3D movies are also awful, stressing your eyes and even producing headaches. It's also awful for people used to subtitles. In my country it's common practice for movies to be aired in English with subtitles. I couldn't think of a worse combination than subtitles and 3D projection - and movie theaters will rather prefer dubbed audio tracks in the future, which will totally ruin movies for me.
Digital projectors allow for super-sharp images, in combination with a short depth-of-field (for cool bokehs) it's all you need for 3D effects without giving you nausea, not to mention the images are pseudo-3D at best. To make matters worse, I went to the latest Pirates of the Caribbean and the 2D option wasn't available.
To paraphrase other people - 3D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension; and it's getting shoved on people's throats, even if they don't like it.
I don't think 3D is entirely useless, it's just not used to its full potential in my mind. Explosions, space battles and what-have-you are nice and all, but when I saw Avatar the one scene that really blew me away was just a bunch of people sitting around and talking, with no camera movement whatsoever. It felt so real and intense.
I want to see some serious drama shot in 3D, I want to see the technology serve story and character.
(And yes, I am anxiously awaiting the local release of Werner Herzog's 3D cave documentary...)
Digital projectors allow for super-sharp images, in combination with a short depth-of-field (for cool bokehs) it's all you need for 3D effects without giving you nausea, not to mention the images are pseudo-3D at best. To make matters worse, I went to the latest Pirates of the Caribbean and the 2D option wasn't available.
To paraphrase other people - 3D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension; and it's getting shoved on people's throats, even if they don't like it.