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Jurassic Park 3D re-release in theaters April 5 2013


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JP is just over 2 hours long, and Titanic is (considering the credits) just over 3 hours. They probably don't need 2 years to do it to the same standard.

I wouldn't mind seeing Titanic again actually - many years since I last watched it, and contrary to popular bashing, I think it's a very effective film. Plus, I'm very curious to know whether the conversion really holds up.

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JP is just over 2 hours long, and Titanic is (considering the credits) just over 3 hours. They probably don't need 2 years to do it to the same standard.

I wouldn't mind seeing Titanic again actually - many years since I last watched it, and contrary to popular bashing, I think it's a very effective film. Plus, I'm very curious to know whether the conversion really holds up.

True. I think 6-8 months is enough for Stereo D to deliver a quality 3D conversion for JP (especially since the film is completed)... but I hope Spielberg and Universal remastered the film before starting the conversion process.

And I think Titanic holds up really well after 15 years. Some of the dialogue is a bit corny, but it's still quite an achievement movie-wise and technologically. It's still one of Cameron's best-paced and moving films to be sure.

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The conversion will depend on the master they used. If it was the same as the BluRay, it's going to look shit. Needs a 4K scan for best results. Surely Spielberg knows this.

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By that you mean going to the edited negative and re-scanning?

It's not like they should need to fix the image like they had to do with Jaws, surely - this is a recent film. But yes, the blu-ray rip I saw looked unremarkable.

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Essentially, yes. They would need to go back to the original negative and scan it at 4K as was done for Titanic. The original print is be assembled from the in-camera negatives, and whatever renders ILM did (I think 50 shots in all, at a very low resolution due to technilogical constraints; those shots will never look better unless ILM actually re-scan the original plate photography and re-render the effects at higher resolutions... which would be costly to say the least.)

Depending on the state of Universal's archiving, the print should be in decent condition (no major dirt, scratches or negative damage-- but it is two decades old), and it will then need all the film grain scrubbed out with DNR before 3D conversion can be started (it can then be layered back on after conversion). If they attempt this with a 10 year old DVD master, they're crazy. The difference between film scanners from 2000 and 2012 is humungous (just compare the old HD master of Aliens with the new 2010 4K version).

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if the same care is used that was used in Titanic then JP will be fun.

The whole sequence in the kitchen and when the Raptor jumps towards the ceiling.

The T-Rex trying to get the kids through the explorer's roof will be enhanced.

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The original release of Titanic is what made us fall in love with it. The 3D did not enhance it as much as people claim. I would have been fine without it and will continue to be. For me, it was more about seeing it in IMAX on an enormous screen with heads the size of a building and deafening sound.

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In the end it still pales to the original theatrical though, right? I mean, do any of you have a 3D TV at home?

not yet but someday. I find it idiotic that people outright reject 3D, it is the future, whether its soon or later, it will happen. There will come a point where 3D will be available without glasses and when that happens it will become the standard.

I really want to see college basketball and football in 3D.

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I'm not outright rejecting it. I've seen several films in 3D, and disliked the experience every time. It's been around almost as long as film itself has, so it definitely isn't going anywhere, but it is becoming more prominent.

It's a cash grab at the end of it. We see life in three dimensions already.

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3D movies need to seriously up the ante. Incorporate in-theater effects that made the 3D films at Disney and Universal a special experience. So, lasers, smoke, spraying water, smells, penguin orchestra, Statler and Waldorf in the balcony, Terminators to either side of the theater with machine guns, and of course, seats that dance to Michael Jackson.

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I've never had a bad 3D experience, though I've seen some bad 3D films.

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For me, it was more about seeing it in IMAX on an enormous screen with heads the size of a building

So Kate Winslett's huge tracts of land would have been the size of a building? Damnit, I missed the IMAX train.

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For me, it was more about seeing it in IMAX on an enormous screen with heads the size of a building

So Kate Winslett's huge tracts of land would have been the size of a building?

But her breasts weren't in 3D... the only disappointing thing about the 3D re-release.

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Yes, Winslet's breasts are nice. Yes, the movie was in 3D. But her breasts didn't have that 3D 'pop' in that portrait scene. The only part where you wanted to 'touch' is that closeup shot of her hips as DiCaprio shifts nervously and tells her to lie on the couch. Thank goodness the 3D rotoscopers were sensible enough to make that part of the foreground.

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I stopped noticing the 3D at some point. The best examples were earlier in the movie like the wreck, which had serious dimension. I memorably immediately thought "holy shit, the entire movie is going to be like this??" I feel like I eventually adjusted and lost the effect? In a weird way, it didn't feel much different from watching it normally by the second half of the movie. It was just absolutely enormous and clearly destroying my hearing.

