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

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

I've only seen one non IMAX 3D film so far and that was 'Avatar' which I liked a lot. I was planning to see TRON Legacy in 3D before Christmas but the heavy snow on it's opening weekend put pay to that. I've got second thoughts now after the bad reviews it's been getting. I didn't get to the cinema much in 2010. Just time and finding a regular buddy to go with.

I think Hollywood is determined to shove 3D down our throats right now so 2D versions of some movies may be harder to come by. I personally feel that the choice should always be there and I think I would mostly prefer to see the 2D presentation for cost wise. I can't say I hate 3D yet but things may change! :0/

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I sincerely advise saving your money by NOT seing Tron Legacy. I enjoyed the original Tron movie, but this new one was a complete waste of time. We left halfway through, despite having paid premium rates for the 3-D we didn't want and wouldn't have had out of choice. I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie before. I even sat through 'Dragonballs' - and that's saying something.