3D at the box office
Aug. 26th, 2010 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msagaraI was reading links on Twitter, and one of them lead to an article about 3D at the box office.
Let me come out and say it: I hate 3D.
Let me then qualify that statement, because there are movies I deliberately went to see in 3D. All one of them. (This would be Avatar). Okay, that's out of the way.
I am Asian. I have a small nose. I already wear glasses (my eyes are far too dry for contacts. I know. I've tried). Can you guess where this is going? Yes!
When I go to a movie and discover that it is, in fact, in 3D, I usually have 2 kids and a husband in tow, we are on a time limit, and the show we've chosen unfortunately happens to be in the 3D theatre, something that's not clear until we arrive at said theatre. I pay more money for this privilege, and I am given oversized, clunky, 3D glasses which have to sit on top of the glasses I already wear, and guess what? My nose is not long enough and the glasses fall off. I spend the entire movie fighting a rearguard action to be able to watch the movie at all.
More than half of the movies my youngest wants to see end up being in 3D when we choose and reach the theatre. I would pay extra money if I could avoid 3D entirely for every single one of those movies. First? The 3D isn't necessary. I don't find that it adds much. I could be wrong, because if the 3D glasses fall off, I can't really see what's going on past the horrible blur, and as mentioned above, the 3D glasses are always almost falling off.
So, with apologies to those who like 3D, I am doing a hopeful little dance at the prospect of fewer of them.
Let me come out and say it: I hate 3D.
Let me then qualify that statement, because there are movies I deliberately went to see in 3D. All one of them. (This would be Avatar). Okay, that's out of the way.
I am Asian. I have a small nose. I already wear glasses (my eyes are far too dry for contacts. I know. I've tried). Can you guess where this is going? Yes!
When I go to a movie and discover that it is, in fact, in 3D, I usually have 2 kids and a husband in tow, we are on a time limit, and the show we've chosen unfortunately happens to be in the 3D theatre, something that's not clear until we arrive at said theatre. I pay more money for this privilege, and I am given oversized, clunky, 3D glasses which have to sit on top of the glasses I already wear, and guess what? My nose is not long enough and the glasses fall off. I spend the entire movie fighting a rearguard action to be able to watch the movie at all.
More than half of the movies my youngest wants to see end up being in 3D when we choose and reach the theatre. I would pay extra money if I could avoid 3D entirely for every single one of those movies. First? The 3D isn't necessary. I don't find that it adds much. I could be wrong, because if the 3D glasses fall off, I can't really see what's going on past the horrible blur, and as mentioned above, the 3D glasses are always almost falling off.
So, with apologies to those who like 3D, I am doing a hopeful little dance at the prospect of fewer of them.
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Date: 2010-08-29 08:20 pm (UTC)But 3D movies are basically the only thing we go to the theater to see anymore. ;) We have a pretty nice HD TV and between high quality Blurays at home and the annoyance of crowds and the cost of tickets ($10+ on weekends?!) there's really no reason for us to go out. Except for the 3D movies, or the movies we don't want to wait to see. I mean, once our kid is old enough to go see movies and we have to start paying for him, one movie is going to cost the same as our monthly subscription to Netflix.