Harry Potter 7 to not be in 3D

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

No big loss. 3D has sucked every time I have seen it except for Avatar. In these other movies I kept taking my glasses off during "normal" dialogue scenes just to give my eyes a break.

I have zero problems getting immersed in GOOD movies in 2-D.

 

[23skidoo]

I was very happy to hear this news. First off, conversions are stupid and don't work. I thought I'd heard that they were filming Deathly Hallows for 3-D; hearing they didn't makes me oppose the use of 3-D even more.

Second, this means I'll actually be able to see a movie in the theater this year. It happened that none of the movies I was willing to go to the big screen to see were shown in 2D in my part of the world. Not Alice, not Despicable Me, not Toy Story 3, not Resident Evil IV. I hate 3-D. It's a gimmick with no storytelling contribution (unlike sound and color, so you can drop that old argument), causes discomfort, and is the most un-immersive technology around. So I'm going to see Harry Potter in the theater, which I wasn't going to. My Dad is going to see it now. My best friend is going to see it now. By dropping 3-D, I bet they're going to sell a lot more tickets.

Hopefully the pencil pushers at Warners will also realize how idiotic it will be to convert Part 2 and drop that idea, too. Doing so would be as insane as making The Ten Commandments back in 1956, starting the first 2 hours in color and then the last 2 hours in black and white. (And the only movie that could get away with that was the Wizard of Oz!).

I wouldn't pay extra to see a movie in 3D, because the effect is never as spectacular as I'd been led to believe. Sure, it's kind of a nifty optical effect, but in the end it's the same movie, except you're wearing stupid glasses to watch it.

Besides, Avatar is one of the more well-known 3D movies, and I won't touch anything that came within 5 meters of James Cameron's political statem- I mean, propa-

... you know what I mean.

Yup, because "killing the planet and destroying indigenous cultures to secure mining rights" is just a terrible message. Commie pinko liberal leftist propaganda at its worst. There has never been a director so obviously concerned with pushing an agenda as Mr. Cameron, no sir.

Oh, you were talking about the so-called anti-military/Anti-American angle. Can't help you there, everyone knows the US Armed Forces have never done anything immoral or unjust or self-serving.

Actually, all that would be fine if only Cameron hadn't spent 2 1/2 hours or so hitting the viewers over the head with a sledgehammer repeatedly (that's not a 3-D discomfort metaphor, btw) and using cliched characters and scenes cribbed from earlier Cameron movies and classic SF like Call Me Joe. And lots of liberals were just as offended by Avatar as conservatives. Cameron (who was treated as a political leader during his trip to the Alberta Oil Sands last week) is an equal-opportunity pisser-offer. And I promise I won't use the term "pisser-offer" again!

Alex

 

[Tora Ziyal]

No 3D Emma Watson: one more reason not to see it.

Why does every Potter topic end up with posts from people lusting after Emma Watson. Creepy.

For the same reason that so many threads end up with posts from males lusting after [fill in the blank w/ any good-looking Trek female]. I agree: creepy.

 

[Gaith]

How is it "creepy" to appreciate the beauty of an actress who was hired in large part because of her good looks? How is it "lusting after" for people around Watson's age to point out that she's attractive? If a young woman said she'd like to see Radcliffe in 3D, would guys call her "creepy"? Hell no, we wouldn't.

If you can't handle a statement merely implying that Watson is eye candy without going on the attack, maybe you're the one with the psychological issue.