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OldBoy

^ exactly.

GoldenJCJ

I’m sure this will make a ton of money but I’m guessing it’ll make its fortune, not from fans of the movie but from people who want to see this “event” movie. I’m sure it’ll be marketed as a movie you just have to see in the theater.

Eric F

I really hope this doesn't revitalize the 3D fad again. Gives me a headache.

Why So Blu?

Straight up hate watching it, too.

The Cow

Was there any other film you have wanted to see that only had 3D? I can't think of any.

And I'm in the opposite camp, I still enjoy watching 3D in my home theater, I hope this does light another fire under it.

Draven

It's just so wild to me that we keep revisiting this clunky-ass technology from the 1920s that requires a viewer in 2022 to wear a piece of disposable plastic on their face in order to make it work. Like NOW it's gonna work great!

Alan Smithee

Well, finally time for me to say: DOESN'T BOTHER ME!

I wear regular glasses too and have never had issues wearing 3D glasses over them. I've had them on all day in some cases, never a problem. If they can make glasses-free 3D work then great- James Cameron said a few years ago he wanted theaters to be able to show Avatar 2 like that, but apparently that technology still isn't ready for prime time. I'll just suffer with the glasses in the meantime.

It's been said that people who get headaches from 3D just don't have the ability to see it properly.

Paul_SD

On the subject of 3D in general-
Just want to say how flabbergasted I was at the difference of watching Dial M For Murder in proper 3D versus flat for all those years.
It was probably the last 3D film I would have expected to have benefitted from that technology. Instead it turned out to be such a richer, deeper experience that it radically altered my estimation of the film's basic merits all around.

IBJoel

My issue with 3D is a rather odd one. It becomes less 3D as the movie rolls on, so I periodically have to remove the glasses and "reset" my vision to "see" it again.

I've also not seen a 3D movie since I got more fashionable, larger glasses, so I'm curious how the 3D glasses would fit over them.

bluetoast

This was great with the newer glasses, saw it in theaters. Creature From the Black Lagoon also benefited from this, and looked amazing at home.

Eric F

I experience something similar. My eyes eventually go out of focus and it takes me a while to get it back in focus again. It's not that I dislike 3D, I actually thought the best thing about Avatar was the 3D, it's just that at the end of the experience I end up with a headache.

I think that's the general consensus about 3D.

Last time around it was popular for a while after Avatar was released and eventually there started to be fewer and fewer 3D showings. My local IMAX theater movies that had it went from almost every showing in 3D to only one a day. They are finally reopening that theater after over 2yrs of being closed- it will be interesting to see how they handle 3D.

Give me glasses free 3D and we'll be all set.

Josh-da-man

For me, 3D just doesn't add anything to the experience other than five or six dollars a ticket.

The artificial depth on a flat image just doesn't appeal to me at all. It's more a gimmick that wears thin and becomes distracting after a while.

Josh-da-man

It's not that I want to see Avatar 2 fail or anything, but it's a really baffling franchise.

It's been out of the pop culture zeitgeist for over a decade. I haven't seen the DVDs or blu-rays in stores for ages. They don't go on sale. The movie doesn't get played on cable much, if at all. I don't know anyone who is a really big fan of the movie, mostly "Yeah, it as good." There isn't a toy line, or much in the way of media tie-ins. Even in the years between the Star Wars OT and PT there were comic books, novels, and toys flooding the market.

It just seems like one of those movies that comes along, catches the public's attention for a while, and then they move onto something else.

It will be interesting to see if the mass audience remembers or cares after thirteen years.

Eric F

My local IMAX didn’t charge extra for 3D (probably because they’re independently run). Jordan’s IMAX is an amazing theater, there are two. The one in Reading MA has 500 seats and a laser projection setup. I live closer to the Natick theater which is older and only has 300 seats with a standard digital projector. I’m hoping they upgraded to laser during the past 2yrs but I doubt it. Still, better than the crappy AMC theater across the street which actually charged more.

Josh-da-man

My theater of choice was independently run chain and had tiered pricing.

There was a basic ticket, which was $10, a 3D ticket was $13, a 2D IMAX ticket was $13, and a 3D IMAX was $16. Matinee prices were $3 less.

I always found the IMAX screen to be too big to really watch unless you were sitting in the back. Anywhere in the first 2/3 of the theater was too close and the screen was bigger than my field of view. It's like you could only focus on one part of the screen at a time if you sat too close. In most cases, I'd rather just pay $10 and see it in a normal theater, but the IMAX had nicer seats. So I'd go there and sit in the back.

But then the owner sold his theaters to Regal and the places went to absolute shit overnight and I won't go back.

TomOpus

Haven't seen a 3D movie at the theater in a while. Are the glasses still dark? Hated that.

Jay G.

There's clip on filters you could buy and bring to the theater. My wife uses them with her glasses. The "circular polarised" work with RealD and Disney 3D, while IMAX and Dolby 3D use

Jay G.

They literally filter out half the light going to each eye (the opposite polarization meant for the other eye). Theaters can compensate for this by turning up the brightness on the projector for 3D films, but depending on the theater they don't to save money (both on electricity and extending the life of the bulb).

Alan Smithee

I've seen many dark pictures in theaters both in 3D and 2D- most of those I haven't gone back to. When I saw Last Jedi (which I saw during my only night off in weeks) the picture was so dark they should have just cancelled the showing.

Xander

Pretty much how I feel too. I even LIKED the first movie. But really have no desire for a sequel, especially 13 years later. And 3D? I didn't like it the first time, I didn't like it the second time. Why the hell is it still a thing? Stupid gimmick, IMO.

Michael Corvin

It is in a good spot to do it. Has there been a bonafide theater hit since Covid? A cultural phenomenon that just brought everyone back to the theater on the level of an Endgame?

B5Erik

Spider-Man No Way Home

david12

Thought it looked cool and a nice continuation of the story…but…it’s a cartoon, right?

is everything in the future going to be a cartoon?

Ash Ketchum

The only good 3-D experience I've had in the modern era (i.e. 21st century) was TRANSFORMERS 3: DARK OF THE MOON, where I was situated dead center in the last/top row at the Sony IMAX Lincoln Square Theater in Manhattan. Nothing close in the preceding years or since then. I saw AVATAR on opening night at a different theater in Manhattan and they ran it with a dimmer bulb than was needed and it didn't play well at all. I even got up from my seat and walked around the entire theater to view the screen from different angles to see if the 3-D effect got better and it didn't. IIRC, the last 3-D movies I saw were PACIFIC RIM and the first Avengers movie, neither of which impressed me the way TRANSFORMERS did.