Do I really want to feel like I'm in the movie?

[Shattered Dreamer]

3D movies everyone. Do you love them? Do you hate them? Do you think it improves the cinema experience? I myself are not too pushed. I mean it's cool & all but does every single movie need to be in 3D really?

[Shauna]

I avoid seeing movies in 3D, saves me a bunch of money. ;P Not to mention most of it just pointless money-grabbing, suckering in gullible people that think it will improve their cinema experience. Unless the movie is explicitly made to be seen in 3D, I don't see the point.

[MJN SEIFER]

I like 3D movies which are made with 3D in mind, rather than ones that are made for 3D.

[Kossage]

The few 3D films I've seen so far have left me cold. There have been very few times when the 3D effect has somewhat enhanced the experience (most notably a few moments in Avatar and Tangled) but for the most part it hasn't been anything exceptional. I can live without such a money-grubbing gimmick, especially because most films use the effect only as an afterthought which adds no value whatsoever to a film.

[Bunny]

I can't wait until 4D.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Tron Legacy in 3D was beautiful. Avatar in 3D was pretty as well.

Pretty much every other movie looks like a bag of dicks in 3D because they're converted instead of filmed in 3D.


I can't wait until 4D.

They'd have those at Disneyland and Sea World for years. :p

[DMKA]

Sometimes I love it, other times I regret dishing out the money for it.

A good example of when I loved it was the live-action Alice in Wonderland. The movie was freaking gorgeous and the 3D work was flawless. Stuff really looked like it was right there in front of you and the backdrops really looked like you were sitting right there in them. I loved it.

But most 3D movies I've seen have either completely failed at doing it and just tacked on "IN 3D!" to sell more tickets (the new Clash of the Titans is a perfect example of this) and the movie ends up having virtually nothing in 3D but the occassional ship sail or wall, or in the aformentioned film's case, NOTHING, or they're basically made around the assumption that you're going to see them for the 3D and nothing else; Resident Evil: Afterlife was like this. A who gives a crap story followed by two hours of action sequences where bullets or blown out brains are flying in your face, and while it's awesome to look at, two hours of nothing but this without any other redeeming qualities for the film to fall back on gets boring.

I've yet to see an animated film in 3D. Somehow I think it'd be perfect for them and work a lot better than it does with most live-action films.

[Loony BoB]

Of the various 3D movies I've seen thus far, only Avatar has been worth shelling out the extra cash for. Most of the others were animated Disney/Pixar/etc movies and I feel the 3D glasses take away the vibrant colours which animated films benefit so much from.

[Shiny]

3D movies make me dizzy. They've come out with this new thing now that you can create avatars and them actually be in the movie and make comments and stuff through live chat with the avatars. Other people can see you through this. It's like well you mind as well not be watching a movie then.

[blackmage_nuke]

I like a well done 3d movie but after a few minutes for some reason everything merges into 2d and I dont notice the 3d anymore unless i close an eye and open it again

[Del Murder]

The only movies I've seen in 3D are Captain EO, Avatar, and How to Train Your Dragon. I despise the trend of every single movie being in 3D. 3D should be reserved for movies that specifically utilize the technology, like Avatar.

I'm not a big fan of 3D in general even for the movies I've seen. I find it disorienting and it detracts from the experience.

[Wolf Kanno]

3D gives me headaches so no, I don't care, and no, I don't think it "enhances the experience" as the marketing teams try to tell you. Walking out of Avatar with a migraine is not a fun movie experience for me.

If a film engrosses you, it will engross you, if it can't hold your interest then making objects pop out of the screen like a children's pop-up book isn't going to make a difference.

[Yar]

Unless it's 3D IMAX, I don't bother. The standard 3D sucks and is clearly a cheesy gimmick to get an extra $6 from my wallet.

[Jiro]

I don't mind one way or the other. Films that use 3D effectively are fantastic though.

[DMKA]

Unless it's 3D IMAX, I don't bother. The standard 3D sucks and is clearly a cheesy gimmick to get an extra $6 from my wallet.

YES! Finally someone other than me who understands this. Non-IMAX 3D (like that Real 3D crap) is awful.

[Big D]

I've only seen three films in 3D so far: Avatar, Alice in Wonderland and How to Train Your Dragon.
With the exception of Alice, I've also seen them on the big screen in 2D. Out of those three films, How to Train Your Dragon was the only one which I felt had consistent and genuinely immersive 3D. It was also the only entirely CGI flick of the three, which may also be a factor. No darkening, no flickering, no awkward 'carboard cutouts placed at different distances from the screen' effects.

Still, of the films whcih I've seen in both formats, neither lost anything when seen in 2 dimensions rather than 3. If anything, Avatar worked a little better for me on a flat screen.

[Miriel]

Hate hate hate.

I actually think I would have liked Avatar MORE if I hadn't watched it in 3D. The glasses dim everything and are ill-fitting and the 3D effects were distracting more than anything else.

That was the last 3D movie I watched, and I won't watch another one again if I can help it. Or unless they drastically improve the technology.

[Slothy]

I've seen a lot of movies in 3D simply by virtue of 2D versions not being released here. I also hate 3D. I'd be rather annoyed by it regardless since a sizable chunk of the population can't even process the 3D images properly, but it's also a blatant money grab that offers nothing of any real value. Even Avatar which easily had the best use of 3D yet didn't dramatically improve anything by using it. It was cool that it added depth to a lot of the scenes (rather than the standard, have some stuff pop out at the audience and call it a day) but it didn't make the movie any better. Once the neatness of it wears off, and it does quickly, you're left with the same old movie, but with a picture that isn't quite as clear or easy to focus on even if you can process 3D pretty well.

Perhaps even worse is that with ever increasing pressure to tack it on wherever possible, we may see it one day actually detracting from movies. The example I like to think of is Inception with the endless staircase. It's a good thing Nolan has been pretty opposed to using 3D thus far because those scenes literally could not work in 3D.

Nothing made me happier than Thor being released in 2D here as well as 3D for a change. I'm sick of paying for a stupid gimmick every time a movie I want to see comes out.

[Yar]

Unless it's 3D IMAX, I don't bother. The standard 3D sucks and is clearly a cheesy gimmick to get an extra $6 from my wallet.

YES! Finally someone other than me who understands this. Non-IMAX 3D (like that Real 3D crap) is awful.I saw Alice in Wonderland in 3D IMAX and that is definitely the way to go.

[Crop]

Most films I've seen are in 2 and 3D. The only film I've ever seen in 3D is Jackass 3, and the only part I even noticed the 3D was when the dildo came flying out the screen, it looked pretty good.
That said, I'm not a fan of 3D overall.

[Shaibana]

I like 3d, and it seems to be the future of movies..
today every movie comes out in 3d >.< and it costs extra in the cinema..
I guess its now waiting for the glasses to disapear :) Nintendo proofed that its possible

[MJN SEIFER]

To this day, I don't think anything beat The Final Destination in terms of 3D quality - including movies that I liked better than The Final Destination...

[Shlup]

I was watching a video the other day of an unveiling of an 85" 33 megapixel TV, and all I could think was that, in the future, we will have to start treating gamers--especially first person shooter players--for PTSD.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I want a TV that big.

[Peegee]

I think it is a gimmick that is not very good. The last film I watched was Avatar, which is pretty much the very best example of it . Heck I was completely impressed

and guess what - after a few minutes I started to filter out the 3D effect. And when I watched Avatar in 2D it didn't matter it was in 2D