James Cameron On What Makes A 3d Film ‘Worthy’

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James Cameron reveals what makes a 3D film "worthy" and names three movies released post-"Avatar" that he thinks did the most with the format.  #jamescameron #shorts #avatar #filmmaking #3D

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00:00 Life of Pi, Aang's film, and Martin Scorsese's Hugo,

00:05 and even Ridley Scott's Prometheus,

00:07 these were filmmakers at the top of their game

00:10 authoring in 3D.

00:11 Those are worthy films.

00:13 It's all the kind of rank and file conversion movies

00:16 where the filmmakers haven't cared

00:18 or the studio hasn't let them author,

00:20 shoot, actually shoot in 3D.

00:23 They're not that good.

00:23 And I think it's hurt it.

00:25 But we also gotta put it in perspective.

00:28 When Avatar came out, there were 6,000-ish

00:31 digital 3D screens in the world.

00:35 There's now 120,000 3D-enabled digital screens in the world,

00:40 60,000 alone in China.

00:42 So it's much more ubiquitous, it's much more available,

00:46 it's much more accessible, and it's much less important.

00:49 - Right. - Right?

00:50 Much less important.

00:51 I mean, people will make choices.

00:53 Nobody's gonna go to see a movie because it's in 3D.

00:56 They're gonna go see a movie

00:56 because of all the other reasons they wanna see.

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