Agree with pretty much every sentiment provided. I have seen many 3D movies over the past couple years, and usually find it to be more of a distraction anyway.
As someone who wears glasses having an extra set of glasses feels uncomfortable, and can cause distortion after long viewings. In fact during a few recent 3D movies I end up with splitting headaches once the movie ends (along with blurred vision).
A lot of that has to do with the blurry, dark, and action filled (spazzy) nature of many 3D movies. I think I almost threw up after seeing the last Transformers movie (not only because of the movie itself).
3D technology began as a nice addition that I could of seen myself going to every few months. Avatar was much better in 3D, as was My Bloody Valentine, and probably a couple animated movies. Over time it became a gimmick, and actually made certain movies worse (Clash of the Titans was even worse in 3D). Now it's just annoying as many theaters only show movies in 3D, so if you want to see something in 2D you'll have to go to a different theater all together.
Then of course they jack up the price an additional $3 for something I don't even want. The only movies that can benefit from 3D are animated features, certain horror movies, and "visual epics" like Avatar where producers are willing to put money into filming in 3D, rather then just silly conversion in order to make a few extra bucks off movie goers.
Once again this is why I love directors like Vaughn, and Christopher Nolan; their movies still make money, but they chose not to release X-Men/Inception/Batman in 3D. I will be more then happy to see Dark Knight Returns multiple times, including IMAX.
I hope 3D is pushed aside where only a few movies a year use it, rather then half of the bigger releases. Two of the better movies this year were Rise of the Apes, and X-Men, neither which were shown in 3D. Hopefully they keep it that way.
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