Continuing the airing of my 3d-istaste (you see what I just did there?), I thought I’d pass along this post about the general laziness of 3d. This, more than anything else, might be the thing that renders 3d virtually obsolete before it really gets off the ground this time. While even poorly done sound (and [...]

I’m not actually sure what this study really proves. Essentially, they claim that recent blockbusters are better at mimicking the ebb and flow of attention spans, but as Professor Blough always said, “Correlation does not mean causation.” It could be that the editing in recent blockbusters is better at tapping in to some sort of [...]

When I was younger, there was literally nothing I thought was cooler that the idea that you could watch any movie you wanted without having to go to a video store, hoping it was in stock. Probably because of that, I mentally marked that technology (and this commercial) as how I would know that we [...]

Gizmodo posted the clip below tracing 100 years of visual effects:

But what weird selections. I mean, even in the things they include, they don’t really pick the best sequences. The Wizard of Oz is basically just a tracking shot with big fans just off screen. Surely, some of the matte shots of the Emerald City [...]