Poll: Why do people hate 3D?

[Dwarfman]

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It is a heck of a lot more expensive to view 3d as oppose to 2d at the moment, that is certainly a factor. But honestly, it's because the 3d effects and the 3d glasses hurt my eyes. I can't watch the movie without my real glasses cause it's all blurry and the blurry 3d effects, give me headaches. But when I wear my glasses under the 3d glasses the lenses mess with one another and gives me pressure headaches right behind the eyeballs. Alas it's a no win situation for me. I'll watch 3d if there's nothing else going but for my own health I'm sticking to 2d when I can.

 

[Scrustle]

3D sucks. It reduces contrast and detail, dulls colours, and darkens the image. It doesn't add immersion, it breaks it, because it forces you to focus unnaturally on certain parts of a shot or else it's all a blurred mess (opposed to 90% being a blurred mess). You can't just look at the image, you have to force yourself to find the right part of it and stay fixed on that until the next shot where you have to do it all over again. And the image itself doesn't look realistic. It doesn't look like an actual 3D environment with realistic depth, it looks like a child's pop-up book with 2D images layered over each other. That does even more to break immersion. The whole time you are very aware that you're watching a 3D film. You're not getting lost in the story or visuals, you're seeing a bad optical illusion.

I would comment on the 3D of the 3DS, but I can't even get that to work for me. It's constantly just a blur. And even if I could get it to work, the fact that you have to hold the thing perfectly rigid to maintain the 3D effect is just stupid. You can't expect people to do that on a handheld system. I have several friends who own a 3DS, and none of them use the 3D for that very reason.

3D is just a stupid gimmick that rolls around every time the film industry feels scared by a new competing entertainment medium that's eating in to it's profits. It's already starting to go away again. It's not the future and everybody knows it.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I like it, and sometimes I get the impression SOME people say they don't like 3D to be cool like one of those film critics or something, because every single 3D film I've seen has been good/decent. Most recently:
Toy Story 3
Avatar
Hugo

 

[Hoplon]

Jesus christ are the glasses really that bad? I can't imagine how much strife you would be in if you needed to wear actual glasses in everyday life.

I do wear glasses in real life and let me tell you, The pieces of shit given out for 3d films are crimes against your face. (saw Tron Legacy in 3d)

The only reason it is pushed at all is the 40% bump on ticket prices for minimal extra investment.

 

[Simonoly]

I actually have trouble processing 3D. I can only appreciate it for around 10 minutes before my brain seems to auto-correct and I can't process it anymore and simply see a 2D image. The quality of 3D is completely lost on me. Plus text on screen is always blurred and sometimes has this horrid mirrored effect which actually strains my eyes. So 3D movies are just not fun for me. I always go to 2D showings now. In my mind, it's a completely unnecessary addition to the cinema experience.

 

[floppylobster]

We have painting. We have sculpting. Why make all painters create sculptures?

But why have only painters? Without 3D movies are just paintings by necessity. If directors WANT their movies to be 2D for artistic reasons that's great. Schindler's list was filmed 98% in black and white, The Artist was 98% soundless, but that was a deliberate decision made for very specific reasons related to the respective films.
I doubt the countless movies that were made in the past 100 years were all filmed in 2D specifically because the directors wanted it to look that way for artistic purposes. I see nothing "intrinsic" about 2D, it's just something we've grown used to out of habit so we think it's what movies are supposed to be like.

If that were true then the prevailing 'habit' was originally black & white without sound. But film changed and audiences accepted it. If you look at the current poll results and the general feel of the industry right now you'll notice that audiences are not whole-heartedly accepting 3D as a valuable addition to the language of film. I'm happy for 3D to have its trials and test runs using film until they can work out a way to project 3D without using tricks of the eye to create it within film. But I, like the majority of adult film goers, go to see film because it is a 2 dimensional projected image. That part of the experience is intrinsic to my, (and it would seem others), enjoyment of the medium. Currently only kid's animation films and teenage action films are currently being shot in 3D. Because that is the only audience it appeals to. Despite claims that we see in 3D, we really don't. Our vision, and the way our brain processes it, is closer to that of 2D film. 3D may well develop in to something. But whatever that is, it won't be film. Until then, it is trialing a technique using film and can therefore be classed as a film gimmick. When it becomes true holographic projections or something better then I might give it another go but even then I won't consider what I'm watching a 'film', it will be something else, maybe something better. But not film. A 'movie' maybe. But not film.

 

[Mirroga]

If the entire game isn't based or made around the 3D functions, then it really doesn't work. This counts for almost all of the games and movies out there.

I learned this by watching recent movies with annoying 3D added into it and experiencing the 3D movie made in Disney World.

 

[floppylobster]

The only reason it is pushed at all is the 40% bump on ticket prices for minimal extra investment.

Actually one of the big reasons it was pushed was part of an attempt to block piracy. The price hike was initially just to cover the cost of installing the new equipment. But now they know they can get away with it, and now they realize some people love so much they're willing to pay that price every time, they've ended up showing movies in both formats. If 3D had have completely taken off, and everyone only wanted to watch only 3D, then the price would have eventually come back down.

