I totally disagree.
Don't get me wrong, but I have the vision of some grumpy old men sitting on a park bench grumbling about new things. "Who needs this stuff. I like silent movies! Colour TV? Crap! Blu-ray? I don't even need DVDs!"
Sometimes it really makes me a little bit angry when I read things like Roger Ebert's comments:
"It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches."Hey, Mr. Ebert, for some it's the most fascinating cinematic experience they had for years!
2. IT ADDS NOTHING TO THE EXPERIENCE.
Recall the greatest moviegoing experiences of your lifetime. Did they "need" 3-D? A great film completely engages our imaginations. What would Fargogain in 3-D? Precious? Casablanca?Of course none of these movies need 3D! I don't even like b/w movies digitally colourized. Casablanca is black and white and good as it is. But that doesn't mean, that no one needs colour movies.
IT CAN BE A DISTRACTION. I bet someone said something like this about colour movies these days!
IT CAN CREATE NAUSEA AND HEADACHES. Maybe. I didn't notice anything like that.
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT 3-D SEEMS A LITTLE DIM? No!
THERE'S MONEY TO BE MADE IN SELLING NEW DIGITAL PROJECTORS. Of course!! There's money to be made in selling
every new technology!
WHENEVER HOLLYWOOD HAS FELT THREATENED, IT HAS TURNED TO TECHNOLOGY: SOUND, COLOR, WIDESCREEN, CINERAMA, 3-D, STEREOPHONIC SOUND, AND NOW 3-D AGAIN. Yes, It has. So what? What do you want? Go back to black and white movies with no sound?
I CANNOT IMAGINE A SERIOUS DRAMA, SUCH AS UP IN THE AIR OR THE HURT LOCKER, IN 3-D.Why not? Maybe it's just a lack of your imagination?! Life is at least 3-dimensional. Why should a movie have less?
Latego wrote:
I am very pessimistic for the future because if this thing happens I can kiss goodbye to movie (not a great problem, I go out only 3/4 times a year) and to TV (and this will be bad, because I watch it 1/2 hours every evening).
Let's hope I die before.I hope you don't!
I think you can watch TV in 2D even in ten years, so no need to commit suicide!
I just had a similar discussion in a german forum this morning. Let's just wait what happens. Maybe in a few years nobody complains about 3D stereo anymore, because it's the usual way of watching movies or it's been cancelled.
When I read some comments about 3D stereo it sounds as if it's the end of the world. It's just movies, so let's all calm down.