Kevin Smith Discusses Downloading Movies & 3D Cinema (05.09.09 - Day 764)

How Many Days? Day 764

Writer/Director Kevin Smith discusses distributing movies online, itunes, the future of filmmaking as we know it from grand theaters to ipods and blackberries and also his thoughts on the return of gimmicks to the cinema such as 3D.

Filmmaker Gavin Michael Booth is on a mission to meet the Hollywood professionals that have inspired him in his career thus far.

Steven Spielberg, Kevin Smith, Jimmy Eat World, Zach Braff, Tom Anderson, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Johnny Depp, Harry Knowles, Dan Mirvish, Bryan Singer, and Ellen DeGeneres.

Click here to see the daily video journals from Gavin as he asks, pleads, begs, whines for these people to sit down for dinner and offer advice and encouragement for his directing career.

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[glennjridge]

is it wrong to be a fan of a director yet hate his movies?

[GavinMichaelBooth]

@glennjridge NOPE! I only REALLY like a couple of Smith's films.

[PrisonCipher]

Hucksterism is the new Exhibitionism = Truth, I blame James Cameron for not actually making a film with substance but instead making dances with wolves with smurfs...real nice. And I agree it is a giant step backwards but the audience nay the public are masses of drones that like the new "shiny".

[GavinMichaelBooth]

@PrisonCipher You think 3D started that? Have you looked at all the shiny-turd 2D films that have come out in the last 10 years that the public have seen. 3D isn't making films worse... bad scripts and lousy studio appeal to make anything original. Pirates 2 and 3 would still be shit if in 3D instead of 2D... not smell WORSE... 3D movies that suck, suck just as bad in 2D on DVD.

[PrisonCipher]

@GavinMichaelBooth , 3D didn't start it, but its definitely bringing it back and making it the new "cool" thing to do for movie companies. I expect nearly every movie in 2011 to be in 3d. But I'm not discussing which is worse 2D or 3D, but rather that 3D is making a comeback that doesn't require a good let alone a bad script. No one has to try anymore when 60million will go see a movie due to it being in 3D.

[GavinMichaelBooth]

@PrisonCipher Again.. not true... look at the types and genres of 3D films that are coming out and their box office... they aren't selling that much more in dollars and especially not in ticket sales compared to other similar films. Kids movies do the best in 3D... but again those films would have done great otherwise. 16mm, redcam, home video, black and white, tons of effects, no effects, 3D, not 3D... doesn't matter... a well marketed piece of shit will still find an audience... boo.

[Efreeti]

Cool interview, but the music is cringeworthy. On your website too.

[BrodieBruce]

Great interview.

[mrjimmyos]

@glennjridge I'm a fan of Stanley Kubrick but not some of his his films. Like 2001, I love alot about the film, especially from a technical point of view but overall it's far from being one of my favourite films

[rockindglobe]

ive started to think 2d is better...cauz i dont want to specially go get my 3d glasses sit with them on over my other glasses...and lose color quality nd stuff..!!...3d has its uses but it shud b used for a few gud flicks ...nt on all of them..even the 1s that dont require it !

[S1lv3rblad3]

I think 3d should get a little more credit than Kevin Smith does, I would say it's like going from shitty quality audio to better quality audio. It makes a huge difference in immersion or intricacies of the film.

[modshroom]

turn on your mic you long haired hippie fuck

[kristian9010]

why is this in black and white? i would have preferd colur.

[icecreamscuseme]

@GavinMichaelBooth I do agree but I also feel that perhaps a 2D film could benefit slightly more just because the removals of wowza 3D effects can help in making the film at least look better. Obviously not as important as script or acting but gives it a little bit of an edge.

[PrisonCipher]

@GavinMichaelBooth, pretty much my point +200 likes