The problem with converting the "original" trilogy to 3D would be that many of the battle scenes were augmented with CG in '97 and '04, so they risk ending up a visually jarring blend of 'cardboard cutout' with 3D-rendered CG overlaid on them. It could look like a complete mess.
Weren't there supposed to been episodes 7,8, and 9? If so, he should concentrate on those and actually finish his story rather than 3D'ing the originals.
Yeah I agree 100%. That's why I don't want this. I mean, I can always choose not to watch it (even if I know I will anyway). All the CG scenes can be easily changed to 3D, but scenes that were shot in 2D and then blended with CG will look like a combination of pop up book characters with real-looking spachips.
They should go the stereoscopic route. Project the movie on two screens and make us watch it with our eyes crossed.
Hey Fos, make sure you get the viewmaster reels with the yellow on the left-eye slide and the red on the right-eye slide so you're trying to figure out what color the explosion is and you're all like FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU BRAIN ANEURYSM and then you pass out from the awesome.
You know it, I'ma tie that thing to my head with a belt! So when I wake up the first thing I see is a Star Destroyer JUMPING out at me! Seriously. If he wants to fix these movies he needs to start with the stilted dialogue and wooden delivery, not the latest fx gimmick.
Oh Christ. The dialogue. I remember sitting in Phantom Menace and watching Liam Neeson cardboard his way through lines that were supposed to be awe-inducing and just cringing.
I love the original trilogy, hate the prequels, and hate this whole 3D movement. The only reason Avatar looked amazing was because it was FILMED in 3D, not converted. With that said, I am not the least surprise Lucas is doing this. He's all about milking the only good thing he's done so that he never has to do anything ever again. Just give me a great looking OT Bluray set and I'm done.
If we had the ability to format text with an outline, I would have upgraded your second post to that, you know, for the 3-D effect.
On the stilted dialogue, I think Harrison Ford said it best during ANH's filming: "George, you can write this shit but you just can't say it."
