I hate 3D. I hate wearing 3D glasses to watch a damn movie. There's obviously something wrong. Nothing revolutionary with these 3D films. There's a good reason why I fucking hate 3D. They're...
1. Hard to see
2. Not very bright.
3. You wear plastic crap.
4. Stress to eyes.
5. Things in movies are already 3D anyway, they're projected onto a 2D surface.
6. They overall lack the quality of a normal 2D film.
All of this crap basically comes down to this. It's all just fucking stupid.
You know why 3D became such a huge deal? Cause Hollywood is running out of creative ways to make films pleasing to look at. 3D was done some ages ago. I thought we were over this matter. Apparently producers are not smart enough to notice dead trends.
Sure, as we venture into new realms of new entertainment, I'm sure this trend will die. But as long as it lives, I'm going to complain about it. I can't stand a moment of watching 3D films. But I bare myself. I know how to manage stress.
Even the TV industry wants to join in with 3D. You guys do know that TV cameras aren't exactly stereo right? You take those glasses off, the TV looks like just a big blur. Stupid. Plain dumb. Not quality. Garbage quality material.
I don't care what kind of effort artists put into making these films. I'm an artist. I've had a great opportunity to play around with 3D films this summer. Lots of time spent. I swear. 2 frames to edit on one go. Yeah sure, you think its simplified with software technology. No, nothing changes. It's more things to think about. More garbage cleaning. More deleting. More editing....
So what next Hollywood? 4D films? 360 films? Films where audiences get to decide what happens based on vote? What next? Come on Hollywood bring it on. What's your next plan of action of sucking the technology joke hole?
Make something useful for the audience.
See, in the end 3D Films is like that ugly Comic Sans font. You can't bear a moment looking at it. There's limited application for 3D films as much as Comic Sans offers little purpose.
Oh and if you love 3D. You can continue to waste money on watching them. It's good that you're missing out on the actual movie experience. Cool, but uncool. Go fuck yourself with popcorn.
-Skybase
I've seen a couple of films in 3D and the jitter, lack of brightness and stress of wearing the glasses makes the experience less satisfying.
On a side note, a 360 degree movie does sound awesome.
Though proportionally, it's inconvenient unless you're standing up to view the film. You literally have to turn around to see where your action is.
Also viewing a 360 film is like watching a long, narrow strip of paper. Some software developers are quite an effort to make great things like this: [link]
But it's still not good enough for a "movie" experience. Nothing like sitting in a dark room with a big screen in front of you.
Most wide-format films are either 16:9 or up to 1:2.54 which is quite wide enough for the human vision (which is about 120 degrees or so. But that depends on where you sit as well.)
What's interesting is that they serve their purpose in making the film experience. As in a wide format film already fills the range of your vision to an extent if you sit at the right place.