 

[Ledan]

Because it doesn't add much. It's not real 3D, as many have said, so after the initial few minutes you ignore it. It doesn't add anything to the movie, and jacks up the cost of the movie.
Holograms would be different, because we wouldnt have to wear glasses and it would be real head tilting 3D.
I don't think this wave of 3D will last because we have had so many failed waves of 3D. This is at least the third wave of 3D, and it isn't any different.

 

[Hoplon]

The only reason it is pushed at all is the 40% bump on ticket prices for minimal extra investment.

Actually one of the big reasons it was pushed was part of an attempt to block piracy. The price hike was initially just to cover the cost of installing the new equipment. But now they know they can get away with it, and now they realize some people love so much they're willing to pay that price every time, they've ended up showing movies in both formats. If 3D had have completely taken off, and everyone only wanted to watch only 3D, then the price would have eventually come back down.

Given 3d's 100 year history of repeated failure, they had to know that it never would catch on.

It was an opportunity to create a price hike dressed up as other things.

 

[Ranorak]

Because it doesn't add anything to the movie.
It doesn't enhance the story.
it doesn't enhance the flow
It doesn't enhance the pacing

All it really does it remind you that you're watching a movie.
It totally breaks immersion.

 

[joshbored]

i personally hate it because the current method to achieve the effect gives me migraine

 

[babinro]

I really don't care:

Which is appropriate because I've yet to experience anything in 3D since it's made a come back.
It's simply an advancement that holds no interest to me.

Similarly:
- I don't buy anything in Blue Ray because I'm happy with DVD's which look great and are much cheaper.
- The Wii U tablet console is another advancement that has yet to garner any personal interest.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

It really doesn't add anything to a movie other than increasing the ticket price. It doesn't add anything to the plot and in some cases it slows the movie down needlessly so that you can gawp at the special effects. The effects themselves aren't even that noticeable. It turns the whole thing into a diorama and is only really noticeable if the film gets slowed to an agonizing crawl just for the obligatory "Marvel as shit flies toward the screen" shot.

 

[theravensclaw]

gives me a migraine and i feel queasy. i actually got some anti 3d glasses from thinkgeek and they work when a film is only showing in 3d

 

[Vivi22]

There are only a handful of movies that get 3D right; that's why I hate 3D movies.

Avatar uses it the way it should be used (to add depth to your shots): I should NEVER notice that your movie is in 3D. If I have noticed the 3D, you have utterly failed as a film maker.

And therein lies the catch with me. If you do 3D right I should never notice it. But if I'm never noticing it, then what the hell is it really adding?

The reality is that I've never seen a movie or game that was improved by 3D. It's never been used, to my knowledge, to make any sort of artistic statement, add to the meaning of a scene or any other kind of artistic use you can think of. It's always simply been there, but not really for any reason other than increasing the ticket price.

There's also the fact that it's not actual 3D, it's merely trying to simulate it, and often does a poor job of it, which is why you can watch movies where the depth of some scenes pops and others where you don't notice it because it was literally done so badly that nothing actually looks three dimensional. Even worse is that a not-insignificant portion of the population can't even see this simulated 3D properly, or literally suffer migraines if they try to put up with it.

But you know what the most damning thing of all is? It's unnecessary. Completely and utterly unnecessary. Our eyes are really good at judging depth in two dimensional images, especially when we can see things like shadows, assume the average height of a person, and see other depth cues like objects getting smaller or larger as they move farther away or closer to the camera. Yeah, there are situations where you can trick the eyes with a two dimensional image, but for the most part they don't have a big impact on film making, or even better, are actually useful for setting up some really cool shots that would be difficult to impossible without being able to play with our perspective.

So yeah, you know what, I hate 3D. It's useless and it costs me more money. I've actively avoided 3D movies and games for the last 2-3 years because of it. Because let's face it, when there's only one movie anyone ever mentions as having done 3D well (Avatar) and the only reason that's the case is because it didn't completely botch the sense of depth and perspective or make everyone who saw it sick, just how useful is it really? How much does it actually add? Because I can't think of an answer to that that doesn't end with it not being useful and adding nothing.

3D can talk to me when we have holodecks. Until then, I'll stick with 2D images thanks.

 

[Zeren]

I hate it. I get a massive headache from it. I live in the third dimension. I don't need a movie to try and simulate it. The only thing they manage to simulate is the feeling of someone knocking me around with a hammer for an hour and a half.

EDIT: Since I wear prescription glasses, the glasses they give me are incredibly uncomfortable to try and put on over them. I can't see at all without my glasses, so going to a movie where I have to wear two pairs at the same time is just stupid.

 

[Nietz]

I don't hate 3d, it seems to be a nice gimmick that at least my fiancée enjoys. I just can't see it very well. Whenever I watch a 3D movie I pretty much always see things in double, it's like being drunk, but without the added benefits. I checked my eyes recently, and according to the doctors, my eyes are fine, in fact they're great(considering both my parents are pretty much blind without the glasses).
I've had no luck with the 3DS either, that one strains my eyes a bit. It's like sitting in a tunnel full of things that move around too much and makes me a bit sick.