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

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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

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

Except that it's not. This is why it's making hundreds of millions of dollars for the studios.

 

[Greg Cox]

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

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

It was actually called "Percepto" and was used for an old Vincent Price movie titled The Tingler.

Basically, it was a glorified joy buzzer that vibrated your seat when the Tingler attacked.

I actually attended a revival of The Tingler years ago, and made sure to arrive early to get one of the rigged seats. This got a little awkward when a nice young couple asked me to move down one seat so they could sit together.

"Er, no."

I wasn''t going to give up that seat for anyone. I wanted the full "Tingler" experience, damnit!

 

[Sindatur]

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

Smell-O-Vision is definitely something I never want to have become standard. Can you imagine watching a Zombie flick with Smell-O-Vision, all that rotting corpse smell.

Or how about a Coming of Age film, with lots of drinking and puking?

And goodness knows, I certainly don't want to be exposed to the smells of the aftermath of a love scene.

3D as a choice is fine, 3D, that is not perfect as the only option, and needs the glasses and is more expensive, is a bad idea. In the 80s craze, I watched several 3D movies, and enjoyed a few of them, and never had a problem with the glasses, the recent 3D movies I've bought on DVD with glasses, the 3D was worthless, and a couple, like Night of the Living Dead 3D were unwatchable without the glasses

 

[Kegg]

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

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...

I really just hope that 3D will evolve beyond something that gives me eye strain. That was my only real problem with Avatar's 3D.

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!".

Silent movies were never actually silent. They were played with live accompainment, and in some cases actually had film scores written specifically for the movie.

There was a fair bit of negative reaction to colour and sound, and some of it was pretty legitimate - particularly sound. Sound set back camera movement a lot, as the kind of fluid camera work one can see in late silent movies was done by rather noisy cameras (and was seen as fundamentally changing the cinematic artform in making it far more like theatre).

Early colour films rarely if ever look as good as contemporaneous black and white films, too.

I don't see 3D as big a change as colour or sound, but then I don't see colour as big a change as sound. Again I don't think we'll reach a point where all films are being made in 3D, but that's just my hunch 'ere.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

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

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

It was actually called "Percepto" and was used for an old Vincent Price movie titled The Tingler.

Basically, it was a glorified joy buzzer that vibrated your seat when the Tingler attacked.

I actually attended a revival of The Tingler years ago, and made sure to arrive early to get one of the rigged seats. This got a little awkward when a nice young couple asked me to move down one seat so they could sit together.

"Er, no."

I wasn''t going to give up that seat for anyone. I wanted the full "Tingler" experience, damnit!

Hmm, there are some arcade games that did something similar. There was this game called T-MEK that was an otherwise forgettable tank shoot-'em-up, but the game unit was designed as a set of two cockpits, and right behind each seat was a big subwoofer, so you were feeling vibrations and stuff throughout the game. Pretty neat, and the only reason I played it, to be honest. The game itself was a bit lackluster on its own.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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

And goodness knows, I certainly don't want to be exposed to the smells of the aftermath of a love scene.

Scarlett Johansson? I'm good with that.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

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

I love the assumption that Smell-O-Vision would be used exclusively to disgust film patrons. Like that makes any sense at all.

 

[Klaus]

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

Wasn't The Tingler one of the films with a nurse standing by in the lobby in case any patients were overcome with fear? Always thought that was a first-class gimmick.

 

[Distorted Humor]

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

And goodness knows, I certainly don't want to be exposed to the smells of the aftermath of a love scene.

Scarlett Johansson? I'm good with that.

mmm...That would be well worth watching...and smelling.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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

I love the assumption that Smell-O-Vision would be used exclusively to disgust film patrons. Like that makes any sense at all.

Nothing disgusting about Scarlett.

 

[Sindatur]

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

I love the assumption that Smell-O-Vision would be used exclusively to disgust film patrons. Like that makes any sense at all.

I didn't say I assumed it would be used exclusively for that. If it became a standard, though, in every movie, there's no point in having it there, if you're skimp on the stuff that would disgust folks. Many folks are disgusted by Horror flicks in general, and even more folks are disgusted by Horro films commonly referred to as "Torture Porn"

Of course there would be Fresh Cut Grass, the smell after a rain storm, Pot roast and apple pie, but, it wouldn't stop with the good stuff, if it was a standard.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

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

I love the assumption that Smell-O-Vision would be used exclusively to disgust film patrons. Like that makes any sense at all.

