Hot Clip: Keanu Reeves, James Cameron Discuss Babies And 3D In ‘Side By Side’

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• Likewise, I’ve heard it reported that so-called “primitive” people — who use their vision for survival — when shown a projected motion picture, do not sense motion because their persistence of vision has not been educated to accept the illusion. Instead, they discern what it really is, which is a succession of still pictures.

  Comment by Santayana — Monday August 20, 2012 @ 3:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Saw this at a screening on Saturday with a q & a by Keanu and the director – anyone who is a fan of movies and the making of them should definitely see this. Thoroughly entertaining and informative. Reeves and director Kenneally did an excellent job with it

  Comment by Mark — Monday August 20, 2012 @ 3:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “You’re scientists! You should do this because it needs to be known!”

  Try to keep that positive frame of mind in thought the next time a studio asks to lower your rate/profit participation with the reason: “You’re a director! You should shoot this because it needs to be seen!”

  Comment by Scientists — Monday August 20, 2012 @ 3:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Great stuff. Cameron is a visionary director like no other. No one else in the modern era combines groundbreaking technical and scientific ambition, a highly artistic sense of dynamic visual storytelling, and an obsessive perfectionism the way that Cameron does.

  Comment by JediJones — Monday August 20, 2012 @ 3:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Douglas Trumbull too.

    Comment by Kabbe — Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 2:08am PDT  Reply to this post

  • And yet doesn’t make any good films.

    Comment by A B — Thursday September 20, 2012 @ 1:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I like Cameron but remember the man has invested millions in 3D so of course he’s going to champion it to the day he dies

  Comment by Daniel — Monday August 20, 2012 @ 4:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I also saw it at the Laemmle NoHo 7 on Saturday with Keanu Reeves and his producer. Excellent documentary on the state of motion picture capture and projection. Who knew that Keanu would be such a good interviewer. Recommended.

  Comment by Jack M — Monday August 20, 2012 @ 4:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s going to take a few years for people to “Adapt” to 48fps. Since the advent of movie 24fps is how we’ve been seeing it. By the time post-modern cinema came around it “feels” natural to us to see motion and temporal resolution as it’s captured at 24fps. That’s why the early HD cine-cameras weren’t adopted. It just looked way too different. As soon as Sony and Panasonic caught up with the “film look” everyone jumped on the HD train. One thing that I can’t get over (yet) are LED TVs on the market right now. Everything looks like poorly choreographed stage play. Camera movemnts in particular feel very odd when watching on LED. It’s going to be a similar feeling when watching movies at the theater in 48fps, at least for the first few summers.

  Comment by m — Monday August 20, 2012 @ 4:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • But on the LED/LCD tvs you can TURN OFF that smooth motion stuff.

    Comment by Guest — Monday August 20, 2012 @ 7:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Exactly. I saw someone’s TV that had that feature ON and it made everything look like a cheap soap opera. When I got my new TV, it was the first thing I turned off.

      As for Cameron’s 3D, the only 3D movie I have for my 3D TV and 3D BluRay is Avatar. It may have looked good in the theater, but they have a long way to go to make that effect smoother. Some scenes look 3D, while some don’t. They also seem dimly lit compared to the 2D version.

      Comment by Wicked — Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 5:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• so where is cowboy bebop Mr Reeves.

  Comment by James cryan — Tuesday August 21, 2012 @ 7:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• His assumption is that higher brain activity in the cinema is better, and that there is some problem with knowing the movie is not real.

  These foundations are off in my opinion.

  I love cinema because of the hypnotic and absorbing brain state the medium puts me in – cinema is like dreams when it’s at its best – and if you want real, get out of the cinema.

  It’s as though his flawed views are infecting a whole section of Hollywood. What was Scorsese thinking back when Hugo came out and he talked about all his movies in 3D. Or Peter Jackson telling us that 48fps is coming whether we like it or not.

  What are these people talking about. Did they forget what brought them to cinema in the first place.

  I totally believe cinema to be a perfected art form; as is! We love cinema, right. Did anybody complain about the reality of the cinema experience before Avatar (which is not even a good movie (in my opinion). I guarantee that most of the people supporting these things, and in search of ‘real’ on a screen, spend their adult life playing video games.

  If you want a good movie, look to Billy Wilder, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Fellini, Kazan, Chaplin, David Lean or Griffith, etc. etc. Or the many filmmakers doing decent work today.

  What is all this craziness about cinema needing all this change. How about a beautiful, high resolution negative, a huge screen to exhibit and an exceptional surround sound system. You simply can’t improve that experience.

  You can only ruin it. Don’t buy the propaganda.

  Matt

  Comment by Matt — Thursday August 23, 2012 @ 9:17am PDT  Reply to this post

  • I absolutely agree with everything you wrote Matt. I couldn’t have put it better myself.

    Comment by A B — Thursday September 20, 2012 @ 1:51pm PDT  Reply to this post