Like how most of our generation prefer color rather than black-and-white, the next generation will prefer 3-D more than 2-D.
James Cameron made "Avatar" and showed that 3-D could be big business. Now we live in an age where pretty much every other major film release is going to be in 3-D.
The thing is, "Avatar" was made specifically in 3-D. It was filmed with 3-D cameras and was meant to be watched that way. Many of the recent films bearing the 3-D title were never meant to be in that dimension. Instead they were shot normally and then converted into 3-D in post-production.
"Alice in Wonderland," "Clash of the Titans" and "The Last Airbender" are some of the recent films to use the conversion process and my opinion is the 3-D in those films is terrible. The poor quality might be because the films were were not made for 3-D or that the conversion process creates bad quality 3-D.
Either way studios are going to continue making 3-D films for that extra $3 a movie ticket.
There are only two films coming out this year that were actually made to be in 3-D and are not going through a conversion process. One is the heavily anticipated "TRON: Legacy" in December and the other is "Resident Evil: Afterlife," which hits theaters this weekend.
In the above trailer you can definitely see that this is going to be gimmick 3-D with objects being constantly thrown at the camera. "Avatar" used 3-D to give the world of Pandora life - not to throw things in our faces.
Being a major fan of the "Resident Evil" video game franchise gives me a bias against the films (not a positive one), but will "Afterlife" actually be the next big 3-D film? Sure, Cameron's name is thrown at our faces in the trailer as well so the studio must be betting on this film to succeed.
I think this trailer rings more truer than the other one.
