7/14/2023 0 Comments Journey center earth 3d glasses![]() There are some particularly good shots once we get underground where most of the backgrounds are created digitally, which allows the underground landscapes to open up with striking effect. That said, Eric Brevig does one of the things that 3D directors seldom do and that is use 3D in terms of depth perspective. Later Brevig has Brendan Fraser shoving dirty plates at us and a dinosaur drooling into the camera. Eric Brevig is also somewhat crass with his pop-up effects at times – one of the first shots of the film is Brendan Fraser getting up in the morning, brushing his teeth and gargling, before spitting the water directly into the camera as it looks up from the hand basin. Surprisingly, for all the ballyhoo made about the 3D format, Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D is not that well photographed with many of the objects that pop out of the screen – yoyos, flares, balls, tape measures – being out of focus. My objection is also one of pricing – where I used to live in New Zealand, theatre chain Hoyts was charging nearly twice the price of a normal admission (with no concession cards allowed), for which one gets an ill-fitting pair of 3D glasses that are recycled from audience to audience (mine had someone else’s food smudged over one lens). Theatres have still not bypassed the problem of requiring the viewer to wear a pair of glasses. Personally, one has doubts as to whether theatrical 3D is going to take off again as anything other than a passing fad. The leading format among these has been Real-D, which has seen a number of high-profile films being tailored if not shot for it. There are some that even regard 3D as the future of cinema, it becoming a bandwagon fad that everybody was attempting to jump aboard after the massive success of Avatar (2009). As cinema screens start losing money due to reasons as varied as digital piracy, a preference for home entertainment systems and streaming services over theatres, the sheer plethora of product out there and general audience indifference at the inferiority of the films being peddled, 3D has been seen as the one gimmick that can draw audiences back to the multiplex. The mid-2000s saw a substantial revival of the 3D format, a fad that was at its height in the mid-1950s. (l to r) Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem journey to the centre of the Earth Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D was Eric Brevig’s debut as a film director. Not happy with the changes, Paul Chart quit to be replaced by Eric Brevig, a visual effects supervisor who has worked at DreamQuest and Industrial Light and Magic and has conducted supervisory work on films such as The Abyss (1989), Total Recall (1990), Men in Black (1997), Wild Wild West (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Signs (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and The Island (2005), among others. ![]() However, Walden Media pushed the film to be tailored to the new 3D fad. ![]() The film apparently started out as a serious adaptation of the Jules Verne novel planned in 2D by director Paul Chart, best known for the underrated thriller American Perfekt (1997). Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D comes from Walden Media, the company responsible for family-friendly, frequently pro-Christian fare such as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and sequels, Charlotte’s Web (2006), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007), The Water Horse (2007), City of Ember (2008), Nim’s Island (2008), Tooth Fairy (2010), The Giver (2014), A Dog’s Purpose (2017), The Star (2017), Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) and A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting (2020). The book has been filmed a number of times, most famously as 20th Century Fox’s Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) with James Mason and Pat Boone as well as the likes of Segundo de Chomon’s lost silent Journey to the Center of the Earth (1908) Juan Piquer Simon’s cheap The Fabulous Adventure at the Center of the Earth (1977) Golan-Globus’s Journey to the Center of the Earth (1988), a near-incoherent modern updating Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993), an unsold tv pilot that had little to do with Jules Verne but tried to turn the underground venue as a realm for adventure in a Star Trek-like scenario two different Hallmark tv mini-series Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999) starring Treat Williams and Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) starring Rick Schroder and Peter Fonda and The Asylum’s B-budget Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) starring Greg Evigan, which was made to capitalise on the promotion for this film. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D is an adaptation of the Jules Verne classic Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) about explorers finding their way down into a vast underground world.
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