they were a great couple.
Maybe they were, maybe they weren’t.
Tattoo model Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, who told InTouch Weekly that she had an affair with the Monster Garage mechanic, had her last sexual encounter with James at least eight months ago at the hotel onboard the historic Queen Mary in Long Beach, claims McGee’s close friend and former roommate, Lindsay Sinai, in an exclusive interview with E! News.
Sinai, who says she has never met James, heard that he and McGee hooked up romantically only three or four times before their supposed final tryst at the ship’s hotel.
James, who’s been married to Bullock since July 2005, issued a public apology today to the Oscar winner and his three kids from previous marriages in which he said that “the vast majority of the allegations reported are untrue and unfounded.”
The seemingly remorseful hubby did not, however, specify, Tiger Woods-style, why he is so sorry and deserves “every bad thing that is coming [his] way.”
2009 Los Angeles Auto Show
If the North American auto show season has an official kickoff party, the Los Angeles Auto Show is it. In addition to world debuts of the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe, 2011 Toyota Sienna and VW Up! Lite Concept, the 2009 LA Auto Show again played host to the Green Car of the Year announcement, which went to a diesel car for the second year in a row. The LA Auto Show is also a first chance to see and touch the cars unveiled around the world in the eight months since the New York Auto Show, which this year included jaw-droppers like the 2011 Lexus LFA and 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