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Btw will they make mr. DNA in 3D also?

I should hope not. That cartoon presentation is just that - a cartoon presentation on a 2D screen.

It could easily be replaced with an animated 3D clip. It would make the movie more up to date and less 'outdated' for younger viewers.

Anyway I would prefer a remake (with the same music and same technology), shot in 3D, over a 3D conversion of the original movie.

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You sound like a deluded fanboy.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

When it comes to JP, I'm definitely a FANBOY!! All the way. I could eat and drink JURASSIC PARK all day long. :)

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And I think that with the untimely death of Crichton, the series should have definitively ended by now. JP2 was "oh, you wrote a book? that's nice; I'll use the title, some of the characters, the name of the island, and the giant tractor trailer...the rest we'll just make up." JP3 really didn't cement the legitimacy of the franchise.

However, I know that one logical counter-argument is that Star Trek should have died in 1991 with Roddenberry. (Yes, I realize it's a stretch) So to each their own, I suppose.

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And I think that with the untimely death of Crichton, the series should have definitively ended by now. JP2 was "oh, you wrote a book? that's nice; I'll use the title, some of the characters, the name of the island, and the giant tractor trailer...the rest we'll just make up." JP3 really didn't cement the legitimacy of the franchise.

However, I know that one logical counter-argument is that Star Trek should have died in 1991 with Roddenberry. (Yes, I realize it's a stretch) So to each their own, I suppose.

No, it shouldn't have died. It should have blossomed on, in the myriad of different possibilities the fictional universe offers up. It's an outrage that it's been more than a decade since the last film -- with only a videogame a couple of years ago to satisfy a little bit of the extreme hunger.

JURASSIC PAAAAAAAAARK!!

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And I think that with the untimely death of Crichton, the series should have definitively ended by now. JP2 was "oh, you wrote a book? that's nice; I'll use the title, some of the characters, the name of the island, and the giant tractor trailer...the rest we'll just make up." JP3 really didn't cement the legitimacy of the franchise.

However, I know that one logical counter-argument is that Star Trek should have died in 1991 with Roddenberry. (Yes, I realize it's a stretch) So to each their own, I suppose.

So should Bond have died after Fleming did? That means we would have never gotten any film after Goldfinger.

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First of all, I conceded that my counter-argument was a stretch, because many of the most popular Star Trek incarnations had minimal input or less from Roddenberry, such as Star Trek II and the DS9 series.

Secondly, your argument ignores the fact that many Bond films to be made after 1964 are based on books or stories that Ian Fleming wrote and/or published before his death. Furthermore, Glidrose Productions (later, Ian Fleming Publications) authorized several authors to continue writing James Bond novels, even into the present day and beyond -- the next Bond novel is by William Boyd and due for release in the autumn of 2013. The Bond franchise is in good hands and is in far, far better shape than the Star Trek franchise.

But no author has come forward and written sequel novels about Islas Nublar y Sorna, or invented new islands or continental facilities where dinosaurs are being created, released, and then avoided. A few applications of napalm to the islands would make sequels unnecessary and this fictional "universe"....extinct.

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I still don't see why you think Crichton was an integral part of Jurassic Park. Yes he wrote the original novel, but even the first film changed things. The second film used a few bits no different than any Bond film after Live and Let Die (even before that You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever were barely recognizable to the Fleming works). I think the fact that no one has stepped forward and taken this franchise over doesn't mean nobody could, nor does it mean they couldn't do a better job than Speilberg. Would you be opposed to someone taking over Star Wars after Lucas died?

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What's wrong with blockbuster trash? With the exception of the first one, there was never much to say with the JP series. Just give me some entertainment!

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I'm all for more modern and refined reconstructions. The dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are from a film. They are imperfect. They're certainly not holy "designs" or reconstructions that shall not be touched.

Also it is certainly possible to make a story involving dinosaurs that doesn't make use of the famous species everybody knows.

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well i can accept updated revisions... but using the same design... :P

But no author has come forward and written sequel novels about Islas Nublar y Sorna, or invented new islands or continental facilities where dinosaurs are being created, released, and then avoided. A few applications of napalm to the islands would make sequels unnecessary and this

fictional "universe"....extinct.

do these count?:

Jurassic_park_survivor_cover.jpgJurassic_park_prey_cover.jpg407px-Jurassic_park_flyers_cover.jpg

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Would you be opposed to someone taking over Star Wars after Lucas died?

I wish someone would have taken over Star Wars fifteen years ago and made Lucas an executive consultant.

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