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[BigCinBigD]

“I feel that until you can watch 3D without glasses, it’s the same thing we know,” he says. “I personally do not want to watch a movie with glasses. It’s tiresome.”

100% correct...

[Dallas59]

Agreed.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“He says his opinion of 3D is in sync with recent comments by Roger Ebert”

then it must be wrong, sorry. ebert is incapable of facts. 3D wins by ebert.

[Pravious]

Agreed.

They need a dumb gimmick because they’ve forgotten how to write scripts.

[RayChuang88]

The big problem with 3-D movies comes to this: you need a BIG screen to take full advantage of what it's capable of. It just doesn't work well on even a 55" flat panel TV with suitable glasses.

What we really need now--especially with the technology getting a lot cheaper--is digital projection everywhere. A single two-hour movie at 2000-line resolution (the resolution used by most digital projectors in theaters) easily fits on a single 1 TB hard drive, and as such the shipping weight of a movie in digital format is three pounds versus six 35-pound reels of 35 mm film. And a movie in digital format will never suffer from the physical degradation of film and can accommodate DTS Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD lossless audio formats for the highest-quality surround sound.

[Dr. Sivana]

Coppolla has a giant plasma screen ... in California? I thought they were made illegal. The environmental police will be knocking on his door.

[Caipirabob]

True about the glasses. It’s a novelty at best until it’s presentable without them.

[Sans-Culotte]

I already wear glasses all the time and am not too keen on adding a pair on top of them.

I bought wasted money on the Blu-ray of Avatar and watched it last week. It was not in 3D, but I thought it was banal and tedious in spite of its much vaunted visuals. 3D just adds a "wow" factor to undistinguished movies.

[TexasNative2000]

3D is psychologically confusing.

We are trying to trick our mind into thinking we are watching something in a live third dimension when it knows we are not. It creates a sensory imbalance that significantly reduces our ability to process what is being presented.

What a friend of mine recently said about the iPad applies to 3D in movies; it is a great solution to a problem that doesn't exist. (I disagree with the assessment as it pertains to the iPad, but it's still a great line).

[Paleo Conservative]

The 71-year-old director has similar thoughts about 3D home theater, saying TV manufacturers are pushing 3D because they want consumers to buy new flat panels at higher prices, even though it “only costs them $75 more to make 3D TV.

That may be the difference in manufacturing cost, but it doesn't pay back the cost of R&D to develop the system.

[Ken H]

"When we shot a scene with 40 helicopters flying in the air, there were really 40 helicopters flying in the air," adding how much less expensive it would be to re-create that digitally today.

I disagree. I think computer generated special effects mostly suck. Forbidden Planet (1956) had better special effects than any modern sci-fi film that I'm familiar with. (and a better story line)

[cerberus]

I agree.......movies are now being made as a vehicle for the technology rather than the other way around. The result is a lot of vacuous special effects BS with very little of quality or substance.

Avatar is a prime example.