Any REALISTIC hope that 3D MOVIES may soon LOSE popularity or die out?

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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"The whole 'sound' fad is aimed at ADHD kids who can't watch one thing long enough to follow a visual narrative. Sadly, an entire art form is being lost to a generation of easily distracted, undisciplined know-nothings."

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

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If I want 3D, I'll go to the theatre and watch a play. The industry is pushing 3D onto customers. Most of the Blu-ray players sold now are 3D capable, more and more TVs are being made 3D capable. If your choice is between buying a 3D capable TV and not buying a TV at all, you're going to own a 3D TV, and that's an added digit in the accountant's ledger that keeps 3D technology alive for another summer of movies. There's nothing in that ledger that tells you whether you use your TV for 3D or not.

I haven't paid to watch a 3D movie since A Nightmare on Elm Street 3D, red and blue card specs at the ready, and that was enough for me. The bottom line is I don't want 3D. If the majority wants it, then it stays and flourishes and takes over all visual entertainment, and I stop watching TV and movies, and keep reading books, unless they become Kindle and e-book only, and Kindle and e-books become 3D only, at which point I will go postal.

I don't think that will happen though. It's just another cycle in the fad, and once people get bored with it, and realise that rather than passively enjoying an entertainment form, they have to work at it, meet it halfway wearing stupid glasses and getting their visual cortexes to pat their heads and rub their stomachs, the novelty will fade.

 

[Klaus]

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If the majority wants it, then it stays and flourishes and takes over all visual entertainment, and I stop watching TV and movies, and keep reading books, unless they become Kindle and e-book only, and Kindle and e-books become 3D only, at which point I will go postal.

I'll help you reload!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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If I want 3D, I'll go to the theatre and watch a play. The industry is pushing 3D onto customers. Most of the Blu-ray players sold now are 3D capable, more and more TVs are being made 3D capable.

So what? You're paying for a feature you don't have to use - BFD. Most consumer electronics have a few of those.

This attempt to construct the argument that Evul Peepul are ramming 3D down our throats fails on the facts - as already pointed out, if people weren't willingly buying tickets to 3D features en masse the resulting contraction of the theater business would have put an end to this two years ago.

That didn't happen, because so many people want to see movies in 3D.

 

[Klaus]

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I think it's a little of both... the industry is pushing the expansion of 3D because of the chance to make more per ticket, but obviously there has to be a base level of interest to sustain it. I think the intent of the OP here is more served by a discussion of how soft that interest is or isn't, whether it's a fad like the anaglyph days or an actual sea-change.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

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If I want 3D, I'll go to the theatre and watch a play. The industry is pushing 3D onto customers. Most of the Blu-ray players sold now are 3D capable, more and more TVs are being made 3D capable.

So what? You're paying for a feature you don't have to use - BFD. Most consumer electronics have a few of those.

This attempt to construct the argument that Evul Peepul are ramming 3D down our throats fails on the facts - as already pointed out, if people weren't willingly buying tickets to 3D features en masse the resulting contraction of the theater business would have put an end to this two years ago.

That didn't happen, because so many people want to see movies in 3D.

I don't go to the cinema anymore, because 90% of the showings are 3D, and the 10% that are 2D are scheduled at some godawful graveyard hour, when most everyone who can afford ridiculous cinema prices, are at work earning the money to pay for said ridiculous cinema prices. If that isn't the industry shaping the market they desire, I don't know what is.

 

[The Fatman]

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I don't hate 3d as a whole, but it very much depends on the movie. I saw Toy Story 3 in 3d, and I loved it. I thought it gave fantastic depth of field, and was very immersive, without being gimmicky. On the other hand Clash of the Titans 3d, was done so piss poorly (cut too fast so eyes couldn't focus, no color correction) as to be nearly unwatchable.

EDITED TO ADD: Maybe here in Buffalo we have a lot more cinemas then other areas, but I have never had a problem finding a 2D showing of a movie at the same or comparable times as the 3d. It's always been a choice rather than a necessity.

 

[Goliath]

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That didn't happen, because so many people want to see movies in 3D.

I'm not sure that's quite true.

Some people want to see movies in 3D. And some people want to see movies, even if they're in 3D.

I would fall into that latter category: I don't much care for 3D, but I don't dislike it enough to change my movie-going habits; a good movie is a good movie (and vice versa), no matter how many dimensions it has.

