A blog about 3D cinema

Background: To date, despite owning DC Comics' entire catalogue of superheroes, Warner Brothers have taken a small-scale - or at least self-contained - approach to their big-screen adaptations. Certainly their DC films have not been as far-reaching or synergistic as anything from Disney's Marvel-verse. Warners, seeing Marvel's successes - and perhaps fearing a time when The Hobbit  can't be split into any further films - promptly commissioned another blockbuster series from Christopher Nolan and his Dark Knight team. Taking on the Man Of Steel himself   is no small challenge .  The brief Warners likely gave was that the film needed to broadly introduce aliens to Earth, show Superman punching bad guys, and earn big Dark Knight -sized blockbuster grosses. Some challenge! Nolan promptly recruited 300 and Watchmen  " visionary " director Zack Snyder to helm the mayhem. The resulting film was released yesterday and 3Defence was there in a packed auditorium ...

UPDATE - we've now reviewed Man Of Steel's post-converted 3D . In the lead-up to June 14th, we're getting more and more footage released for the upcoming film, Man Of Steel . The Superman flick is being post-converted into 3D (which we can't imagine producer Christopher Nolan is very happy about). Perhaps proving how forgettable Superman Returns was, many news agencies and bloggers have incorrectly reported that Man Of Steel is the caped boy scout's first 3D outing. It's fair to say that  Steel 's director, Zac Snyder, is wary of Returns ' luke-warm reception. The 3D footage used in that film was intermittent, with long periods of time passing in 2D. Snyder has upped the stakes by saying , "anticipating how audiences today embrace 3D, we designed and photographed the movie in a way that would allow Man of Steel  to captivate those movie goers." Indeed, Man Of Steel is actually Zac Snyder's second 3D film; the first being the atrocio...