Hi all,
so after I had gotten sick in my very first Avatar viewing years ago, I was pleased to find out that I could watch all following 3D movies without any problem.
Thing was, as much I had initially looked forward to some kind of enhanced exerience, I found it increasingly annoying and disappointing. Prometheus was already bad, Transformers 4 finally triggered a full blown annoyance.
It starts with the dark glasses - how on earth is it possible that no one, the whole industry included, never complained about an at least 2 stop darkening of the whole movie?? It is mostly downright unwatchable, there's a huge loss in brightness and conrast, night scenes are a mess. Then, the 3D "effect" itself is just...silly.
There's door opening and sticking in my face. Random objects out of a scene suddenly detach and stand in the room or fly towards me, but then lose all plasticity somewhere in front of me. The subtitles stand in the room...great. Scenes with corridors or tunnels etc supposed to have real 3 dimensional depth get about as much dimensionality as one of these funny plastic spiderman or Jesus pics with that 3D effect you get when you change the viewing angle.
I wonder what the general public really thinks of it, it seems to me that they are not really asked about their opinion, but that the industry rather tries to push and sell 3D as a huge success while really just forcing it upon the public. I for one would rather see those films in 2 D and not miss a thing. I'm considering waiting for the new planet of the apes on BD to avoid the 3D cinema view.
As long as 3D does not mean REAL 3D, like being holographically surrounded with scenes and objects on a proportionally realistic cale , it's just an annoying gimmick to me... But that would really change filmmaking and its elaborate visual language and intricaciesaltogether I guess.
What's your opinion?
so after I had gotten sick in my very first Avatar viewing years ago, I was pleased to find out that I could watch all following 3D movies without any problem.
Thing was, as much I had initially looked forward to some kind of enhanced exerience, I found it increasingly annoying and disappointing. Prometheus was already bad, Transformers 4 finally triggered a full blown annoyance.
It starts with the dark glasses - how on earth is it possible that no one, the whole industry included, never complained about an at least 2 stop darkening of the whole movie?? It is mostly downright unwatchable, there's a huge loss in brightness and conrast, night scenes are a mess. Then, the 3D "effect" itself is just...silly.
There's door opening and sticking in my face. Random objects out of a scene suddenly detach and stand in the room or fly towards me, but then lose all plasticity somewhere in front of me. The subtitles stand in the room...great. Scenes with corridors or tunnels etc supposed to have real 3 dimensional depth get about as much dimensionality as one of these funny plastic spiderman or Jesus pics with that 3D effect you get when you change the viewing angle.
I wonder what the general public really thinks of it, it seems to me that they are not really asked about their opinion, but that the industry rather tries to push and sell 3D as a huge success while really just forcing it upon the public. I for one would rather see those films in 2 D and not miss a thing. I'm considering waiting for the new planet of the apes on BD to avoid the 3D cinema view.
As long as 3D does not mean REAL 3D, like being holographically surrounded with scenes and objects on a proportionally realistic cale , it's just an annoying gimmick to me... But that would really change filmmaking and its elaborate visual language and intricaciesaltogether I guess.
What's your opinion?