Iron Man 3 isn't really a movie about marveling at some giant scene anyway- the most impressive stuff is generally Tony Stark's inventions- but it might have been nice to see the screen open up this way once in a while. Iron Man 3, which takes place largely in the real world and mostly either indoors or at night, has almost no moments to take advantage of this. ?When we look for "beyond the window" we want moments that push the depth of the action, to make us really believe we're looking through the movie screen into a new world. Post-conversion is notoriously difficult for capturing "before the window" moments, but Iron Man 3 pulls the effect off nicely. Even the film's first shot, of the suits in Tony's house exploding one by one, feel like they're rushing toward you. Whether by design or not, Iron Man 3 provides lots of moments for bits of ash or snowflakes or fireballs to pop out of the screen at the audience- y'know, "before" the window of the screen- and it provides a nice deepening effect for all the action happening behind it. ?When you don't have a lot of CGI creatures to work with and you don't know that your movie will be in 3D when you're actually making it, you pretty much only have one option to take advatange of "before the window": lots and lots of particulate matter. Marvel may have had the 3D conversion planned for months, but they don't seem to have told anyone who actually made the film. We have no way of knowing when Black himself found out that the post-conversion was happening, but the film itself doesn't suggest it. ?We have no idea why Iron Man 3 wasn't set for 3D the moment The Avengers opened to astronomical numbers, but it took all the way until October of last year for Marvel to announce that the film would be converted into 3D, while director Shane Black had already been on set for months.
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