James Cameron says: Stop with the bad 3D conversions

Do you hate Hollywood’s newest fad: the quick and sloppy conversion of films that were shot in 2D to badly wrought 3D, just to squeeze some more dollars out of the film at the box office? So does James Cameron, the film-maker who brought 3D back from the dead with his blockbuster, Avatar. He wishes Hollywood studios would cut out the conversions and either shoot films with 3D cameras, or try retro-fitting classic movies instead.

“I maintain you can’t do a good conversion of a two-hour movie with high quality in a few weeks like they tried to do with Clash of the Titans. I don’t mean to throw that movie under the bus because my buddy Sam [Worthington, star of Avatar] is in it, but I think everybody realised that this was a point at which people had gone too far.”

Instead, James Cameron thinks that producers should try turning classic movies like Jaws, Star Wars and Indiana Jones into 3D titles instead. He doesn’t want the studios to half-ass it though: instead, Cameron wants them to grab the original directors and work with them to bring an extra dimension to some of the films we love so much.

Cameron knows more about 3D than anyone, so I think it’s safe to call him an authority on the matter. Let’s hope the studios listen up.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Glasses-free 3D? It’s “eight to ten years away” before its in everyone’s living rooms, Cameron says. If even then.