Which is why I advocate downloading. F-ing great movie.

Punk’d! The whole thing was a film but the 60 fps resolution was so convincing it flew right past everyone.

Higher-than-24fps cinema can’t come fast enough for me. IMAX looks great with still shots but motion blurs terribly. Your grandchildren won’t be able to believe we ever watched such crappy resolution films.

What on earth does this article have to do with makers and DIY 3D efforts?

Your tastes are primarily the reason why people hate 3D.

Prometheus aswell, it’s a poor story, but a visual feast. Pure eye candy. The 3D ads a massive sense of scale and really compliments the landscapes and detailed sci fi enviroments.

I guess that the difference is that with View-Master the 3D effect was the entire point of the entertainment, while films are supposed to tell some sort of narrative (no matter how opaque or fragmented) and any 3D should be subservient to that task. Instead, the current technology is literally “in your face”.

Are you serious? Demand of black and white films were immediately killed when color movies came out? That’s a total load of Bills**t. You, sir, have no idea what you are writing about. You should stop now to save yourself further embarrassment.

It is that out of alignment with my own experience in watching these movies.

And your personal perceptions are truth, science and law all twined into one infallible package.

Seriously…I go to a 3d movie and I see 3 dimensions in full color, brighter and with less flicker than the conventionally projected movie I saw in the theater across the hall an hour earlier and I live to tell the tale. So does just about everyone else.

A small fraction of the audience goes to a 3D movie and claims to be reduced to a quivering, vomiting, sweating, staggering, gasping pile of flesh. Yet they are eager to tell everyone about it and get quite indignant at anyone who doesn’t share their pain. Something is wrong there.

The only person who can tell you how these people sound to me is me.  It’s like listening to the guy who gets up at a city council meeting to complain about the flying saucer that hovers over his house 24 hours a day.  It is that out of alignment with my own experience in watching these movies.

My alternate comparison was to the princess in the fairy tale who couldn’t sleep with a pea under her mattress.  Maybe I should have gone with that.

I also don’t care for brussels sprouts… but I’m not going to be upset if you enjoy eating them… nor do I advocate the burning of B.S. patches…. per se.

However, because this is the Internet…I am going to let loose my true feelings about the perceived demise of the 3D format:

HAHAHAHADIEDIEDIEEE! Blast you into a billion smithereens: never to be beholden by the eyeballs of honest folk!   To Lowest Level of The Seven Seven HELLS with your Diabolical glasses of Blurring… Fiendish Increase in Price… WHILE DIMMING THE BRIGHTNESS FOR EVERYONE?!?!? 

F#$% YOU 3D  DIE DIE DIE!!!  Get thee hence bitches… seriously.

The silent majority just buy a *lot* of 3D tickets. Because it’s cool to hate on 3D, but 3D is frankly a better cinema experience for the vast majority.

People who like black and white, or mono sound, or 2D, will always have plenty of media available for them. But cinema (and gaming!) will always become more immersive, as a trend, not less: so I expect wider fields of view, and circular polarisation to become the norm. Eventually, as the science advances, we’ll have goggles that monitor your eye’s position, orientation and focus, and tweak the light into your eye to keep it maximally comfortable.

At the moment, a lot of cinematographers haven’t yet “got” how to shoot in the new medium – they are still using 2D tricks with focus, that will just not fit with the viewer’s brain as 3D tricks. But they seem to be getting better about it.