3-D Why I Hate It.

[jacey]

Prompted by Benjamin Tate's blog via jpsorrow 

I'm a regular moviegoer - fantasy and SF films most Wednesday afternoons (on the Orange Two-fer deal) if my cinema pal H is available - and so I've seen a few 3D movies in the last year or so... and HATED them. Not the movies themselves, necessarily, though I did find that some of them were more effect than content, but certainly the format. Avatar was the least noxious of the bunch, Tron Legacy easily the worst. We actually walked out of that hlfway through, though the crummy script and boring plot certainly didn't help.

H and I have now declared a policy of always going to the 2D version of a movie if available. Unfortunately our local Cineworld wasn't offering a 2D version of Tron. (We assumed there wasn't one, but apparently there is. Bad Cineworld. No biscuit!) To add insult to injury we not only had to see the 3-D version, but we had to pay more plus an additional surcharge for 3D on the 'free' ticket.

Sorry, Cineworld, but if you're not showing the 2-D version of the movie we'll stay at home in future. 3-D is actively driving us away from movies. We don't get headaches, but we do get eyestrain and find the blurring behind the 3-D visually irrtating.

'Inception' is easily the best movie I've seen for some time, and it had no need of visual gimmicks to support the brian-melting concepts and great images.

What works for me in a movie is good plot, great script, excellent acting and clarity of sound and vision. I'll take quality over gimmicks any day.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

3D just doesn't work properly for me because I have one very dominant eye and just peripheral vision in the other. It sort of works, but it doesn't really add anything significant. I therefore haven't bothered going to any 3D films, though I have always had the feeling that they were more about the gosh wow special effects than plot, characterisation and pacing.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I am so please that 3-D wasn't an issue when some of the great movies of our time were made. Imagine Lawrence of Arabia in 3-D (The 'reveal' scene of Omar Sharif coming out of the desert on the camel.... starting from way back... and ending in your lap. Ouch! no thanks!)

I just hope they aren't ever tempted to remaster the Lord of the Rings movies in 3-D. (Even presuming that such a thing is possible.)