The best-sounding 3D movie of the year, and the rest
Which upcoming movies promise to have the best and worst uses of 3-D?
Last year, the horrible 3-D effects of Clash of the Titans and The Last Airbender made bad movies that much worse, yet the trend has yet to peak. One of 2011’s few films that sounds improved by 3-D is Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a documentary from Werner Herzog. The famously moody German director applies his fascination with nonfiction nature films (Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World) to the Chauvet Cave in Southern France, which contains the world’s oldest known cave paintings, dating back to the Upper Paleolithic Period. Access to the cave is highly restricted, so the 3-D should literally make the experience the next best thing to being there. Cave of Forgotten Dreams’s limited U.S. release begins April 29, with its Atlanta release still to be announced.
But which of this summer’s “movie movies” at the cineplex may be potentially ruined by 3-D?