The recent 3-D craze in movies: Awesome or a cover-up for lack of story?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

[TZ]

1. Both.

I saw a great 3-D movie about the Galapagos Islands at the Natural History Museum a few years back. It was great!

[redqueen]

4. I want to see the Hubble 3D movie.

They're only showing it in Austin down here. x(

[BurtWorm]

2. I can't wait to see my favorite TV shows from the 1960s and 1970s in 3D

with actors who vaguely approximate the look of the originals pretending to be stuck in a time warp as they try vainly to adjust to life in the 2010s. In 3D!!


:bounce:

[grace0418]

3. It's all about the studios getting people to the theater instead of watching

movies at home on their home theaters. 3-D is something people will still go to the movies to see. I like some, not others.

[elocs]

5. 3-D looks great, but to be honest after 10 minutes I forget all about it.

The only movie I've seen at the theater this year was 3-D (Alice) and 1 of the 2 movies I saw last year at the theater was 3-D (Avatar).

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. "Baffle them with bullshit."

I am reminded of the episode of "Dinosaurs" where Earl becomes a programming manager at the television network, and his masterpiece was "The Happy Colors Show".

Part one of three:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQdmpcKPy_c

[RandomThoughts]

7. I always liked Oddballs use of speakers on the tanks,

And pretty picture paint rounds fired into the air :)

Kelly's Heroes part 4-5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl-6MPCeVtw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MVlCMgSkTM

:rofl:

I also liked the target badges on their shoulders :)

[Initech]

8. It was originally a gimmick but now it's just totally redundant.

[frogmarch]

9. I haven't seen any modern ones,

but I was a teen when the first 3D craze hit. It fizzled out after a few movies. The thought of 3D didn't excite me then, nor does it now.

[FloridaJudy]

10. Gives me a headache after half an hour

I wind up watching with one eye closed. "Captain Eo" was just long enough."Avatar" made me run for the Advil.

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. Think of the alternative.

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[Orrex]

12. People have criticized Hollywood for "running out of idea" for at least 90 years

Having said that, I would say that the current push toward 3D is primarily an effort to increase ticket sales and to force theater owners to buy into the latest 3D projection systems, but I would add that, so far, the technique has seldom, if ever, integral to a film, except in the case of Avatar, which has nothing to offer in the absence of 3D-ification.

3D will be a boon to film-making and film-watching in the same way that CGI has been. That is, in 99 movies out of 100, it will be terrible and fake-looking, but in that other 1 percent it will be pretty darn cool.