Trevor: They both believed in something that everyone told them was impossible. He was right! Max! Was! Right! Ha ha! Your dad was right. Let’s not just reserve our criticism for the direction, though: the dialogue is terrible too, including what may be the single worst (or best - it’s so bad it’s good) exchange in the entire history of movies:
#Journey center of earth 3d movie
His second film as director was the Yogi Bear movie (you know, the one with that poster), which is probably why he’s not directed anything since.) (Director Eric Brevig is a visual effects guy by trade, with credits ranging from The Abyss and Total Recall up through Men in Black and The Day After Tomorrow to John Carter and The Maze Runner, and many more besides. I’m not sure they quite get there, but I’ve seen worse. Some moments push towards achieving wonder. And as for the rest of the movie, the direction feels very TV-ish or, again, like a theme park attraction - it’s a bit basic, basically. All the stuff that’s kinda fun in 3D would seem pointless in 2D, and the at-the-camera things would be horrendously blatant (I mean, they are in 3D, of course, but at least their purpose is retained). However, that’s just one of the reasons why I imagine it would be nearly unwatchable in 2D. I imagine all that palaver suits the film really well - as I said, it’s more like a theme park attraction than a regular movie anyhow.
Relatedly, this was the first film released in 4DX, the South Korean-developed theatrical format which features “tilting seats to convey motion, wind, sprays of water and sharp air, probe lights to mimic lightning, fog, scents, and other theatrical special effects”. Gimmicky and in your face (literally) though it may be, the effect works, it’s uncomplicatedly fun, and it makes the movie better just because it’s trying. The key to my enjoyment was watching it in 3D, in which it plays more like a theme park attraction than a movie: from the very beginning it has loads of those “sticking stuff out into the audience” hijinks that no one bothers with anymore (indeed, after watching a dozen other 3D movies on my TV, I don’t think I’ve seen anything poke out before).
Nonetheless, I expected little of it (I watched it mainly because it’s on my 50 Unseen from 2008, a notoriously under-completed list) but wound up pleasantly surprised… in some respects, anyway. I remember Journey 3D (as the title card indecisively morphs into before finally moving on) going down quite poorly on its release a decade ago, but, looking up sources to cite for that now, I’m not wholly correct: it has 61% on Rotten Tomatoes, which isn’t great but is still considered ‘fresh’, and grossed a respectable $242 million (off a budget of just $60 million). It turns out they’re right, of course, because otherwise this would just be a movie about a man and his nephew trekking up a mountain to find nothing - which sounds like a film someone would make, but not an effects-driven summer blockbuster. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (as it’s actually titled on screen, a rarity for 3D movies) is a very loose (very, very loose) adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic fantasy novel - indeed, you could say it’s more of a sequel, as the characters’ adventure is inspired by the belief that Verne’s novel is actually an account of real events.
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