I didn't say I assumed it would be used exclusively for that. If it became a standard, though, in every movie, there's no point in having it there, if you're skimp on the stuff that would disgust folks. Many folks are disgusted by Horror flicks in general, and even more folks are disgusted by Horro films commonly referred to as "Torture Porn"

Make movies an unpleasant experience and people will not go. It makes no sense to add features that will only make people uncomfortable/unhappy.

 

[Teelie]

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

So far 3D has been mostly a gimmick and way overused but it's a semi-new medium and needs to be felt out and experimented with until movie makers figure it out. So I can tolerate it. Virtually all 3D movies have a traditional release as well so if a movie just looks like it will be terrible/pointless in 3D I watch the cheaper and just-as-good 2D version instead.

As to things like "smell-o-vision" I don't see that ever taking off the way movies are viewed today. It's too prohibitive and complex to accurately do. For one thing you'd need an ample supply of whatever smell(s) you intend to use, a proper distribution of it to evenly spread it out and not make it too powerful or underpowered and of course make sure no one is allergic to whatever it is you're using.

 

[Sindatur]

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

I love the assumption that Smell-O-Vision would be used exclusively to disgust film patrons. Like that makes any sense at all.

I didn't say I assumed it would be used exclusively for that. If it became a standard, though, in every movie, there's no point in having it there, if you're skimp on the stuff that would disgust folks. Many folks are disgusted by Horror flicks in general, and even more folks are disgusted by Horro films commonly referred to as "Torture Porn"

Make movies an unpleasant experience and people will not go. It makes no sense to add features that will only make people uncomfortable/unhappy.

Again, Saw got 6 movies, and there were at least 3 or 4 others in the Torture Porn vein (Hostel I and II, for example) that had at least 1 or 2 movies.

You really believe with all the movies that show graphic vomiting and a room full of people turning their nose up at a loud fart wouldn't be pushed farther with Smell-O-Vision?

 

[Greg Cox]

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

I love the assumption that Smell-O-Vision would be used exclusively to disgust film patrons. Like that makes any sense at all.

Well, that's how they used in it Polyester, which was the only movie I ever saw in Odorama. As I recall, the smells included farts, old socks, and dog poop . . .

 

[Agent Richard07]

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

Looks like this odorama bit used scratch cards.

The Odorama card had ten numbered scents: 1. Roses 2. Flatulence 3. Model Airplane Glue 4. Pizza 5. Gasoline 6. Skunk 7. Natural Gas 8. New Car Smell 9. Dirty Shoes 10. Air Freshener. When the appropriate number appeared in the corner of the screen, the spectator would scratch and sniff the appropriate odor.

Source

 

[Owain Taggart]

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

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.

Yeah, some of us aren't so lucky. Where I live, actually, there isn't a choice. We have ONE multiplex. The company has a monopoly on first run movies. If it says the showing is in 3D, well too bad, you're SOL, and if you think you can go over to the next city 4 hours away, guess again, because the multiplex there is owned by the same company. It's only the big cities that have competing multiplexes.

I'm not counting the cheap theatre because they only get the movies after they've been at the multiplex for awhile, and like mentioned earlier, even then it's not guaranteed they'll show the 2D version as they just bought a 3D projector. Yay choice.

 

[Greg Cox]

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

Looks like this odorama bit used scratch cards.

The Odorama card had ten numbered scents: 1. Roses 2. Flatulence 3. Model Airplane Glue 4. Pizza 5. Gasoline 6. Skunk 7. Natural Gas 8. New Car Smell 9. Dirty Shoes 10. Air Freshener. When the appropriate number appeared in the corner of the screen, the spectator would scratch and sniff the appropriate odor.

Source

Yep, that's how it worked. I remember I hesitated before scratching some of those squares . . . .

 

[Robert Maxwell]

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

Odorama sounds like way too much work.

 

[Starbreaker]

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

Just heard on the radio that over Memorial Day weekend, only 40% of moviegoers saw the films available in 3D... in 3D.