To show just how lazy and indifferent I can be--I actually saw Avatar in 2D, by accident. During the previews, I thought: "Aren't we supposed to have glasses, or something?" Then, when the movie started, I thought: "WTF--this isn't 3D. Huh. Oh, well."

From the perspective of people who really dislike 3D, people like me are part of the problem, since we don't care enough to fight the power.

 

[Sean Aaron]

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That didn't happen, because so many people want to see movies in 3D.

I expect there's a lot of folk that don't care about the glasses and just buy the ticket and see the flick without checking whether or not it's 3D beforehand. I rather doubt when 3D films were showing at a few cinemas the demand was so high showings were selling out 24-hours in advance or anything.

I didn't see Toy Story 3 until it was on DVD; didn't feel like I was missing anything; probably because it wouldn't be possible to be missing anything with the present technology.

 

[Greg Cox]

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More! More!

"The whole 'sound' fad is aimed at ADHD kids who can't watch one thing long enough to follow a visual narrative. Sadly, an entire art form is being lost to a generation of easily distracted, undisciplined know-nothings."

"If silents were good enough for D. W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin, they're good enough for me! And who cares what Greta Garbo sounds like anyway? Nobody goes to her movies for her voice!"

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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If that isn't the industry shaping the market they desire, I don't know what is.

That's nonsense, to the extent you're suggesting that this is different from the introduction of any new consumer product or service.

My mother didn't really want to stop using the aerial on top of her house to get free TV broadcasts. The industry, clearly, shaped the market they desire and now she has to have a cable. Quelle horreur!

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

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If that isn't the industry shaping the market they desire, I don't know what is.

That's nonsense, to the extent you're suggesting that this is different from the introduction of any new consumer product or service.

My mother didn't really want to stop using the aerial on top of her house to get free TV broadcasts. The industry, clearly, shaped the market they desire and now she has to have a cable. Quelle horreur!

The customer is always right...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM8qT9Xop5k[/yt]

Sorry, I tried looking for the clip in 3D, but they haven't retconned it yet. Buggers.

 

[Greg Cox]

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EDITED TO ADD: Maybe here in Buffalo we have a lot more cinemas then other areas, but I have never had a problem finding a 2D showing of a movie at the same or comparable times as the 3d. It's always been a choice rather than a necessity.

That's been my experience so far. It seems to be 50/50 around here.

And I get migraines at the drop of a hat, but 3D has never bothered me. In fact, I have fond memories of seeing revivals of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came from Outer Space, and House of Wax in 3D.

(The less said about Jaws 3-D, the better.)

Granted, the only modern-day film I've seen in 3D so far was Clash of the Titans. I was underwhelmed by the effect, but it didn't hurt my eyes or anything.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

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... if people weren't willingly buying tickets to 3D features en masse the resulting contraction of the theater business would have put an end to this two years ago.

Avatar only came out one and a half years ago. There hasn't been enough time for the novelty to wear off yet.

I'm not guaranteeing that it will wear off--maybe this 3D crap will stick around after all--but it is way too early to know for certain.

 

[Warped9]

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Falling Down was a fun movie.

 

[Distorted Humor]

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I think it is a novelty, but I have been wrong before.

 

[Hyperspace05]

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The premise of this thread (original poster) is just so incredibly bizarre. (no, I have not read through the entire thread - there's only so much luddite sentiment I can handle)

Why hope that 3D fails?

Why not instead hope that:
-3D is used better
-3D is easier to view (no glasses)
-3D will be cheaper to view (no surcharge)
-and more...

It's like someone in the early color era deciding that "color sucks, when are they going to stop using it?" - or "these newfangled sounds suck, I like my imagined sounds better!".

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

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Holodeck or nothing!

 

[Distorted Humor]

Re: Any REALISTIC hope that 3D MOVIES may soon LOSE popularity or die

The premise of this thread (original poster) is just so incredibly bizarre. (no, I have not read through the entire thread - there's only so much luddite sentiment I can handle)

Why hope that 3D fails?

Why not instead hope that:
-3D is used better
-3D is easier to view (no glasses)
-3D will be cheaper to view (no surcharge)
-and more...

It's like someone in the early color era deciding that "color sucks, when are they going to stop using it?" - or "these newfangled sounds suck, I like my imagined sounds better!".

I happen to see it as more of a gimmick like The Tingler or Smell-O-vision.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

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The Tingler? Was that a feature of adult film theaters?